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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 362 454
Rank change year-on-year -6 +92 +58
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 184 126 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.38% 2.58% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 69 89
10th Percentile £325 £308 £423
25th Percentile £413 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -10.02%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.53% -13.64% -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 5,436 4,879 6,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.27% 18.57% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,785 3,242 4,410
10th Percentile £331 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +1.35% -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 102 81 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.48
25th Percentile £27.69 £25.26 £21.00
Median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.56% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.90 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -3 123 £548 +3.20% 56
North of England -38 30 £425 -2.86% 22
North West -11 21 £375 -14.29% 11
Midlands -50 9 £488 +5.41% 5
South West -9 8 £525 - 6
South East -25 8 £525 +5.00% 19
West Midlands -40 8 £456 -1.35% 4
Yorkshire -58 7 £400 +175.86% 9
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 27 (14.67%) Apache
2 23 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 22 (11.96%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (4.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 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
1 152 (82.61%) GCP
2 51 (27.72%) Azure
3 49 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 47 (25.54%) AWS
5 24 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 22 (11.96%) dbt
7 21 (11.41%) Amazon S3
7 21 (11.41%) Snowflake
8 20 (10.87%) GitHub
9 17 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (8.15%) Collibra
10 15 (8.15%) Vertex AI
11 14 (7.61%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (7.61%) Cloud Run
12 13 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
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%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) FTP
3 1 (0.54%) DSL
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 14 (7.61%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (7.07%) Mixpanel
7 13 (7.07%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (6.52%) OLAP
8 12 (6.52%) OLTP
8 12 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.89%) Metadata
9 9 (4.89%) SQL Server
10 8 (4.35%) Big Data
11 4 (2.17%) Redis
11 4 (2.17%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.63%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.33%) Git
1 19 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.43%) JIRA
3 7 (3.80%) GitLab
4 4 (2.17%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.63%) MLflow
5 3 (1.63%) Selenium
6 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.09%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.54%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.54%) Gradle
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) SonarLint
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (23.37%) Finance
2 40 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.96%) Banking
5 21 (11.41%) Retail
6 18 (9.78%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.72%) Marketing
8 5 (2.72%) Publishing
9 4 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Games
11 2 (1.09%) iGaming
11 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (29.89%) Data Engineer
2 42 (22.83%) Analyst
3 35 (19.02%) Senior
4 30 (16.30%) GCP Engineer
5 17 (9.24%) Lead
6 15 (8.15%) Architect
6 15 (8.15%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Data Analyst
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%) GCP Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Lead Data Engineer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.67%) Kafka
2 13 (7.07%) Great Expectations
3 12 (6.52%) LangChain
4 11 (5.98%) PyTorch
5 9 (4.89%) React
5 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.35%) Apache Beam
6 8 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (4.35%) Pandas
6 8 (4.35%) Spring
7 7 (3.80%) NumPy
7 7 (3.80%) TensorFlow
8 6 (3.26%) Node.js
8 6 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.72%) OAuth
9 5 (2.72%) pytest
9 5 (2.72%) REST
10 4 (2.17%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.80%) Clustering
3 7 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.72%) Life Science
6 4 (2.17%) Genomics
6 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.63%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.09%) FMCG
8 2 (1.09%) Podcast
8 2 (1.09%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.54%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (40.22%) Analytics
2 57 (30.98%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (28.80%) AI
3 53 (28.80%) CI/CD
4 52 (28.26%) Agile
5 46 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 43 (23.37%) ETL
7 42 (22.83%) Data Engineering
8 39 (21.20%) Machine Learning
9 35 (19.02%) DevOps
10 34 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (17.93%) Actionable Insight
12 31 (16.85%) Containerisation
12 31 (16.85%) Data Governance
13 28 (15.22%) Observability
14 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (13.59%) Software Engineering
16 24 (13.04%) Data Privacy
17 23 (12.50%) LLM
18 22 (11.96%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 107 (58.15%) SQL
2 92 (50.00%) Python
3 29 (15.76%) Java
4 13 (7.07%) C#
5 7 (3.80%) Go
6 5 (2.72%) Scala
7 4 (2.17%) Bash
7 4 (2.17%) Groovy
7 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.09%) LookML
8 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.09%) R
8 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.54%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (5.98%) Degree
1 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.11%) 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 31 (16.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (20.65%) Terraform
2 32 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.43%) Istio
4 6 (3.26%) Argo
5 3 (1.63%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 102 (55.43%) Google
2 26 (14.13%) Databricks
3 14 (7.61%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.52%) Oracle
5 4 (2.17%) SAP
6 3 (1.63%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.63%) Facebook
6 3 (1.63%) Splunk
7 2 (1.09%) Informatica
7 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.54%) Gigya
8 1 (0.54%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) Instagram
8 1 (0.54%) PayPal
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.54%) TikTok
8 1 (0.54%) YouTube