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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 371 410
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +87
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 214 106 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.51% 2.31% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 66 108
10th Percentile £325 £306 £396
25th Percentile £450 £396 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -8.46% -6.43%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £638
90th Percentile £738 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £536
% change year-on-year +10.53% -11.38% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £47.38 £52.05 £28.45
25th Percentile £51.50 £53.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -61.76%
75th Percentile £65.13 £58.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £69.93 £59.75 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -61.76%

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 6,095 4,595 6,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.97% 18.95% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,246 3,243 4,420
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £665
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 89 146
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.88 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.44% -17.98% -31.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £84.80 £71.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +13 154 £575 +12.20% 71
North of England -60 27 £444 -2.74% 29
North West -32 16 £431 -5.48% 14
South East -44 10 £594 +18.80% 15
West Midlands -52 9 £456 +30.36% 4
Yorkshire -56 9 £438 -10.26% 8
Midlands -67 9 £456 +10.61% 5
South West -18 8 £525 -19.23% 3
North East - 2 £475 - 7
East of England -31 1 - - 2
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 34 (15.89%) Apache
2 27 (12.62%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (12.15%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 175 (81.78%) GCP
2 57 (26.64%) Azure
3 54 (25.23%) Power Platform
4 49 (22.90%) AWS
5 30 (14.02%) Snowflake
6 28 (13.08%) dbt
7 27 (12.62%) Amazon S3
8 23 (10.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 22 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (9.81%) Collibra
11 19 (8.88%) Cloud Run
12 18 (8.41%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (6.54%) Vertex AI
14 13 (6.07%) GitHub
15 12 (5.61%) Cloud Functions
16 11 (5.14%) Google Analytics
17 10 (4.67%) Google Gemini
18 9 (4.21%) Cloud Composer
18 9 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) FTP
2 3 (1.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.23%) Power BI
2 35 (16.36%) Looker
3 32 (14.95%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (13.08%) Tableau
5 22 (10.28%) Data Lake
6 19 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (8.41%) Mixpanel
7 18 (8.41%) OLAP
8 17 (7.94%) OLTP
9 16 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.61%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.67%) Big Data
11 10 (4.67%) Metadata
11 10 (4.67%) NoSQL
11 10 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (3.27%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.87%) Parquet
14 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
15 3 (1.40%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (6.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.61%) Git
3 10 (4.67%) JIRA
4 8 (3.74%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) MLflow
5 2 (0.93%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.47%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.47%) Postman
6 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (24.30%) Finance
2 40 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.62%) Retail
5 21 (9.81%) Banking
6 14 (6.54%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.80%) Marketing
9 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Legal
10 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) iGaming
11 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.93%) Publishing
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Billing
12 1 (0.47%) Games
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (37.38%) Data Engineer
2 43 (20.09%) GCP Engineer
3 40 (18.69%) Analyst
4 36 (16.82%) Senior
5 27 (12.62%) Lead
6 25 (11.68%) GCP Data Engineer
7 22 (10.28%) Architect
8 16 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (7.01%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (7.01%) Principal Data Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Data Analyst
10 13 (6.07%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Python Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (5.14%) GCP Architect
11 11 (5.14%) Test Analyst
12 10 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.49%) Kafka
2 19 (8.88%) Great Expectations
3 12 (5.61%) LangChain
4 11 (5.14%) Apache Beam
4 11 (5.14%) React
5 9 (4.21%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.21%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (4.21%) Pandas
5 9 (4.21%) Spring
5 9 (4.21%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.74%) NumPy
6 8 (3.74%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.80%) ADO
7 6 (2.80%) Node.js
7 6 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.80%) REST
8 5 (2.34%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.87%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.87%) OAuth
9 4 (1.87%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.21%) Clustering
3 8 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.80%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.87%) Life Science
6 4 (1.87%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.40%) Genomics
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Podcast
8 2 (0.93%) Replication
9 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) FMCG
9 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (46.26%) Analytics
2 74 (34.58%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (32.71%) Data Modelling
4 67 (31.31%) CI/CD
5 58 (27.10%) Data Engineering
6 57 (26.64%) AI
7 53 (24.77%) Agile
7 53 (24.77%) ETL
8 51 (23.83%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (23.83%) Machine Learning
9 45 (21.03%) DevOps
10 44 (20.56%) Data Governance
11 39 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (18.22%) Observability
12 34 (15.89%) Data Architecture
13 29 (13.55%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (13.08%) Containerisation
14 28 (13.08%) Software Engineering
15 25 (11.68%) Decision-Making
15 25 (11.68%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.27%) SQL
2 106 (49.53%) Python
3 26 (12.15%) Java
4 18 (8.41%) C#
5 6 (2.80%) Scala
6 3 (1.40%) Go
6 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.40%) LookML
7 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 2 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.93%) Groovy
7 2 (0.93%) Ruby
7 2 (0.93%) VBA
8 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.47%) R
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.01%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.27%) Degree
3 6 (2.80%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) ISEB
5 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (26.64%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.68%) GDPR
3 14 (6.54%) QA
4 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.93%) MiFID
5 2 (0.93%) NCSC
5 2 (0.93%) PERC
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) Basel III
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (13.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (25.23%) Terraform
2 32 (14.95%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.74%) Istio
4 7 (3.27%) Kubeflow
5 6 (2.80%) Argo
6 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Ansible
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 112 (52.34%) Google
2 41 (19.16%) Databricks
3 13 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.07%) Oracle
4 4 (1.87%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.40%) Anaplan
5 3 (1.40%) Citrix
5 3 (1.40%) Informatica
5 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.40%) SAP
5 3 (1.40%) Splunk
5 3 (1.40%) Workday
6 2 (0.93%) Facebook
7 1 (0.47%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.47%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.47%) New Relic
7 1 (0.47%) PayPal
7 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.47%) Talend
7 1 (0.47%) Yardi