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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 372 379
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +90
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 240 118 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.84% 2.56% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 78 109
10th Percentile £397 £315 £379
25th Percentile £463 £422 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £614 £594 £638
90th Percentile £688 £707 £700
UK median daily rate £528 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +6.57% -5.71% -8.70%
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 6,251 4,616 6,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 19.06% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,285 3,223 4,500
10th Percentile £350 £363 £351
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 £653 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 88 134
10th Percentile £14.60 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.99 £24.06 £20.82
Median hourly rate £44.75 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.77% -17.60% -28.19%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £58.44
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.63 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £34.83 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.96% -12.94% -30.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +35 178 £550 +10.00% 71
North of England -60 31 £444 -17.82% 14
Yorkshire -51 16 £463 -19.57% 4
North West -31 14 £425 -15.00% 9
West Midlands -50 9 £456 - 3
Midlands -52 9 £456 -3.95% 6
South East -52 6 £647 +52.24% 47
South West -29 5 £556 -14.42% 12
East of England -26 2 £575 +82.54% 19
North East - 1 £500 - 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 30 (12.50%) Apache
1 30 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 25 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
4 6 (2.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.08%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 181 (75.42%) GCP
2 56 (23.33%) Azure
3 51 (21.25%) AWS
4 48 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 41 (17.08%) Snowflake
6 33 (13.75%) dbt
7 32 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 26 (10.83%) Vertex AI
9 24 (10.00%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.33%) Cloud Run
11 19 (7.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (7.50%) Collibra
13 16 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
15 13 (5.42%) GitHub
16 12 (5.00%) Google Gemini
17 11 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (3.33%) Dagster
18 8 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) FTP
2 1 (0.42%) DSL
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.00%) Power BI
2 41 (17.08%) Tableau
3 39 (16.25%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (16.25%) Looker
4 28 (11.67%) Data Lake
5 17 (7.08%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (6.67%) Mixpanel
6 16 (6.67%) OLAP
7 15 (6.25%) OLTP
7 15 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 11 (4.58%) Big Data
10 9 (3.75%) Metadata
11 8 (3.33%) Flink
12 7 (2.92%) Parquet
12 7 (2.92%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.92%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.42%) Git
3 11 (4.58%) GitLab
4 9 (3.75%) JIRA
5 3 (1.25%) Selenium
6 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.83%) ERwin
6 2 (0.83%) MLflow
6 2 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (22.92%) Finance
2 35 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 32 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.67%) Retail
5 18 (7.50%) Banking
6 12 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.17%) Marketing
8 9 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.92%) Games
10 5 (2.08%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Automotive
12 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Back Office
13 1 (0.42%) Billing
13 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 84 (35.00%) Data Engineer
2 45 (18.75%) GCP Engineer
3 37 (15.42%) Senior
4 30 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (10.83%) Analyst
5 26 (10.83%) Architect
5 26 (10.83%) Lead
6 16 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
7 14 (5.83%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 14 (5.83%) Developer
7 14 (5.83%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Principal Data Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Python Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (4.58%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.17%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.50%) Kafka
2 18 (7.50%) Great Expectations
3 15 (6.25%) Apache Beam
4 12 (5.00%) React
5 10 (4.17%) LangChain
5 10 (4.17%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.75%) REST
7 8 (3.33%) Pandas
7 8 (3.33%) Spring
7 8 (3.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.92%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.92%) PySpark
9 6 (2.50%) Node.js
9 6 (2.50%) NumPy
9 6 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.50%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.08%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.08%) Quarkus
11 4 (1.67%) OAuth
11 4 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.42%) AI Agents
2 13 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.58%) Clustering
4 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.25%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.83%) Life Science
8 2 (0.83%) Podcast
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.42%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (49.58%) Analytics
2 89 (37.08%) Data Modelling
3 77 (32.08%) CI/CD
4 73 (30.42%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (29.17%) Data Engineering
6 69 (28.75%) AI
7 61 (25.42%) ETL
8 59 (24.58%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (24.58%) Machine Learning
9 52 (21.67%) Agile
10 47 (19.58%) Data Governance
11 46 (19.17%) DevOps
11 46 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (18.33%) Observability
13 36 (15.00%) Decision-Making
13 36 (15.00%) LLM
14 35 (14.58%) Data Architecture
15 34 (14.17%) Data Science
16 30 (12.50%) Containerisation
17 29 (12.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (55.83%) SQL
2 122 (50.83%) Python
3 34 (14.17%) Java
4 16 (6.67%) C#
5 8 (3.33%) Go
5 8 (3.33%) Scala
6 5 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.67%) PHP
8 3 (1.25%) Bash
8 3 (1.25%) LookML
8 3 (1.25%) R
9 2 (0.83%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.83%) Korn
9 2 (0.83%) Ruby
9 2 (0.83%) VBA
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.08%) Degree
4 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 25 (10.42%) GDPR
3 16 (6.67%) QA
4 5 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) PERC
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.42%) Basel III
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.42%) ITGC
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (24.58%) Terraform
2 41 (17.08%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.75%) Istio
4 7 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.50%) Argo
6 4 (1.67%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.83%) Ansible
7 2 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 104 (43.33%) Google
2 48 (20.00%) Databricks
3 14 (5.83%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.58%) Oracle
5 9 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.92%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.08%) Workday
8 3 (1.25%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.25%) Citrix
8 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Facebook
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) Talend