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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 350 384
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +81
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 243 117 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.84% 2.60% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 78 108
10th Percentile £397 £315 £379
25th Percentile £463 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.50% -4.76% -8.70%
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 6,325 4,506 6,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 18.95% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,328 3,140 4,505
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 84 135
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.73 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.01 £23.38 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £31.85 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.98% -20.39% -31.09%
75th Percentile £73.56 £64.78 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.46% -17.60% -31.73%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +27 181 £550 +7.32% 68
North of England -64 29 £450 -18.18% 16
Yorkshire -53 16 £463 -19.57% 7
North West -34 12 £388 -24.76% 8
West Midlands -54 9 £456 -
Midlands -65 9 £456 -3.95% 3
South East -55 6 £605 +42.24% 22
South West -26 5 £556 -14.42% 4
East of England -31 2 £575 +82.54% 4
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 32 (13.17%) Apache Spark
2 29 (11.93%) Apache
3 26 (10.70%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.88%) Confluence
5 6 (2.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 183 (75.31%) GCP
2 58 (23.87%) Azure
3 54 (22.22%) AWS
4 45 (18.52%) Snowflake
5 44 (18.11%) Power Platform
6 33 (13.58%) dbt
6 33 (13.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 27 (11.11%) Vertex AI
8 23 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 20 (8.23%) Cloud Run
10 18 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (7.00%) Collibra
12 15 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.17%) GitHub
13 14 (5.76%) Cloud Functions
14 13 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.94%) Google Gemini
16 9 (3.70%) Serverless
17 8 (3.29%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) FTP
2 1 (0.41%) DSL
2 1 (0.41%) Network Security
2 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.11%) Power BI
2 42 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (16.05%) Tableau
4 36 (14.81%) Looker
5 31 (12.76%) Data Lake
6 19 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (7.00%) NoSQL
8 16 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (6.17%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (6.17%) Mixpanel
9 15 (6.17%) OLAP
10 14 (5.76%) Big Data
10 14 (5.76%) OLTP
11 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
12 9 (3.70%) Metadata
13 8 (3.29%) Flink
14 7 (2.88%) Parquet
14 7 (2.88%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.88%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (2.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (7.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (6.58%) Git
3 13 (5.35%) GitLab
4 9 (3.70%) JIRA
5 3 (1.23%) Selenium
6 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.82%) ERwin
6 2 (0.82%) MLflow
6 2 (0.82%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.41%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (23.05%) Finance
2 33 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.52%) Retail
5 18 (7.41%) Banking
6 11 (4.53%) Marketing
6 11 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.88%) Games
9 5 (2.06%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Automotive
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) iGaming
12 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (34.57%) Data Engineer
2 46 (18.93%) GCP Engineer
3 41 (16.87%) Senior
4 31 (12.76%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (10.70%) Architect
5 26 (10.70%) Lead
6 23 (9.47%) Analyst
7 16 (6.58%) Lead Data Engineer
8 14 (5.76%) Developer
9 13 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Python Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.94%) Principal Data Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.53%) Data Scientist
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.35%) Kafka
2 17 (7.00%) Great Expectations
3 15 (6.17%) Apache Beam
4 12 (4.94%) React
5 11 (4.53%) REST
6 10 (4.12%) LangChain
6 10 (4.12%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.29%) Pandas
7 8 (3.29%) PySpark
7 8 (3.29%) Spring
7 8 (3.29%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.88%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.47%) Node.js
9 6 (2.47%) NumPy
9 6 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.47%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.06%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.06%) Quarkus
10 5 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.76%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.70%) Clustering
5 7 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.23%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.82%) Life Science
10 2 (0.82%) Podcast
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (48.56%) Analytics
2 89 (36.63%) Data Modelling
3 81 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 74 (30.45%) Data Engineering
5 70 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
6 68 (27.98%) AI
7 63 (25.93%) ETL
8 62 (25.51%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (24.69%) Machine Learning
10 51 (20.99%) Agile
11 48 (19.75%) DevOps
12 47 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 45 (18.52%) Observability
14 44 (18.11%) Data Governance
15 36 (14.81%) Decision-Making
15 36 (14.81%) LLM
16 34 (13.99%) Data Architecture
16 34 (13.99%) Data Science
17 31 (12.76%) Containerisation
18 30 (12.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (56.38%) SQL
2 121 (49.79%) Python
3 36 (14.81%) Java
4 15 (6.17%) C#
5 10 (4.12%) Go
6 8 (3.29%) Scala
7 5 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.06%) PHP
8 4 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.23%) LookML
9 3 (1.23%) R
10 2 (0.82%) Bash
10 2 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.82%) Korn
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) VBA
11 1 (0.41%) Groovy
11 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.06%) Degree
4 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) ISEB
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (27.98%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.88%) GDPR
3 18 (7.41%) QA
4 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) PERC
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) Basel III
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.41%) ITGC
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (13.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (24.69%) Terraform
2 43 (17.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.70%) Istio
4 7 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.47%) Argo
6 4 (1.65%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.82%) Ansible
7 2 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 99 (40.74%) Google
2 48 (19.75%) Databricks
3 15 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.53%) Oracle
5 9 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.06%) Workday
8 4 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.23%) Anaplan
9 3 (1.23%) Citrix
10 2 (0.82%) Facebook
10 2 (0.82%) Informatica
10 2 (0.82%) SAP
11 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.41%) New Relic
11 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.41%) Talend