Looker Contract Job Trends in the North West

Looker
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Looker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Looker 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.41% - 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.72% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £223 - £429
25th Percentile £275 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £463
75th Percentile £356 - £484
90th Percentile £468 - £486
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -12.28%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 331 320 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.05% 13.20% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 200 339
10th Percentile £313 £338 £265
25th Percentile £363 £398 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £585
90th Percentile £600 £594 £675
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 11
10th Percentile - £28.50 £27.10
25th Percentile £21.02 £37.81 £35.50
Median hourly rate £30.64 £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +7.14% -23.34%
75th Percentile £51.50 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £67.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Looker job vacancy trend in the North West

Looker
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Looker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Looker

Looker
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Looker in the North West over the 6 months to 10 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Looker in the North West

Looker
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Manchester - 7 £313 - 8
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Merseyside - 1 - -
Looker
England

Looker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Google Tag Manager
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 4 (44.44%) Google Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) BigQuery
2 5 (55.56%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Power Query
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Browser DevTools
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (44.44%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Measurement
5 2 (22.22%) Service Design
5 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) User Research
6 1 (11.11%) Data Science
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) LookML
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Accessibility
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 3 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft