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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 108 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +46
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 21 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.98% 0.64% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.59% 2.93% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 4
10th Percentile £475 £418 £465
25th Percentile £519 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -18.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £738 £584 £789
90th Percentile £838 £725 £814
Central London median daily rate £575 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +12.20% -18.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50
75th Percentile £59.72 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50

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 376 375 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.47% 21.65% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 243 327
10th Percentile £343 £404 £406
25th Percentile £417 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £33.51 - -
25th Percentile £37.23 £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate £44.92 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.62% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £53.07 £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile £57.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £44.92 £31.86 £48.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -34.31% -42.32%

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 1 April 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 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) GCP
2 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) Snowflake
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
4 3 (14.29%) Dagster
4 3 (14.29%) dbt
4 3 (14.29%) Google Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Google Gemini
4 3 (14.29%) Prefect
4 3 (14.29%) Vertex AI
5 2 (9.52%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (9.52%) LangSmith
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Tableau
2 6 (28.57%) Power BI
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (19.05%) Looker
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Redis
5 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (4.76%) OLAP
5 1 (4.76%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (4.76%) Pinecone
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.76%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Legal
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) GCP Architect
3 2 (9.52%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Digital Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) LangChain
1 2 (9.52%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (9.52%) React
2 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
2 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (23.81%) ETL
3 5 (23.81%) Incident Response
3 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
4 4 (19.05%) AI
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 3 (14.29%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) Open Source
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 3 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 3 (14.29%) Workday
4 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Yardi