Looker Contract Job Trends in London

Looker
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Looker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 327 362
Rank change year-on-year -47 +35 +65
Contract jobs citing Looker 63 37 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 1.29% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 27 15
10th Percentile £281 £408 £378
25th Percentile £381 £475 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £622
90th Percentile £600 £650 £640
England median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.46 -
England median hourly rate £27.30 £33.46 -
% change year-on-year -18.41% - -

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,605 2,878 3,815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.95% 21.22% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,437 2,014 2,817
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Looker job vacancy trend in London

Looker
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Looker

Looker
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Looker in London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Looker in London

Looker
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Looker

Looker
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London -3 10 £525 +2.44% 13
West London -15 4 £338 -32.50% 6
South London - 3 £450 - 1
Looker
England

Looker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.52%) Apache
3 3 (4.76%) Confluence
4 2 (3.17%) CMS
5 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) BambooHR
2 2 (3.17%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.59%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 31 (49.21%) Power Platform
2 16 (25.40%) dbt
3 15 (23.81%) GCP
4 13 (20.63%) Snowflake
5 7 (11.11%) SaaS
6 6 (9.52%) Dagster
6 6 (9.52%) Prefect
7 5 (7.94%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (6.35%) Google Analytics
9 3 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (4.76%) Azure
9 3 (4.76%) Miro
10 2 (3.17%) Alation
10 2 (3.17%) AWS
10 2 (3.17%) Collibra
10 2 (3.17%) Dataform
10 2 (3.17%) Google Sheets
10 2 (3.17%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (55.56%) Tableau
2 31 (49.21%) Power BI
3 30 (47.62%) BigQuery
4 20 (31.75%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (12.70%) Semantic Layer
6 6 (9.52%) Flink
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.76%) Mixpanel
8 3 (4.76%) Star Schema
9 2 (3.17%) Metadata
9 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Git
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Marketing
3 8 (12.70%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.52%) Retail
5 5 (7.94%) Legal
6 4 (6.35%) Social Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Banking
7 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.17%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.59%) Advertising
9 1 (1.59%) Electronics
9 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Analyst
2 18 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 15 (23.81%) Data Analyst
4 10 (15.87%) Senior
5 8 (12.70%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) GCP Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Consultant
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) BigQuery Data Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Digital Analytics Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Digital Analytics Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Junior
8 3 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Junior Data Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Apache Beam
2 1 (1.59%) NumPy
2 1 (1.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.76%) e-Learning
2 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (3.17%) Music Streaming
3 2 (3.17%) Social Media
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (65.08%) Analytics
2 37 (58.73%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (34.92%) Data Modelling
4 22 (34.92%) Visualisation
5 21 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 17 (26.98%) Data Engineering
7 16 (25.40%) Data Science
8 15 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
9 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (19.05%) AI
10 12 (19.05%) ETL
10 12 (19.05%) Machine Learning
11 10 (15.87%) Fintech
11 10 (15.87%) User Experience
12 9 (14.29%) Data Analysis
12 9 (14.29%) Data Analytics
12 9 (14.29%) Data Governance
12 9 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 46 (73.02%) SQL
2 33 (52.38%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) LookML
4 5 (7.94%) Java
4 5 (7.94%) Scala
4 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.35%) R
6 2 (3.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (41.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.52%) GDPR
3 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Google
2 11 (17.46%) Databricks
3 7 (11.11%) Workday
4 6 (9.52%) Amplitude
5 5 (7.94%) New Relic
5 5 (7.94%) Splunk
6 3 (4.76%) Adobe
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (3.17%) SAP
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.59%) Omniture
8 1 (1.59%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.59%) Palantir
8 1 (1.59%) Salesforce