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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 353 471
Rank change year-on-year +11 +118 +29
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 193 157 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 2.80% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 87 85
10th Percentile £325 £319 £425
25th Percentile £431 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £614 £681 £663
90th Percentile £725 £751 £795
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £41.08 £55.75 £37.45
25th Percentile £56.25 £56.50 £52.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -25.16% -
75th Percentile £69.25 £59.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £70.90 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,369 5,601 6,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.46% 17.99% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 3,741 4,594
10th Percentile £326 £350 £353
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 80 134
10th Percentile £21.07 £18.00 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.69 £24.86
Median hourly rate £54.70 £38.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +43.95% -20.33% -4.61%
75th Percentile £69.25 £60.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.80 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £31.55 £46.84
% change year-on-year +73.40% -32.65% -2.30%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +30 131 £525 - 74
North of England -31 40 £438 -11.62% 17
North West 0 25 £456 +4.29% 13
Yorkshire -48 13 £325 -53.57% 3
South East +3 7 £525 +31.25% 53
South West +6 6 £525 - 10
North East -7 2 £538 +8.59% 1
Midlands -28 1 £575 +21.05% 2
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
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 40 (20.73%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (10.88%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.33%) Apache
4 7 (3.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Maple
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 171 (88.60%) GCP
2 55 (28.50%) Azure
3 52 (26.94%) AWS
4 40 (20.73%) Power Platform
5 36 (18.65%) dbt
6 32 (16.58%) Snowflake
7 23 (11.92%) GitHub
8 18 (9.33%) Vertex AI
9 13 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (5.70%) Google Analytics
11 9 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.66%) Google Tag Manager
11 9 (4.66%) Serverless
12 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.63%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (3.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) FTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.91%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (20.73%) Power BI
3 38 (19.69%) Looker
4 24 (12.44%) Tableau
5 21 (10.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (9.84%) NoSQL
7 17 (8.81%) Big Data
8 14 (7.25%) Data Lake
8 14 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.70%) Metadata
10 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (3.63%) Redis
11 7 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.11%) MySQL
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (2.59%) DynamoDB
13 5 (2.59%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.36%) Git
2 17 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.70%) JIRA
4 8 (4.15%) MLflow
5 5 (2.59%) Gradle
5 5 (2.59%) Maven
5 5 (2.59%) SonarLint
5 5 (2.59%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.55%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.55%) ERwin
6 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.55%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.04%) GitLab
7 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.04%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.83%) Finance
3 24 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.33%) Banking
5 17 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.29%) Marketing
7 13 (6.74%) Retail
8 6 (3.11%) Advertising
9 5 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.55%) Automotive
11 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.55%) Publishing
12 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.52%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) iGaming
13 1 (0.52%) Law
13 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (21.76%) Analyst
2 36 (18.65%) Data Engineer
3 34 (17.62%) Senior
4 28 (14.51%) Architect
5 24 (12.44%) GCP Engineer
6 18 (9.33%) Data Analyst
7 16 (8.29%) GCP Architect
8 13 (6.74%) Data Architect
9 12 (6.22%) Developer
10 10 (5.18%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (5.18%) Test Analyst
11 8 (4.15%) GCP Data Architect
11 8 (4.15%) Java Architect
11 8 (4.15%) Lead
11 8 (4.15%) Product Manager
11 8 (4.15%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.63%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.77%) Kafka
2 10 (5.18%) Pandas
3 9 (4.66%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (4.66%) TensorFlow
4 8 (4.15%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.63%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.63%) LangChain
5 7 (3.63%) RESTful
5 7 (3.63%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.11%) NumPy
7 5 (2.59%) Dropwizard
7 5 (2.59%) GraphQL
7 5 (2.59%) J2EE
7 5 (2.59%) JWT
7 5 (2.59%) Micronaut
7 5 (2.59%) pytest
7 5 (2.59%) React
7 5 (2.59%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.07%) Celery
9 3 (1.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.70%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.11%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (2.59%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.07%) Genomics
7 4 (2.07%) Life Science
7 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) Clustering
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.18%) Windows
2 3 (1.55%) Android
2 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.90%) Analytics
2 66 (34.20%) ETL
3 60 (31.09%) Agile
4 58 (30.05%) CI/CD
5 52 (26.94%) AI
5 52 (26.94%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (26.94%) Data Modelling
6 46 (23.83%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (21.76%) Data Engineering
8 40 (20.73%) Data Science
8 40 (20.73%) Machine Learning
9 37 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (18.13%) Actionable Insight
11 31 (16.06%) Data Governance
12 28 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (14.51%) Visualisation
13 26 (13.47%) Data Integration
13 26 (13.47%) DevOps
14 24 (12.44%) Containerisation
15 21 (10.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (59.59%) SQL
2 93 (48.19%) Python
3 35 (18.13%) Java
4 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.63%) Scala
6 6 (3.11%) Bash
7 5 (2.59%) Go
8 4 (2.07%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) Groovy
9 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.55%) Swift
10 2 (1.04%) C++
10 2 (1.04%) LookML
10 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Korn
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) R
11 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.18%) Degree
3 7 (3.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) CISSP
5 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) MCP
7 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.62%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.33%) QA
3 10 (5.18%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.15%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (12.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (12.95%) Terraform
2 22 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.66%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 2 (1.04%) Istio
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 103 (53.37%) Google
2 19 (9.84%) Databricks
3 12 (6.22%) Oracle
4 11 (5.70%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.59%) Gigya
5 5 (2.59%) Splunk
6 4 (2.07%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.07%) Informatica
7 3 (1.55%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (0.52%) Facebook
9 1 (0.52%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) Instagram
9 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.52%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) TikTok
9 1 (0.52%) YouTube