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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 106 135
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 +49
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 15 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.86% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 4.29% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 12
10th Percentile £465 £416 £529
25th Percentile £525 £428 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -25.00% -5.45%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £728
90th Percentile £818 £812 £738
Central London median daily rate £660 £556 £650
% change year-on-year +18.65% -14.42% -5.45%

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 367 443 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.09% 20.91% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 309 366
10th Percentile £363 £406 £375
25th Percentile £424 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £703
90th Percentile £776 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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 16 November 2025.

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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Google Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Collibra
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Big Data
1 3 (20.00%) Looker
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
1 3 (20.00%) Tableau
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) ER Studio
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) GCP Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Analytics Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Digital Analytics Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Digital Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 5 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 3 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Detection
4 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) CodeQL
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) LookML
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft