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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 351 386
Rank change year-on-year -29 +35 +62
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 246 146 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% 3.07% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 93 116
10th Percentile £425 £316 £385
25th Percentile £475 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +7.50% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £50.31 £51.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +29.63% -52.35%
75th Percentile £58.73 £53.75 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.61 - £48.60
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% +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 6,686 4,749 6,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.39% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,504 3,291 4,711
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £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 £709 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 89 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.76
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £69.72 £62.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.50 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% -29.76%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -4 178 £550 +4.76% 77
North of England -69 31 £475 -7.77% 23
Yorkshire -43 18 £475 +1.93% 5
South East -50 11 £575 +35.29% 22
North West -49 9 £500 -2.91% 17
Midlands -45 8 £456 -3.95% 2
West Midlands -52 8 £456 - 2
North East -27 4 £463 -26.00% 1
South West -31 3 £538 -17.31% 2
East of England -22 2 £575 +82.54% 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 34 (13.82%) Apache Airflow
1 34 (13.82%) Apache Spark
2 26 (10.57%) Apache
3 7 (2.85%) Confluence
4 6 (2.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.03%) BambooHR
1 5 (2.03%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.03%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (76.42%) GCP
2 63 (25.61%) Snowflake
3 60 (24.39%) AWS
4 57 (23.17%) Azure
5 38 (15.45%) dbt
6 35 (14.23%) Power Platform
7 28 (11.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 27 (10.98%) Vertex AI
9 22 (8.94%) Amazon S3
10 19 (7.72%) Cloud Functions
11 17 (6.91%) GitHub
12 16 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (6.10%) Serverless
14 14 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (5.69%) Cloud Run
15 12 (4.88%) Collibra
16 11 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
17 10 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (3.25%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) FTP
2 1 (0.41%) Network Security
2 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (15.04%) Looker
2 37 (15.04%) Tableau
3 35 (14.23%) Power BI
4 31 (12.60%) Data Lake
5 30 (12.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (6.50%) Big Data
6 16 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (6.10%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.28%) Metadata
9 11 (4.47%) Flink
9 11 (4.47%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (4.07%) Mixpanel
10 10 (4.07%) OLAP
11 9 (3.66%) OLTP
12 8 (3.25%) MongoDB
12 8 (3.25%) Relational Database
12 8 (3.25%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.85%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (6.91%) Git
2 10 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.66%) GitLab
3 9 (3.66%) JIRA
4 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.81%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.81%) ERwin
4 2 (0.81%) MLflow
4 2 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.41%) Maven
5 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 59 (23.98%) Finance
2 41 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.79%) Retail
4 27 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.72%) Banking
6 15 (6.10%) Marketing
7 14 (5.69%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.85%) Billing
9 7 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.44%) Games
10 6 (2.44%) Legal
11 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.22%) Automotive
13 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.41%) Back Office
14 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.41%) Military
14 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (36.59%) Data Engineer
2 41 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
2 41 (16.67%) Senior
3 32 (13.01%) Architect
4 31 (12.60%) GCP Data Engineer
5 24 (9.76%) Lead
6 19 (7.72%) Analyst
7 16 (6.50%) Data Architect
7 16 (6.50%) Lead Data Engineer
7 16 (6.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Developer
9 11 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.47%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Data Scientist
9 11 (4.47%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Data Analyst
11 9 (3.66%) Principal Data Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.60%) Kafka
2 14 (5.69%) Apache Beam
3 13 (5.28%) REST
4 12 (4.88%) Great Expectations
5 11 (4.47%) PyTorch
6 10 (4.07%) PySpark
7 8 (3.25%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.85%) Pandas
8 7 (2.85%) React
9 6 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.03%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.03%) LangChain
10 5 (2.03%) NumPy
10 5 (2.03%) Quarkus
11 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.63%) Hugging Face
11 4 (1.63%) JSON
11 4 (1.63%) LangGraph
11 4 (1.63%) OAuth
12 3 (1.22%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.50%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.47%) Clustering
5 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.03%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.81%) Life Science
10 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.81%) Podcast
10 2 (0.81%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.81%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (50.41%) Analytics
2 91 (36.99%) Data Modelling
3 85 (34.55%) CI/CD
4 83 (33.74%) Data Engineering
5 79 (32.11%) Data Pipeline
6 73 (29.67%) ETL
7 66 (26.83%) AI
8 62 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (24.39%) Machine Learning
10 52 (21.14%) Agile
11 47 (19.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (17.48%) DevOps
12 43 (17.48%) Observability
13 42 (17.07%) Decision-Making
14 41 (16.67%) Data Governance
15 38 (15.45%) Data Science
16 36 (14.63%) Data Architecture
17 33 (13.41%) LLM
18 26 (10.57%) Data Analysis
18 26 (10.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 145 (58.94%) SQL
2 127 (51.63%) Python
3 37 (15.04%) Java
4 14 (5.69%) Go
5 10 (4.07%) C#
6 9 (3.66%) Scala
7 6 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.44%) PHP
8 5 (2.03%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.63%) Bash
10 3 (1.22%) LookML
10 3 (1.22%) R
10 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) Cypher
11 2 (0.81%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.81%) Korn
11 2 (0.81%) Ruby
11 2 (0.81%) SOQL
11 2 (0.81%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.03%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.63%) Degree
5 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) ISEB
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (29.67%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.32%) GDPR
3 14 (5.69%) QA
4 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.41%) ITGC
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (13.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (26.02%) Terraform
2 42 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.63%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.81%) Ansible
5 2 (0.81%) Grafana
5 2 (0.81%) Istio
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 86 (34.96%) Google
2 51 (20.73%) Databricks
3 14 (5.69%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.28%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.44%) Oracle
6 5 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.03%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.03%) Sage
6 5 (2.03%) Workday
7 3 (1.22%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.22%) Citrix
8 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.41%) Genesys
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica
9 1 (0.41%) New Relic
9 1 (0.41%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) Talend