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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 359 400
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +76
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 228 114 145
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.66% 2.47% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 76 103
10th Percentile £376 £313 £381
25th Percentile £463 £412 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.84% -11.50%
75th Percentile £614 £581 £638
90th Percentile £718 £711 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -10.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £46.50 - £28.45
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -61.76%
75th Percentile £61.74 £53.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £66.85 - £46.95
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -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 6,222 4,607 6,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.36% 19.01% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,283 3,224 4,481
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 89 130
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.53 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £23.50 £20.98
Median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.00 £57.61
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +51.70% -17.60% -32.54%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +28 166 £550 +4.76% 57
North of England -52 33 £450 -7.69% 19
Yorkshire -46 17 £463 -8.96% 7
North West -32 15 £431 -11.54% 10
West Midlands -50 9 £456 +30.36% 3
Midlands -65 9 £456 +10.61% 7
South East -63 6 £647 +52.24% 18
South West -34 4 £556 -14.42% 8
East of England -32 2 £575 +82.54% 3
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 31 (13.60%) Apache Spark
2 30 (13.16%) Apache
3 23 (10.09%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.51%) Confluence
5 5 (2.19%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 174 (76.32%) GCP
2 55 (24.12%) Azure
3 48 (21.05%) Power Platform
4 47 (20.61%) AWS
5 37 (16.23%) Snowflake
6 29 (12.72%) dbt
7 28 (12.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 24 (10.53%) Vertex AI
9 23 (10.09%) Amazon S3
10 19 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (7.89%) Cloud Run
11 18 (7.89%) Collibra
12 16 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (6.14%) GitHub
14 13 (5.70%) Cloud Functions
15 12 (5.26%) Google Gemini
16 11 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (3.51%) Dagster
17 8 (3.51%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) FTP
2 1 (0.44%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (21.05%) Power BI
2 38 (16.67%) Looker
3 36 (15.79%) Tableau
4 35 (15.35%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (10.53%) Data Lake
6 17 (7.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (7.02%) Mixpanel
7 16 (7.02%) OLAP
8 15 (6.58%) OLTP
9 13 (5.70%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
10 11 (4.82%) Big Data
10 11 (4.82%) Metadata
10 11 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.07%) Flink
11 7 (3.07%) Parquet
11 7 (3.07%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.07%) Semantic Layer
12 6 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.26%) Git
3 10 (4.39%) GitLab
3 10 (4.39%) JIRA
4 3 (1.32%) Selenium
5 2 (0.88%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.88%) ERwin
5 2 (0.88%) MLflow
5 2 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) Postman
6 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.44%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (24.12%) Finance
2 38 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.40%) Retail
5 21 (9.21%) Banking
6 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.07%) Marketing
9 6 (2.63%) Games
10 5 (2.19%) Legal
11 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Automotive
13 1 (0.44%) Back Office
13 1 (0.44%) Billing
13 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (36.40%) Data Engineer
2 41 (17.98%) GCP Engineer
3 36 (15.79%) Senior
4 30 (13.16%) Analyst
5 28 (12.28%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (11.84%) Lead
7 25 (10.96%) Architect
8 16 (7.02%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (6.14%) Python Engineer
10 13 (5.70%) Data Analyst
10 13 (5.70%) Principal Data Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (4.39%) Data Architect
13 10 (4.39%) Developer
14 9 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.72%) Kafka
2 18 (7.89%) Great Expectations
3 14 (6.14%) Apache Beam
4 13 (5.70%) React
5 11 (4.82%) LangChain
6 10 (4.39%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.95%) Spring
7 9 (3.95%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.51%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.51%) Pandas
9 7 (3.07%) REST
9 7 (3.07%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.63%) Node.js
10 6 (2.63%) NumPy
10 6 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.19%) ADO
11 5 (2.19%) Apache Avro
11 5 (2.19%) LangGraph
11 5 (2.19%) PySpark
11 5 (2.19%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.82%) AI Agents
2 11 (4.82%) Clustering
3 9 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.88%) Life Science
8 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.88%) Podcast
9 1 (0.44%) FMCG
9 1 (0.44%) Genomics
9 1 (0.44%) Replication
9 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (48.25%) Analytics
2 84 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 71 (31.14%) CI/CD
4 70 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
5 67 (29.39%) Data Engineering
6 66 (28.95%) AI
7 61 (26.75%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (25.88%) ETL
9 57 (25.00%) Machine Learning
10 53 (23.25%) Agile
11 47 (20.61%) Data Governance
12 45 (19.74%) DevOps
13 44 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (18.42%) Observability
15 35 (15.35%) Decision-Making
16 34 (14.91%) LLM
17 33 (14.47%) Data Architecture
17 33 (14.47%) Data Science
18 29 (12.72%) Containerisation
19 26 (11.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.51%) SQL
2 117 (51.32%) Python
3 35 (15.35%) Java
4 16 (7.02%) C#
5 7 (3.07%) Scala
6 5 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.32%) Go
8 3 (1.32%) LookML
8 3 (1.32%) R
9 2 (0.88%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.88%) Ruby
9 2 (0.88%) VBA
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Groovy
10 1 (0.44%) Korn
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.19%) Degree
4 4 (1.75%) 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 66 (28.95%) Data Quality
2 25 (10.96%) GDPR
3 18 (7.89%) QA
4 6 (2.63%) 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%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (13.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 57 (25.00%) Terraform
2 37 (16.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.95%) Istio
4 6 (2.63%) Argo
4 6 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.19%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 106 (46.49%) Google
2 43 (18.86%) Databricks
3 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.26%) Oracle
5 7 (3.07%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.19%) 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