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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 631 710
Rank change year-on-year +122 +79 -66
Contract jobs citing Looker 62 56 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.098% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.85% 0.55% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 94
10th Percentile £375 £329 £416
25th Percentile £419 £453 £475
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 £641 £656 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
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 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £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 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +45.83%

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 18 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 9 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 18 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 +106 51 £475 -11.63% 77
London +97 45 £475 -15.56% 45
Work from Home +121 29 £475 - 49
UK excluding London +59 6 £450 +12.50% 37
East of England - 3 £550 - 3
South East +33 1 - - 12
West Midlands - 1 £270 - 2
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 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.84%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) Google Analytics
2 23 (37.10%) GCP
3 21 (33.87%) Power Platform
4 13 (20.97%) Google Workspace
5 6 (9.68%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (9.68%) Azure
5 6 (9.68%) dbt
5 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
6 5 (8.06%) AWS
7 4 (6.45%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.23%) Fivetran
8 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.23%) MailChimp
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.61%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (40.32%) Tableau
2 21 (33.87%) Power BI
3 20 (32.26%) BigQuery
4 11 (17.74%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.23%) Big Data
6 2 (3.23%) KDB
6 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.61%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.61%) HDInsight
7 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 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Marketing
4 10 (16.13%) Finance
5 8 (12.90%) Banking
5 8 (12.90%) Retail
6 6 (9.68%) Advertising
7 4 (6.45%) Local Government
7 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Automotive
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.61%) Social Science
9 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Analyst
2 11 (17.74%) Data Analyst
3 10 (16.13%) Web Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Senior
6 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Web Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Data Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Designer
8 2 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Marketing Analyst
8 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%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Windows
1 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Analytics
2 30 (48.39%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (35.48%) Visualisation
4 16 (25.81%) Decision-Making
5 14 (22.58%) Data Visualisation
6 12 (19.35%) Agile
6 12 (19.35%) Data Analytics
7 11 (17.74%) Web Analytics
8 9 (14.52%) Dashboard Development
8 9 (14.52%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.52%) Data Science
9 7 (11.29%) Digital Analytics
9 7 (11.29%) ETL
10 6 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (9.68%) Data Collection
10 6 (9.68%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (9.68%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.68%) Tag Management
11 5 (8.06%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
11 5 (8.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) SQL
2 26 (41.94%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.29%) R
4 3 (4.84%) 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 9 (14.52%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (58.06%) Google
2 8 (12.90%) Adobe
3 6 (9.68%) Monetate
3 6 (9.68%) Optimizely
4 5 (8.06%) Ensighten
4 5 (8.06%) Omniture
4 5 (8.06%) Tealium
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.61%) Brandwatch