BigQuery Contract Job Trends

Google BigQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 397 428
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 +69
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 255 128 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 2.30% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 85 114
10th Percentile £369 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.21% -10.21%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £638
90th Percentile £688 £709 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +6.35% -7.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £46.50 - £29.15
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -61.76%
75th Percentile £61.74 £53.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £66.85 - £43.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.00 - £30.50

All Database & BI Skills
UK

BigQuery 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,286 5,573 7,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 18.96% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 3,838 5,212
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 99 144
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.54 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.11 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +49.08% -17.48% -33.13%
75th Percentile £73.94 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.50 £74.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -29.76%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the UK

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BigQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 14 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
England -11 228 £538 +7.50% 109
London +34 166 £550 +4.76% 59
Work from Home +4 88 £500 +11.11% 55
UK excluding London -76 55 £494 +6.35% 58
North of England -50 33 £450 -7.69% 18
Yorkshire -54 17 £463 -8.96% 6
North West -31 15 £431 -11.54% 10
West Midlands -52 9 £456 +30.36% 3
Midlands -61 9 £456 +10.61% 6
South East -61 6 £647 +52.24% 19
South West -33 4 £556 -14.42% 8
East of England -34 2 £575 +82.54% 2
Wales - 2 £475 - 3
North East - 1 £500 - 2

BigQuery
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 32 (12.55%) Apache
2 30 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 23 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.14%) Confluence
5 5 (1.96%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 198 (77.65%) GCP
2 63 (24.71%) Azure
3 57 (22.35%) Power Platform
4 49 (19.22%) AWS
5 38 (14.90%) Snowflake
6 34 (13.33%) dbt
7 30 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 25 (9.80%) Vertex AI
9 23 (9.02%) Amazon S3
9 23 (9.02%) Cloud Run
10 19 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (7.45%) Cloud Functions
11 18 (7.06%) Collibra
12 17 (6.67%) GitHub
13 16 (6.27%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.71%) Google Gemini
16 10 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (3.92%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) FTP
2 1 (0.39%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (22.35%) Power BI
2 45 (17.65%) Looker
3 42 (16.47%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (15.29%) Tableau
5 24 (9.41%) Data Lake
6 22 (8.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (6.27%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (6.27%) Mixpanel
7 16 (6.27%) OLAP
7 16 (6.27%) SQL Server
8 15 (5.88%) OLTP
9 14 (5.49%) NoSQL
10 13 (5.10%) Big Data
10 13 (5.10%) Metadata
11 12 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.75%) Flink
13 7 (2.75%) Parquet
13 7 (2.75%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.75%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.71%) Git
2 12 (4.71%) JIRA
3 10 (3.92%) GitLab
4 4 (1.57%) MSTest
4 4 (1.57%) NUnit
5 3 (1.18%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.78%) ERwin
6 2 (0.78%) MLflow
6 2 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.39%) Maven
7 1 (0.39%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 59 (23.14%) Finance
2 43 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.20%) Retail
5 21 (8.24%) Banking
6 14 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.92%) Marketing
8 9 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.35%) Games
10 5 (1.96%) Legal
11 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Automotive
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (35.69%) Data Engineer
2 45 (17.65%) GCP Engineer
3 41 (16.08%) Senior
4 33 (12.94%) Analyst
5 31 (12.16%) GCP Data Engineer
6 27 (10.59%) Architect
6 27 (10.59%) Lead
7 17 (6.67%) Developer
7 17 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 16 (6.27%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (6.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (5.49%) Data Analyst
9 14 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (5.10%) Principal Data Engineer
11 12 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 12 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.71%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 11 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.31%) Data Architect
12 11 (4.31%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.37%) Kafka
2 18 (7.06%) Great Expectations
3 16 (6.27%) Apache Beam
4 13 (5.10%) React
5 11 (4.31%) LangChain
6 10 (3.92%) Pandas
6 10 (3.92%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.53%) Spring
7 9 (3.53%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.14%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.14%) NumPy
9 7 (2.75%) REST
9 7 (2.75%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.35%) Node.js
10 6 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.96%) Apache Avro
11 5 (1.96%) OAuth
11 5 (1.96%) PySpark
11 5 (1.96%) Quarkus
11 5 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.31%) AI Agents
2 11 (4.31%) Clustering
3 9 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.57%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.78%) Podcast
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.39%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (46.27%) Analytics
2 94 (36.86%) Data Modelling
3 86 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (29.80%) CI/CD
5 69 (27.06%) Data Engineering
6 68 (26.67%) AI
6 68 (26.67%) ETL
7 65 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (23.53%) Agile
9 59 (23.14%) Machine Learning
10 53 (20.78%) Data Governance
11 50 (19.61%) DevOps
12 48 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (16.47%) Observability
14 38 (14.90%) Decision-Making
15 36 (14.12%) Data Science
15 36 (14.12%) LLM
16 34 (13.33%) Data Architecture
17 29 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (10.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 136 (53.33%) SQL
2 132 (51.76%) Python
3 38 (14.90%) Java
4 20 (7.84%) C#
5 7 (2.75%) Scala
6 6 (2.35%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.57%) Go
7 4 (1.57%) LookML
7 4 (1.57%) R
8 3 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (1.18%) VBA
9 2 (0.78%) Ruby
9 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) Korn
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.57%) Degree
5 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.39%) CSPO
6 1 (0.39%) ISEB
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.20%) GDPR
3 18 (7.06%) QA
4 6 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.18%) PERC
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.39%) Basel III
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.39%) ITGC
6 1 (0.39%) MiFID
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (11.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (24.31%) Terraform
2 37 (14.51%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.53%) Istio
4 6 (2.35%) Argo
4 6 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.96%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 120 (47.06%) Google
2 45 (17.65%) Databricks
3 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.10%) Oracle
5 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.96%) Workday
8 3 (1.18%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.18%) Citrix
8 3 (1.18%) Facebook
9 2 (0.78%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.78%) Informatica
9 2 (0.78%) SAP
10 1 (0.39%) Adobe
10 1 (0.39%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.39%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.39%) New Relic
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Yardi