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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 354 374
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 277 160 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.96% 3.19% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 100 105
10th Percentile £404 £372 £396
25th Percentile £460 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% -15.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £696 £738
UK median daily rate £531 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £43.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - +61.54% -58.73%
75th Percentile £62.63 £58.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £67.95 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +61.54% -58.73%

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 7,001 5,014 6,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.32% 18.04% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,461 4,355
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 80 91
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.71 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -5 189 £541 +3.10% 135
North of England -60 43 £463 -10.19% 32
Yorkshire -24 26 £460 -0.54% 5
South East -47 17 £550 +29.41% 26
North West -46 10 £475 -14.03% 24
North East -35 8 £463 -26.00% 3
South West -35 8 £575 -11.54% 10
Midlands -45 3 £458 - 6
West Midlands -50 3 £458 - 4
East of England - 3 £463 -
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 52 (18.77%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (14.08%) Apache Spark
3 34 (12.27%) Apache
4 7 (2.53%) Confluence
5 6 (2.17%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.72%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.81%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.81%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 219 (79.06%) GCP
2 77 (27.80%) Snowflake
3 65 (23.47%) AWS
4 59 (21.30%) Azure
5 58 (20.94%) dbt
6 36 (13.00%) Power Platform
7 29 (10.47%) Vertex AI
8 27 (9.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 23 (8.30%) GitHub
10 21 (7.58%) Cloud Functions
11 20 (7.22%) Amazon S3
12 19 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (6.14%) Serverless
14 15 (5.42%) Cloud Run
15 13 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (4.69%) Cloud Composer
16 11 (3.97%) Fivetran
17 9 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (2.89%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.81%) Network Security
2 2 (0.72%) FTP
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) MPLS
3 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (27.80%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (16.61%) Looker
3 45 (16.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (13.00%) Power BI
5 34 (12.27%) Tableau
6 27 (9.75%) Data Lake
7 20 (7.22%) Metadata
8 19 (6.86%) Flink
9 15 (5.42%) Big Data
9 15 (5.42%) NoSQL
10 12 (4.33%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.33%) Semantic Layer
11 11 (3.97%) Data Vault
11 11 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.53%) Parquet
14 6 (2.17%) Power Query
14 6 (2.17%) PowerPivot
14 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.58%) Git
2 14 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.97%) GitLab
4 7 (2.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.72%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.72%) ERwin
5 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Gradle
6 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 64 (23.10%) Finance
2 48 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.47%) Retail
4 27 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.94%) Marketing
6 14 (5.05%) Banking
6 14 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.53%) Billing
8 7 (2.53%) Games
8 7 (2.53%) Legal
9 5 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (35.02%) Data Engineer
2 51 (18.41%) Senior
3 46 (16.61%) GCP Engineer
4 38 (13.72%) Architect
5 32 (11.55%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (9.75%) Lead
7 25 (9.03%) Senior Data Engineer
8 23 (8.30%) Data Architect
9 22 (7.94%) Analyst
10 18 (6.50%) Developer
10 18 (6.50%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.05%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (4.33%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Data Scientist
15 9 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
15 9 (3.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
16 8 (2.89%) Automation Engineer
16 8 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.36%) Kafka
2 19 (6.86%) PySpark
3 18 (6.50%) REST
4 14 (5.05%) Apache Beam
5 11 (3.97%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.25%) Pandas
7 8 (2.89%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.53%) JSON
9 6 (2.17%) NumPy
9 6 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.17%) React
10 5 (1.81%) Apache Avro
10 5 (1.81%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.81%) Great Expectations
10 5 (1.81%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.81%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.81%) Quarkus
11 4 (1.44%) Spring
12 3 (1.08%) ADO
12 3 (1.08%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.50%) AI Agents
3 16 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (2.53%) Clustering
6 7 (2.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.81%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) Life Science
10 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (49.46%) Analytics
2 105 (37.91%) Data Pipeline
3 104 (37.55%) CI/CD
4 103 (37.18%) Data Modelling
5 100 (36.10%) Data Engineering
6 87 (31.41%) ETL
7 79 (28.52%) AI
8 72 (25.99%) Machine Learning
9 59 (21.30%) Business Intelligence
10 57 (20.58%) Agile
11 52 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 51 (18.41%) DevOps
13 49 (17.69%) Data Science
13 49 (17.69%) Decision-Making
14 48 (17.33%) Data Governance
15 47 (16.97%) Observability
16 41 (14.80%) Data Architecture
17 35 (12.64%) Data Transformation
18 33 (11.91%) Migration
19 30 (10.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 165 (59.57%) SQL
2 141 (50.90%) Python
3 42 (15.16%) Java
4 17 (6.14%) Scala
5 15 (5.42%) Go
6 10 (3.61%) Bash
7 9 (3.25%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.17%) PHP
8 6 (2.17%) R
9 5 (1.81%) C#
9 5 (1.81%) LookML
10 4 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.08%) Cypher
11 3 (1.08%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Degree
6 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (29.96%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.78%) GDPR
3 14 (5.05%) QA
4 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ITGC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (15.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (22.02%) Kubernetes
1 61 (22.02%) Terraform
2 7 (2.53%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.81%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.36%) Control-M
6 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (36.10%) Google
2 59 (21.30%) Databricks
3 14 (5.05%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.97%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.89%) Oracle
6 7 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.17%) Informatica
7 6 (2.17%) New Relic
7 6 (2.17%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.17%) Splunk
8 5 (1.81%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.81%) Sage
8 5 (1.81%) Workday
9 3 (1.08%) Citrix
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.36%) Tealium