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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 364 424
Rank change year-on-year -7 +60 +67
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 207 125 130
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.55% 2.60% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 78 101
10th Percentile £325 £312 £385
25th Percentile £450 £352 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% -6.09%
75th Percentile £634 £561 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £545
% change year-on-year +16.67% -17.43% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £51.20 £55.75 £28.45
25th Percentile £52.63 £56.50 £29.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £58.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +78.46% -
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.50 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.15 £60.25 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £57.77 £58.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.41% +78.46% -

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 5,831 4,805 6,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.13% 19.08% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,055 3,322 4,392
10th Percentile £344 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 88 160
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.37 £14.36
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.25 £20.94
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -15.35% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.79 £60.38
90th Percentile £85.05 £70.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £30.11 £40.50
% change year-on-year +70.24% -25.67% -29.57%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +9 145 £550 +10.00% 75
North of England -47 28 £431 -10.85% 27
North West -21 18 £400 -8.57% 12
South East -35 10 £525 +5.00% 28
South West -8 9 £525 -19.23% 6
West Midlands -52 8 £456 -1.35% 5
Yorkshire -62 8 £438 -20.45% 10
Midlands -65 8 £456 -3.95% 6
North East - 2 £475 - 5
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 32 (15.46%) Apache
2 31 (14.98%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (11.59%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Luigi
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 170 (82.13%) GCP
2 58 (28.02%) Azure
3 55 (26.57%) Power Platform
4 53 (25.60%) AWS
5 29 (14.01%) Snowflake
6 27 (13.04%) dbt
7 26 (12.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 25 (12.08%) Amazon S3
9 21 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (9.18%) Cloud Run
11 18 (8.70%) Collibra
11 18 (8.70%) GitHub
12 16 (7.73%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (7.73%) Vertex AI
13 12 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (5.80%) Google Analytics
14 11 (5.31%) Cloud Functions
15 10 (4.83%) Google Gemini
16 9 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) FTP
2 3 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (26.57%) Power BI
2 34 (16.43%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (15.94%) Looker
4 28 (13.53%) Tableau
5 22 (10.63%) Data Lake
6 17 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.73%) Mixpanel
7 16 (7.73%) OLAP
8 15 (7.25%) OLTP
9 12 (5.80%) NoSQL
9 12 (5.80%) SQL Server
10 11 (5.31%) Metadata
10 11 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.35%) Big Data
12 5 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.45%) Cloud Spanner
14 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (8.21%) Git
1 17 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.35%) JIRA
3 8 (3.86%) GitLab
4 4 (1.93%) MLflow
5 2 (0.97%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.97%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (24.64%) Finance
2 37 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.63%) Banking
5 21 (10.14%) Retail
6 18 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.90%) Marketing
8 5 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.42%) Publishing
8 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Legal
9 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Games
10 2 (0.97%) iGaming
10 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (34.30%) Data Engineer
2 42 (20.29%) Analyst
3 37 (17.87%) GCP Engineer
4 34 (16.43%) Senior
5 23 (11.11%) Lead
6 17 (8.21%) Architect
6 17 (8.21%) GCP Data Engineer
7 14 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Data Analyst
8 13 (6.28%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Principal Data Engineer
9 12 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (5.31%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.31%) Test Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) GCP Architect
12 9 (4.35%) Developer
12 9 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 9 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.53%) Kafka
2 17 (8.21%) Great Expectations
3 13 (6.28%) LangChain
4 12 (5.80%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.83%) React
6 9 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.35%) Apache Beam
6 9 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
6 9 (4.35%) Pandas
7 8 (3.86%) NumPy
7 8 (3.86%) Spring
7 8 (3.86%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.38%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.90%) ADO
9 6 (2.90%) Node.js
9 6 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.42%) pytest
10 5 (2.42%) REST
11 4 (1.93%) OAuth
12 3 (1.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.86%) Clustering
2 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.38%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.42%) Life Science
6 4 (1.93%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.93%) Genomics
6 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.45%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.97%) Podcast
8 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.97%) Replication
9 1 (0.48%) FMCG
9 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.48%) Social Media
9 1 (0.48%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (43.96%) Analytics
2 68 (32.85%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 61 (29.47%) Data Modelling
5 56 (27.05%) Agile
6 55 (26.57%) AI
7 53 (25.60%) ETL
8 50 (24.15%) Data Engineering
9 49 (23.67%) Data Pipeline
10 47 (22.71%) Machine Learning
11 45 (21.74%) Data Governance
12 41 (19.81%) DevOps
13 37 (17.87%) Observability
14 34 (16.43%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (15.46%) Containerisation
15 32 (15.46%) Data Architecture
15 32 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (13.53%) Software Engineering
17 26 (12.56%) Data Privacy
17 26 (12.56%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 121 (58.45%) SQL
2 107 (51.69%) Python
3 24 (11.59%) Java
4 16 (7.73%) C#
5 5 (2.42%) Go
6 4 (1.93%) Bash
6 4 (1.93%) Groovy
6 4 (1.93%) Scala
7 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.97%) R
8 2 (0.97%) Ruby
8 2 (0.97%) VBA
9 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.83%) Degree
3 8 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) ISEB
5 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (25.12%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.08%) GDPR
3 16 (7.73%) QA
4 10 (4.83%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) MiFID
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
5 2 (0.97%) PERC
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (16.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (22.71%) Terraform
2 35 (16.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.83%) Istio
4 6 (2.90%) Argo
5 5 (2.42%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (54.11%) Google
2 35 (16.91%) Databricks
3 15 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.83%) Oracle
5 4 (1.93%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.45%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.45%) Citrix
6 3 (1.45%) Facebook
6 3 (1.45%) SAP
6 3 (1.45%) Splunk
6 3 (1.45%) Workday
7 2 (0.97%) Informatica
7 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) Instagram
8 1 (0.48%) PayPal
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.48%) YouTube