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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 339 364
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +109
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 301 184 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.66% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.44% 3.62% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 95
10th Percentile £400 £340 £363
25th Percentile £457 £456 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +3.55% -15.50%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £664
90th Percentile £700 £688 £751
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £51.83 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £52.69 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £54.75 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -
75th Percentile £56.19 £62.06 -
90th Percentile £56.68 £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.45% - -

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 6,774 5,077 5,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 18.14% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,498 3,470 4,005
10th Percentile £352 £337 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -7.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £719 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 71 84
10th Percentile £16.63 £20.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.19 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +20.00% -30.95%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -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 8 October 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
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 October 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 -36 185 £550 +4.76% 387
North of England -39 55 £463 +1.37% 55
Yorkshire -16 32 £460 +18.71% 8
North West -46 16 £563 +15.38% 41
South East -51 16 £463 -11.81% 68
South West -26 15 £531 +1.19% 7
North East -33 8 £463 -13.95% 6
East of England - 8 £788 - 11
Midlands -45 6 £495 -13.91% 17
West Midlands -40 5 £515 - 16
East Midlands -12 1 £350 -39.13% 1
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 61 (20.27%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.29%) Apache
3 39 (12.96%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.32%) Confluence
5 5 (1.66%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.66%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.99%) NetSuite
1 6 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.66%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.66%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 248 (82.39%) GCP
2 72 (23.92%) Snowflake
3 69 (22.92%) AWS
4 67 (22.26%) dbt
5 56 (18.60%) Azure
6 36 (11.96%) Power Platform
7 30 (9.97%) Vertex AI
8 28 (9.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 26 (8.64%) GitHub
10 22 (7.31%) Cloud Composer
10 22 (7.31%) Cloud Functions
11 21 (6.98%) Cloud Run
12 20 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.98%) Amazon S3
13 18 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (5.98%) Serverless
14 13 (4.32%) SaaS
15 12 (3.99%) Fivetran
15 12 (3.99%) Google Analytics
16 11 (3.65%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) Network Security
2 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.66%) DNS
3 2 (0.66%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) 5G
4 1 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.33%) Intranet
4 1 (0.33%) MPLS
4 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
4 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (19.27%) Looker
3 49 (16.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (12.29%) Metadata
5 35 (11.63%) Power BI
6 28 (9.30%) Data Lake
7 25 (8.31%) Tableau
8 19 (6.31%) NoSQL
9 18 (5.98%) Flink
10 17 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (5.32%) Big Data
12 12 (3.99%) MongoDB
13 11 (3.65%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (3.32%) Data Vault
14 10 (3.32%) Delta Lake
14 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (2.33%) Neo4j
15 7 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
15 7 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (11.96%) Git
2 14 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.32%) JIRA
4 11 (3.65%) GitLab
5 3 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.00%) Gradle
5 3 (1.00%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.66%) ERwin
6 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.33%) GoCD
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
7 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.33%) Storybook
General
1 70 (23.26%) Finance
2 60 (19.93%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.97%) Retail
5 22 (7.31%) Banking
5 22 (7.31%) Marketing
6 15 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.99%) Billing
8 8 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.99%) Games
9 6 (1.99%) Legal
10 5 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.33%) Publishing
12 3 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.66%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 52 (17.28%) Senior
3 41 (13.62%) GCP Engineer
4 37 (12.29%) Architect
5 28 (9.30%) Analyst
6 27 (8.97%) Developer
7 26 (8.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (8.31%) Lead
9 24 (7.97%) GCP Data Engineer
10 17 (5.65%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.98%) GCP Architect
12 13 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) Python Data Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) BigQuery Architect
14 10 (3.32%) Lead Data Engineer
14 10 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.99%) Data Scientist
16 8 (2.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 8 (2.66%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.26%) Terraform
2 36 (11.96%) Kafka
3 26 (8.64%) PySpark
4 23 (7.64%) REST
5 12 (3.99%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.32%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.66%) JSON
8 7 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.33%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.99%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.99%) Pandas
9 6 (1.99%) React
10 5 (1.66%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.66%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.66%) Spring
11 4 (1.33%) OAuth
11 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.00%) JSON-LD
12 3 (1.00%) RESTful
12 3 (1.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.63%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.32%) Clustering
4 13 (4.32%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.32%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (2.66%) CMDB
8 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.33%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.00%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.00%) Linux
1 3 (1.00%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (52.49%) Analytics
2 125 (41.53%) Data Pipeline
3 124 (41.20%) CI/CD
4 119 (39.53%) Data Modelling
5 115 (38.21%) Data Engineering
6 104 (34.55%) ETL
7 95 (31.56%) AI
8 67 (22.26%) Agile
8 67 (22.26%) Data Governance
8 67 (22.26%) Machine Learning
9 57 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 54 (17.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 53 (17.61%) DevOps
12 51 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
13 50 (16.61%) Decision-Making
14 47 (15.61%) Data Transformation
15 46 (15.28%) Data Science
15 46 (15.28%) Migration
16 43 (14.29%) Observability
17 40 (13.29%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 202 (67.11%) SQL
2 158 (52.49%) Python
3 38 (12.62%) Java
4 20 (6.64%) Go
5 15 (4.98%) Scala
6 12 (3.99%) Bash
7 11 (3.65%) LookML
8 10 (3.32%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.99%) R
10 8 (2.66%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.66%) PHP
11 6 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.99%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (1.00%) Cypher
12 3 (1.00%) Gremlin
12 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.00%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.66%) Korn
13 2 (0.66%) SOQL
13 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 24 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.66%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.66%) Degree
5 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) PMP
8 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (33.55%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.99%) GDPR
2 12 (3.99%) QA
3 6 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.99%) SLA
4 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.33%) Basel III
4 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.33%) ITGC
4 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (13.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.66%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.33%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Control-M
5 2 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (45.51%) Google
2 50 (16.61%) Databricks
3 30 (9.97%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.99%) Splunk
6 8 (2.66%) Oracle
6 8 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.99%) Informatica
8 6 (1.99%) Remedy
9 5 (1.66%) New Relic
9 5 (1.66%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.66%) Sage
10 3 (1.00%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.00%) IBM
10 3 (1.00%) SAP
11 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Talend