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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 354 384
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 +69
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 239 119 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.79% 2.62% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 79 109
10th Percentile £394 £315 £379
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -4.76% -9.68%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £707 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.50% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £46.50 - £28.45
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -61.76%
75th Percentile £61.74 £53.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £66.85 - £46.95
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -61.76%

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 6,298 4,547 6,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 18.95% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,308 3,168 4,519
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 86 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £23.50 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.61% -19.88% -29.76%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.34 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.88 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.12% -15.49% -31.09%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +28 178 £550 +4.76% 58
North of England -69 30 £450 -18.18% 15
Yorkshire -58 16 £463 -19.57% 5
North West -33 13 £388 -24.76% 9
West Midlands -56 9 £456 - 2
Midlands -66 9 £456 -3.95% 6
South West -26 5 £556 -14.42% 6
South East -55 5 £700 +64.71% 24
East of England -36 2 £575 +82.54% 4
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 31 (12.97%) Apache Spark
2 30 (12.55%) Apache
3 25 (10.46%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.93%) Confluence
5 6 (2.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.09%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (75.31%) GCP
2 57 (23.85%) Azure
3 52 (21.76%) AWS
4 47 (19.67%) Power Platform
5 42 (17.57%) Snowflake
6 33 (13.81%) dbt
7 31 (12.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 26 (10.88%) Vertex AI
9 24 (10.04%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.37%) Cloud Run
11 19 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (7.53%) Collibra
13 16 (6.69%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (5.86%) Cloud Functions
14 14 (5.86%) GitHub
15 12 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (5.02%) Google Gemini
16 8 (3.35%) Dagster
16 8 (3.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) FTP
2 1 (0.42%) DSL
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.67%) Power BI
2 40 (16.74%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (16.74%) Tableau
3 38 (15.90%) Looker
4 29 (12.13%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (6.69%) Mixpanel
6 16 (6.69%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.69%) OLAP
7 15 (6.28%) OLTP
7 15 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (5.02%) Big Data
8 12 (5.02%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.77%) Metadata
10 8 (3.35%) Flink
11 7 (2.93%) Parquet
11 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.93%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (2.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (6.69%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.44%) Git
3 12 (5.02%) GitLab
4 9 (3.77%) JIRA
5 3 (1.26%) Selenium
6 2 (0.84%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.84%) ERwin
6 2 (0.84%) MLflow
6 2 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (23.01%) Finance
2 34 (14.23%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.72%) Retail
5 18 (7.53%) Banking
6 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.18%) Marketing
8 9 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.93%) Games
10 5 (2.09%) Legal
11 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Automotive
12 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Back Office
13 1 (0.42%) Billing
13 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (35.15%) Data Engineer
2 45 (18.83%) GCP Engineer
3 37 (15.48%) Senior
4 30 (12.55%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (10.88%) Architect
5 26 (10.88%) Lead
6 25 (10.46%) Analyst
7 16 (6.69%) Lead Data Engineer
8 14 (5.86%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 14 (5.86%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.44%) Developer
9 13 (5.44%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (5.44%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.02%) Data Architect
10 12 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (4.18%) Data Analyst
12 10 (4.18%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) Kafka
2 18 (7.53%) Great Expectations
3 15 (6.28%) Apache Beam
4 12 (5.02%) React
5 10 (4.18%) LangChain
5 10 (4.18%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.18%) REST
6 8 (3.35%) Pandas
6 8 (3.35%) Spring
6 8 (3.35%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.93%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.93%) PySpark
8 6 (2.51%) Node.js
8 6 (2.51%) NumPy
8 6 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.51%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.09%) Apache Avro
9 5 (2.09%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.67%) OAuth
10 4 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.44%) AI Agents
2 13 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.18%) Clustering
4 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.09%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.26%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.84%) Life Science
8 2 (0.84%) Podcast
8 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.37%) Analytics
2 88 (36.82%) Data Modelling
3 77 (32.22%) CI/CD
4 72 (30.13%) Business Intelligence
5 71 (29.71%) Data Engineering
6 69 (28.87%) AI
7 61 (25.52%) ETL
8 60 (25.10%) Data Pipeline
9 59 (24.69%) Machine Learning
10 51 (21.34%) Agile
11 47 (19.67%) DevOps
12 46 (19.25%) Data Governance
12 46 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (18.41%) Observability
14 36 (15.06%) Decision-Making
14 36 (15.06%) LLM
15 35 (14.64%) Data Architecture
16 34 (14.23%) Data Science
17 29 (12.13%) Containerisation
17 29 (12.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.07%) SQL
2 121 (50.63%) Python
3 34 (14.23%) Java
4 16 (6.69%) C#
5 8 (3.35%) Go
5 8 (3.35%) Scala
6 5 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.67%) PHP
8 3 (1.26%) Bash
8 3 (1.26%) LookML
8 3 (1.26%) R
9 2 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.84%) Korn
9 2 (0.84%) Ruby
9 2 (0.84%) VBA
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (8.37%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.09%) Degree
4 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (27.62%) Data Quality
2 25 (10.46%) GDPR
3 17 (7.11%) QA
4 5 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.84%) PERC
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.42%) Basel III
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.42%) ITGC
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (12.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (24.69%) Terraform
2 40 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.77%) Istio
4 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.51%) Argo
6 4 (1.67%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.84%) Ansible
7 2 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 102 (42.68%) Google
2 48 (20.08%) Databricks
3 15 (6.28%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.60%) Oracle
5 9 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.09%) Workday
8 3 (1.26%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.26%) Citrix
8 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.84%) Facebook
9 2 (0.84%) Informatica
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) Talend