BigQuery Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Data Engineer - BigQuery
England > London

The median Data Engineer - BigQuery daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a BigQuery Data Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,789 12,374 15,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.70% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,285 10,262
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 207 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.95 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £74.69
England median hourly rate £43.08 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +71.27% -47.05% +5.56%

BigQuery Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'BigQuery Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

BigQuery Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for BigQuery Data Engineer job vacancies in London

BigQuery Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery Data Engineer in London

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 September 2026, BigQuery Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring BigQuery Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 4 (57.14%) Looker
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (14.29%) Collibra
6 1 (14.29%) Control-M
6 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (14.29%) dbt
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 1 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (14.29%) Google
6 1 (14.29%) LookML
6 1 (14.29%) Metadata
6 1 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (14.29%) Runbook
6 1 (14.29%) Validation

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Collibra
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (57.14%) Looker
3 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Runbook
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) LookML
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google