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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 332 369
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 +81
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 305 179 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.40% 3.54% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 118 94
10th Percentile £400 £339 £396
25th Percentile £460 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £506 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -3.11% -12.92%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £670
90th Percentile £700 £700 £751
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +7.50% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £37.05 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.06 -
90th Percentile - £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

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 6,936 5,059 5,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 18.16% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 3,488 4,093
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 75 84
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.04 £21.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%

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 25 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 25 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 -34 191 £550 +6.02% 333
North of England -43 52 £463 -0.38% 73
Yorkshire -20 33 £467 +2.33% 20
South East -56 18 £498 +4.74% 66
South West -25 13 £500 -4.76% 8
North West -59 12 £500 +5.26% 49
North East -36 8 £463 -26.00% 4
Midlands -41 6 £495 -13.91% 24
East of England - 6 £715 - 10
West Midlands -35 5 £515 - 22
East Midlands -11 1 £350 -39.13% 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 60 (19.67%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.11%) Apache
3 38 (12.46%) Apache Spark
4 11 (3.61%) Confluence
5 6 (1.97%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.64%) Sage X3
3 4 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.66%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 250 (81.97%) GCP
2 73 (23.93%) Snowflake
3 67 (21.97%) dbt
4 66 (21.64%) AWS
5 56 (18.36%) Azure
6 37 (12.13%) Power Platform
7 35 (11.48%) Vertex AI
8 31 (10.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 26 (8.52%) GitHub
10 24 (7.87%) Cloud Functions
11 22 (7.21%) Cloud Composer
12 21 (6.89%) Cloud Run
12 21 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.90%) Amazon S3
13 18 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (5.90%) Serverless
14 12 (3.93%) Fivetran
14 12 (3.93%) Google Analytics
15 10 (3.28%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Network Security
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.66%) VPN
3 1 (0.33%) 5G
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.33%) Intranet
3 1 (0.33%) MPLS
3 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (28.85%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (17.05%) Looker
3 46 (15.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (12.13%) Metadata
5 36 (11.80%) Power BI
6 28 (9.18%) Data Lake
6 28 (9.18%) Tableau
7 19 (6.23%) Flink
8 17 (5.57%) NoSQL
9 16 (5.25%) Big Data
10 15 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.61%) Apache Iceberg
11 11 (3.61%) Data Vault
11 11 (3.61%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.28%) MongoDB
13 9 (2.95%) Delta Lake
14 7 (2.30%) Neo4j
14 7 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (10.82%) Git
2 14 (4.59%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.26%) JIRA
4 11 (3.61%) GitLab
5 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.98%) Gradle
5 3 (0.98%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.66%) ERwin
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.33%) GoCD
7 1 (0.33%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 70 (22.95%) Finance
2 60 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.84%) Retail
5 22 (7.21%) Banking
5 22 (7.21%) Marketing
6 16 (5.25%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.30%) Billing
8 7 (2.30%) Games
8 7 (2.30%) Legal
9 6 (1.97%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.31%) Publishing
12 3 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (33.44%) Data Engineer
2 55 (18.03%) Senior
3 46 (15.08%) GCP Engineer
4 40 (13.11%) Architect
5 29 (9.51%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (8.20%) Developer
7 25 (8.20%) Lead
8 24 (7.87%) Analyst
9 19 (6.23%) Data Architect
10 16 (5.25%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.26%) GCP Architect
11 13 (4.26%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.61%) Data Scientist
14 10 (3.28%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.62%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (21.97%) Terraform
2 35 (11.48%) Kafka
3 25 (8.20%) PySpark
4 23 (7.54%) REST
5 14 (4.59%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.28%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.62%) JSON
7 8 (2.62%) React
8 7 (2.30%) Pandas
8 7 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.30%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.97%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.64%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.64%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.64%) Quarkus
10 5 (1.64%) Spring
11 4 (1.31%) NumPy
11 4 (1.31%) OAuth
11 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.98%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.90%) AI Agents
2 18 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.25%) Clustering
4 11 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 8 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.64%) CMDB
9 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.31%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.31%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.31%) Taxonomies
10 4 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Linux
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (50.16%) Analytics
2 123 (40.33%) Data Pipeline
3 121 (39.67%) CI/CD
4 115 (37.70%) Data Modelling
5 114 (37.38%) Data Engineering
6 99 (32.46%) ETL
7 95 (31.15%) AI
8 72 (23.61%) Machine Learning
9 68 (22.30%) Agile
10 65 (21.31%) Data Governance
11 59 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 53 (17.38%) DevOps
13 52 (17.05%) Data Science
14 51 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 49 (16.07%) Decision-Making
16 48 (15.74%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (15.74%) Data Transformation
17 43 (14.10%) Migration
18 42 (13.77%) Data Architecture
19 41 (13.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 194 (63.61%) SQL
2 160 (52.46%) Python
3 40 (13.11%) Java
4 20 (6.56%) Go
5 16 (5.25%) Scala
6 12 (3.93%) Bash
7 10 (3.28%) R
8 9 (2.95%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.62%) LookML
9 8 (2.62%) PHP
10 6 (1.97%) Google Apps Script
11 5 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.98%) Cypher
12 3 (0.98%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.98%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.66%) Korn
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) SOQL
13 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (9.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.62%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.64%) Degree
5 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
8 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (31.80%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.26%) GDPR
2 13 (4.26%) QA
3 6 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.31%) SLA
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) Basel III
5 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.33%) ITGC
5 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (14.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (21.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.62%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.31%) Grafana
4 3 (0.98%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (46.23%) Google
2 54 (17.70%) Databricks
3 26 (8.52%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.95%) Splunk
6 7 (2.30%) Oracle
7 6 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.97%) New Relic
7 6 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.64%) Informatica
8 5 (1.64%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.64%) Sage
8 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.31%) Remedy
10 3 (0.98%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Workday
12 1 (0.33%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.33%) Tealium