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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 354 465
Rank change year-on-year -3 +111 +53
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 187 155 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 2.85% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 84 89
10th Percentile £325 £319 £423
25th Percentile £450 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £678 £663
90th Percentile £730 £751 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £556
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% -8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £38.55 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £49.93 £56.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -25.16% -
75th Percentile £69.94 £59.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £71.18 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +5.17% -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 5,312 5,435 6,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.64% 17.71% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,686 3,640 4,684
10th Percentile £328 £345 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.66% - -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 137
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.70 £18.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.20 £24.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +4.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +47.50% -36.84% +5.56%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +29 129 £525 - 180
North of England -28 37 £450 -9.55% 18
North West -4 21 £525 +10.53% 13
Yorkshire -44 14 £325 -53.57% 4
South West +5 6 £525 - 8
South East +3 6 £525 +31.25% 41
North East -7 2 £538 +8.59% 1
Midlands -38 1 £575 +21.05% 5
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 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 41 (21.93%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (11.23%) Apache Spark
3 17 (9.09%) Apache
4 6 (3.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.07%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 166 (88.77%) GCP
2 53 (28.34%) Azure
3 50 (26.74%) AWS
4 36 (19.25%) dbt
5 35 (18.72%) Power Platform
6 31 (16.58%) Snowflake
7 23 (12.30%) GitHub
8 18 (9.63%) Vertex AI
9 13 (6.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.81%) Google Analytics
10 9 (4.81%) Serverless
11 8 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.74%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.74%) Datadog
12 7 (3.74%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.67%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (20.86%) Looker
3 35 (18.72%) Power BI
4 23 (12.30%) Tableau
5 20 (10.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (9.63%) NoSQL
7 17 (9.09%) Big Data
8 14 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (6.95%) Data Lake
10 9 (4.81%) Metadata
10 9 (4.81%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (3.74%) Redis
12 6 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (3.21%) MySQL
12 6 (3.21%) RDBMS
13 5 (2.67%) DynamoDB
13 5 (2.67%) Hadoop
13 5 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 22 (11.76%) Git
2 16 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.95%) JIRA
4 8 (4.28%) MLflow
5 5 (2.67%) Gradle
5 5 (2.67%) Maven
5 5 (2.67%) SonarLint
5 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.60%) ER Studio
6 3 (1.60%) ERwin
6 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.07%) GitLab
7 2 (1.07%) Selenium
7 2 (1.07%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.07%) Spinnaker
7 2 (1.07%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.53%) git-flow
8 1 (0.53%) GoCD
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.53%) Finance
3 25 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.63%) Marketing
5 16 (8.56%) Banking
6 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.95%) Retail
8 6 (3.21%) Advertising
9 5 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.60%) Automotive
11 3 (1.60%) Publishing
12 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (19.79%) Analyst
2 34 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 34 (18.18%) Senior
3 29 (15.51%) Architect
4 26 (13.90%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (9.09%) GCP Architect
6 14 (7.49%) Data Architect
7 13 (6.95%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.42%) Developer
9 9 (4.81%) GCP Data Architect
9 9 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (4.81%) Test Analyst
10 8 (4.28%) Java Architect
10 8 (4.28%) Lead
10 8 (4.28%) Product Manager
10 8 (4.28%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.74%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.21%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.21%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.21%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.49%) Kafka
2 9 (4.81%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (4.81%) Pandas
3 8 (4.28%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.74%) Great Expectations
4 7 (3.74%) LangChain
4 7 (3.74%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.74%) RESTful
4 7 (3.74%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.21%) pytest
6 5 (2.67%) Dropwizard
6 5 (2.67%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.67%) J2EE
6 5 (2.67%) JWT
6 5 (2.67%) Micronaut
6 5 (2.67%) NumPy
6 5 (2.67%) React
7 4 (2.14%) Celery
7 4 (2.14%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.21%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.21%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.67%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.14%) Genomics
7 4 (2.14%) Life Science
7 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.07%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.07%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.81%) Windows
2 3 (1.60%) Android
2 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.07%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.57%) Analytics
2 63 (33.69%) ETL
3 57 (30.48%) CI/CD
4 54 (28.88%) Agile
5 50 (26.74%) AI
6 49 (26.20%) Business Intelligence
6 49 (26.20%) Data Modelling
7 44 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (22.46%) Data Engineering
9 39 (20.86%) Data Science
10 38 (20.32%) Machine Learning
11 37 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (16.58%) Visualisation
14 29 (15.51%) Data Governance
15 28 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (14.44%) Data Integration
17 26 (13.90%) DevOps
18 23 (12.30%) Containerisation
19 21 (11.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (59.36%) SQL
2 91 (48.66%) Python
3 33 (17.65%) Java
4 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.28%) Scala
5 6 (3.21%) Bash
5 6 (3.21%) Go
6 3 (1.60%) C#
6 3 (1.60%) Groovy
6 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.60%) LookML
6 3 (1.60%) Objective-C
6 3 (1.60%) Swift
7 2 (1.07%) C++
7 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.53%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 12 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.35%) Degree
3 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.60%) CISSP
5 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.09%) QA
3 8 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.28%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.07%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (13.37%) Terraform
2 21 (11.23%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.28%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.60%) Grafana
5 2 (1.07%) Istio
5 2 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.53%) Ansible
6 1 (0.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 96 (51.34%) Google
2 18 (9.63%) Databricks
3 11 (5.88%) Oracle
4 9 (4.81%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.67%) Gigya
5 5 (2.67%) Splunk
6 4 (2.14%) Hitachi
6 4 (2.14%) Informatica
7 3 (1.60%) SAP
8 2 (1.07%) Okta
8 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.07%) Teradata
9 1 (0.53%) Facebook
9 1 (0.53%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) Instagram
9 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.53%) Talend
9 1 (0.53%) TikTok
9 1 (0.53%) YouTube