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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 352 368
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +56
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 282 157 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.57% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.11% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 99 110
10th Percentile £400 £340 £400
25th Percentile £459 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £697 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.31 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +69.23% -58.73%
75th Percentile £58.73 £62.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £65.61 £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.73% +69.23% -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 7,006 5,044 6,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.39% 18.16% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 3,490 4,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 79 91
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £38.38 £34.65 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% -7.60% -31.82%
75th Percentile £61.88 £64.38 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.74 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +11.43% -4.11% -33.64%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +20 200 £538 +2.38% 104
North of England -60 38 £463 -5.13% 28
Yorkshire -38 22 £463 -0.38% 8
South East -56 15 £575 +35.29% 21
North West -55 10 £475 -5.00% 17
South West -31 8 £575 -11.54% 3
North East -33 7 £463 -26.00% 3
Midlands -48 7 £481 +1.32% 6
West Midlands -54 7 £481 - 6
East of England -12 3 £463 +46.83% 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 46 (16.31%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (12.41%) Apache
2 35 (12.41%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.48%) Confluence
4 6 (2.13%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.77%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.77%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (77.30%) GCP
2 75 (26.60%) Snowflake
3 62 (21.99%) AWS
4 58 (20.57%) Azure
5 53 (18.79%) dbt
6 35 (12.41%) Power Platform
7 31 (10.99%) Vertex AI
8 26 (9.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 20 (7.09%) Amazon S3
9 20 (7.09%) GitHub
10 19 (6.74%) Cloud Functions
11 17 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (5.67%) Serverless
13 14 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.96%) Cloud Composer
14 13 (4.61%) Cloud Run
15 12 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (3.90%) Fivetran
17 9 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
18 8 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) FTP
1 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.71%) VPN
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) Intranet
2 1 (0.35%) MPLS
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (25.53%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (17.38%) Looker
3 38 (13.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (12.77%) Tableau
5 35 (12.41%) Power BI
6 28 (9.93%) Data Lake
7 19 (6.74%) Metadata
8 17 (6.03%) Flink
9 16 (5.67%) Big Data
10 15 (5.32%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (4.26%) Relational Database
12 12 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
13 8 (2.84%) Data Vault
14 7 (2.48%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.48%) OLAP
14 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
15 6 (2.13%) OLTP
15 6 (2.13%) PowerPivot
15 6 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (6.74%) Git
2 13 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.55%) GitLab
4 7 (2.48%) JIRA
5 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.71%) ERwin
5 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (23.05%) Finance
2 46 (16.31%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.99%) Retail
5 21 (7.45%) Marketing
6 20 (7.09%) Banking
7 15 (5.32%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.61%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.48%) Billing
10 7 (2.48%) Legal
11 6 (2.13%) Games
12 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.71%) Automotive
14 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Back Office
15 1 (0.35%) Law
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (35.11%) Data Engineer
2 47 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 45 (15.96%) Senior
4 36 (12.77%) Architect
4 36 (12.77%) GCP Data Engineer
5 28 (9.93%) Lead
6 27 (9.57%) Analyst
7 21 (7.45%) Data Architect
7 21 (7.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (6.74%) Developer
9 15 (5.32%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (5.32%) Python Engineer
10 11 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.90%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.90%) Python Data Engineer
11 10 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
12 9 (3.19%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.84%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.41%) Kafka
2 18 (6.38%) Apache Beam
3 16 (5.67%) REST
4 13 (4.61%) PySpark
5 11 (3.90%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.84%) Great Expectations
6 8 (2.84%) TensorFlow
7 7 (2.48%) Pandas
7 7 (2.48%) React
8 6 (2.13%) JSON
8 6 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.77%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.77%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.77%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.77%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.77%) NumPy
9 5 (1.77%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.42%) LangChain
10 4 (1.42%) LangGraph
10 4 (1.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.38%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.90%) Clustering
5 8 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.42%) Taxonomies
8 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Life Science
8 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Windows
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (50.00%) Analytics
2 108 (38.30%) Data Modelling
3 100 (35.46%) CI/CD
3 100 (35.46%) Data Pipeline
4 96 (34.04%) Data Engineering
5 87 (30.85%) ETL
6 78 (27.66%) AI
7 71 (25.18%) Machine Learning
8 65 (23.05%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (21.28%) Agile
10 53 (18.79%) Decision-Making
11 50 (17.73%) Data Governance
11 50 (17.73%) Data Science
12 48 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (16.67%) DevOps
13 47 (16.67%) Observability
14 42 (14.89%) Data Architecture
15 31 (10.99%) LLM
16 30 (10.64%) Data Transformation
16 30 (10.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (59.57%) SQL
2 144 (51.06%) Python
3 45 (15.96%) Java
4 16 (5.67%) Scala
5 11 (3.90%) Go
6 9 (3.19%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.13%) Bash
7 6 (2.13%) C#
7 6 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (2.13%) PHP
8 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.77%) LookML
8 5 (1.77%) R
9 3 (1.06%) Cypher
9 3 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.06%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.71%) Korn
10 2 (0.71%) Ruby
10 2 (0.71%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (9.22%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.77%) Degree
5 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (30.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.03%) GDPR
3 14 (4.96%) QA
4 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) ITGC
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (14.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (22.70%) Terraform
2 51 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.48%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.42%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) Grafana
5 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 102 (36.17%) Google
2 56 (19.86%) Databricks
3 15 (5.32%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.61%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.48%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.48%) Oracle
6 6 (2.13%) New Relic
6 6 (2.13%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.13%) Splunk
7 5 (1.77%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.77%) Sage
7 5 (1.77%) Workday
8 4 (1.42%) Informatica
9 3 (1.06%) Citrix
10 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Talend
11 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.35%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.35%) Tealium