BigQuery Data Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Engineer - BigQuery
UK

The median Data Engineer - BigQuery daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a BigQuery Data Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,990 29,768 35,726
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.07% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,655 18,799 22,146
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,750 1,555 1,711
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.69 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.27 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.72 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

BigQuery Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'BigQuery Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

BigQuery Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancies in the UK

BigQuery Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery Data Engineer over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery Data Engineer in the UK

BigQuery Data Engineer
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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
London - 7 £550 - 6
England - 7 £550 - 11

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, BigQuery Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring BigQuery Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 4 (57.14%) Looker
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (14.29%) Collibra
6 1 (14.29%) Control-M
6 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (14.29%) dbt
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 1 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (14.29%) Google
6 1 (14.29%) LookML
6 1 (14.29%) Metadata
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (14.29%) Runbook
6 1 (14.29%) Validation

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Collibra
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (57.14%) Looker
3 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) LookML
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google