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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 355 369
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +67
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 278 160 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 3.18% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 101 109
10th Percentile £400 £340 £400
25th Percentile £459 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% -15.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £695 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +69.23% -58.73%
75th Percentile £55.75 £62.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £65.20 £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.55% +69.23% -58.73%

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 7,043 5,026 6,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 18.21% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,713 3,486 4,364
10th Percentile £358 £344 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.45% -2.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 78 92
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.67 £14.33
25th Percentile £25.05 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.58 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% -4.62% -34.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.31 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +2 196 £538 +2.38% 134
North of England -74 40 £463 -10.19% 34
Yorkshire -34 23 £463 -0.38% 11
South East -47 17 £550 +29.41% 20
North West -51 10 £475 -10.38% 21
North East -36 8 £463 -26.00% 2
South West -37 8 £575 -11.54% 3
East of England -14 3 £463 +46.83%
Midlands -49 3 £458 -3.68% 6
West Midlands -50 3 £458 - 4
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 47 (16.91%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (12.59%) Apache Spark
3 31 (11.15%) Apache
4 7 (2.52%) Confluence
5 6 (2.16%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.80%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.80%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.80%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (78.42%) GCP
2 77 (27.70%) Snowflake
3 63 (22.66%) AWS
4 59 (21.22%) Azure
5 53 (19.06%) dbt
6 35 (12.59%) Power Platform
7 30 (10.79%) Vertex AI
8 25 (8.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (7.55%) Cloud Functions
9 21 (7.55%) GitHub
10 19 (6.83%) Amazon S3
11 18 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.12%) Serverless
13 15 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.68%) Cloud Run
15 11 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (3.96%) Cloud Composer
15 11 (3.96%) Fivetran
16 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) FTP
1 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.72%) VPN
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
2 1 (0.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) Intranet
2 1 (0.36%) MPLS
2 1 (0.36%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (26.62%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (17.63%) Looker
3 40 (14.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (12.95%) Tableau
5 35 (12.59%) Power BI
6 27 (9.71%) Data Lake
7 20 (7.19%) Metadata
8 17 (6.12%) Flink
9 15 (5.40%) Big Data
9 15 (5.40%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (4.32%) Relational Database
11 12 (4.32%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (2.88%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.52%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.16%) OLAP
14 6 (2.16%) Power Query
14 6 (2.16%) PowerPivot
14 6 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (7.19%) Git
2 15 (5.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.60%) GitLab
4 7 (2.52%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.72%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.72%) ERwin
5 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Gradle
6 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (22.66%) Finance
2 47 (16.91%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.15%) Retail
5 22 (7.91%) Marketing
6 16 (5.76%) Banking
7 14 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.04%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.52%) Billing
9 7 (2.52%) Games
9 7 (2.52%) Legal
10 5 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.72%) Automotive
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (34.53%) Data Engineer
2 47 (16.91%) GCP Engineer
3 45 (16.19%) Senior
4 37 (13.31%) Architect
5 35 (12.59%) GCP Data Engineer
6 26 (9.35%) Analyst
7 25 (8.99%) Lead
8 21 (7.55%) Data Architect
8 21 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (6.83%) Developer
10 16 (5.76%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.96%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.60%) Data Scientist
14 9 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
14 9 (3.24%) Data Analytics Engineer
15 8 (2.88%) GCP Architect
16 7 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.51%) Kafka
2 17 (6.12%) REST
3 14 (5.04%) Apache Beam
3 14 (5.04%) PySpark
4 11 (3.96%) PyTorch
5 8 (2.88%) TensorFlow
6 7 (2.52%) Great Expectations
6 7 (2.52%) Pandas
7 6 (2.16%) JSON
7 6 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.16%) React
8 5 (1.80%) Apache Avro
8 5 (1.80%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.80%) Hugging Face
8 5 (1.80%) Langfuse
8 5 (1.80%) NumPy
8 5 (1.80%) Quarkus
9 4 (1.44%) Spring
10 3 (1.08%) ADO
10 3 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.47%) AI Agents
3 16 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.88%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.52%) Clustering
6 6 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.44%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Life Science
9 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (50.00%) Analytics
2 106 (38.13%) Data Modelling
3 101 (36.33%) Data Pipeline
4 98 (35.25%) CI/CD
4 98 (35.25%) Data Engineering
5 88 (31.65%) ETL
6 78 (28.06%) AI
7 71 (25.54%) Machine Learning
8 61 (21.94%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (21.22%) Agile
10 53 (19.06%) Decision-Making
11 50 (17.99%) Data Science
12 49 (17.63%) Data Governance
12 49 (17.63%) DevOps
13 48 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (15.47%) Observability
15 42 (15.11%) Data Architecture
16 31 (11.15%) Data Transformation
17 29 (10.43%) LLM
17 29 (10.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 165 (59.35%) SQL
2 139 (50.00%) Python
3 42 (15.11%) Java
4 16 (5.76%) Scala
5 11 (3.96%) Go
6 9 (3.24%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.16%) Bash
7 6 (2.16%) C#
7 6 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.16%) PHP
7 6 (2.16%) R
8 5 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.80%) LookML
9 3 (1.08%) Cypher
9 3 (1.08%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.72%) Korn
10 2 (0.72%) Ruby
10 2 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.80%) Degree
6 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (30.58%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.12%) GDPR
3 14 (5.04%) QA
4 5 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ITGC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (15.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (21.58%) Terraform
2 54 (19.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.44%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (35.97%) Google
2 58 (20.86%) Databricks
3 15 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.32%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.52%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.52%) Oracle
6 6 (2.16%) New Relic
6 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.16%) Splunk
7 5 (1.80%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.80%) Sage
7 5 (1.80%) Workday
8 4 (1.44%) Informatica
9 3 (1.08%) Citrix
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.36%) Tealium