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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 365 417
Rank change year-on-year -16 +52 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 207 107 132
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 2.31% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 69 102
10th Percentile £330 £308 £387
25th Percentile £450 £321 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.84% -5.22%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £638
90th Percentile £738 £661 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £463 £540
% change year-on-year +13.51% -14.35% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £47.38 £52.05 £28.45
25th Percentile £51.50 £53.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -61.76%
75th Percentile £65.13 £58.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £69.93 £59.75 £46.95
UK median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -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 5,983 4,631 6,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.95% 19.07% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,152 3,250 4,415
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £666
90th Percentile £700 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 90 155
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.69 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.81 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.91% -16.01% -28.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.67 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.15 £70.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £31.64 £40.13
% change year-on-year +59.61% -21.15% -28.86%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +12 150 £575 +12.20% 71
North of England -60 26 £444 -2.74% 29
North West -27 16 £431 -5.48% 14
South West -12 9 £525 -19.23% 3
West Midlands -46 9 £456 +30.36% 4
Midlands -64 9 £456 +10.61% 5
South East -41 8 £525 +5.00% 15
Yorkshire -62 8 £438 -10.26% 8
North East - 2 £475 - 7
East of England -41 1 - - 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 33 (15.94%) Apache
2 27 (13.04%) Apache Spark
3 24 (11.59%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.86%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 168 (81.16%) GCP
2 54 (26.09%) Azure
2 54 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 48 (23.19%) AWS
4 27 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 27 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 24 (11.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 23 (11.11%) dbt
7 22 (10.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (10.14%) Collibra
9 19 (9.18%) Cloud Run
10 18 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.28%) GitHub
12 12 (5.80%) Cloud Functions
12 12 (5.80%) Vertex AI
13 11 (5.31%) Google Analytics
14 9 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.35%) Google Gemini
15 8 (3.86%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.93%) FTP
2 3 (1.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (26.09%) Power BI
2 35 (16.91%) Looker
3 33 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (12.56%) Tableau
5 22 (10.63%) Data Lake
6 19 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (8.70%) Mixpanel
7 18 (8.70%) OLAP
8 17 (8.21%) OLTP
9 16 (7.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (5.80%) NoSQL
10 12 (5.80%) SQL Server
11 11 (5.31%) Big Data
11 11 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (4.83%) Metadata
13 7 (3.38%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (1.93%) Parquet
15 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
16 3 (1.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.25%) Git
3 10 (4.83%) JIRA
4 8 (3.86%) GitLab
5 2 (0.97%) MLflow
5 2 (0.97%) Selenium
5 2 (0.97%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (24.64%) Finance
2 39 (18.84%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.59%) Retail
5 22 (10.63%) Banking
6 14 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.97%) iGaming
11 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.97%) Publishing
12 1 (0.48%) Automotive
12 1 (0.48%) Back Office
12 1 (0.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.48%) Games
12 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (37.68%) Data Engineer
2 41 (19.81%) GCP Engineer
3 40 (19.32%) Analyst
4 35 (16.91%) Senior
5 26 (12.56%) Lead
6 23 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
7 19 (9.18%) Architect
8 16 (7.73%) Principal Engineer
9 15 (7.25%) Lead Data Engineer
9 15 (7.25%) Principal Data Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) Data Analyst
10 13 (6.28%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (5.31%) GCP Architect
11 11 (5.31%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Test Analyst
12 10 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) Developer
13 9 (4.35%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.86%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.98%) Kafka
2 19 (9.18%) Great Expectations
3 11 (5.31%) LangChain
4 10 (4.83%) Apache Beam
4 10 (4.83%) React
5 9 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 9 (4.35%) Spring
5 9 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.86%) PyTorch
7 7 (3.38%) Pandas
8 6 (2.90%) ADO
8 6 (2.90%) Node.js
8 6 (2.90%) NumPy
8 6 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.90%) REST
9 5 (2.42%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.93%) OAuth
10 4 (1.93%) pytest
11 3 (1.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.86%) Clustering
2 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.93%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.93%) Life Science
5 4 (1.93%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.45%) Genomics
7 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Podcast
7 2 (0.97%) Replication
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.48%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.28%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (47.34%) Analytics
2 73 (35.27%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 68 (32.85%) CI/CD
5 55 (26.57%) AI
5 55 (26.57%) Data Engineering
6 53 (25.60%) Agile
7 52 (25.12%) ETL
8 51 (24.64%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (23.19%) Machine Learning
10 44 (21.26%) DevOps
11 43 (20.77%) Data Governance
12 38 (18.36%) Observability
13 37 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (15.46%) Data Architecture
15 30 (14.49%) Actionable Insight
16 28 (13.53%) Containerisation
16 28 (13.53%) Software Engineering
17 25 (12.08%) Test Automation
18 24 (11.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (56.04%) SQL
2 103 (49.76%) Python
3 27 (13.04%) Java
4 18 (8.70%) C#
5 6 (2.90%) Scala
6 3 (1.45%) Go
6 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.45%) LookML
7 2 (0.97%) Bash
7 2 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.97%) Groovy
7 2 (0.97%) Ruby
7 2 (0.97%) VBA
8 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.48%) R
8 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.38%) Degree
3 6 (2.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.48%) ISEB
5 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (27.05%) Data Quality
2 25 (12.08%) GDPR
3 14 (6.76%) QA
4 6 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) MiFID
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
5 2 (0.97%) PERC
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) Basel III
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (14.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (25.12%) Terraform
2 33 (15.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.86%) Istio
4 6 (2.90%) Argo
5 5 (2.42%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.48%) Ansible
7 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (52.66%) Google
2 38 (18.36%) Databricks
3 13 (6.28%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.80%) Oracle
5 4 (1.93%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.45%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.45%) Citrix
6 3 (1.45%) Informatica
6 3 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.45%) SAP
6 3 (1.45%) Splunk
6 3 (1.45%) Workday
7 2 (0.97%) Facebook
8 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.48%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.48%) PayPal
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.48%) Talend
8 1 (0.48%) Yardi