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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +50
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 14 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.23% 2.81% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 6
10th Percentile £463 £428 £488
25th Percentile £500 £446 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -22.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £688
90th Percentile £838 £825 £759
Central London median daily rate £700 £488 £625
% change year-on-year +43.59% -22.00% -9.09%

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 331 391 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.38% 20.45% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 251 350
10th Percentile £338 £404 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £749 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%

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 11 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (21.43%) Google Gemini
2 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Google Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Vertex AI
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
4 1 (7.14%) Dataform
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Looker
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
1 3 (21.43%) Tableau
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Redis
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Analytics Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Analytics Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) GCP Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Digital Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) LangChain
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
2 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (21.43%) AI
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) MLOps
4 3 (21.43%) Open Source
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Istio
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft