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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 369 453
Rank change year-on-year +14 +84 +69
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 189 136 102
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 2.62% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 75 80
10th Percentile £325 £312 £425
25th Percentile £441 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £614 £644 £639
90th Percentile £738 £745 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £41.48 £55.75 £37.45
25th Percentile £53.06 £56.50 £52.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -25.16% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £59.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £70.63 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% -25.16% -

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 5,393 5,183 6,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.08% 18.22% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 3,450 4,348
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £663
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 75 129
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.82 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.13 £23.48 £25.25
Median hourly rate £54.70 £38.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.08% -16.63% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.53
90th Percentile £84.60 £72.15 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +64.84% -31.69% -16.04%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +22 126 £525 - 158
North of England -30 37 £438 -11.62% 75
North West -1 28 £431 -1.43% 41
South West +5 8 £525 - 41
South East -7 8 £525 - 100
Yorkshire -55 8 £400 -36.00% 32
Midlands -43 2 £575 +21.05% 58
North East -8 1 £450 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -30 1 - - 32
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 23
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 32 (16.93%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.64%) Apache Spark
3 21 (11.11%) Apache
4 9 (4.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 163 (86.24%) GCP
2 53 (28.04%) Azure
3 50 (26.46%) AWS
4 43 (22.75%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.76%) dbt
6 25 (13.23%) GitHub
7 24 (12.70%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 17 (8.99%) Vertex AI
10 15 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (7.41%) Amazon S3
12 13 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (6.88%) Google Analytics
13 11 (5.82%) Google Tag Manager
14 10 (5.29%) Collibra
14 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.76%) Google Gemini
15 9 (4.76%) Serverless
16 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) DNS
2 2 (1.06%) FTP
3 1 (0.53%) DSL
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.75%) Power BI
2 41 (21.69%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (17.99%) Looker
4 21 (11.11%) Tableau
5 17 (8.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (8.99%) Data Lake
5 17 (8.99%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (6.35%) Big Data
8 10 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (4.23%) Mixpanel
9 8 (4.23%) OLAP
9 8 (4.23%) OLTP
9 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.70%) Metadata
10 7 (3.70%) Redis
11 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.65%) MySQL
12 5 (2.65%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (4.76%) JIRA
4 7 (3.70%) GitLab
5 5 (2.65%) Gradle
5 5 (2.65%) Maven
5 5 (2.65%) MLflow
5 5 (2.65%) SonarLint
5 5 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.12%) Zephyr
7 3 (1.59%) Selenium
8 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.06%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.53%) GoCD
9 1 (0.53%) Postman
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.16%) Finance
3 27 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.99%) Banking
5 17 (8.99%) Retail
6 12 (6.35%) Marketing
7 5 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.65%) Publishing
8 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Advertising
9 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Automotive
10 2 (1.06%) Games
10 2 (1.06%) iGaming
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (23.28%) Analyst
2 42 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 36 (19.05%) Senior
4 30 (15.87%) GCP Engineer
5 19 (10.05%) Architect
6 15 (7.94%) Data Analyst
7 14 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Developer
8 12 (6.35%) Test Analyst
9 10 (5.29%) GCP Architect
10 9 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.23%) Data Scientist
11 8 (4.23%) Lead
11 8 (4.23%) Performance Analyst
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Test Analyst
12 7 (3.70%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.05%) Kafka
2 12 (6.35%) Spring Boot
3 11 (5.82%) LangChain
4 10 (5.29%) Great Expectations
4 10 (5.29%) Pandas
4 10 (5.29%) React
5 8 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (4.23%) PyTorch
5 8 (4.23%) TensorFlow
6 7 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.70%) Node.js
6 7 (3.70%) RESTful
6 7 (3.70%) Spring
7 6 (3.17%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.17%) NumPy
8 5 (2.65%) Dropwizard
8 5 (2.65%) Micronaut
8 5 (2.65%) pytest
8 5 (2.65%) REST
8 5 (2.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.65%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.12%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.12%) Genomics
6 4 (2.12%) Life Science
6 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.59%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.06%) FMCG
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.06%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.35%) Windows
2 3 (1.59%) Android
2 3 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.06%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.57%) Analytics
2 57 (30.16%) AI
3 54 (28.57%) Agile
3 54 (28.57%) ETL
4 53 (28.04%) CI/CD
5 51 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (24.87%) Data Modelling
7 41 (21.69%) Machine Learning
8 40 (21.16%) Data Pipeline
9 38 (20.11%) Data Engineering
10 33 (17.46%) Actionable Insight
10 33 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (16.93%) Data Science
11 32 (16.93%) DevOps
12 29 (15.34%) Containerisation
13 26 (13.76%) Data Governance
14 23 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (12.17%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (55.56%) SQL
2 88 (46.56%) Python
3 33 (17.46%) Java
4 9 (4.76%) C#
5 8 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.65%) Bash
6 5 (2.65%) Go
6 5 (2.65%) Scala
7 4 (2.12%) Groovy
8 3 (1.59%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.59%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.59%) Swift
9 2 (1.06%) C++
9 2 (1.06%) LookML
9 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.06%) R
9 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.29%) Degree
3 6 (3.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) MCP
6 2 (1.06%) CISSP
6 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.40%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.52%) QA
3 15 (7.94%) GDPR
4 11 (5.82%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) MiFID
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) PERC
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) Basel III
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (16.40%) Terraform
2 30 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.23%) Istio
4 6 (3.17%) Kubeflow
5 5 (2.65%) Argo
6 3 (1.59%) Grafana
7 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.53%) Ansible
8 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (53.44%) Google
2 22 (11.64%) Databricks
3 13 (6.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.82%) Oracle
5 5 (2.65%) Gigya
5 5 (2.65%) Splunk
6 4 (2.12%) Informatica
6 4 (2.12%) SAP
7 3 (1.59%) Facebook
7 3 (1.59%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.06%) Teradata
9 1 (0.53%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) Instagram
9 1 (0.53%) PayPal
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.53%) TikTok