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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 351 470
Rank change year-on-year -1 +119 +46
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 194 162 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.52% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.66% 2.94% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 91 88
10th Percentile £325 £350 £421
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £556
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -8.85% -7.29%
75th Percentile £600 £664 £688
90th Percentile £725 £751 £800
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +1.25% -13.04% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £38.55 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £49.93 £56.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% -25.16% -
75th Percentile £69.94 £59.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £71.18 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +5.17% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,303 5,515 6,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.06% 17.84% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,642 3,715 4,698
10th Percentile £328 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £735 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 80 140
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.95 £19.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.98 £25.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.19 £69.06
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -5.00%

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 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +25 139 £525 - 112
North of England -40 36 £413 -19.67% 11
North West -8 19 £425 -22.73% 6
Yorkshire -41 15 £338 -36.02% 5
South West +11 6 £525 - 13
South East +7 5 £525 +31.25% 70
North East -12 2 £538 +8.59%
Midlands -29 1 £575 +9.52% 4
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 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 38 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (10.82%) Apache Spark
3 17 (8.76%) Apache
4 6 (3.09%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 173 (89.18%) GCP
2 56 (28.87%) Azure
3 51 (26.29%) AWS
4 40 (20.62%) Power Platform
5 35 (18.04%) dbt
6 29 (14.95%) Snowflake
7 23 (11.86%) GitHub
8 17 (8.76%) Vertex AI
9 14 (7.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 12 (6.19%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.64%) Google Analytics
11 9 (4.64%) Serverless
12 8 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.12%) Cloud Composer
13 7 (3.61%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.61%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (27.32%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (22.16%) Looker
3 40 (20.62%) Power BI
4 27 (13.92%) Tableau
5 22 (11.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (10.31%) Big Data
7 18 (9.28%) NoSQL
8 17 (8.76%) Data Lake
9 14 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
11 8 (4.12%) Metadata
12 7 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (3.61%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.61%) Redis
13 6 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (3.09%) MySQL
13 6 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
14 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
15 4 (2.06%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 22 (11.34%) Git
2 16 (8.25%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.22%) JIRA
4 8 (4.12%) MLflow
5 6 (3.09%) ER Studio
6 5 (2.58%) Gradle
6 5 (2.58%) Maven
6 5 (2.58%) SonarLint
6 5 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.55%) ERwin
7 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.03%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.03%) GitLab
8 2 (1.03%) Selenium
8 2 (1.03%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.03%) Spinnaker
8 2 (1.03%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.52%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.52%) GoCD
9 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.16%) Finance
3 29 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.79%) Marketing
5 16 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.73%) Banking
6 15 (7.73%) Retail
7 6 (3.09%) Advertising
8 5 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.55%) Automotive
10 3 (1.55%) Publishing
11 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (21.13%) Analyst
2 38 (19.59%) Senior
3 36 (18.56%) Data Engineer
4 31 (15.98%) Architect
5 29 (14.95%) GCP Engineer
6 18 (9.28%) GCP Architect
7 17 (8.76%) Data Analyst
7 17 (8.76%) Data Architect
8 14 (7.22%) Developer
9 12 (6.19%) GCP Data Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (4.64%) Lead
11 9 (4.64%) Test Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) GCP Data Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Java Architect
12 8 (4.12%) Product Manager
12 8 (4.12%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Data Scientist
13 7 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) Kafka
2 9 (4.64%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (3.61%) Great Expectations
3 7 (3.61%) Pandas
3 7 (3.61%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.09%) LangChain
4 6 (3.09%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.09%) RESTful
4 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.58%) Dropwizard
5 5 (2.58%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.58%) J2EE
5 5 (2.58%) JWT
5 5 (2.58%) Micronaut
5 5 (2.58%) pytest
5 5 (2.58%) React
6 4 (2.06%) Celery
7 3 (1.55%) .NET
7 3 (1.55%) REST
7 3 (1.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.64%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.64%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.61%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.09%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.58%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.55%) Genomics
7 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.55%) Life Science
7 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.64%) Windows
2 4 (2.06%) Unix
3 3 (1.55%) Android
3 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.69%) Analytics
2 68 (35.05%) ETL
3 62 (31.96%) Data Modelling
4 61 (31.44%) CI/CD
5 59 (30.41%) Agile
6 54 (27.84%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (25.26%) AI
8 47 (24.23%) Data Pipeline
9 46 (23.71%) Data Engineering
10 39 (20.10%) Data Science
11 38 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (18.56%) Machine Learning
13 33 (17.01%) Actionable Insight
13 33 (17.01%) Data Integration
13 33 (17.01%) Visualisation
14 29 (14.95%) Data Governance
15 25 (12.89%) DevOps
15 25 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (11.34%) Data Analysis
16 22 (11.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 121 (62.37%) SQL
2 94 (48.45%) Python
3 34 (17.53%) Java
4 9 (4.64%) Scala
5 8 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.09%) Bash
6 6 (3.09%) Go
6 6 (3.09%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.06%) Groovy
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.55%) LookML
8 3 (1.55%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.55%) Swift
9 2 (1.03%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.52%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (6.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.64%) Degree
3 6 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (3.09%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) CISSP
5 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.76%) QA
3 9 (4.64%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.12%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.03%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (11.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.40%) Terraform
2 20 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.09%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Control-M
5 3 (1.55%) Istio
6 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Ansible
7 1 (0.52%) Kiali
Vendors
1 102 (52.58%) Google
2 19 (9.79%) Databricks
3 11 (5.67%) Oracle
4 9 (4.64%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.09%) Splunk
6 5 (2.58%) Gigya
7 4 (2.06%) Hitachi
7 4 (2.06%) Informatica
8 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 2 (1.03%) Okta
9 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.03%) Teradata
10 1 (0.52%) Facebook
10 1 (0.52%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.52%) Instagram
10 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.52%) Talend
10 1 (0.52%) TikTok
10 1 (0.52%) xMatters
10 1 (0.52%) YouTube