BigQuery Contracts in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 117 160
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +16
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 13 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 2.06% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £423 £470 £488
25th Percentile £438 £500 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +11.06%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £744
90th Percentile £725 £809 £763
Central London median daily rate £525 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 389 486 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.15% 22.17% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 326 486
10th Percentile £405 £402 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £730
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the City of London

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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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Looker
2 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Tableau
3 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
3 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Flink
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 1 (7.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Java Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Beam
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (7.69%) Interest Rate Derivative
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Data Management
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Fintech
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Okta
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle