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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 346 381
Rank change year-on-year -16 +35 +80
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 239 138 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 2.98% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 88 107
10th Percentile £413 £314 £378
25th Percentile £463 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £638
90th Percentile £690 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +29.63% -52.35%
75th Percentile £58.79 £53.75 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.61 - £48.60
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +61.54% -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 6,475 4,626 6,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 18.91% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 3,202 4,603
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 92 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.52% -18.93% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.78 £54.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.78% -13.56% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +1 179 £550 +7.32% 55
North of England -76 27 £450 -16.67% 17
Yorkshire -56 15 £475 -13.64% 4
North West -39 10 £388 -24.76% 9
West Midlands -52 9 £456 - 4
Midlands -60 9 £456 -3.95% 5
South East -56 6 £700 +64.71% 26
South West -20 4 £538 -17.31% 1
East of England -26 2 £575 +82.54% 5
North East -27 2 £500 -20.00% 4
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 31 (12.97%) Apache Spark
2 27 (11.30%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (10.46%) Apache
4 7 (2.93%) Confluence
5 6 (2.51%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 10 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.09%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.84%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 180 (75.31%) GCP
2 56 (23.43%) Azure
3 55 (23.01%) AWS
4 49 (20.50%) Snowflake
5 36 (15.06%) Power Platform
6 34 (14.23%) dbt
7 33 (13.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 28 (11.72%) Vertex AI
9 22 (9.21%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.37%) Cloud Run
11 19 (7.95%) GitHub
12 17 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (6.69%) Cloud Functions
14 14 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (5.86%) Collibra
15 13 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (5.02%) Google Gemini
17 11 (4.60%) Serverless
18 8 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) FTP
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.41%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (15.06%) Power BI
2 36 (15.06%) Tableau
3 31 (12.97%) Data Lake
3 31 (12.97%) Looker
4 21 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (7.11%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (6.28%) Big Data
8 13 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (5.44%) Mixpanel
8 13 (5.44%) OLAP
9 12 (5.02%) OLTP
9 12 (5.02%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.35%) Flink
10 8 (3.35%) Metadata
11 7 (2.93%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.93%) Parquet
11 7 (2.93%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.93%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (7.11%) Git
2 16 (6.69%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.86%) GitLab
4 9 (3.77%) JIRA
5 2 (0.84%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.84%) ERwin
5 2 (0.84%) MLflow
5 2 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.42%) Maven
6 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (23.01%) Finance
2 32 (13.39%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.13%) Retail
4 27 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.53%) Banking
6 12 (5.02%) Marketing
7 11 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.18%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.93%) Games
10 5 (2.09%) Legal
11 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.26%) Automotive
12 3 (1.26%) Billing
13 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.42%) Back Office
14 1 (0.42%) Military
14 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (35.15%) Data Engineer
2 46 (19.25%) GCP Engineer
3 41 (17.15%) Senior
4 31 (12.97%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (10.88%) Architect
6 24 (10.04%) Lead
7 19 (7.95%) Analyst
8 16 (6.69%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) Developer
10 13 (5.44%) Data Architect
11 12 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.60%) Principal Data Engineer
13 10 (4.18%) Data Scientist
14 7 (2.93%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.13%) Kafka
2 15 (6.28%) Great Expectations
3 13 (5.44%) Apache Beam
4 12 (5.02%) React
5 10 (4.18%) LangChain
5 10 (4.18%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.18%) REST
6 8 (3.35%) Pandas
6 8 (3.35%) PySpark
6 8 (3.35%) Spring
6 8 (3.35%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.93%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.51%) Node.js
8 6 (2.51%) NumPy
8 6 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.51%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.09%) Apache Avro
9 5 (2.09%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.28%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.77%) Clustering
5 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Podcast
10 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (48.54%) Analytics
2 88 (36.82%) Data Modelling
3 84 (35.15%) CI/CD
4 73 (30.54%) Data Engineering
5 69 (28.87%) AI
6 67 (28.03%) Data Pipeline
7 64 (26.78%) Business Intelligence
7 64 (26.78%) ETL
8 60 (25.10%) Machine Learning
9 50 (20.92%) Agile
10 49 (20.50%) DevOps
10 49 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (19.67%) Observability
12 42 (17.57%) Data Governance
13 35 (14.64%) LLM
14 34 (14.23%) Decision-Making
15 33 (13.81%) Data Architecture
15 33 (13.81%) Data Science
16 31 (12.97%) Containerisation
17 30 (12.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.07%) SQL
2 119 (49.79%) Python
3 32 (13.39%) Java
4 13 (5.44%) C#
5 11 (4.60%) Go
6 6 (2.51%) PHP
6 6 (2.51%) Scala
7 5 (2.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.26%) LookML
10 2 (0.84%) Bash
10 2 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.84%) Korn
10 2 (0.84%) R
10 2 (0.84%) Ruby
10 2 (0.84%) SOQL
10 2 (0.84%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.67%) Degree
3 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.84%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.42%) ISEB
5 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (28.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.53%) GDPR
3 15 (6.28%) QA
4 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) Basel III
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.42%) ITGC
5 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (14.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (26.78%) Terraform
2 42 (17.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.77%) Istio
4 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.51%) Argo
6 4 (1.67%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.84%) Ansible
7 2 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 94 (39.33%) Google
2 47 (19.67%) Databricks
3 14 (5.86%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.18%) Oracle
6 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.09%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.09%) Workday
8 3 (1.26%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.26%) Citrix
9 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.84%) Sage
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) Informatica
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Talend