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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 349 371
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 +71
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 276 157 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.96% 3.13% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 99 108
10th Percentile £400 £388 £400
25th Percentile £457 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £504
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% -16.08%
75th Percentile £613 £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 4 4 1
10th Percentile £43.88 - -
25th Percentile £47.81 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £55.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +69.23% -58.73%
75th Percentile £58.19 £62.06 £33.75
90th Percentile £66.18 £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 6,976 5,010 6,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.13% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,674 3,474 4,360
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 78 93
10th Percentile £15.28 £20.15 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%
75th Percentile £67.47 £63.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.30 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -9 192 £531 +1.19% 133
North of England -67 42 £463 -10.19% 30
Yorkshire -37 25 £467 +0.57% 7
South East -58 17 £550 +29.41% 20
North West -44 10 £475 -10.38% 21
South West -29 8 £575 -11.54% 4
North East -35 8 £463 -26.00% 2
Midlands -53 3 £458 - 9
West Midlands -53 3 £458 - 7
East of England - 3 £463 -
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 48 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (13.04%) Apache Spark
3 32 (11.59%) Apache
4 7 (2.54%) Confluence
5 6 (2.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) BambooHR
1 5 (1.81%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.81%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 218 (78.99%) GCP
2 76 (27.54%) Snowflake
3 62 (22.46%) AWS
4 57 (20.65%) Azure
5 54 (19.57%) dbt
6 32 (11.59%) Power Platform
7 30 (10.87%) Vertex AI
8 27 (9.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 21 (7.61%) Cloud Functions
9 21 (7.61%) GitHub
10 18 (6.52%) Amazon S3
10 18 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (6.16%) Serverless
12 15 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (5.43%) Cloud Run
13 11 (3.99%) Cloud Composer
13 11 (3.99%) Fivetran
14 10 (3.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.90%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Network Security
2 2 (0.72%) FTP
2 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.72%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) MPLS
3 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (26.81%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (17.03%) Looker
3 41 (14.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 34 (12.32%) Tableau
5 32 (11.59%) Power BI
6 26 (9.42%) Data Lake
7 20 (7.25%) Metadata
8 18 (6.52%) Flink
9 15 (5.43%) NoSQL
10 14 (5.07%) Big Data
11 12 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 12 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (2.90%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.54%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.17%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.17%) Power Query
14 6 (2.17%) PowerPivot
14 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.81%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 20 (7.25%) Git
2 15 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.62%) GitLab
4 7 (2.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.72%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.72%) ERwin
5 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.72%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Gradle
6 1 (0.36%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (22.46%) Finance
2 48 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.87%) Retail
4 29 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.97%) Marketing
6 14 (5.07%) Banking
6 14 (5.07%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.07%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.54%) Billing
8 7 (2.54%) Games
8 7 (2.54%) Legal
9 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Automotive
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (34.78%) Data Engineer
2 49 (17.75%) GCP Engineer
3 48 (17.39%) Senior
4 36 (13.04%) Architect
5 35 (12.68%) GCP Data Engineer
6 25 (9.06%) Analyst
6 25 (9.06%) Lead
7 23 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.61%) Data Architect
9 18 (6.52%) Developer
10 17 (6.16%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.99%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.62%) Data Scientist
14 9 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
14 9 (3.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
15 8 (2.90%) GCP Architect
15 8 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.96%) Kafka
2 17 (6.16%) REST
3 15 (5.43%) PySpark
4 14 (5.07%) Apache Beam
5 11 (3.99%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.90%) TensorFlow
7 7 (2.54%) Pandas
8 6 (2.17%) Great Expectations
8 6 (2.17%) JSON
8 6 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.17%) React
9 5 (1.81%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.81%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.81%) Hugging Face
9 5 (1.81%) Langfuse
9 5 (1.81%) NumPy
9 5 (1.81%) Quarkus
10 4 (1.45%) Spring
11 3 (1.09%) ADO
11 3 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.52%) AI Agents
3 16 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.54%) Clustering
5 7 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.09%) Life Science
9 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.09%) Windows
2 1 (0.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (49.28%) Analytics
2 103 (37.32%) Data Modelling
2 103 (37.32%) Data Pipeline
3 101 (36.59%) CI/CD
4 98 (35.51%) Data Engineering
5 87 (31.52%) ETL
6 78 (28.26%) AI
7 72 (26.09%) Machine Learning
8 57 (20.65%) Agile
9 55 (19.93%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (18.48%) Data Science
10 51 (18.48%) Decision-Making
10 51 (18.48%) DevOps
11 50 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 47 (17.03%) Data Governance
13 45 (16.30%) Observability
14 41 (14.86%) Data Architecture
15 33 (11.96%) Data Transformation
16 29 (10.51%) Migration
16 29 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (59.06%) SQL
2 139 (50.36%) Python
3 42 (15.22%) Java
4 16 (5.80%) Scala
5 13 (4.71%) Go
6 9 (3.26%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.90%) Bash
8 6 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.17%) PHP
8 6 (2.17%) R
9 5 (1.81%) C#
9 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.81%) LookML
10 3 (1.09%) Cypher
10 3 (1.09%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.09%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.72%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.72%) Korn
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
11 2 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.45%) Degree
6 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.80%) GDPR
3 14 (5.07%) QA
4 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ITGC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (15.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (22.10%) Terraform
2 58 (21.01%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.45%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.72%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (36.23%) Google
2 57 (20.65%) Databricks
3 15 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.71%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.54%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.17%) New Relic
6 6 (2.17%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.17%) Oracle
6 6 (2.17%) Splunk
7 5 (1.81%) PagerDuty
7 5 (1.81%) Sage
7 5 (1.81%) Workday
8 4 (1.45%) Informatica
9 3 (1.09%) Citrix
10 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.36%) Optimizely
11 1 (0.36%) Tealium