Looker Contracts

Looker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 540 651
Rank change year-on-year +83 +111 +60
Contract jobs citing Looker 62 60 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 0.82% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 48
10th Percentile £153 £375 £334
25th Percentile £315 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £591
90th Percentile £638 £670 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £318 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -42.15% +37.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £56.30
25th Percentile £60.25 - £64.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £60.75 - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £88.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 13 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 30 April 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
England +64 53 £438 -10.26% 236
London +22 34 £513 +7.89% 150
Work from Home +52 32 £400 -15.79% 128
UK excluding London +67 18 £318 -42.15% 92
North of England +36 9 £145 -76.80% 28
Yorkshire +20 6 £145 -76.80% 6
East of England +33 3 £315 -42.73% 5
North West - 3 £438 - 15
South East - 3 £280 - 18
Midlands - 2 £371 - 19
South West - 1 £325 - 13
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 14
East Midlands - 1 £391 - 5

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 8 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.68%) Apache
3 4 (6.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.61%) Magento
2 1 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (70.97%) GCP
2 23 (37.10%) Power Platform
3 13 (20.97%) AWS
4 12 (19.35%) dbt
5 11 (17.74%) Google Analytics
6 10 (16.13%) Azure
7 6 (9.68%) Google Data Studio
7 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.45%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (6.45%) Cloud Composer
8 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 4 (6.45%) Google Ads
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.84%) Datadog
9 3 (4.84%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.23%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (3.23%) Matillion
10 2 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) DHCP
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
1 3 (4.84%) DOCSIS
1 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.84%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.23%) Network Security
2 2 (3.23%) VLAN
2 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (51.61%) BigQuery
2 26 (41.94%) Tableau
3 23 (37.10%) Power BI
4 19 (30.65%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.45%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.84%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.23%) Big Data
8 2 (3.23%) Impala
8 2 (3.23%) PowerPivot
8 2 (3.23%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (3.23%) Spotfire
9 1 (1.61%) Metadata
9 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.61%) Power Query
9 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (25.81%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Marketing
4 7 (11.29%) Retail
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Analyst
2 15 (24.19%) Data Analyst
2 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 6 (9.68%) GCP Data Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior
6 3 (4.84%) Credit Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Junior
6 3 (4.84%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Marketing Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Risk Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Digital Marketing Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.23%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) Kafka
2 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (4.84%) NumPy
2 3 (4.84%) Pandas
2 3 (4.84%) PySpark
2 3 (4.84%) React
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) Credit Risk
2 3 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.84%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (3.23%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.23%) IoT
3 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.23%) Social Media
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Derivative
4 1 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.61%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.61%) PMI
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Analytics
2 24 (38.71%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (37.10%) Visualisation
4 21 (33.87%) Data Visualisation
5 20 (32.26%) Data Analysis
5 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (27.42%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (25.81%) Data Engineering
7 16 (25.81%) ETL
8 14 (22.58%) Data Governance
8 14 (22.58%) Decision-Making
9 12 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (19.35%) Data Modelling
10 11 (17.74%) Data Analytics
11 10 (16.13%) Data Science
12 9 (14.52%) Agile
12 9 (14.52%) E-Commerce
13 8 (12.90%) Data Management
14 7 (11.29%) Fintech
14 7 (11.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (69.35%) SQL
2 27 (43.55%) Python
3 11 (17.74%) Java
4 5 (8.06%) R
5 4 (6.45%) Go
6 3 (4.84%) C
6 3 (4.84%) C++
6 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.23%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (1.61%) LookML
Qualifications
1 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
1 3 (4.84%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.23%) PMP
2 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.23%) SnowPro
2 2 (3.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) QA
3 3 (4.84%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.61%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Terraform
2 3 (4.84%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Argo
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) Google
2 5 (8.06%) Splunk
3 4 (6.45%) Adobe
4 3 (4.84%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) TikTok
5 2 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.23%) Facebook
5 2 (3.23%) Informatica
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) New Relic
5 2 (3.23%) StreamSets
5 2 (3.23%) Talend
5 2 (3.23%) YouTube
6 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.61%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.61%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.61%) WooCommerce