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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 355 370
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 274 159 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.94% 3.21% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 99 99
10th Percentile £407 £340 £399
25th Percentile £461 £453 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £652
90th Percentile £675 £679 £740
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +61.54% -58.73%
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 £33.75
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 6,955 4,948 6,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.94% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,636 3,408 4,285
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £702 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 80 91
10th Percentile £14.96 £21.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.62 £29.05 £19.92
Median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 1 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 1 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 -13 185 £550 +4.76% 253
North of England -60 42 £463 -1.70% 43
Yorkshire -26 26 £460 +2.22% 10
South East -48 15 £550 +29.41% 46
North West -63 9 £475 -2.56% 32
South West - 9 £575 - 11
North East -38 8 £463 -26.00% 1
West Midlands -47 3 £458 - 8
Midlands -53 3 £458 -20.43% 9
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 51 (18.61%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (14.23%) Apache Spark
3 32 (11.68%) Apache
4 6 (2.19%) Confluence
4 6 (2.19%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.73%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.82%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.82%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 213 (77.74%) GCP
2 76 (27.74%) Snowflake
3 62 (22.63%) dbt
4 61 (22.26%) AWS
5 52 (18.98%) Azure
6 36 (13.14%) Power Platform
7 31 (11.31%) Vertex AI
8 27 (9.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 24 (8.76%) GitHub
10 21 (7.66%) Cloud Functions
11 20 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (6.93%) Amazon S3
13 18 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.57%) Serverless
14 14 (5.11%) Cloud Run
15 13 (4.74%) Cloud Composer
16 11 (4.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (4.01%) Fivetran
17 9 (3.28%) Google Analytics
17 9 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.73%) 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 78 (28.47%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (18.61%) Looker
3 46 (16.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (13.14%) Power BI
5 34 (12.41%) Tableau
6 26 (9.49%) Data Lake
7 19 (6.93%) Flink
7 19 (6.93%) Metadata
8 16 (5.84%) Big Data
9 14 (5.11%) NoSQL
10 12 (4.38%) Data Vault
10 12 (4.38%) Semantic Layer
11 11 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (4.01%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.92%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (2.92%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.55%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.55%) Parquet
14 6 (2.19%) Power Query
14 6 (2.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 22 (8.03%) Git
2 14 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.01%) GitLab
4 6 (2.19%) JIRA
5 3 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.73%) ERwin
6 2 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.73%) 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 65 (23.72%) Finance
2 49 (17.88%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.04%) Retail
4 29 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.39%) Marketing
6 15 (5.47%) Banking
6 15 (5.47%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.74%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.55%) Billing
8 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.55%) Games
8 7 (2.55%) Legal
9 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.73%) Automotive
11 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Military
11 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (33.94%) Data Engineer
2 55 (20.07%) Senior
3 43 (15.69%) GCP Engineer
4 37 (13.50%) Architect
5 29 (10.58%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (9.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 26 (9.49%) Analyst
8 24 (8.76%) Lead
9 21 (7.66%) Data Architect
10 17 (6.20%) Developer
11 16 (5.84%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.74%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Data Scientist
14 10 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
16 8 (2.92%) Data Analytics Engineer
16 8 (2.92%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (21.53%) Terraform
2 37 (13.50%) Kafka
3 21 (7.66%) PySpark
4 18 (6.57%) REST
5 13 (4.74%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.65%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.55%) JSON
7 7 (2.55%) Pandas
7 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.19%) React
9 5 (1.82%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.82%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.82%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.82%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.82%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.46%) NumPy
10 4 (1.46%) Spring
11 3 (1.09%) JSON-LD
11 3 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.57%) AI Agents
3 16 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.19%) Clustering
7 6 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.82%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.46%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Life Science
10 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) Unix
1 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (50.73%) Analytics
2 106 (38.69%) CI/CD
3 104 (37.96%) Data Engineering
3 104 (37.96%) Data Modelling
3 104 (37.96%) Data Pipeline
4 86 (31.39%) ETL
5 83 (30.29%) AI
6 68 (24.82%) Machine Learning
7 58 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
8 56 (20.44%) Agile
9 51 (18.61%) DevOps
9 51 (18.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (17.88%) Decision-Making
11 46 (16.79%) Data Science
12 43 (15.69%) Data Governance
13 42 (15.33%) Data Transformation
14 41 (14.96%) Observability
15 34 (12.41%) Data Architecture
15 34 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (10.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (61.31%) SQL
2 142 (51.82%) Python
3 41 (14.96%) Java
4 18 (6.57%) Scala
5 16 (5.84%) Go
6 10 (3.65%) Bash
7 8 (2.92%) R
7 8 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.19%) LookML
8 6 (2.19%) PHP
9 4 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.09%) C#
10 3 (1.09%) Cypher
10 3 (1.09%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.09%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.73%) Korn
11 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.73%) SOQL
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 23 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.46%) Degree
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (29.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.11%) GDPR
2 14 (5.11%) QA
3 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.36%) ITGC
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (14.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.09%) Grafana
3 3 (1.09%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.73%) Ansible
4 2 (0.73%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (36.50%) Google
2 60 (21.90%) Databricks
3 14 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.74%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.92%) Oracle
6 6 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.19%) Informatica
6 6 (2.19%) New Relic
6 6 (2.19%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.19%) Splunk
7 5 (1.82%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.82%) Sage
7 5 (1.82%) Workday
8 3 (1.09%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Talend
10 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.36%) Tealium