BigQuery Contract Job Trends in England

Google BigQuery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 330 376
Rank change year-on-year -32 +46 +81
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 294 175 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.25% 3.50% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 113 88
10th Percentile £407 £338 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -6.19% -11.17%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £675
90th Percentile £675 £707 £755
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.31% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

All Database & BI Skills
England

BigQuery falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,914 5,007 5,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.00% 18.03% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,624 3,442 4,132
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.91% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 80 80
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.07 £30.55 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +15.85% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.45% +14.29% -36.36%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in England

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -26 194 £550 +4.76% 384
North of England -65 48 £463 -0.38% 75
Yorkshire -32 30 £460 +2.22% 23
South East -54 17 £525 +23.53% 65
North West -52 11 £488 +2.63% 49
South West - 10 £575 - 17
North East -32 8 £463 -26.00% 3
Midlands -40 5 £515 -10.43% 33
West Midlands -47 5 £515 - 30
East of England - 3 £463 - 11
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 57 (19.39%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.61%) Apache Spark
3 37 (12.59%) Apache
4 11 (3.74%) Confluence
5 6 (2.04%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.68%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.70%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.68%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 238 (80.95%) GCP
2 75 (25.51%) Snowflake
3 65 (22.11%) dbt
4 64 (21.77%) AWS
5 55 (18.71%) Azure
6 33 (11.22%) Vertex AI
7 31 (10.54%) Power Platform
8 29 (9.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 26 (8.84%) GitHub
10 21 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
10 21 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.12%) Amazon S3
11 18 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.12%) Serverless
12 17 (5.78%) Cloud Composer
12 17 (5.78%) Cloud Run
13 12 (4.08%) Fivetran
14 11 (3.74%) Google Analytics
15 10 (3.40%) Google Compute Engine
16 9 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.70%) Network Security
2 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.34%) 5G
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (27.89%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (16.67%) Looker
3 46 (15.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (11.22%) Metadata
5 31 (10.54%) Power BI
6 27 (9.18%) Data Lake
6 27 (9.18%) Tableau
7 20 (6.80%) Flink
8 18 (6.12%) NoSQL
9 17 (5.78%) Big Data
10 13 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.74%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.40%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.40%) Semantic Layer
14 9 (3.06%) Delta Lake
14 9 (3.06%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.38%) Neo4j
15 7 (2.38%) Parquet
16 6 (2.04%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 30 (10.20%) Git
2 15 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.42%) JIRA
4 12 (4.08%) GitLab
5 3 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) Gradle
5 3 (1.02%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.68%) ERwin
6 2 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.34%) GoCD
7 1 (0.34%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 70 (23.81%) Finance
2 54 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.22%) Retail
5 25 (8.50%) Marketing
6 20 (6.80%) Banking
7 14 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.38%) Billing
9 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Games
9 7 (2.38%) Legal
10 5 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.36%) Publishing
12 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.68%) Automotive
13 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 54 (18.37%) Senior
3 48 (16.33%) GCP Engineer
4 41 (13.95%) Architect
5 33 (11.22%) GCP Data Engineer
6 28 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (8.50%) Lead
8 24 (8.16%) Analyst
9 22 (7.48%) Data Architect
10 18 (6.12%) Developer
11 16 (5.44%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.74%) Data Scientist
13 11 (3.74%) GCP Architect
14 10 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (2.72%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 8 (2.72%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.43%) Terraform
2 36 (12.24%) Kafka
3 24 (8.16%) PySpark
4 21 (7.14%) REST
5 15 (5.10%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.40%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.72%) JSON
7 8 (2.72%) Pandas
8 7 (2.38%) React
8 7 (2.38%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.04%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.04%) Spring
10 5 (1.70%) Apache Avro
10 5 (1.70%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.70%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.70%) Quarkus
10 5 (1.70%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.36%) NumPy
12 3 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.12%) AI Agents
3 17 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.06%) Clustering
5 9 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.70%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.36%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.36%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.02%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Life Science
10 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Linux
1 2 (0.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (50.00%) Analytics
2 119 (40.48%) Data Pipeline
3 115 (39.12%) CI/CD
4 112 (38.10%) Data Engineering
5 107 (36.39%) Data Modelling
6 92 (31.29%) AI
7 89 (30.27%) ETL
8 72 (24.49%) Machine Learning
9 64 (21.77%) Agile
10 58 (19.73%) Data Governance
11 55 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 52 (17.69%) DevOps
13 51 (17.35%) Data Science
14 49 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
15 47 (15.99%) Data Transformation
16 46 (15.65%) Decision-Making
17 41 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (13.27%) Observability
19 38 (12.93%) Data Architecture
19 38 (12.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 181 (61.56%) SQL
2 153 (52.04%) Python
3 43 (14.63%) Java
4 18 (6.12%) Go
4 18 (6.12%) Scala
5 11 (3.74%) Bash
6 10 (3.40%) LookML
7 9 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.72%) R
9 6 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.04%) PHP
10 4 (1.36%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.02%) Cypher
11 3 (1.02%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.02%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.68%) Korn
12 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.68%) SOQL
13 1 (0.34%) C#
13 1 (0.34%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 25 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.70%) Degree
5 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (29.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.42%) QA
3 12 (4.08%) GDPR
4 6 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) Basel III
5 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.34%) ITGC
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.02%) Ansible
3 3 (1.02%) Grafana
3 3 (1.02%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.68%) Control-M
4 2 (0.68%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (42.52%) Google
2 57 (19.39%) Databricks
3 20 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.44%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.06%) Oracle
6 8 (2.72%) Splunk
7 6 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.04%) Informatica
7 6 (2.04%) New Relic
7 6 (2.04%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.70%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.70%) Sage
9 3 (1.02%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Talend
10 2 (0.68%) Workday
11 1 (0.34%) Genesys
11 1 (0.34%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.34%) Tealium