Looker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Looker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Looker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Looker over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 389 448
Rank change year-on-year +74 +59 +22
Contract jobs citing Looker 19 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.024% 0.029%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.94% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 7
10th Percentile £140 £267 £333
25th Percentile £177 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £428 £575 £500
90th Percentile £456 £605 £510
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +2.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,017 2,594 3,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 12.53% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 1,829 2,653
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.46
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.20 £31.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.98% -30.43% +35.29%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Looker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Looker in the UK excluding London

Looker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Looker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Looker in the UK excluding London

Looker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Looker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Looker in the UK excluding London

Looker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England +20 10 £145 -76.80% 32
Yorkshire +13 6 £145 -76.80% 8
North West - 4 £438 - 16
East of England +38 3 £315 -42.73% 5
South East - 3 £280 - 70
Midlands - 2 £371 - 18
East Midlands - 1 £391 - 4
South West - 1 £325 - 17
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 12
Looker
UK

Looker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) GCP
2 8 (42.11%) Power Platform
3 6 (31.58%) dbt
4 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
4 3 (15.79%) Vertex AI
5 2 (10.53%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (10.53%) Google Ads
5 2 (10.53%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (5.26%) Asana
6 1 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) BigQuery
2 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (42.11%) Power BI
3 7 (36.84%) Tableau
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (10.53%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Analyst
2 8 (42.11%) Data Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Marketing Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (5.26%) DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Looker Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) NumPy
2 3 (15.79%) Pandas
2 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 3 (15.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) ETL
2 9 (47.37%) Analytics
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (47.37%) Data Governance
3 8 (42.11%) Data Analysis
4 7 (36.84%) Data Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Data Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) ETL Development
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Technical Debt
6 4 (21.05%) Data Management
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (21.05%) Data Security
6 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
7 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Workflow
7 3 (15.79%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) TikTok
3 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace