Looker Contract Job Trends in England

Looker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Looker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 439 514
Rank change year-on-year -34 +75 +188
Contract jobs citing Looker 60 65 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% 1.24% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 40
10th Percentile £288 £270 £411
25th Percentile £325 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.24% -8.91%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £606
90th Percentile £619 £645 £688
UK median daily rate £463 £520 £524
% change year-on-year -11.06% -0.72% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.96 £60.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £33.46 £60.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.69% -21.94% +53.47%
75th Percentile £35.96 £60.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £33.46 £42.67 £77.50
% change year-on-year -21.58% -44.94% +53.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Looker 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 5,400 5,239 6,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.17% 18.08% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,757 3,483 4,463
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £663 £656
90th Percentile £721 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 74 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.15 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.72 £24.70
Median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £30.11 £46.18
% change year-on-year +49.48% -34.81% -7.73%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Looker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Looker job vacancy trend in England

Looker
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker

Looker
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Looker in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Looker in England

Looker
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker

Looker
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 Looker within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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 -23 34 £506 -10.00% 62
North of England -35 20 £350 +20.17% 45
North West -11 18 £338 -22.86% 21
South West - 3 £513 - 41
Yorkshire -42 2 £450 +210.34% 21
South East -23 1 £275 +3.77% 72
Looker
UK

Looker
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 6 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (61.67%) Power Platform
2 32 (53.33%) GCP
3 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) Google Analytics
4 15 (25.00%) Google Tag Manager
5 9 (15.00%) dbt
6 7 (11.67%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.33%) AWS
7 5 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (5.00%) Fivetran
9 2 (3.33%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (3.33%) Alation
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.33%) Google Sheets
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.67%) Contentsquare
10 1 (1.67%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (61.67%) Power BI
2 35 (58.33%) BigQuery
3 33 (55.00%) Tableau
4 11 (18.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.33%) Mixpanel
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.67%) Big Data
8 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.67%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
General
1 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Finance
4 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (16.67%) Marketing
6 5 (8.33%) Banking
7 4 (6.67%) Publishing
8 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.67%) Automotive
10 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.67%) iGaming
10 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Legal
10 1 (1.67%) Retail
10 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (53.33%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Data Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Performance Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Data Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Performance Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Analytics Consultant
9 2 (3.33%) Data Analytics Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Digital Analytics Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Digital Analytics Consultant
9 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.67%) ATL
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Social Media
4 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) Analytics
2 39 (65.00%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (48.33%) Actionable Insight
4 24 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 21 (35.00%) Data Modelling
6 19 (31.67%) Data Analysis
7 17 (28.33%) Agile
8 16 (26.67%) Dashboard Development
9 13 (21.67%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (20.00%) ETL
10 12 (20.00%) User Experience
11 10 (16.67%) Data Privacy
11 10 (16.67%) Data Science
11 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 10 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 10 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
11 10 (16.67%) Validation
12 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
12 8 (13.33%) User Research
13 7 (11.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 39 (65.00%) SQL
2 23 (38.33%) Python
3 7 (11.67%) R
4 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) LookML
6 1 (1.67%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) Scala
6 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) ACCA
4 1 (1.67%) CIMA
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (18.33%) QA
3 9 (15.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (8.33%) GDPR
5 2 (3.33%) PERC
6 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Google
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) Adobe
3 2 (3.33%) Amplitude
3 2 (3.33%) Databricks
3 2 (3.33%) Facebook
3 2 (3.33%) ForgeRock
3 2 (3.33%) Micro Focus
3 2 (3.33%) NetIQ
3 2 (3.33%) Okta
3 2 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (1.67%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.67%) Informatica
4 1 (1.67%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle
4 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) Talend
4 1 (1.67%) Tealium
4 1 (1.67%) Zoho