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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 351 370
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +72
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 275 159 160
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 3.19% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 99 99
10th Percentile £407 £340 £399
25th Percentile £461 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £650
90th Percentile £675 £679 £740
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £43.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - +61.54% -58.73%
75th Percentile £62.63 £58.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £67.95 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +61.54% -58.73%

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 6,991 4,984 6,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.96% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 3,433 4,288
10th Percentile £360 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 80 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £21.02 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.05 £19.87
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.20 £78.88 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 29 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in England

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 29 August 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 -13 185 £550 +4.76% 250
North of England -59 43 £463 -1.70% 43
Yorkshire -33 26 £460 +2.22% 8
South East -53 15 £550 +29.41% 44
North West -65 10 £475 -2.56% 31
South West - 9 £575 - 13
North East -30 8 £463 -26.00% 4
West Midlands -36 3 £458 - 7
Midlands -46 3 £458 -20.43% 11
East of England - 3 £463 - 2
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 51 (18.55%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (14.55%) Apache Spark
3 34 (12.36%) Apache
4 6 (2.18%) Confluence
4 6 (2.18%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.73%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.82%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.82%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (77.82%) GCP
2 77 (28.00%) Snowflake
3 62 (22.55%) AWS
3 62 (22.55%) dbt
4 53 (19.27%) Azure
5 37 (13.45%) Power Platform
6 31 (11.27%) Vertex AI
7 27 (9.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 24 (8.73%) GitHub
9 21 (7.64%) Cloud Functions
10 20 (7.27%) Amazon S3
10 20 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.55%) Serverless
12 14 (5.09%) Cloud Run
13 13 (4.73%) Cloud Composer
14 12 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (4.00%) Fivetran
16 9 (3.27%) Google Analytics
16 9 (3.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.73%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) MPLS
3 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.73%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (18.55%) Looker
3 47 (17.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (13.45%) Power BI
5 34 (12.36%) Tableau
6 27 (9.82%) Data Lake
7 19 (6.91%) Flink
7 19 (6.91%) Metadata
8 16 (5.82%) Big Data
9 15 (5.45%) NoSQL
10 12 (4.36%) Data Vault
10 12 (4.36%) Semantic Layer
11 11 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.91%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (2.91%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.55%) Parquet
14 6 (2.18%) Power Query
14 6 (2.18%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 22 (8.00%) Git
2 14 (5.09%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.00%) GitLab
4 6 (2.18%) JIRA
5 3 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.73%) ERwin
6 2 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.73%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.36%) Maven
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 64 (23.27%) Finance
2 49 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.64%) Retail
4 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.36%) Marketing
6 15 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.09%) Banking
8 13 (4.73%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.55%) Billing
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Games
9 7 (2.55%) Legal
10 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (34.55%) Data Engineer
2 55 (20.00%) Senior
3 43 (15.64%) GCP Engineer
4 37 (13.45%) Architect
5 29 (10.55%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (9.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 26 (9.45%) Analyst
8 24 (8.73%) Lead
9 21 (7.64%) Data Architect
10 17 (6.18%) Developer
11 16 (5.82%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.64%) Data Scientist
15 9 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
16 8 (2.91%) Data Analytics Engineer
16 8 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.82%) Terraform
2 38 (13.82%) Kafka
3 21 (7.64%) PySpark
4 18 (6.55%) REST
5 13 (4.73%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.64%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.55%) JSON
7 7 (2.55%) Pandas
7 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.18%) React
9 5 (1.82%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.82%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.82%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.82%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.82%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.45%) Great Expectations
10 4 (1.45%) NumPy
10 4 (1.45%) Spring
11 3 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.55%) AI Agents
3 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.18%) Clustering
7 6 (2.18%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.45%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Life Science
10 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
1 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (50.91%) Analytics
2 107 (38.91%) CI/CD
3 106 (38.55%) Data Modelling
4 105 (38.18%) Data Engineering
5 104 (37.82%) Data Pipeline
6 87 (31.64%) ETL
7 83 (30.18%) AI
8 68 (24.73%) Machine Learning
9 59 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (20.36%) Agile
11 52 (18.91%) DevOps
11 52 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 49 (17.82%) Decision-Making
13 46 (16.73%) Data Science
14 44 (16.00%) Data Governance
15 42 (15.27%) Data Transformation
15 42 (15.27%) Observability
16 35 (12.73%) Data Architecture
17 34 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (10.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 169 (61.45%) SQL
2 142 (51.64%) Python
3 41 (14.91%) Java
4 18 (6.55%) Scala
5 16 (5.82%) Go
6 10 (3.64%) Bash
7 8 (2.91%) R
7 8 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.18%) LookML
8 6 (2.18%) PHP
9 4 (1.45%) C#
9 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.09%) Cypher
10 3 (1.09%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.09%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.73%) Korn
11 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.73%) SOQL
12 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.45%) Degree
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (29.82%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.45%) GDPR
3 14 (5.09%) QA
4 6 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ITGC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (14.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.09%) Grafana
3 3 (1.09%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.73%) Ansible
4 2 (0.73%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (36.36%) Google
2 61 (22.18%) Databricks
3 14 (5.09%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.73%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.91%) Oracle
6 6 (2.18%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.18%) Informatica
6 6 (2.18%) New Relic
6 6 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.18%) Splunk
7 5 (1.82%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.82%) Sage
7 5 (1.82%) Workday
8 3 (1.09%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Talend
10 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.36%) Genesys
10 1 (0.36%) MicroStrategy