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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 105 106
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +32
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 20 19 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.86% 1.05% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.96% 4.57% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 13
10th Percentile £450 £425 £415
25th Percentile £497 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £751
90th Percentile £713 £660 £780
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.29% -2.00%

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 403 416 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.31% 23.02% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 275 329
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £653 £688 £719
90th Percentile £760 £800 £803
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -1.74% -0.86% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 28 August 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 7 (35.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) dbt
1 7 (35.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (25.00%) Dagster
3 5 (25.00%) Prefect
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Azure
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Google Gemini
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (5.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) Tableau
2 8 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (35.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (30.00%) Power BI
5 5 (25.00%) Looker
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.00%) Power Query
7 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
7 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 10 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 10 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Google JAX
2 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.00%) JAX
2 1 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Analytics
2 10 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (45.00%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (40.00%) Data Science
5 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (35.00%) Data Analytics
5 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) ETL
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) People Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (25.00%) Use Case
7 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Release Management
8 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Istio
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Databricks
2 5 (25.00%) Workday
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce