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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 343 363
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +96
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 303 177 164
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.36% 3.52% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 114 93
10th Percentile £406 £338 £400
25th Percentile £461 £451 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.84% -11.50%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £675
90th Percentile £683 £706 £751
UK median daily rate £528 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.50% -3.85% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 6,942 5,032 6,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.91% 18.09% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,464 4,155
10th Percentile £356 £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 £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 76 84
10th Percentile £15.72 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.48 £29.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.63% +24.29% -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 19 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 19 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 -12 195 £550 +7.32% 326
North of England -59 49 £463 -0.75% 69
Yorkshire -23 31 £467 +2.33% 22
South East -44 18 £498 +17.06% 64
South West - 12 £538 - 7
North West -63 11 £488 +2.63% 43
North East -43 8 £463 -26.00% 4
Midlands -45 6 £495 -13.91% 26
West Midlands -45 5 £515 - 23
East of England - 4 £575 - 8
East Midlands -14 1 £350 -39.13% 3
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 57 (18.81%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.20%) Apache Spark
3 37 (12.21%) Apache
4 11 (3.63%) Confluence
5 6 (1.98%) 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 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.98%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.65%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 246 (81.19%) GCP
2 75 (24.75%) Snowflake
3 65 (21.45%) AWS
3 65 (21.45%) dbt
4 55 (18.15%) Azure
5 34 (11.22%) Power Platform
5 34 (11.22%) Vertex AI
6 30 (9.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 27 (8.91%) GitHub
8 23 (7.59%) Cloud Functions
9 22 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.27%) Cloud Composer
10 19 (6.27%) Cloud Run
11 18 (5.94%) Amazon S3
11 18 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.94%) Serverless
12 12 (3.96%) Fivetran
12 12 (3.96%) Google Analytics
13 10 (3.30%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.98%) 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 84 (27.72%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (17.16%) Looker
3 46 (15.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (11.22%) Metadata
4 34 (11.22%) Power BI
5 28 (9.24%) Tableau
6 27 (8.91%) Data Lake
7 20 (6.60%) Flink
8 18 (5.94%) NoSQL
9 17 (5.61%) Big Data
10 14 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (4.29%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.63%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.30%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.30%) Semantic Layer
14 9 (2.97%) Delta Lake
14 9 (2.97%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.31%) Neo4j
15 7 (2.31%) Parquet
16 6 (1.98%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 31 (10.23%) Git
2 15 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.29%) JIRA
4 12 (3.96%) GitLab
5 3 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.99%) Gradle
5 3 (0.99%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.66%) ERwin
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.33%) GoCD
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 70 (23.10%) Finance
2 57 (18.81%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.22%) Retail
5 26 (8.58%) Marketing
6 21 (6.93%) Banking
7 14 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.31%) Billing
9 7 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.31%) Games
9 7 (2.31%) Legal
10 5 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.32%) Publishing
12 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (34.98%) Data Engineer
2 55 (18.15%) Senior
3 49 (16.17%) GCP Engineer
4 43 (14.19%) Architect
5 33 (10.89%) GCP Data Engineer
6 28 (9.24%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (8.25%) Lead
8 24 (7.92%) Analyst
9 22 (7.26%) Data Architect
9 22 (7.26%) Developer
10 16 (5.28%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.29%) GCP Architect
11 13 (4.29%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.63%) Data Scientist
14 10 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (2.97%) BigQuery Architect
16 8 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (21.78%) Terraform
2 36 (11.88%) Kafka
3 24 (7.92%) PySpark
3 24 (7.92%) REST
4 15 (4.95%) Apache Beam
5 10 (3.30%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.64%) JSON
6 8 (2.64%) Pandas
6 8 (2.64%) React
7 7 (2.31%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.98%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.98%) Spring
9 5 (1.65%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.65%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.65%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.65%) Quarkus
9 5 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.32%) NumPy
11 3 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.94%) AI Agents
3 17 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.63%) Clustering
6 9 (2.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 9 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
11 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Linux
1 2 (0.66%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (49.83%) Analytics
2 121 (39.93%) Data Pipeline
3 119 (39.27%) CI/CD
4 113 (37.29%) Data Engineering
5 111 (36.63%) Data Modelling
6 94 (31.02%) AI
6 94 (31.02%) ETL
7 72 (23.76%) Machine Learning
8 64 (21.12%) Agile
9 61 (20.13%) Data Governance
10 58 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (18.15%) DevOps
12 52 (17.16%) Business Intelligence
13 51 (16.83%) Data Science
14 47 (15.51%) Data Transformation
15 46 (15.18%) Decision-Making
16 45 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (13.53%) Migration
18 40 (13.20%) Observability
19 39 (12.87%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 188 (62.05%) SQL
2 157 (51.82%) Python
3 43 (14.19%) Java
4 19 (6.27%) Go
5 18 (5.94%) Scala
6 12 (3.96%) Bash
7 10 (3.30%) LookML
8 9 (2.97%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.64%) R
10 7 (2.31%) PHP
11 6 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.98%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.99%) Cypher
12 3 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.99%) Gremlin
12 3 (0.99%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.66%) Korn
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) SOQL
13 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (8.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.64%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.65%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) AWS 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 90 (29.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.29%) QA
3 12 (3.96%) GDPR
4 6 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Basel III
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) ITGC
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (14.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (21.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.64%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (0.99%) Ansible
4 3 (0.99%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.66%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 132 (43.56%) Google
2 58 (19.14%) Databricks
3 22 (7.26%) Microsoft
4 16 (5.28%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.97%) Oracle
6 8 (2.64%) Splunk
7 6 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.98%) Informatica
7 6 (1.98%) New Relic
7 6 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.65%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.65%) Sage
9 3 (0.99%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.66%) Remedy
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.66%) Talend
10 2 (0.66%) Workday
11 1 (0.33%) Planview