Looker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Looker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Looker over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 654 727
Rank change year-on-year +129 +73 -86
Contract jobs citing Looker 64 66 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 0.59% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 95
10th Percentile £375 £335 £387
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £600
90th Percentile £670 £651 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +36.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Looker is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,295 11,210 18,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.63% 18.25% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 7,958 12,999
10th Percentile £350 £375 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.40% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 184 191
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.77 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +51.02% +49.92%
75th Percentile £53.84 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.45 £79.76 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.70% +65.84% +47.37%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Looker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Looker in the UK

Looker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Looker.

Daily rate trend for Looker in the UK

Looker
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Looker over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Looker in the UK

Looker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Looker.

Hourly rate trend for Looker in the UK

Looker
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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 +114 57 £525 -2.33% 73
London +109 50 £500 -9.09% 45
Work from Home +135 32 £500 +11.11% 44
UK excluding London +56 6 £550 +37.50% 35
East of England - 3 £550 - 5
North of England +36 2 £625 +38.89% 11
Yorkshire - 2 £625 - 1
Scotland - 1 £162 - 3

Looker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.69%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) Google Analytics
2 26 (40.63%) GCP
3 21 (32.81%) Power Platform
4 13 (20.31%) Google Workspace
5 8 (12.50%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) dbt
5 8 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 6 (9.38%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (9.38%) Azure
6 6 (9.38%) Google Data Studio
7 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.25%) Matillion
9 3 (4.69%) MailChimp
10 2 (3.13%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.13%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.56%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (1.56%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.56%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.63%) BigQuery
2 25 (39.06%) Tableau
3 21 (32.81%) Power BI
4 16 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (10.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (7.81%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (6.25%) Big Data
7 4 (6.25%) Metadata
7 4 (6.25%) Parquet
7 4 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (6.25%) RDBMS
7 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (3.13%) KDB
10 1 (1.56%) Data Mart
10 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Postman
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Marketing
4 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Retail
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Advertising
7 4 (6.25%) Local Government
7 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Data Engineer
2 10 (15.63%) Web Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.81%) Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Web Specialist
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Designer
8 2 (3.13%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) JSON
2 6 (9.38%) jQuery
2 6 (9.38%) Node.js
3 5 (7.81%) CSS
3 5 (7.81%) DOM
3 5 (7.81%) HTML
3 5 (7.81%) Swagger
4 4 (6.25%) XML
5 2 (3.13%) .NET
5 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.56%) Express.js
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Vue
6 1 (1.56%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
1 5 (7.81%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.13%) Spread Betting
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (68.75%) Analytics
2 30 (46.88%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (39.06%) Visualisation
4 18 (28.13%) Decision-Making
5 17 (26.56%) Data Visualisation
6 14 (21.88%) ETL
7 12 (18.75%) Agile
7 12 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 11 (17.19%) Data Analytics
8 11 (17.19%) Web Analytics
9 10 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
10 9 (14.06%) Data Science
10 9 (14.06%) Machine Learning
11 7 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (10.94%) Digital Analytics
11 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (9.38%) Data Collection
12 6 (9.38%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (9.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 6 (9.38%) Tag Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (37.50%) Python
2 23 (35.94%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.38%) R
5 3 (4.69%) LookML
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 2 (3.13%) C#
6 2 (3.13%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.13%) VBA
7 1 (1.56%) Java
7 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (60.94%) Google
2 6 (9.38%) Adobe
2 6 (9.38%) Monetate
2 6 (9.38%) Optimizely
3 5 (7.81%) Ensighten
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) Omniture
3 5 (7.81%) Tealium
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Databricks