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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 108 109
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 22 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 0.98% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.49% 4.26% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £497 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £713
90th Percentile £713 £667 £768
Central London median daily rate £600 £563 £613
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.16% -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 401 423 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.17% 23.08% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 276 324
10th Percentile £355 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £794 £788
Central London median daily rate £553 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -3.91% -1.50% -2.71%
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 £34.33 -
% change year-on-year -24.89% - -

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 21 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 (31.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) GCP
2 7 (31.82%) dbt
2 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
3 6 (27.27%) Snowflake
4 5 (22.73%) Dagster
4 5 (22.73%) Prefect
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (9.09%) Azure
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.09%) Serverless
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) Tableau
2 9 (40.91%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (31.82%) Power BI
5 5 (22.73%) Looker
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (4.55%) Power Query
7 1 (4.55%) PowerPivot
7 1 (4.55%) Redis
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Legal
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) GCP Data Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Data Modeller
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Google JAX
2 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
2 1 (4.55%) JAX
2 1 (4.55%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Analytics
2 11 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (36.36%) Data Science
4 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 8 (36.36%) ETL
5 7 (31.82%) Data Analytics
5 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) People Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (22.73%) Use Case
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (9.09%) Data Architecture
8 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (22.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Istio
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Databricks
2 5 (22.73%) Workday
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce