LookML Contracts

LookML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring LookML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LookML over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 581 701
Rank change year-on-year +65 +120 +131
Contract jobs citing LookML 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.020% 0.008% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £428 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -40.00%
75th Percentile £503 £475 £475
90th Percentile £516 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

LookML falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,015 12,732 20,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.00% 29.61% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,814 9,059 14,540
10th Percentile £358 £350 £394
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £774 £763 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.35% +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 488 464
10th Percentile £25.13 £32.25 £26.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.43 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.12% +0.95% +22.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.88 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.40% - +25.00%

LookML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LookML in the UK

LookML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LookML in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LookML within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +81 1 £425 -5.56% 12
London +35 1 £425 -5.56% 12
Work from Home - 1 £425 - 9

LookML
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Looker
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks