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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 109 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +60
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 16 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.91% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.99% 4.24% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 16
10th Percentile £412 £415 £544
25th Percentile £453 £425 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £660 £768 £738
90th Percentile £680 £817 £756
Central London median daily rate £600 £613 £638
% change year-on-year -2.04% -3.92% -5.56%

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 401 448 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.90% 21.57% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 320 429
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £434 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery 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 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the City of London

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Functions
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
6 1 (6.25%) Collibra
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) Google Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Big Data
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Parquet
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.25%) Flink
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Data Product Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Product Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
6 1 (6.25%) GCP Architect
6 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Digital Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Beam
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) JWT
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Analytics
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
5 5 (31.25%) Data Analytics
5 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (18.75%) API Development
7 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
7 3 (18.75%) ETL
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) CodeQL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) LookML
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) SAP