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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 103 115
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 23 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.98% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 4.25% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile - £423 £538
25th Percentile £450 £438 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £789
90th Percentile £673 £725 £814
Central London median daily rate £563 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +7.14% -25.00% +12.00%
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 382 400 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.64% 22.99% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 253 320
10th Percentile £343 £404 £413
25th Percentile £429 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £745 £763 £803
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -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 15 May 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 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) GCP
1 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
1 7 (30.43%) Snowflake
2 5 (21.74%) Dagster
2 5 (21.74%) dbt
2 5 (21.74%) Prefect
3 4 (17.39%) Google Gemini
3 4 (17.39%) Vertex AI
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) LangSmith
5 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) Tableau
2 7 (30.43%) Power BI
3 6 (26.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (21.74%) Looker
5 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
5 3 (13.04%) Redis
6 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) OLAP
6 1 (4.35%) OLAP Cube
6 1 (4.35%) Pinecone
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Legal
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) GCP Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Gen AI Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Model Context Protocol
2 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.70%) LangChain
2 2 (8.70%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Google JAX
3 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.35%) JAX
3 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Analytics
2 8 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (34.78%) Data Science
2 8 (34.78%) ETL
3 7 (30.43%) Data Analytics
3 7 (30.43%) Decision-Making
4 5 (21.74%) AI
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) People Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Thought Leadership
4 5 (21.74%) Use Case
5 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Generative AI
5 4 (17.39%) LLM
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Istio
3 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Databricks
2 5 (21.74%) Workday
3 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
3 3 (13.04%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Yardi