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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 352 373
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 280 161 159
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.30% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 101 97
10th Percentile £409 £340 £398
25th Percentile £463 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -3.85% -13.33%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £653
90th Percentile £675 £695 £743
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% +61.54% -58.73%

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 6,948 4,878 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.92% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,352 4,194
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 80 84
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.18 £15.29
25th Percentile £23.35 £30.55 £19.96
Median hourly rate £38.38 £40.25 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +16.77% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%

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 4 September 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
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 4 September 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 -23 191 £550 +4.76% 238
North of England -67 42 £463 -1.70% 43
Yorkshire -31 26 £467 +3.76% 9
South East -58 15 £550 +29.41% 39
North West -54 9 £475 -2.56% 33
South West - 9 £575 - 12
North East -30 8 £463 -26.00% 1
West Midlands -45 3 £458 - 12
Midlands -47 3 £458 -20.43% 13
East of England - 3 £463 - 3
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 54 (19.29%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 37 (13.21%) Apache
4 8 (2.86%) Confluence
5 6 (2.14%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.79%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 221 (78.93%) GCP
2 75 (26.79%) Snowflake
3 64 (22.86%) AWS
3 64 (22.86%) dbt
4 55 (19.64%) Azure
5 31 (11.07%) Power Platform
5 31 (11.07%) Vertex AI
6 27 (9.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 25 (8.93%) GitHub
8 21 (7.50%) Cloud Functions
8 21 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.79%) Amazon S3
10 18 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.43%) Serverless
11 15 (5.36%) Cloud Composer
12 14 (5.00%) Cloud Run
13 12 (4.29%) Fivetran
14 11 (3.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.79%) Network Security
2 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) MPLS
3 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (28.93%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (17.14%) Looker
3 45 (16.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (11.07%) Power BI
5 29 (10.36%) Tableau
6 27 (9.64%) Data Lake
7 23 (8.21%) Metadata
8 20 (7.14%) Flink
9 18 (6.43%) Big Data
10 16 (5.71%) NoSQL
11 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.93%) Data Vault
12 11 (3.93%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.93%) Semantic Layer
13 10 (3.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (3.21%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.86%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.50%) Parquet
17 6 (2.14%) Power Query
17 6 (2.14%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 25 (8.93%) Git
2 14 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.93%) GitLab
4 8 (2.86%) JIRA
5 3 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.71%) ERwin
6 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.36%) Maven
7 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 63 (22.50%) Finance
2 51 (18.21%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.79%) Retail
4 31 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Marketing
6 17 (6.07%) Banking
7 13 (4.64%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.50%) Billing
9 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.50%) Games
10 6 (2.14%) Legal
11 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Automotive
13 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (35.36%) Data Engineer
2 56 (20.00%) Senior
3 45 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
4 38 (13.57%) Architect
5 31 (11.07%) GCP Data Engineer
6 28 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 26 (9.29%) Lead
8 25 (8.93%) Analyst
9 22 (7.86%) Data Architect
10 17 (6.07%) Developer
10 17 (6.07%) Python Engineer
11 14 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.57%) Data Scientist
14 9 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
14 9 (3.21%) GCP Architect
15 8 (2.86%) BigQuery Data Engineer
15 8 (2.86%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.07%) Terraform
2 38 (13.57%) Kafka
3 22 (7.86%) PySpark
4 19 (6.79%) REST
5 15 (5.36%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.57%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.86%) Pandas
8 7 (2.50%) JSON
8 7 (2.50%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.14%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.14%) React
10 5 (1.79%) Apache Avro
10 5 (1.79%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.79%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.79%) Quarkus
11 4 (1.43%) NumPy
11 4 (1.43%) Spring
12 3 (1.07%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.43%) AI Agents
3 17 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.86%) Clustering
5 8 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.79%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.43%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Life Science
10 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
1 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (49.64%) Analytics
2 109 (38.93%) CI/CD
3 108 (38.57%) Data Pipeline
4 106 (37.86%) Data Engineering
4 106 (37.86%) Data Modelling
5 86 (30.71%) AI
5 86 (30.71%) ETL
6 70 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 59 (21.07%) Agile
8 52 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (18.57%) DevOps
9 51 (18.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (17.86%) Data Governance
11 49 (17.50%) Data Science
12 45 (16.07%) Data Transformation
12 45 (16.07%) Decision-Making
13 40 (14.29%) Observability
14 37 (13.21%) Data Architecture
15 35 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (11.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 171 (61.07%) SQL
2 145 (51.79%) Python
3 41 (14.64%) Java
4 18 (6.43%) Scala
5 16 (5.71%) Go
6 10 (3.57%) Bash
7 8 (2.86%) LookML
7 8 (2.86%) R
7 8 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.14%) PHP
9 4 (1.43%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.07%) C#
10 3 (1.07%) Cypher
10 3 (1.07%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.07%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.71%) Korn
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) SOQL
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 23 (8.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.43%) Degree
6 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (29.64%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.00%) QA
3 13 (4.64%) GDPR
4 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ITGC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (14.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.07%) Grafana
3 3 (1.07%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Control-M
4 2 (0.71%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (38.57%) Google
2 58 (20.71%) Databricks
3 16 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle
6 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.14%) Informatica
6 6 (2.14%) New Relic
6 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.14%) Splunk
7 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.79%) Sage
8 3 (1.07%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.71%) Talend
9 2 (0.71%) Workday
10 1 (0.36%) IBM
10 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.36%) Tealium