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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 354 377
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 +74
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 283 167 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.34% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 105 88
10th Percentile £407 £340 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.31% -12.92%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £675
90th Percentile £675 £687 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £504
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.70% -16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 7,018 4,993 5,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 17.96% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,678 3,432 4,157
10th Percentile £358 £334 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £703 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 80 80
10th Percentile £15.93 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.21 £31.45 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +19.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £71.85
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £34.47
% change year-on-year +0.05% +14.55% -35.58%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -13 192 £550 +4.76% 141
North of England -62 43 £463 -1.70% 26
Yorkshire -34 27 £467 +3.76% 7
South East -51 16 £550 +29.41% 33
North West -62 9 £475 -2.56% 19
South West - 9 £575 - 4
North East -39 8 £463 -26.00%
West Midlands -41 3 £458 - 14
Midlands -53 3 £458 -20.43% 15
East of England - 3 £463 - 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 54 (19.08%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (14.49%) Apache Spark
3 36 (12.72%) Apache
4 9 (3.18%) Confluence
5 6 (2.12%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.77%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 224 (79.15%) GCP
2 75 (26.50%) Snowflake
3 65 (22.97%) dbt
4 63 (22.26%) AWS
5 55 (19.43%) Azure
6 31 (10.95%) Vertex AI
7 30 (10.60%) Power Platform
8 28 (9.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 25 (8.83%) GitHub
10 21 (7.42%) Cloud Functions
10 21 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.36%) Amazon S3
11 18 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.36%) Serverless
12 16 (5.65%) Cloud Run
13 15 (5.30%) Cloud Composer
14 12 (4.24%) Fivetran
15 10 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (3.18%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Network Security
2 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) Intranet
3 1 (0.35%) MPLS
3 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (28.98%) Data Warehouse
2 49 (17.31%) Looker
3 45 (15.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (10.60%) Power BI
5 29 (10.25%) Tableau
6 26 (9.19%) Data Lake
7 25 (8.83%) Metadata
8 20 (7.07%) Flink
9 18 (6.36%) Big Data
10 17 (6.01%) NoSQL
11 13 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.89%) Data Vault
12 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
12 11 (3.89%) Semantic Layer
13 10 (3.53%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (3.18%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.83%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.47%) Parquet
17 6 (2.12%) Power Query
17 6 (2.12%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 26 (9.19%) Git
2 14 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.89%) GitLab
4 9 (3.18%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.71%) ERwin
6 2 (0.71%) Gradle
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (23.32%) Finance
2 52 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.66%) Retail
4 32 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.83%) Marketing
6 19 (6.71%) Banking
7 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.24%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.47%) Billing
9 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.47%) Games
10 6 (2.12%) Legal
11 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.06%) Publishing
13 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (35.34%) Data Engineer
2 56 (19.79%) Senior
3 45 (15.90%) GCP Engineer
4 39 (13.78%) Architect
5 31 (10.95%) GCP Data Engineer
6 28 (9.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 26 (9.19%) Lead
8 25 (8.83%) Analyst
9 22 (7.77%) Data Architect
10 17 (6.01%) Developer
10 17 (6.01%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Data Scientist
13 10 (3.53%) GCP Architect
14 8 (2.83%) BigQuery Data Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.49%) Terraform
2 37 (13.07%) Kafka
3 22 (7.77%) PySpark
4 20 (7.07%) REST
5 15 (5.30%) Apache Beam
6 10 (3.53%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.83%) Pandas
8 7 (2.47%) JSON
8 7 (2.47%) TensorFlow
9 6 (2.12%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.12%) React
10 5 (1.77%) Apache Avro
10 5 (1.77%) Hugging Face
10 5 (1.77%) Langfuse
10 5 (1.77%) Quarkus
10 5 (1.77%) Spring
11 4 (1.41%) NumPy
11 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
12 3 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.36%) AI Agents
3 17 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (2.83%) Clustering
5 8 (2.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.77%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.41%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.35%) Linux
1 1 (0.35%) Unix
1 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (49.47%) Analytics
2 111 (39.22%) CI/CD
2 111 (39.22%) Data Pipeline
3 108 (38.16%) Data Modelling
4 107 (37.81%) Data Engineering
5 85 (30.04%) AI
5 85 (30.04%) ETL
6 69 (24.38%) Machine Learning
7 61 (21.55%) Agile
8 51 (18.02%) Business Intelligence
8 51 (18.02%) Data Governance
8 51 (18.02%) DevOps
8 51 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (17.31%) Data Science
10 45 (15.90%) Data Transformation
10 45 (15.90%) Decision-Making
11 39 (13.78%) Observability
12 36 (12.72%) Data Architecture
12 36 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (11.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 174 (61.48%) SQL
2 145 (51.24%) Python
3 42 (14.84%) Java
4 18 (6.36%) Scala
5 16 (5.65%) Go
6 10 (3.53%) Bash
7 9 (3.18%) LookML
8 8 (2.83%) R
8 8 (2.83%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.12%) PHP
10 3 (1.06%) Cypher
10 3 (1.06%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.71%) C#
11 2 (0.71%) Korn
11 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.71%) SOQL
12 1 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 23 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.41%) Degree
6 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (29.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.95%) QA
3 12 (4.24%) GDPR
4 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) ITGC
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (14.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.47%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.06%) Grafana
3 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Control-M
4 2 (0.71%) Istio
5 1 (0.35%) Argo
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (38.87%) Google
2 57 (20.14%) Databricks
3 16 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.65%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.83%) Oracle
5 6 (2.12%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.12%) Informatica
5 6 (2.12%) New Relic
5 6 (2.12%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.12%) Splunk
6 5 (1.77%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.77%) Sage
7 3 (1.06%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Talend
8 2 (0.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.35%) Genesys
9 1 (0.35%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.35%) SAP