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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 360 404
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 +77
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 231 119 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.70% 2.55% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 79 104
10th Percentile £369 £313 £388
25th Percentile £463 £411 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -6.19% -7.30%
75th Percentile £614 £566 £638
90th Percentile £725 £710 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £480 £531
% change year-on-year +9.38% -9.60% -7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £46.50 - £28.45
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +66.15% -61.76%
75th Percentile £61.74 £57.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £59.25 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £54.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.93% +66.15% -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 6,248 4,663 6,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.61% 19.06% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,326 3,276 4,454
10th Percentile £349 £358 £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 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 95 133
10th Percentile £16.71 £19.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.41 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +43.58% -17.74% -31.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -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 27 April 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 April 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 April 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 +12 165 £550 +4.76% 48
North of England -53 33 £450 -5.26% 21
Yorkshire -60 18 £463 -8.96% 5
North West -31 14 £431 -9.21% 14
West Midlands -52 9 £456 +30.36% 4
Midlands -55 9 £456 +10.61% 10
South East -57 8 £700 +64.71% 22
South West -24 5 £538 -17.31% 7
East of England -35 2 £575 +82.54% 5
North East - 1 £500 - 2
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 (13.42%) Apache
2 30 (12.99%) Apache Spark
3 27 (11.69%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.46%) Confluence
5 4 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 180 (77.92%) GCP
2 56 (24.24%) Azure
3 50 (21.65%) AWS
4 46 (19.91%) Power Platform
5 36 (15.58%) Snowflake
6 33 (14.29%) dbt
7 28 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 25 (10.82%) Amazon S3
8 25 (10.82%) Vertex AI
9 20 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (8.23%) Cloud Run
10 19 (8.23%) Collibra
11 17 (7.36%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.63%) GitHub
13 12 (5.19%) Cloud Functions
13 12 (5.19%) Google Gemini
14 10 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.46%) Dagster
15 8 (3.46%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.73%) FTP
2 1 (0.43%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (19.91%) Power BI
2 38 (16.45%) Looker
3 37 (16.02%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (15.15%) Tableau
5 23 (9.96%) Data Lake
6 19 (8.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (7.36%) Mixpanel
8 17 (7.36%) OLAP
9 16 (6.93%) OLTP
10 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
11 12 (5.19%) Metadata
12 11 (4.76%) NoSQL
13 10 (4.33%) Big Data
14 9 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
17 5 (2.16%) Data Vault
17 5 (2.16%) Flink
17 5 (2.16%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.63%) Git
3 11 (4.76%) JIRA
4 9 (3.90%) GitLab
5 3 (1.30%) Selenium
6 2 (0.87%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.87%) ERwin
6 2 (0.87%) MLflow
6 2 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.87%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (23.81%) Finance
2 39 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.39%) Retail
5 21 (9.09%) Banking
6 14 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.03%) Marketing
9 5 (2.16%) Games
9 5 (2.16%) Legal
10 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.87%) iGaming
11 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 42 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 35 (15.15%) Senior
4 33 (14.29%) Analyst
5 27 (11.69%) Lead
6 26 (11.26%) GCP Data Engineer
7 23 (9.96%) Architect
8 16 (6.93%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) Python Engineer
9 15 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (6.06%) Data Analyst
10 14 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (5.63%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 12 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 10 (4.33%) Data Architect
14 10 (4.33%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
15 9 (3.90%) Developer
15 9 (3.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.99%) Kafka
2 19 (8.23%) Great Expectations
3 13 (5.63%) React
4 12 (5.19%) Apache Beam
4 12 (5.19%) LangChain
5 11 (4.76%) PyTorch
6 10 (4.33%) Pandas
7 8 (3.46%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.46%) NumPy
7 8 (3.46%) Spring
7 8 (3.46%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.46%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.60%) Node.js
8 6 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.60%) REST
9 5 (2.16%) ADO
9 5 (2.16%) LangGraph
9 5 (2.16%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.73%) PySpark
10 4 (1.73%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.76%) AI Agents
2 11 (4.76%) Clustering
3 9 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.46%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.46%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.30%) Life Science
6 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.87%) Genomics
7 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.87%) Podcast
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (46.75%) Analytics
2 83 (35.93%) Data Modelling
3 72 (31.17%) CI/CD
4 69 (29.87%) AI
5 68 (29.44%) Business Intelligence
6 66 (28.57%) Data Engineering
7 62 (26.84%) Machine Learning
8 60 (25.97%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (24.24%) ETL
10 53 (22.94%) Agile
11 48 (20.78%) Data Governance
12 45 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (19.05%) DevOps
14 43 (18.61%) Observability
15 35 (15.15%) Decision-Making
15 35 (15.15%) LLM
16 34 (14.72%) Data Architecture
17 32 (13.85%) Data Science
18 31 (13.42%) Containerisation
19 27 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 121 (52.38%) Python
2 120 (51.95%) SQL
3 31 (13.42%) Java
4 17 (7.36%) C#
5 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.16%) Scala
6 3 (1.30%) Go
6 3 (1.30%) LookML
7 2 (0.87%) Bash
7 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.87%) R
7 2 (0.87%) Ruby
7 2 (0.87%) VBA
8 1 (0.43%) Groovy
8 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (7.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.60%) Degree
4 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) ISEB
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (28.14%) Data Quality
2 26 (11.26%) GDPR
3 16 (6.93%) QA
4 6 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) PERC
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) Basel III
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (13.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (24.68%) Terraform
2 38 (16.45%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.90%) Istio
4 7 (3.03%) Kubeflow
5 6 (2.60%) Argo
5 6 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 111 (48.05%) Google
2 40 (17.32%) Databricks
3 14 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.76%) Oracle
5 7 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.16%) Workday
8 3 (1.30%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.30%) Citrix
9 2 (0.87%) Facebook
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.43%) Talend
10 1 (0.43%) Yardi