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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 641 703
Rank change year-on-year +113 +62 -64
Contract jobs citing Looker 62 58 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.85% 0.56% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 45 95
10th Percentile £371 £330 £408
25th Percentile £406 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £656 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 7,285 10,368 17,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 17.94% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,210 7,377 12,459
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.75% +9.92%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 188 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.72 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.45%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +101 51 £475 -11.63% 64
London +97 46 £475 -15.56% 35
Work from Home +131 30 £475 - 39
UK excluding London +51 5 £450 +12.50% 29
East of England - 3 £550 - 2
Midlands - 1 £270 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £270 - 2
Scotland - 1 £162 - 1

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 4 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) CMS
3 2 (3.23%) Headless CMS
3 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Google Analytics
2 23 (37.10%) GCP
3 22 (35.48%) Power Platform
4 13 (20.97%) Google Workspace
5 7 (11.29%) Azure
6 6 (9.68%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (9.68%) dbt
6 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.06%) AWS
8 4 (6.45%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (4.84%) MailChimp
10 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.23%) Fivetran
10 2 (3.23%) GitHub
10 2 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.61%) Serverless
11 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.71%) Tableau
2 22 (35.48%) BigQuery
2 22 (35.48%) Power BI
3 13 (20.97%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.23%) Big Data
5 2 (3.23%) KDB
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.61%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Postman
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 9 (14.52%) Marketing
5 8 (12.90%) Banking
5 8 (12.90%) Retail
6 5 (8.06%) Advertising
7 4 (6.45%) Local Government
7 4 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Automotive
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Data Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Web Analyst
3 8 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Senior
5 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) Web Specialist
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Data Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Designer
7 2 (3.23%) Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Web Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) jQuery
1 6 (9.68%) Node.js
2 5 (8.06%) CSS
2 5 (8.06%) DOM
2 5 (8.06%) HTML
2 5 (8.06%) JSON
2 5 (8.06%) Swagger
3 2 (3.23%) .NET
3 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.61%) Express.js
4 1 (1.61%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.61%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) Vue
4 1 (1.61%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
1 5 (8.06%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
1 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (72.58%) Analytics
2 30 (48.39%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (37.10%) Visualisation
4 16 (25.81%) Decision-Making
5 13 (20.97%) Data Visualisation
6 12 (19.35%) Agile
6 12 (19.35%) Data Analytics
7 11 (17.74%) Data Modelling
7 11 (17.74%) Web Analytics
8 10 (16.13%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (14.52%) Data Science
9 9 (14.52%) ETL
10 7 (11.29%) Digital Analytics
11 6 (9.68%) Data Collection
11 6 (9.68%) Data Ingestion
11 6 (9.68%) Machine Learning
11 6 (9.68%) Tag Management
12 5 (8.06%) Actionable Insight
12 5 (8.06%) Data Transformation
12 5 (8.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.94%) Python
1 26 (41.94%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.68%) R
4 5 (8.06%) Scala
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) VBA
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) LookML
6 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (56.45%) Google
2 6 (9.68%) Adobe
2 6 (9.68%) Monetate
2 6 (9.68%) Optimizely
3 5 (8.06%) Ensighten
3 5 (8.06%) Omniture
3 5 (8.06%) Tealium
4 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.23%) Databricks