BigQuery Contracts in the City of London

Google BigQuery
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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 114 152
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +30
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 20 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.70% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.66% 3.03% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 16
10th Percentile £425 £421 £569
25th Percentile £450 £444 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £630 £763 £738
90th Percentile £660 £776 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £631 £638
% change year-on-year -16.83% -0.98% +10.87%
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 429 495 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.13% 22.97% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 348 445
10th Percentile £404 £400 £414
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £690 £716 £730
90th Percentile £775 £805 £813
Central London median daily rate £564 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.97% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £24.25 - £42.50
25th Percentile £32.66 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

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

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 9 July 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 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) GCP
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (15.00%) dbt
4 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
6 1 (5.00%) Collibra
6 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 5 (25.00%) Looker
2 5 (25.00%) Tableau
3 4 (20.00%) Big Data
4 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.00%) Parquet
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.00%) Flink
6 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Product Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Architect
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Product Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Beam
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) JWT
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Analytics
2 9 (45.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Data Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (15.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) CodeQL
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle