BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google BigQuery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 107 107
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 +23
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 14 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 3.71% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 14
10th Percentile - £438 £416
25th Percentile £575 £472 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -25.00%
75th Percentile £700 £660 £763
90th Percentile £721 £680 £812
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £556
% change year-on-year - +7.87% -14.42%

All Database & BI Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 379 377 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.64% 21.89% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 267 321
10th Percentile £351 £387 £413
25th Percentile £452 £434 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -1.23%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £591
% change year-on-year - -2.71% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £22.70 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £32.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% -11.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.75 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.97% -15.00% -9.09%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the City of London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the City of London

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) Apache
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) dbt
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (28.57%) Tableau
2 3 (21.43%) Looker
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.14%) Flink
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) Power Query
4 1 (7.14%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) GCP Data Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 7 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 3 (21.43%) Cost Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Data Science
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) LookML
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce