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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 99 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +34
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 19 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.84% 0.91% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.75% 4.00% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 12
10th Percentile £450 £412 £414
25th Percentile £575 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £675 £660 £755
90th Percentile £714 £680 £781
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £613
% change year-on-year - -2.04% -3.92%

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 400 400 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.61% 22.68% 21.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 265 320
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £441 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.24% -0.96%
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 4 September 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 6 (31.58%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (15.79%) Confluence
3 2 (10.53%) Apache
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) GCP
2 6 (31.58%) dbt
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (10.53%) Dagster
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.53%) Prefect
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.26%) Azure
6 1 (5.26%) Google Gemini
6 1 (5.26%) LangSmith
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Tableau
2 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (15.79%) Looker
4 3 (15.79%) Power BI
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (5.26%) Flink
6 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.26%) Power Query
6 1 (5.26%) PowerPivot
6 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Publishing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Data Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) GCP Data Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.26%) GCP Architect
4 1 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Google JAX
2 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.26%) JAX
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.26%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Analytics
2 9 (47.37%) Data Modelling
3 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (42.11%) Data Science
4 7 (36.84%) Data Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
5 5 (26.32%) ETL
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Workflow
7 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) Cost Management
8 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
8 2 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
8 2 (10.53%) People Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) LookML
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Istio
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Databricks
1 3 (15.79%) Google
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Workday
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce