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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 353 446
Rank change year-on-year -16 +93 +55
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 184 125 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 2.58% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 70 90
10th Percentile £325 £300 £411
25th Percentile £419 £352 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% -9.84%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £525 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £37.27 £55.75 £29.65
25th Percentile £46.74 £56.50 £32.50
Median hourly rate £58.25 £58.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +46.84% -
75th Percentile £65.13 £59.50 £46.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £60.25 £48.55
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £58.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +0.43% +46.84% -

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 5,405 4,840 6,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.35% 18.57% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 3,196 4,444
10th Percentile £330 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 80 170
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.27 £15.50
25th Percentile £27.06 £25.19 £21.16
Median hourly rate £45.75 £39.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -7.90% -25.53%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.73 £61.13
90th Percentile £85.10 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -25.26%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +6 123 £550 +4.76% 64
North of England -39 34 £438 - 21
North West -12 25 £425 -2.86% 12
South West -12 8 £525 - 3
South East -21 8 £525 +5.00% 23
Yorkshire -52 7 £400 +175.86% 7
Midlands -55 5 £275 -40.54% 8
West Midlands -36 4 £275 -40.54% 7
North East - 2 £475 - 2
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 23 (12.50%) Apache
1 23 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 22 (11.96%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 153 (83.15%) GCP
2 54 (29.35%) Azure
3 52 (28.26%) AWS
4 49 (26.63%) Power Platform
5 26 (14.13%) GitHub
6 22 (11.96%) dbt
7 21 (11.41%) Amazon S3
7 21 (11.41%) Snowflake
8 20 (10.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 18 (9.78%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (8.15%) Collibra
11 15 (8.15%) Vertex AI
12 13 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (7.07%) Cloud Run
12 13 (7.07%) Google Analytics
13 12 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (5.98%) Google Gemini
14 11 (5.98%) Google Tag Manager
15 10 (5.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) FTP
3 1 (0.54%) DSL
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.63%) Power BI
2 33 (17.93%) Looker
3 27 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (12.50%) Tableau
5 21 (11.41%) Data Lake
6 17 (9.24%) NoSQL
7 16 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (7.07%) Mixpanel
10 12 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (6.52%) OLAP
10 12 (6.52%) OLTP
11 9 (4.89%) Big Data
11 9 (4.89%) Metadata
12 8 (4.35%) Redis
12 8 (4.35%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.35%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (3.26%) MySQL
14 5 (2.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (12.50%) Git
1 23 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.43%) JIRA
3 7 (3.80%) GitLab
4 5 (2.72%) Gradle
4 5 (2.72%) Maven
4 5 (2.72%) SonarLint
4 5 (2.72%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.17%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.63%) MLflow
6 3 (1.63%) Selenium
7 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.09%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.54%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.54%) Postman
8 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.37%) Finance
3 24 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.96%) Banking
5 20 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.87%) Retail
6 6 (3.26%) Marketing
7 5 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.72%) Publishing
8 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Games
10 2 (1.09%) iGaming
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.54%) Automotive
11 1 (0.54%) Billing
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (27.17%) Data Engineer
2 41 (22.28%) Analyst
3 35 (19.02%) Senior
4 28 (15.22%) GCP Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Architect
6 15 (8.15%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Data Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Lead
7 13 (7.07%) Test Analyst
8 11 (5.98%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Principal Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) GCP Architect
10 9 (4.89%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Test Analyst
11 8 (4.35%) Performance Analyst
11 8 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.50%) Kafka
2 13 (7.07%) Great Expectations
2 13 (7.07%) Spring Boot
3 12 (6.52%) LangChain
4 10 (5.43%) PyTorch
4 10 (5.43%) React
5 8 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (4.35%) Pandas
5 8 (4.35%) Spring
6 7 (3.80%) Node.js
6 7 (3.80%) NumPy
6 7 (3.80%) RESTful
6 7 (3.80%) TensorFlow
7 6 (3.26%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.26%) JWT
7 6 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.72%) Dropwizard
8 5 (2.72%) Micronaut
8 5 (2.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.72%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.17%) Genomics
5 4 (2.17%) Life Science
5 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) Clustering
6 3 (1.63%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.09%) FMCG
7 2 (1.09%) Podcast
7 2 (1.09%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.59%) Analytics
2 57 (30.98%) AI
2 57 (30.98%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (30.43%) Agile
4 53 (28.80%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 43 (23.37%) ETL
7 41 (22.28%) Data Engineering
8 38 (20.65%) Machine Learning
9 36 (19.57%) DevOps
10 35 (19.02%) Containerisation
11 34 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (17.93%) Actionable Insight
13 30 (16.30%) Data Governance
14 27 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (13.59%) Observability
16 25 (13.59%) Software Engineering
17 24 (13.04%) Data Privacy
18 23 (12.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 104 (56.52%) SQL
2 92 (50.00%) Python
3 30 (16.30%) Java
4 14 (7.61%) C#
5 7 (3.80%) Go
6 6 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.72%) Scala
8 4 (2.17%) Bash
8 4 (2.17%) Groovy
9 2 (1.09%) LookML
9 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.09%) R
9 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.54%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (7.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.98%) Degree
3 6 (3.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.02%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.87%) GDPR
3 17 (9.24%) QA
4 11 (5.98%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.09%) MiFID
5 2 (1.09%) NCSC
5 2 (1.09%) PERC
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.54%) Basel III
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (19.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (20.65%) Terraform
2 36 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.43%) Istio
4 6 (3.26%) Argo
5 3 (1.63%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (53.26%) Google
2 26 (14.13%) Databricks
3 13 (7.07%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.52%) Oracle
5 5 (2.72%) Gigya
6 4 (2.17%) SAP
6 4 (2.17%) Splunk
7 3 (1.63%) Anaplan
7 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.63%) Facebook
8 2 (1.09%) Informatica
8 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.54%) IBM
9 1 (0.54%) Instagram
9 1 (0.54%) PayPal
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.54%) TikTok
9 1 (0.54%) YouTube