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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 354 460
Rank change year-on-year 0 +106 +55
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 192 155 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.51% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.61% 2.82% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 88 83
10th Percentile £325 £319 £450
25th Percentile £441 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.47%
75th Percentile £614 £678 £661
90th Percentile £725 £751 £798
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 5,317 5,490 6,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.34% 18.09% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,704 3,674 4,592
10th Percentile £326 £350 £356
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 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 76 131
10th Percentile £21.03 £18.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.72 £24.69 £22.87
Median hourly rate £47.61 £39.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.08% -15.55% -7.64%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.69 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.65 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £33.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +44.36% -26.92% -7.44%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +28 131 £525 - 58
North of England -37 39 £444 -10.35% 22
North West -2 27 £475 +8.57% 15
Yorkshire -42 11 £338 -51.79% 6
South East +3 8 £525 +31.25% 46
South West +5 7 £525 - 9
North East -8 1 £450 -9.09% 2
Midlands -33 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 39 (20.31%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (11.98%) Apache Spark
3 21 (10.94%) Apache
4 8 (4.17%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Maple
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 169 (88.02%) GCP
2 54 (28.13%) Azure
3 52 (27.08%) AWS
4 39 (20.31%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.19%) dbt
6 30 (15.63%) Snowflake
7 21 (10.94%) GitHub
8 18 (9.38%) Vertex AI
9 13 (6.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (6.25%) Google Analytics
11 11 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (5.21%) Google Tag Manager
13 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
13 9 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (4.69%) Serverless
14 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (3.65%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (3.65%) Datadog
15 7 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) DSL
2 1 (0.52%) FTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (20.31%) Power BI
3 35 (18.23%) Looker
4 22 (11.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (11.46%) Tableau
5 20 (10.42%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.85%) Big Data
7 14 (7.29%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.21%) Metadata
9 8 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.65%) Redis
10 7 (3.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (3.13%) MySQL
12 5 (2.60%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 5 (2.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (10.94%) Git
2 17 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.73%) JIRA
4 8 (4.17%) MLflow
5 5 (2.60%) Gradle
5 5 (2.60%) Maven
5 5 (2.60%) SonarLint
5 5 (2.60%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.56%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.56%) ERwin
6 3 (1.56%) Selenium
6 3 (1.56%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.04%) GitLab
7 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.04%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) GoCD
8 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.00%) Finance
3 25 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Banking
5 17 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.33%) Marketing
7 12 (6.25%) Retail
8 6 (3.13%) Advertising
8 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.60%) Publishing
10 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.56%) Automotive
11 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.52%) Billing
13 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (21.88%) Analyst
2 39 (20.31%) Data Engineer
3 37 (19.27%) Senior
4 26 (13.54%) Architect
5 24 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
6 16 (8.33%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.77%) Developer
7 13 (6.77%) GCP Architect
8 12 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 12 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (5.21%) Test Analyst
10 8 (4.17%) Product Manager
10 8 (4.17%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.65%) GCP Data Architect
11 7 (3.65%) Lead
11 7 (3.65%) Performance Analyst
11 7 (3.65%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.33%) Kafka
2 10 (5.21%) Pandas
3 9 (4.69%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (4.69%) TensorFlow
4 8 (4.17%) Great Expectations
4 8 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.65%) LangChain
5 7 (3.65%) RESTful
5 7 (3.65%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.13%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.13%) NumPy
7 5 (2.60%) Dropwizard
7 5 (2.60%) J2EE
7 5 (2.60%) JWT
7 5 (2.60%) Micronaut
7 5 (2.60%) pytest
7 5 (2.60%) React
7 5 (2.60%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.08%) Celery
8 4 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.13%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (2.60%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.08%) Genomics
7 4 (2.08%) Life Science
7 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Clustering
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.56%) Android
2 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.06%) Analytics
2 63 (32.81%) ETL
3 60 (31.25%) Agile
4 55 (28.65%) CI/CD
5 51 (26.56%) AI
5 51 (26.56%) Data Modelling
6 50 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (20.31%) Data Engineering
9 38 (19.79%) Machine Learning
10 37 (19.27%) Data Science
11 35 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (17.71%) Actionable Insight
13 30 (15.63%) Data Governance
14 28 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (13.02%) Containerisation
15 25 (13.02%) Visualisation
16 24 (12.50%) DevOps
17 22 (11.46%) Data Integration
17 22 (11.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (58.85%) SQL
2 89 (46.35%) Python
3 37 (19.27%) Java
4 8 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.17%) Scala
5 5 (2.60%) Bash
5 5 (2.60%) C#
5 5 (2.60%) Go
6 3 (1.56%) Groovy
6 3 (1.56%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.56%) Objective-C
6 3 (1.56%) Swift
7 2 (1.04%) C++
7 2 (1.04%) LookML
7 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) CodeQL
8 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.52%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.21%) Degree
3 6 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.56%) CISSP
5 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) MCP
6 1 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.42%) QA
3 12 (6.25%) GDPR
4 10 (5.21%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) MiFID
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
5 2 (1.04%) PERC
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (13.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (13.02%) Terraform
2 24 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.69%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.56%) Grafana
5 2 (1.04%) Istio
5 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 100 (52.08%) Google
2 19 (9.90%) Databricks
3 10 (5.21%) Oracle
4 9 (4.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.60%) Gigya
5 5 (2.60%) Splunk
6 4 (2.08%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.08%) Informatica
7 3 (1.56%) Facebook
7 3 (1.56%) SAP
8 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.52%) PayPal
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.52%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) TikTok