BigQuery Contract Job Trends in Kent

Google BigQuery
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.36% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% +14.29%

All Database & BI Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 6.33% 2.50% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 5
10th Percentile £430 £283 £154
25th Percentile £500 £294 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -35.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile - £338 £525
90th Percentile £635 - £638
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +7.99% -7.40% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £28.89
25th Percentile £34.01 - £38.62
Median hourly rate £36.71 - £58.91
75th Percentile £39.41 - £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.69 £24.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +57.02% -56.36% -

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in Kent

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Kent region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
BigQuery
South East

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Dialogflow
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Looker
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks