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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 363 402
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 227 117 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.48% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 2.53% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 78 103
10th Percentile £376 £313 £387
25th Percentile £463 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.84% -10.57%
75th Percentile £614 £570 £638
90th Percentile £725 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.75% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £46.50 - £28.45
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +66.15% -61.76%
75th Percentile £61.74 £57.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £59.25 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £54.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.93% +66.15% -61.76%

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 6,255 4,623 6,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 19.00% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,330 3,252 4,460
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £781
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 92 131
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.09 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £48.13 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.41% -18.93% -31.09%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £56.74
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.01% -17.23% -33.33%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +34 164 £550 +4.76% 40
North of England -67 32 £450 -5.26% 22
Yorkshire -55 17 £463 -8.96% 6
North West -32 14 £431 -9.21% 14
West Midlands -53 9 £456 +30.36% 5
Midlands -65 9 £456 +10.61% 9
South East -46 7 £700 +64.71% 18
South West -28 4 £556 -14.42% 8
East of England -40 2 £575 +82.54% 4
North East - 1 £500 - 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 30 (13.22%) Apache
1 30 (13.22%) Apache Spark
2 27 (11.89%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 175 (77.09%) GCP
2 55 (24.23%) Azure
3 48 (21.15%) AWS
4 47 (20.70%) Power Platform
5 37 (16.30%) Snowflake
6 32 (14.10%) dbt
7 28 (12.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 24 (10.57%) Amazon S3
8 24 (10.57%) Vertex AI
9 19 (8.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (8.37%) Cloud Run
10 18 (7.93%) Collibra
11 16 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (7.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.73%) GitHub
13 12 (5.29%) Cloud Functions
13 12 (5.29%) Google Gemini
14 10 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.52%) Dagster
15 8 (3.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.76%) FTP
2 1 (0.44%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.70%) Power BI
2 38 (16.74%) Looker
3 36 (15.86%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (15.86%) Tableau
4 22 (9.69%) Data Lake
5 18 (7.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (7.49%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (7.05%) Mixpanel
7 16 (7.05%) OLAP
8 15 (6.61%) OLTP
9 13 (5.73%) SQL Server
10 12 (5.29%) Metadata
10 12 (5.29%) NoSQL
11 10 (4.41%) Big Data
12 9 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
14 6 (2.64%) Flink
14 6 (2.64%) Parquet
14 6 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (2.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.29%) Git
3 10 (4.41%) JIRA
4 9 (3.96%) GitLab
5 3 (1.32%) Selenium
6 2 (0.88%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.88%) ERwin
6 2 (0.88%) MLflow
6 2 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (23.79%) Finance
2 38 (16.74%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.01%) Retail
5 21 (9.25%) Banking
6 12 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.08%) Marketing
9 5 (2.20%) Games
9 5 (2.20%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.88%) iGaming
11 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Publishing
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
12 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (37.00%) Data Engineer
2 43 (18.94%) GCP Engineer
3 34 (14.98%) Senior
4 30 (13.22%) Analyst
5 28 (12.33%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (11.89%) Lead
7 24 (10.57%) Architect
8 16 (7.05%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (6.61%) Python Engineer
10 14 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.73%) Data Analyst
11 13 (5.73%) Principal Data Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 11 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (4.41%) Data Architect
15 9 (3.96%) Developer
15 9 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.78%) Kafka
2 18 (7.93%) Great Expectations
3 13 (5.73%) Apache Beam
3 13 (5.73%) React
4 11 (4.85%) LangChain
4 11 (4.85%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.41%) Pandas
6 8 (3.52%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.52%) NumPy
6 8 (3.52%) Spring
6 8 (3.52%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.52%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.64%) Node.js
7 6 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.64%) REST
8 5 (2.20%) ADO
8 5 (2.20%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.20%) Quarkus
9 4 (1.76%) OAuth
9 4 (1.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.85%) Clustering
3 10 (4.41%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Life Science
8 3 (1.32%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.88%) Genomics
9 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.88%) Podcast
10 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.44%) FMCG
10 1 (0.44%) Replication
10 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (47.58%) Analytics
2 82 (36.12%) Data Modelling
3 72 (31.72%) CI/CD
4 68 (29.96%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (29.52%) AI
6 65 (28.63%) Data Engineering
7 60 (26.43%) Data Pipeline
7 60 (26.43%) Machine Learning
8 55 (24.23%) ETL
9 52 (22.91%) Agile
10 46 (20.26%) Data Governance
11 44 (19.38%) DevOps
11 44 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 42 (18.50%) Observability
13 34 (14.98%) Decision-Making
14 33 (14.54%) Data Science
14 33 (14.54%) LLM
15 32 (14.10%) Data Architecture
16 31 (13.66%) Containerisation
17 26 (11.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (52.42%) Python
1 119 (52.42%) SQL
2 32 (14.10%) Java
3 16 (7.05%) C#
4 6 (2.64%) Scala
5 5 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.32%) Go
6 3 (1.32%) LookML
7 2 (0.88%) Bash
7 2 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.88%) R
7 2 (0.88%) Ruby
7 2 (0.88%) VBA
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) Korn
8 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.64%) Degree
4 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) ISEB
6 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.44%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (28.19%) Data Quality
2 25 (11.01%) GDPR
3 16 (7.05%) QA
4 6 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.88%) PERC
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) Basel III
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (14.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (25.11%) Terraform
2 38 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.96%) Istio
4 7 (3.08%) Kubeflow
5 6 (2.64%) Argo
5 6 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (48.02%) Google
2 41 (18.06%) Databricks
3 14 (6.17%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.85%) Oracle
5 7 (3.08%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.20%) Workday
8 3 (1.32%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.32%) Citrix
9 2 (0.88%) Facebook
9 2 (0.88%) Informatica
9 2 (0.88%) SAP
10 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.44%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.44%) New Relic
10 1 (0.44%) PayPal
10 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.44%) Talend