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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 337 367
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 +102
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 300 189 162
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.39% 3.70% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 130 95
10th Percentile £400 £340 £363
25th Percentile £457 £458 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +3.55% -12.21%
75th Percentile £638 £592 £664
90th Percentile £700 £725 £751
UK median daily rate £545 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +5.06% +3.75% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £52.40 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £54.13 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile - £62.06 -
90th Percentile - £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -

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 6,836 5,105 5,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.60% 18.15% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 3,508 3,918
10th Percentile £353 £337 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 72 83
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.20
Median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £59.25 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.15
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £39.48 £33.93
% change year-on-year +3.85% +16.36% -33.54%

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 14 October 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
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 14 October 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 -56 181 £550 +4.76% 289
North of England -54 54 £463 +1.37% 39
Yorkshire -20 28 £455 +1.11% 7
North West -51 19 £531 +11.84% 28
South West -20 18 £500 -4.76% 3
South East -51 16 £463 -11.81% 41
East of England - 9 £788 - 8
North East -35 8 £463 -13.95% 4
Midlands -47 6 £495 -13.91% 11
West Midlands -42 5 £515 - 11
East Midlands -17 1 £350 -39.13%
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 62 (20.67%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.33%) Apache
3 39 (13.00%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.33%) Confluence
5 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.67%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.67%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.00%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 245 (81.67%) GCP
2 72 (24.00%) Snowflake
3 71 (23.67%) AWS
4 68 (22.67%) dbt
5 57 (19.00%) Azure
6 36 (12.00%) Power Platform
7 30 (10.00%) GitHub
8 29 (9.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 27 (9.00%) Vertex AI
10 25 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
11 23 (7.67%) Cloud Composer
11 23 (7.67%) Cloud Run
11 23 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.00%) Amazon S3
12 18 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.00%) Serverless
13 14 (4.67%) SaaS
14 12 (4.00%) Fivetran
14 12 (4.00%) Google Analytics
15 11 (3.67%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.00%) Network Security
2 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.67%) DNS
3 2 (0.67%) Firewall
3 2 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) 5G
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) Intranet
4 1 (0.33%) MPLS
4 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
4 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.67%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (19.33%) Looker
3 49 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (12.33%) Metadata
5 35 (11.67%) Power BI
6 28 (9.33%) Data Lake
7 23 (7.67%) Tableau
8 18 (6.00%) Flink
8 18 (6.00%) NoSQL
9 17 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (5.33%) Big Data
11 12 (4.00%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.67%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.33%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.33%) Delta Lake
13 10 (3.33%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (2.33%) Neo4j
14 7 (2.33%) Power Query
14 7 (2.33%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 37 (12.33%) Git
2 16 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.33%) JIRA
4 11 (3.67%) GitLab
5 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.00%) Gradle
5 3 (1.00%) Maven
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.33%) GoCD
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 72 (24.00%) Finance
2 62 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.00%) Retail
5 22 (7.33%) Marketing
6 20 (6.67%) Banking
7 14 (4.67%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.33%) Billing
9 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.67%) Games
11 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.67%) Legal
12 4 (1.33%) Publishing
13 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.67%) Automotive
14 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 53 (17.67%) Senior
3 41 (13.67%) GCP Engineer
4 40 (13.33%) Architect
5 29 (9.67%) Analyst
6 28 (9.33%) Developer
7 26 (8.67%) Lead
7 26 (8.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 24 (8.00%) GCP Data Engineer
9 19 (6.33%) GCP Architect
10 18 (6.00%) Data Architect
11 11 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) BigQuery Architect
12 10 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.00%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.00%) Data Scientist
14 8 (2.67%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (23.33%) Terraform
2 36 (12.00%) Kafka
3 26 (8.67%) PySpark
4 23 (7.67%) REST
5 12 (4.00%) Apache Beam
6 7 (2.33%) Pandas
6 7 (2.33%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.00%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.00%) JSON
8 5 (1.67%) Langfuse
8 5 (1.67%) React
8 5 (1.67%) Spring
9 4 (1.33%) OAuth
9 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.33%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.00%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.00%) JWT
10 3 (1.00%) NetworkX
10 3 (1.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.67%) Clustering
3 14 (4.67%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.00%) CMDB
7 9 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.00%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.33%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.00%) Linux
1 3 (1.00%) Unix
2 2 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (53.33%) Analytics
2 127 (42.33%) CI/CD
3 121 (40.33%) Data Pipeline
4 119 (39.67%) Data Modelling
5 115 (38.33%) Data Engineering
6 105 (35.00%) ETL
7 91 (30.33%) AI
8 68 (22.67%) Data Governance
9 66 (22.00%) Agile
10 64 (21.33%) Machine Learning
11 60 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 59 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 53 (17.67%) DevOps
14 51 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (16.00%) Decision-Making
16 47 (15.67%) Migration
17 45 (15.00%) Data Transformation
18 42 (14.00%) Data Science
19 41 (13.67%) Data Architecture
19 41 (13.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 201 (67.00%) SQL
2 155 (51.67%) Python
3 37 (12.33%) Java
4 20 (6.67%) Go
5 15 (5.00%) Scala
6 12 (4.00%) Bash
6 12 (4.00%) LookML
7 10 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.00%) R
9 8 (2.67%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.67%) PHP
10 7 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (2.00%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.00%) Cypher
12 3 (1.00%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.00%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.67%) Korn
13 2 (0.67%) SOQL
13 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (9.67%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.67%) Degree
6 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
9 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (34.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.00%) GDPR
2 12 (4.00%) QA
3 7 (2.33%) SLA
4 6 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) Basel III
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.33%) ITGC
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (12.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Control-M
5 2 (0.67%) Ansible
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (46.67%) Google
2 50 (16.67%) Databricks
3 31 (10.33%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.00%) Splunk
7 8 (2.67%) Oracle
8 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.33%) Remedy
9 6 (2.00%) Informatica
10 5 (1.67%) New Relic
10 5 (1.67%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.67%) Sage
11 3 (1.00%) Amplitude
11 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.00%) IBM
11 3 (1.00%) SAP
12 2 (0.67%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.67%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.67%) Zuora