BigQuery Contract Job Trends in London

Google BigQuery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 274 337
Rank change year-on-year +28 +63 +86
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 134 108 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.69% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 3.12% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 64 61
10th Percentile £358 £363 £431
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £519 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -10.56% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £725
90th Percentile £725 £761 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £36.02 - -
25th Percentile £43.61 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.38 - -
90th Percentile £69.35 - -
England median hourly rate £61.00 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +236.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,833 3,465 3,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.13% 22.02% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 2,458 2,820
10th Percentile £375 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £18.98
25th Percentile £30.42 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.29% -16.26%
75th Percentile £68.38 £59.39 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £33.93 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -32.14% -

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the London region over the 6 months to 26 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 18 £680 +22.25% 51
West London +1 6 £525 +31.25% 3
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
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 27 (20.15%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (11.19%) Apache Spark
3 14 (10.45%) Apache
4 4 (2.99%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 119 (88.81%) GCP
2 35 (26.12%) AWS
2 35 (26.12%) Azure
3 23 (17.16%) dbt
4 21 (15.67%) Snowflake
5 20 (14.93%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.69%) GitHub
7 12 (8.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 12 (8.96%) Vertex AI
8 9 (6.72%) Cloud Functions
8 9 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (5.97%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.48%) Google Data Studio
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.73%) Google Compute Engine
12 4 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.10%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (20.90%) Looker
3 20 (14.93%) Power BI
4 19 (14.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (11.94%) Tableau
6 15 (11.19%) Big Data
7 14 (10.45%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
9 7 (5.22%) Metadata
10 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.99%) Hadoop
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.24%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.24%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Git
2 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.72%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) ER Studio
4 6 (4.48%) MLflow
5 3 (2.24%) ERwin
5 3 (2.24%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.49%) GitLab
6 2 (1.49%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.75%) git-flow
7 1 (0.75%) GoCD
7 1 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Finance
3 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Marketing
5 10 (7.46%) Retail
6 7 (5.22%) Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Advertising
7 4 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Analyst
1 30 (22.39%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.90%) GCP Engineer
3 26 (19.40%) Senior
4 17 (12.69%) Architect
5 15 (11.19%) Data Analyst
6 10 (7.46%) GCP Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.97%) Developer
8 8 (5.97%) GCP Data Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Security Engineer
8 8 (5.97%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Data Scientist
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Test Analyst
11 5 (3.73%) Data Modeller
11 5 (3.73%) Product Manager
11 5 (3.73%) QA Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.21%) Kafka
2 7 (5.22%) Pandas
2 7 (5.22%) TensorFlow
3 6 (4.48%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (4.48%) Great Expectations
3 6 (4.48%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.99%) LangChain
4 4 (2.99%) pytest
5 3 (2.24%) Faiss
5 3 (2.24%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.24%) NumPy
5 3 (2.24%) React
5 3 (2.24%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.49%) ADO
6 2 (1.49%) Apache Beam
6 2 (1.49%) Gradio
6 2 (1.49%) iOS SDK
6 2 (1.49%) Node.js
6 2 (1.49%) PySpark
6 2 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.73%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.49%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.49%) Genomics
8 2 (1.49%) Life Science
9 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.75%) Social Media
9 1 (0.75%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.24%) Android
2 3 (2.24%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.31%) ETL
2 49 (36.57%) Analytics
3 48 (35.82%) Data Modelling
4 45 (33.58%) CI/CD
5 39 (29.10%) Data Pipeline
6 38 (28.36%) Agile
7 30 (22.39%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (22.39%) Data Engineering
8 27 (20.15%) Machine Learning
9 26 (19.40%) AI
10 25 (18.66%) Data Integration
10 25 (18.66%) Data Science
10 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.91%) Visualisation
12 21 (15.67%) Data Governance
13 19 (14.18%) DevOps
14 18 (13.43%) Actionable Insight
15 17 (12.69%) Data Analysis
16 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (11.19%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 88 (65.67%) SQL
2 66 (49.25%) Python
3 22 (16.42%) Java
4 7 (5.22%) Scala
5 6 (4.48%) Go
6 5 (3.73%) Bash
6 5 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.24%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.24%) Swift
9 2 (1.49%) C#
9 2 (1.49%) C++
9 2 (1.49%) Groovy
9 2 (1.49%) LookML
9 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.75%) Korn
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (5.97%) Degree
2 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.24%) CISSP
3 3 (2.24%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.24%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.45%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.21%) QA
3 5 (3.73%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (10.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.93%) Terraform
2 12 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.99%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.24%) Grafana
5 2 (1.49%) Istio
5 2 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 74 (55.22%) Google
2 13 (9.70%) Databricks
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle
4 5 (3.73%) Splunk
5 3 (2.24%) Informatica
5 3 (2.24%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.24%) SAP
6 2 (1.49%) Okta
6 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.49%) Teradata
7 1 (0.75%) Facebook
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Instagram
7 1 (0.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.75%) TikTok
7 1 (0.75%) YouTube