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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 365 450
Rank change year-on-year -3 +85 +54
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 181 125 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.47% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.42% 2.57% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 71 84
10th Percentile £321 £310 £416
25th Percentile £413 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £614 £598 £646
90th Percentile £738 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £485 £563
% change year-on-year +8.25% -13.78% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £41.48 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £53.06 £56.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £59.50 £33.25
90th Percentile £70.63 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -

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 5,297 4,864 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.58% 18.37% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,696 3,226 4,309
10th Percentile £329 £355 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £780 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 72 151
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.89
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.25 £22.43
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -20.86%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.73 £62.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.98 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -22.22% -20.86%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -3 117 £550 +6.02% 53
North of England -37 36 £444 -2.74% 16
North West -2 27 £431 -1.43% 10
South West +3 8 £525 - 3
South East -16 8 £525 - 30
Yorkshire -54 7 £400 +175.86% 5
Midlands -41 5 £275 -42.11% 7
West Midlands -33 4 £275 -42.11% 6
North East -12 2 £475 -4.04% 1
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
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 25 (13.81%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (11.05%) Apache
2 20 (11.05%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 152 (83.98%) GCP
2 49 (27.07%) Azure
3 45 (24.86%) AWS
4 44 (24.31%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.81%) dbt
5 25 (13.81%) GitHub
6 21 (11.60%) Snowflake
7 18 (9.94%) Vertex AI
8 17 (9.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 16 (8.84%) Amazon S3
10 15 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (7.18%) Google Analytics
13 12 (6.63%) Collibra
14 11 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (6.08%) Google Tag Manager
15 10 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (5.52%) Google Gemini
16 8 (4.42%) Cloud Run
17 7 (3.87%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.66%) DNS
2 2 (1.10%) FTP
3 1 (0.55%) DSL
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.31%) Power BI
2 31 (17.13%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.13%) Looker
3 23 (12.71%) Tableau
4 18 (9.94%) Data Lake
5 17 (9.39%) NoSQL
6 16 (8.84%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (5.52%) Mixpanel
9 10 (5.52%) OLAP
9 10 (5.52%) OLTP
10 9 (4.97%) Big Data
11 8 (4.42%) Redis
11 8 (4.42%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.87%) Metadata
12 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (3.31%) MySQL
14 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (12.71%) Git
1 23 (12.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.08%) JIRA
3 7 (3.87%) GitLab
4 6 (3.31%) MLflow
5 5 (2.76%) Gradle
5 5 (2.76%) Maven
5 5 (2.76%) SonarLint
5 5 (2.76%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.21%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.66%) Selenium
8 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.10%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.55%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.55%) GoCD
9 1 (0.55%) Postman
9 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.10%) Finance
3 23 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.50%) Retail
6 16 (8.84%) Banking
7 9 (4.97%) Marketing
8 5 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.76%) Publishing
9 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.66%) Advertising
10 3 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Automotive
11 2 (1.10%) Games
11 2 (1.10%) iGaming
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (25.41%) Data Engineer
2 41 (22.65%) Analyst
3 33 (18.23%) Senior
4 28 (15.47%) GCP Engineer
5 16 (8.84%) Architect
6 15 (8.29%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.18%) Data Analyst
7 13 (7.18%) Test Analyst
8 10 (5.52%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Developer
8 10 (5.52%) Lead
9 9 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Senior Test Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Performance Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Principal Data Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) GCP Architect
11 7 (3.87%) GCP Data Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.05%) Kafka
2 12 (6.63%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.08%) LangChain
4 10 (5.52%) Great Expectations
4 10 (5.52%) React
5 9 (4.97%) Pandas
5 9 (4.97%) PyTorch
6 8 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (4.42%) TensorFlow
7 7 (3.87%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.87%) NumPy
7 7 (3.87%) RESTful
7 7 (3.87%) Spring
8 6 (3.31%) GraphQL
8 6 (3.31%) JWT
8 6 (3.31%) Node.js
9 5 (2.76%) Dropwizard
9 5 (2.76%) Micronaut
9 5 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.76%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.76%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.21%) Genomics
5 4 (2.21%) Life Science
5 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.66%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Clustering
7 2 (1.10%) FMCG
7 2 (1.10%) Podcast
7 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.18%) Windows
2 3 (1.66%) Android
2 3 (1.66%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.12%) Analytics
2 57 (31.49%) AI
3 55 (30.39%) Agile
4 53 (29.28%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (29.28%) CI/CD
5 43 (23.76%) ETL
6 42 (23.20%) Data Modelling
7 39 (21.55%) Data Engineering
7 39 (21.55%) Machine Learning
8 37 (20.44%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (17.68%) Actionable Insight
9 32 (17.68%) DevOps
10 31 (17.13%) Containerisation
11 29 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (14.92%) Data Governance
13 24 (13.26%) Data Science
14 23 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (12.15%) Data Privacy
15 22 (12.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (54.14%) SQL
2 83 (45.86%) Python
3 32 (17.68%) Java
4 11 (6.08%) C#
5 7 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.76%) Bash
6 5 (2.76%) Go
6 5 (2.76%) Scala
7 4 (2.21%) Groovy
8 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.66%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.66%) Swift
9 2 (1.10%) C++
9 2 (1.10%) LookML
9 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (7.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.08%) Degree
3 6 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.21%) MCP
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.39%) GDPR
3 16 (8.84%) QA
4 11 (6.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) MiFID
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) PERC
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) Basel III
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.68%) Terraform
3 9 (4.97%) Istio
4 6 (3.31%) Kubeflow
5 5 (2.76%) Argo
6 2 (1.10%) Grafana
6 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 94 (51.93%) Google
2 23 (12.71%) Databricks
3 13 (7.18%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.63%) Oracle
5 5 (2.76%) Gigya
6 4 (2.21%) SAP
6 4 (2.21%) Splunk
7 3 (1.66%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.66%) Facebook
8 2 (1.10%) Informatica
8 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.55%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Instagram
9 1 (0.55%) PayPal
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) TikTok