Looker Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Looker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Looker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 370 419
Rank change year-on-year +15 +49 +75
Contract jobs citing Looker 22 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.056% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.90% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 9
10th Percentile £253 £268 £309
25th Percentile £280 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £469 £612 £475
90th Percentile £526 - £490
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%

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 2,432 2,460 3,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.59% 13.86% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,603 1,592 2,175
10th Percentile £300 £322 £319
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 61 103
10th Percentile £20.71 £17.50 £20.90
25th Percentile £22.44 £19.59 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.48 £30.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -44.95% +38.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +15.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Looker

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 - 15 £306 - 27
North West - 9 £313 - 15
Yorkshire - 5 £278 - 10
South West +29 3 £388 -8.82% 11
South East +17 2 £363 -14.71% 146
Scotland - 2 £475 -
North East - 1 £625 - 3
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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.09%) Maple
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) GCP
2 14 (63.64%) Power Platform
3 9 (40.91%) Azure
4 7 (31.82%) Google Tag Manager
5 6 (27.27%) Google Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) dbt
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.55%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (4.55%) Contentsquare
8 1 (4.55%) Google Ads
8 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (68.18%) BigQuery
2 14 (63.64%) Power BI
3 11 (50.00%) Tableau
4 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Metadata
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.55%) Power Query
6 1 (4.55%) PowerPivot
6 1 (4.55%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ER Studio
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Browser DevTools
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Performance Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Data Modeller
3 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Report Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Digital Marketing Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
1 2 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Analytics
2 15 (68.18%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
5 8 (36.36%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) Visualisation
6 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
6 7 (31.82%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
6 7 (31.82%) User Experience
7 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (22.73%) ETL
9 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
9 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
9 4 (18.18%) E-Commerce
10 3 (13.64%) Data Science
10 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.64%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.55%) LookML
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 4 (18.18%) QA
3 2 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Google
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) ForgeRock
3 2 (9.09%) Micro Focus
3 2 (9.09%) NetIQ
3 2 (9.09%) Okta
4 1 (4.55%) Adobe
4 1 (4.55%) Hotjar
4 1 (4.55%) Optimizely
4 1 (4.55%) TikTok