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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 103 130
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 +55
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 19 20 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 0.95% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.16% 4.42% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 15
10th Percentile £465 £416 £563
25th Percentile £600 £428 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £488 £675
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -27.78% -
75th Percentile £738 £763 £738
90th Percentile £818 £812 £745
Central London median daily rate £660 £556 £675
% change year-on-year +18.65% -17.59% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 368 452 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.56% 21.37% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 322 366
10th Percentile £390 £401 £400
25th Percentile £440 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £717 £713
90th Percentile £796 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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 18 October 2025.

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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) GCP
2 8 (42.11%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (21.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (10.53%) Google Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.26%) Collibra
6 1 (5.26%) dbt
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 4 (21.05%) Power BI
3 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.79%) Looker
3 3 (15.79%) Tableau
4 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Parquet
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) ER Studio
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Security Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) GCP Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Analytics Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Data Product Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Digital Analytics Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Digital Analytics Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Product Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Avro
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) Node.js
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Analytics
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
5 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) API Development
7 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) CodeQL
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) LookML
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Okta