BigQuery Contracts in Central London

Google BigQuery
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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 145
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 +54
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 20 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.97% 0.74% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.31% 3.35% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 17
10th Percentile £425 £425 £548
25th Percentile £450 £456 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £630 £732 £738
90th Percentile £660 £773 £755
London median daily rate £525 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +2.44% -18.00% +13.64%

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 464 508 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.45% 22.22% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 360 473
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £690 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £790
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £24.04 - £37.50
25th Percentile £30.54 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £53.13
90th Percentile £78.25 - £53.50
London median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.96% -15.83% +9.09%

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 August 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 August 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 +4 20 £525 -8.70% 22
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 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (15.00%) dbt
6 2 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) Azure
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
7 1 (5.00%) Collibra
7 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 5 (25.00%) Big Data
2 5 (25.00%) Looker
2 5 (25.00%) Tableau
3 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Parquet
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.00%) Flink
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Data Product Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Product Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.00%) GCP Architect
6 1 (5.00%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Beam
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) JWT
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Analytics
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 8 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (20.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) CodeQL
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle