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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 355 444
Rank change year-on-year -7 +89 +61
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 182 131 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 2.61% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 74 81
10th Percentile £325 £312 £425
25th Percentile £425 £380 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -9.55% -9.84%
75th Percentile £614 £634 £638
90th Percentile £738 £746 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £41.48 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £53.06 £56.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £59.50 £33.25
90th Percentile £70.63 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -

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 5,350 5,017 5,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.96% 18.33% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,735 3,337 4,213
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 70 128
10th Percentile £20.66 £19.78 £19.05
25th Percentile £29.56 £24.25 £25.23
Median hourly rate £54.70 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £71.00 £64.93 £64.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.57% -24.21% -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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +17 121 £525 - 71
North of England -39 36 £444 -8.51% 24
North West 0 26 £431 -1.43% 10
South West -1 8 £525 - 16
South East -14 8 £525 - 55
Yorkshire -54 8 £400 -27.27% 12
North East -11 2 £475 -4.04% 2
Midlands -41 2 £575 +21.05% 21
West Midlands -42 1 - - 9
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 12
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 31 (17.03%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (12.09%) Apache Spark
3 20 (10.99%) Apache
4 9 (4.95%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 155 (85.16%) GCP
2 52 (28.57%) Azure
3 49 (26.92%) AWS
4 43 (23.63%) Power Platform
5 27 (14.84%) dbt
6 25 (13.74%) GitHub
7 23 (12.64%) Snowflake
8 18 (9.89%) Vertex AI
9 17 (9.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (7.14%) Google Analytics
12 11 (6.04%) Google Tag Manager
13 10 (5.49%) Collibra
13 10 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.49%) Google Gemini
14 9 (4.95%) Serverless
15 8 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.20%) DNS
2 2 (1.10%) FTP
3 1 (0.55%) DSL
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.63%) Power BI
2 37 (20.33%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (17.58%) Looker
4 21 (11.54%) Tableau
5 18 (9.89%) NoSQL
6 17 (9.34%) Data Lake
7 16 (8.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (5.49%) Big Data
10 8 (4.40%) Mixpanel
10 8 (4.40%) OLAP
10 8 (4.40%) OLTP
10 8 (4.40%) Redis
10 8 (4.40%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (3.85%) Metadata
11 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (2.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (12.09%) Git
1 22 (12.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.95%) JIRA
3 7 (3.85%) GitLab
4 5 (2.75%) Gradle
4 5 (2.75%) Maven
4 5 (2.75%) MLflow
4 5 (2.75%) SonarLint
4 5 (2.75%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.20%) Zephyr
6 3 (1.65%) Selenium
7 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.10%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.10%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.55%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.55%) GoCD
8 1 (0.55%) Postman
8 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.43%) Finance
3 25 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.34%) Retail
6 16 (8.79%) Banking
7 12 (6.59%) Marketing
8 5 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.75%) Publishing
9 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Advertising
10 3 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Games
11 2 (1.10%) iGaming
11 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Billing
12 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (23.63%) Data Engineer
2 42 (23.08%) Analyst
3 36 (19.78%) Senior
4 29 (15.93%) GCP Engineer
5 16 (8.79%) Architect
6 15 (8.24%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 12 (6.59%) Data Analyst
9 11 (6.04%) Developer
10 9 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Senior Test Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) Lead
11 8 (4.40%) Performance Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.85%) GCP Architect
12 7 (3.85%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.44%) Kafka
2 12 (6.59%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.04%) LangChain
4 10 (5.49%) Great Expectations
4 10 (5.49%) Pandas
4 10 (5.49%) React
5 8 (4.40%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (4.40%) PyTorch
6 7 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.85%) Node.js
6 7 (3.85%) NumPy
6 7 (3.85%) RESTful
6 7 (3.85%) Spring
6 7 (3.85%) TensorFlow
7 6 (3.30%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.75%) Dropwizard
8 5 (2.75%) J2EE
8 5 (2.75%) Micronaut
8 5 (2.75%) pytest
8 5 (2.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.40%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.75%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.75%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.20%) Genomics
5 4 (2.20%) Life Science
5 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.65%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Clustering
7 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.10%) FMCG
7 2 (1.10%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (1.65%) Android
2 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.10%) Linux
4 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.46%) Analytics
2 55 (30.22%) AI
3 53 (29.12%) Agile
3 53 (29.12%) CI/CD
4 51 (28.02%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (26.37%) ETL
6 44 (24.18%) Data Modelling
7 40 (21.98%) Data Pipeline
8 38 (20.88%) Data Engineering
8 38 (20.88%) Machine Learning
9 31 (17.03%) DevOps
9 31 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.48%) Actionable Insight
10 30 (16.48%) Containerisation
11 29 (15.93%) Data Science
12 27 (14.84%) Data Governance
13 24 (13.19%) Test Automation
14 23 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (10.99%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 100 (54.95%) SQL
2 85 (46.70%) Python
3 32 (17.58%) Java
4 9 (4.95%) C#
5 8 (4.40%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.75%) Bash
6 5 (2.75%) Go
6 5 (2.75%) Scala
7 4 (2.20%) Groovy
8 3 (1.65%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.65%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.65%) Swift
9 2 (1.10%) C++
9 2 (1.10%) LookML
9 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.10%) R
9 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.04%) Degree
3 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.20%) MCP
6 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.03%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.89%) QA
3 15 (8.24%) GDPR
4 11 (6.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.10%) MiFID
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
5 2 (1.10%) PERC
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) Basel III
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (17.03%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.48%) Terraform
3 9 (4.95%) Istio
4 6 (3.30%) Kubeflow
5 5 (2.75%) Argo
6 3 (1.65%) Grafana
7 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.55%) Ansible
8 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 94 (51.65%) Google
2 23 (12.64%) Databricks
3 13 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.59%) Oracle
5 5 (2.75%) Gigya
5 5 (2.75%) Splunk
6 4 (2.20%) SAP
7 3 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.65%) Facebook
7 3 (1.65%) Informatica
8 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.55%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.55%) IBM
9 1 (0.55%) Instagram
9 1 (0.55%) PayPal
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.55%) TikTok
9 1 (0.55%) YouTube