Looker Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Looker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Looker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 95 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing Looker 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.099% 0.074% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.50% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -
75th Percentile £475 £400 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £511 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +13.61% -14.29% -2.33%

All Database & BI Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 599 220 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.85% 16.27% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 149 219
10th Percentile £358 £310 £311
25th Percentile £425 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £575
90th Percentile £645 £665 £690
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +64.47%
75th Percentile £59.69 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £70.38 - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -27.27%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Looker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Looker job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Looker
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Looker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Looker

Looker
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Birmingham -20 2 £450 +28.57% 2
Coventry - 1 - -
Looker
England

Looker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Performance Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations