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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 106 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +61
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 14 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.81% 0.90% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.86% 4.31% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 11
10th Percentile £465 £416 £525
25th Percentile £525 £428 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £488 £675
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -27.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £738 £763 £731
90th Percentile £818 £812 £738
Central London median daily rate £660 £556 £675
% change year-on-year +18.65% -17.59% -1.82%

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 363 441 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.87% 20.96% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 307 359
10th Percentile £363 £410 £375
25th Percentile £424 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% +2.56%
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 17 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 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Functions
2 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Big Data
1 3 (21.43%) Looker
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
1 3 (21.43%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Security Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Analytics Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Analytics Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Security Operations
4 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
4 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) CodeQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) LookML
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) 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
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft