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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 364 401
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 +77
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 230 115 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.47% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.68% 2.46% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 73 107
10th Percentile £338 £313 £394
25th Percentile £450 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £556 £638
90th Percentile £725 £709 £700
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £545
% change year-on-year +7.53% -12.84% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £47.38 £52.05 £28.45
25th Percentile £51.50 £53.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -61.76%
75th Percentile £65.13 £58.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £69.93 £59.75 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -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 6,245 4,670 6,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 19.11% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,340 3,267 4,431
10th Percentile £350 £358 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 95 137
10th Percentile £17.55 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.85 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.31 £52.50
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.30% -15.49% -33.33%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +13 165 £550 +4.76% 62
North of England -58 33 £444 -11.25% 23
Yorkshire -49 17 £450 -20.00% 10
North West -27 15 £431 -9.21% 11
West Midlands -52 9 £456 +30.36% 5
Midlands -68 9 £456 +10.61% 10
South East -51 8 £700 +64.71% 18
South West -26 5 £538 -17.31% 2
East of England -30 2 £575 +82.54% 5
North East - 1 £500 - 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 33 (14.35%) Apache
2 27 (11.74%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (11.74%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.91%) Confluence
4 4 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 180 (78.26%) GCP
2 54 (23.48%) Azure
3 48 (20.87%) Power Platform
4 47 (20.43%) AWS
5 34 (14.78%) Snowflake
6 32 (13.91%) dbt
7 27 (11.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 26 (11.30%) Amazon S3
9 22 (9.57%) Vertex AI
10 21 (9.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (8.70%) Collibra
12 19 (8.26%) Cloud Run
13 18 (7.83%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (7.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (5.22%) Cloud Functions
14 12 (5.22%) GitHub
14 12 (5.22%) Google Gemini
15 9 (3.91%) Cloud Composer
15 9 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (3.48%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.74%) FTP
2 1 (0.43%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.87%) Power BI
2 38 (16.52%) Looker
3 35 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (14.35%) Tableau
5 21 (9.13%) Data Lake
6 19 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (7.83%) Mixpanel
7 18 (7.83%) OLAP
8 17 (7.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (7.39%) OLTP
9 12 (5.22%) Metadata
9 12 (5.22%) NoSQL
9 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.04%) Big Data
11 7 (3.04%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.17%) Data Vault
13 5 (2.17%) Parquet
13 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.65%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.35%) Git
2 10 (4.35%) JIRA
3 8 (3.48%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.87%) ERwin
4 2 (0.87%) MLflow
4 2 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.87%) Selenium
4 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 55 (23.91%) Finance
2 42 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.43%) Retail
5 21 (9.13%) Banking
6 14 (6.09%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.04%) Marketing
9 5 (2.17%) Games
9 5 (2.17%) Legal
10 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.87%) iGaming
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (36.96%) Data Engineer
2 43 (18.70%) GCP Engineer
3 37 (16.09%) Analyst
4 35 (15.22%) Senior
5 27 (11.74%) Lead
6 26 (11.30%) GCP Data Engineer
7 23 (10.00%) Architect
8 16 (6.96%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (6.96%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (6.96%) Python Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Data Analyst
11 12 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (4.78%) Test Analyst
13 10 (4.35%) Data Architect
13 10 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.04%) Kafka
2 20 (8.70%) Great Expectations
3 13 (5.65%) LangChain
3 13 (5.65%) React
4 12 (5.22%) Apache Beam
5 11 (4.78%) PyTorch
6 10 (4.35%) Pandas
7 9 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.91%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (3.91%) Spring
7 9 (3.91%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.48%) NumPy
8 8 (3.48%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.61%) ADO
9 6 (2.61%) Node.js
9 6 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.17%) REST
11 4 (1.74%) LangGraph
11 4 (1.74%) Model Context Protocol
11 4 (1.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.78%) Clustering
3 10 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 8 (3.48%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.30%) Life Science
8 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Genomics
9 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.87%) Podcast
9 2 (0.87%) Replication
10 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.65%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (47.39%) Analytics
2 81 (35.22%) Data Modelling
3 71 (30.87%) CI/CD
4 69 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 68 (29.57%) AI
6 63 (27.39%) Data Engineering
7 61 (26.52%) Machine Learning
8 57 (24.78%) Data Pipeline
9 55 (23.91%) ETL
10 53 (23.04%) Agile
11 49 (21.30%) Data Governance
12 44 (19.13%) DevOps
12 44 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (18.26%) Observability
14 35 (15.22%) Data Architecture
14 35 (15.22%) LLM
15 32 (13.91%) Decision-Making
16 29 (12.61%) Containerisation
16 29 (12.61%) Data Science
17 27 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 121 (52.61%) Python
2 120 (52.17%) SQL
3 28 (12.17%) Java
4 18 (7.83%) C#
5 6 (2.61%) Scala
6 5 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.30%) Go
7 3 (1.30%) LookML
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.87%) R
8 2 (0.87%) Ruby
8 2 (0.87%) VBA
9 1 (0.43%) Groovy
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) ISEB
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (27.39%) Data Quality
2 27 (11.74%) GDPR
3 14 (6.09%) QA
4 6 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) PERC
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) Basel III
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (13.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (25.22%) Terraform
2 36 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.91%) Istio
4 7 (3.04%) Kubeflow
5 6 (2.61%) Argo
5 6 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (47.39%) Google
2 41 (17.83%) Databricks
3 12 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.78%) Oracle
5 7 (3.04%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.17%) Workday
7 3 (1.30%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.30%) Citrix
8 2 (0.87%) Facebook
8 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.43%) New Relic
9 1 (0.43%) PayPal
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) SAP
9 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.43%) Talend
9 1 (0.43%) Yardi