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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 365 428
Rank change year-on-year -32 +63 +79
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 196 108 131
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 2.30% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 68 101
10th Percentile £326 £307 £385
25th Percentile £450 £321 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -14.35% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £552 £638
90th Percentile £738 £667 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £51.20 £52.05 £28.45
25th Percentile £52.63 £53.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £55.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +70.77% -61.76%
75th Percentile £66.50 £58.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.15 £59.75 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £57.77 £55.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% +70.77% -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 5,982 4,696 6,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.95% 19.04% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,160 3,285 4,422
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 92 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.41 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.01% -16.01% -29.32%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.79 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.23 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -29.54%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +20 138 £591 +16.69% 81
North of England -69 26 £444 -2.74% 37
North West -18 16 £431 -5.48% 20
South West -25 9 £525 -19.23% 3
South East -43 9 £525 +5.00% 23
Midlands -54 9 £456 +10.61% 5
West Midlands -60 9 £456 +30.36% 5
Yorkshire -60 8 £438 -10.26% 10
North East - 2 £475 - 7
East of England -30 1 - - 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 33 (16.84%) Apache
2 24 (12.24%) Apache Spark
3 23 (11.73%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (4.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 159 (81.12%) GCP
2 54 (27.55%) Power Platform
3 53 (27.04%) Azure
4 48 (24.49%) AWS
5 27 (13.78%) Amazon S3
6 24 (12.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 24 (12.24%) Snowflake
7 22 (11.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (11.22%) dbt
8 21 (10.71%) Collibra
9 19 (9.69%) Cloud Run
10 18 (9.18%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.63%) Vertex AI
12 12 (6.12%) GitHub
13 11 (5.61%) Cloud Functions
13 11 (5.61%) Google Analytics
14 10 (5.10%) Google Gemini
15 8 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (3.57%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) FTP
2 3 (1.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.55%) Power BI
2 31 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (15.31%) Looker
4 25 (12.76%) Tableau
5 22 (11.22%) Data Lake
6 19 (9.69%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (9.18%) Mixpanel
7 18 (9.18%) OLAP
8 17 (8.67%) OLTP
9 16 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
11 11 (5.61%) Metadata
11 11 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (5.10%) Big Data
12 10 (5.10%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.53%) Cloud Spanner
14 3 (1.53%) Redis
14 3 (1.53%) Semantic Layer
15 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Git
1 15 (7.65%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.10%) JIRA
3 7 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) MLflow
4 2 (1.02%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.51%) Postman
5 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.51%) Selenium
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (26.02%) Finance
2 36 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.22%) Banking
5 20 (10.20%) Retail
6 14 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.04%) Marketing
8 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.53%) Legal
9 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) iGaming
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.02%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 41 (20.92%) Analyst
3 35 (17.86%) GCP Engineer
3 35 (17.86%) Senior
4 26 (13.27%) Lead
5 17 (8.67%) GCP Data Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Lead Data Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Principal Data Engineer
8 14 (7.14%) Architect
9 13 (6.63%) Data Analyst
9 13 (6.63%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (6.12%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Test Analyst
12 10 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Developer
13 9 (4.59%) GCP Architect
13 9 (4.59%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.08%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.31%) Kafka
2 19 (9.69%) Great Expectations
3 11 (5.61%) LangChain
4 10 (5.10%) React
5 9 (4.59%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.59%) Apache Beam
5 9 (4.59%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (4.59%) PyTorch
6 8 (4.08%) Spring
6 8 (4.08%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.06%) ADO
7 6 (3.06%) Node.js
7 6 (3.06%) NumPy
7 6 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.06%) Pandas
7 6 (3.06%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.04%) OAuth
8 4 (2.04%) pytest
8 4 (2.04%) REST
9 3 (1.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.08%) Clustering
2 8 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.55%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.04%) Life Science
5 4 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.53%) Genomics
7 2 (1.02%) Podcast
7 2 (1.02%) Replication
8 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.51%) FMCG
8 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (46.94%) Analytics
2 67 (34.18%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (32.65%) Data Modelling
4 62 (31.63%) CI/CD
5 52 (26.53%) Agile
6 51 (26.02%) AI
6 51 (26.02%) ETL
7 49 (25.00%) Data Engineering
8 46 (23.47%) Data Pipeline
9 45 (22.96%) Machine Learning
10 40 (20.41%) Data Governance
11 39 (19.90%) DevOps
12 36 (18.37%) Observability
13 34 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (16.33%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (16.33%) Data Architecture
15 28 (14.29%) Containerisation
16 26 (13.27%) Software Engineering
17 25 (12.76%) LLM
18 24 (12.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (58.16%) SQL
2 100 (51.02%) Python
3 24 (12.24%) Java
4 18 (9.18%) C#
5 4 (2.04%) Scala
6 3 (1.53%) Go
6 3 (1.53%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.02%) Bash
7 2 (1.02%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.02%) Groovy
7 2 (1.02%) Ruby
7 2 (1.02%) VBA
8 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.51%) R
8 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.06%) Degree
3 5 (2.55%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.51%) ISEB
5 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (28.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.76%) GDPR
3 14 (7.14%) QA
4 6 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) MiFID
5 2 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.02%) PERC
6 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.51%) Basel III
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (15.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (23.98%) Terraform
2 32 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.08%) Istio
4 6 (3.06%) Argo
5 5 (2.55%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (53.57%) Google
2 35 (17.86%) Databricks
3 13 (6.63%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.10%) Oracle
5 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.53%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.53%) Citrix
6 3 (1.53%) Informatica
6 3 (1.53%) SAP
6 3 (1.53%) Splunk
6 3 (1.53%) Workday
7 2 (1.02%) Facebook
7 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.51%) PayPal
8 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) Talend
8 1 (0.51%) Yardi