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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 354 469
Rank change year-on-year -9 +115 +41
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 186 155 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.48% 2.82% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 89 82
10th Percentile £325 £318 £450
25th Percentile £445 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £658
90th Percentile £725 £751 £786
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 5,348 5,501 6,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 18.14% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 3,681 4,586
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
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 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 76 131
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.44 £22.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.69 £64.52
90th Percentile £83.95 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +8 124 £525 - 69
North of England -29 39 £450 -7.22% 50
North West +8 28 £456 +4.29% 27
Yorkshire -50 10 £450 -35.71% 19
South East -10 8 £525 +31.25% 74
South West -6 7 £525 - 28
North East -5 1 £450 -9.09% 4
Midlands -36 1 £575 +21.05% 36
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 19
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 33 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (11.29%) Apache Spark
3 19 (10.22%) Apache
4 8 (4.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 163 (87.63%) GCP
2 54 (29.03%) Azure
3 51 (27.42%) AWS
4 41 (22.04%) Power Platform
5 28 (15.05%) dbt
5 28 (15.05%) Snowflake
6 19 (10.22%) GitHub
7 15 (8.06%) Vertex AI
8 13 (6.99%) Google Analytics
8 13 (6.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (5.91%) Google Tag Manager
11 10 (5.38%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (4.84%) Serverless
13 8 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (3.76%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (3.76%) Cloud Functions
14 7 (3.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) DSL
2 1 (0.54%) FTP
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.04%) Data Warehouse
1 41 (22.04%) Power BI
2 35 (18.82%) Looker
3 21 (11.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (11.29%) Tableau
4 18 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 16 (8.60%) Big Data
6 15 (8.06%) Data Lake
6 15 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.91%) Metadata
8 8 (4.30%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.76%) Redis
9 7 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (3.23%) MySQL
11 5 (2.69%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.69%) Mixpanel
11 5 (2.69%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 20 (10.75%) Git
2 16 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.91%) JIRA
4 5 (2.69%) Gradle
4 5 (2.69%) Maven
4 5 (2.69%) MLflow
4 5 (2.69%) SonarLint
4 5 (2.69%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.61%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.61%) ERwin
5 3 (1.61%) Selenium
5 3 (1.61%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.08%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) git-flow
7 1 (0.54%) GoCD
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.27%) Finance
3 25 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.14%) Banking
6 13 (6.99%) Marketing
7 12 (6.45%) Retail
8 6 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.69%) Publishing
10 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.61%) Advertising
11 3 (1.61%) Automotive
12 2 (1.08%) iGaming
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.54%) Billing
13 1 (0.54%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (23.12%) Analyst
2 40 (21.51%) Data Engineer
3 33 (17.74%) Senior
4 24 (12.90%) Architect
4 24 (12.90%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (9.14%) Data Analyst
6 13 (6.99%) Developer
7 12 (6.45%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.45%) GCP Architect
8 11 (5.91%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (5.38%) Test Analyst
10 9 (4.84%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Lead
11 8 (4.30%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.76%) GCP Data Architect
12 7 (3.76%) Performance Analyst
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Manager
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) Kafka
2 10 (5.38%) Pandas
3 9 (4.84%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (4.84%) TensorFlow
4 8 (4.30%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.76%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.76%) LangChain
5 7 (3.76%) RESTful
5 7 (3.76%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.23%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.23%) NumPy
7 5 (2.69%) Dropwizard
7 5 (2.69%) J2EE
7 5 (2.69%) JWT
7 5 (2.69%) Micronaut
7 5 (2.69%) pytest
7 5 (2.69%) React
7 5 (2.69%) REST
7 5 (2.69%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.15%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.91%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.69%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.15%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.15%) Genomics
7 4 (2.15%) Life Science
7 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.61%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.08%) Clustering
9 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.38%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Android
2 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.63%) Analytics
2 61 (32.80%) ETL
3 57 (30.65%) Agile
4 49 (26.34%) AI
4 49 (26.34%) CI/CD
5 48 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (25.81%) Data Modelling
6 42 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (19.89%) Data Engineering
8 36 (19.35%) Machine Learning
9 35 (18.82%) Actionable Insight
10 33 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (17.20%) Data Science
12 28 (15.05%) Data Governance
13 25 (13.44%) Containerisation
13 25 (13.44%) DevOps
13 25 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (12.37%) Visualisation
15 20 (10.75%) Data Integration
15 20 (10.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (59.68%) SQL
2 86 (46.24%) Python
3 37 (19.89%) Java
4 8 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.76%) Scala
6 6 (3.23%) C#
7 5 (2.69%) Bash
7 5 (2.69%) Go
8 4 (2.15%) Groovy
9 3 (1.61%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.61%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.61%) Swift
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) LookML
10 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.54%) Korn
11 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.54%) R
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.91%) Degree
3 6 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.61%) CISSP
5 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) MCP
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.20%) Data Quality
2 19 (10.22%) QA
3 13 (6.99%) GDPR
4 11 (5.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.08%) MiFID
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
5 2 (1.08%) PERC
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (13.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.98%) Terraform
2 23 (12.37%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.23%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.61%) Grafana
5 2 (1.08%) Istio
5 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 99 (53.23%) Google
2 20 (10.75%) Databricks
3 10 (5.38%) Oracle
4 9 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.69%) Gigya
5 5 (2.69%) Informatica
5 5 (2.69%) Splunk
6 4 (2.15%) Hitachi
7 3 (1.61%) Facebook
7 3 (1.61%) SAP
8 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.08%) Teradata
9 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.54%) IBM
9 1 (0.54%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.54%) PayPal
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) Talend
9 1 (0.54%) TikTok