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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 328 370
Rank change year-on-year -30 +42 +82
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 304 177 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 3.55% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 116 94
10th Percentile £403 £339 £400
25th Percentile £460 £454 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £616 £591 £675
90th Percentile £681 £703 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £62.06 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 6,887 4,984 5,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.88% 18.18% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,602 3,423 4,063
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 73 82
10th Percentile £15.82 £21.06 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.16 £29.07 £21.44
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.16% +14.99% -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 22 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 22 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 -17 196 £550 +4.76% 313
North of England -54 50 £463 -0.38% 73
Yorkshire -28 32 £467 +2.33% 19
South East -48 18 £498 +17.06% 66
South West - 12 £538 - 5
North West -58 11 £488 +2.63% 51
North East -28 8 £463 -26.00% 3
Midlands -46 6 £495 -13.91% 28
West Midlands -44 5 £515 - 26
East of England - 3 £575 - 8
East Midlands -14 1 £350 -39.13% 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 57 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (13.49%) Apache Spark
3 37 (12.17%) Apache
4 11 (3.62%) Confluence
5 6 (1.97%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.64%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 247 (81.25%) GCP
2 74 (24.34%) Snowflake
3 65 (21.38%) AWS
3 65 (21.38%) dbt
4 56 (18.42%) Azure
5 34 (11.18%) Vertex AI
6 33 (10.86%) Power Platform
7 30 (9.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 27 (8.88%) GitHub
9 23 (7.57%) Cloud Functions
10 22 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
11 19 (6.25%) Cloud Run
12 18 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 18 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (5.92%) Serverless
13 12 (3.95%) Fivetran
13 12 (3.95%) Google Analytics
14 10 (3.29%) Google Compute Engine
15 9 (2.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Network Security
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.66%) VPN
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) Intranet
3 1 (0.33%) MPLS
3 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (27.63%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (17.11%) Looker
3 45 (14.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (11.18%) Metadata
5 33 (10.86%) Power BI
6 27 (8.88%) Tableau
7 26 (8.55%) Data Lake
8 20 (6.58%) Flink
9 18 (5.92%) NoSQL
10 17 (5.59%) Big Data
11 14 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (4.28%) Relational Database
13 11 (3.62%) Data Vault
14 10 (3.29%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (3.29%) Semantic Layer
15 9 (2.96%) Delta Lake
15 9 (2.96%) MongoDB
16 7 (2.30%) Neo4j
16 7 (2.30%) Parquet
17 6 (1.97%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 31 (10.20%) Git
2 15 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.28%) JIRA
4 12 (3.95%) GitLab
5 3 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.99%) Gradle
5 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.66%) ERwin
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.33%) GoCD
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 71 (23.36%) Finance
2 58 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.18%) Retail
5 26 (8.55%) Marketing
6 21 (6.91%) Banking
7 14 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.30%) Billing
9 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.30%) Games
9 7 (2.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.32%) Publishing
12 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (34.87%) Data Engineer
2 56 (18.42%) Senior
3 49 (16.12%) GCP Engineer
4 43 (14.14%) Architect
5 33 (10.86%) GCP Data Engineer
6 28 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 24 (7.89%) Analyst
7 24 (7.89%) Lead
8 22 (7.24%) Data Architect
8 22 (7.24%) Developer
9 16 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.28%) GCP Architect
10 13 (4.28%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.62%) Data Scientist
13 10 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.29%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (2.96%) BigQuery Architect
15 8 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (21.71%) Terraform
2 35 (11.51%) Kafka
3 24 (7.89%) PySpark
4 23 (7.57%) REST
5 15 (4.93%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.29%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.63%) JSON
7 8 (2.63%) Pandas
7 8 (2.63%) React
8 7 (2.30%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.97%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.97%) Spring
10 5 (1.64%) Apache Avro
10 5 (1.64%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.64%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.64%) Quarkus
10 5 (1.64%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.32%) NumPy
12 3 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.92%) AI Agents
3 17 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.28%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.62%) Clustering
6 9 (2.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 9 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Linux
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (50.00%) Analytics
2 121 (39.80%) Data Pipeline
3 119 (39.14%) CI/CD
4 114 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 112 (36.84%) Data Modelling
6 95 (31.25%) AI
7 93 (30.59%) ETL
8 73 (24.01%) Machine Learning
9 65 (21.38%) Agile
10 61 (20.07%) Data Governance
11 58 (19.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (18.09%) DevOps
13 51 (16.78%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (16.78%) Data Science
14 48 (15.79%) Decision-Making
15 47 (15.46%) Data Transformation
16 46 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (13.49%) Migration
18 40 (13.16%) Data Architecture
18 40 (13.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 190 (62.50%) SQL
2 157 (51.64%) Python
3 43 (14.14%) Java
4 19 (6.25%) Go
5 18 (5.92%) Scala
6 12 (3.95%) Bash
7 10 (3.29%) LookML
8 9 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.63%) R
10 7 (2.30%) PHP
11 6 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.97%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.99%) Cypher
12 3 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.99%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.99%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.66%) Korn
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) SOQL
13 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.64%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
8 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (29.61%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.28%) GDPR
2 13 (4.28%) QA
3 6 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) Basel III
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) ITGC
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (14.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 134 (44.08%) Google
2 58 (19.08%) Databricks
3 23 (7.57%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.96%) Oracle
6 8 (2.63%) Splunk
7 6 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.97%) New Relic
7 6 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.64%) Informatica
8 5 (1.64%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.64%) Sage
9 3 (0.99%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.66%) Remedy
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.66%) Workday
11 1 (0.33%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.33%) Tealium