BigQuery Contracts in Central London

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London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 125 159
Rank change year-on-year +14 +34 +18
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 13 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 1.87% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £423 £470 £488
25th Percentile £438 £500 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +11.06%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £744
90th Percentile £725 £809 £763
London median daily rate £525 £533 £605
% change year-on-year -1.50% -11.90% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +8.25% -42.94% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

BigQuery 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 535 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.32% 21.92% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 364 517
10th Percentile £404 £405 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £754 £788 £788
London median daily rate £557 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in Central London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in Central London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in Central London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in Central London

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +10 13 £525 -19.23% 4
BigQuery
London

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Looker
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Flink
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Java Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Beam
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Data Management
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Fintech
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Okta
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle