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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 23 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 1.08% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 4.67% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £450 £425 £421
25th Percentile £481 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +1.96%
75th Percentile £644 £630 £763
90th Percentile £695 £660 £776
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £631
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.83% -0.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50
75th Percentile £59.72 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 - £48.50

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 407 428 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.58% 23.06% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 287 347
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £692 £713
90th Percentile £753 £775 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -2.43% -1.97% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 10 July 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 (26.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
3 7 (30.43%) Snowflake
4 6 (26.09%) dbt
5 5 (21.74%) Dagster
5 5 (21.74%) Prefect
6 4 (17.39%) AWS
7 3 (13.04%) Azure
8 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
8 2 (8.70%) Vertex AI
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
9 1 (4.35%) LangSmith
9 1 (4.35%) SaaS
9 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (65.22%) Tableau
2 8 (34.78%) Power BI
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (21.74%) Looker
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) OLAP
5 1 (4.35%) OLAP Cube
5 1 (4.35%) Pinecone
5 1 (4.35%) Power Query
5 1 (4.35%) PowerPivot
5 1 (4.35%) Redis
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.35%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Legal
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) GCP Data Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.35%) Google JAX
1 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
1 1 (4.35%) JAX
1 1 (4.35%) LangChain
1 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Analytics
2 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
3 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (39.13%) ETL
4 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (34.78%) Data Science
4 8 (34.78%) Decision-Making
5 7 (30.43%) Data Analytics
6 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
7 5 (21.74%) People Analytics
7 5 (21.74%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (21.74%) Use Case
8 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 3 (13.04%) A/B Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (8.70%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
10 2 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
10 2 (8.70%) Data Strategy
10 2 (8.70%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (21.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Istio
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Databricks
2 5 (21.74%) Workday
3 2 (8.70%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Yardi