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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 256 289
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +38
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 185 115 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.85% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.09% 4.06% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 72 63
10th Percentile £413 £383 £400
25th Percentile £473 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -15.32%
75th Percentile £629 £581 £675
90th Percentile £679 £674 £748
England median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% +61.54% -58.73%

All Database & BI 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 3,632 2,834 3,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.06% 21.04% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,461 1,981 2,762
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 37 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.80 £25.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £54.69 £64.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.50
England median hourly rate £38.25 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.05% +12.67% -38.31%

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 31 August 2026.

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
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 31 August 2026. 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 -9 24 £600 - 13
West London -20 4 £625 +19.05% 5
East London - 2 £450 - 1
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 42 (22.70%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (17.84%) Apache Spark
3 30 (16.22%) Apache
4 6 (3.24%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.70%) Confluence
6 2 (1.08%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.54%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (74.59%) GCP
2 53 (28.65%) dbt
2 53 (28.65%) Snowflake
3 40 (21.62%) AWS
4 37 (20.00%) Azure
5 25 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.11%) GitHub
7 14 (7.57%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.49%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.95%) Vertex AI
10 10 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (4.86%) SaaS
12 8 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.32%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.32%) Serverless
13 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (3.78%) Cloud Run
13 7 (3.78%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) DNS
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) MPLS
1 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.54%) VPN
1 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (31.35%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (18.38%) Looker
3 31 (16.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (13.51%) Power BI
5 24 (12.97%) Tableau
6 15 (8.11%) Flink
7 13 (7.03%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.49%) Big Data
8 12 (6.49%) Data Lake
9 11 (5.95%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.86%) Metadata
12 8 (4.32%) Delta Lake
12 8 (4.32%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (3.78%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (3.78%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.78%) Parquet
14 6 (3.24%) Power Query
14 6 (3.24%) PowerPivot
15 5 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 17 (9.19%) Git
2 9 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.78%) GitLab
4 5 (2.70%) JIRA
5 3 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.08%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.08%) ERwin
6 2 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.08%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Gradle
7 1 (0.54%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (25.95%) Finance
2 28 (15.14%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.05%) Retail
4 19 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.11%) Marketing
6 11 (5.95%) Banking
7 10 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.78%) Games
8 7 (3.78%) Legal
9 5 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.62%) Billing
10 3 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.54%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 41 (22.16%) Senior
3 35 (18.92%) GCP Engineer
4 28 (15.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 24 (12.97%) Architect
6 21 (11.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (9.19%) Analyst
8 16 (8.65%) Lead
9 13 (7.03%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) Data Architect
10 12 (6.49%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Developer
11 11 (5.95%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.78%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.24%) Data Analyst
13 6 (3.24%) Data Scientist
13 6 (3.24%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) Databricks Engineer
13 6 (3.24%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.76%) Terraform
2 30 (16.22%) Kafka
3 13 (7.03%) PySpark
4 12 (6.49%) Apache Beam
4 12 (6.49%) REST
5 6 (3.24%) JSON
5 6 (3.24%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.70%) Apache Avro
6 5 (2.70%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.16%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.62%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.62%) LangChain
8 3 (1.62%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.62%) Pandas
8 3 (1.62%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.62%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.62%) YAML
9 2 (1.08%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.27%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.24%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.62%) Clustering
7 3 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.62%) Life Science
7 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.62%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.54%) Linux
1 1 (0.54%) Unix
1 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.68%) Analytics
2 77 (41.62%) Data Modelling
2 77 (41.62%) Data Pipeline
3 73 (39.46%) Data Engineering
4 71 (38.38%) CI/CD
5 52 (28.11%) ETL
6 46 (24.86%) AI
7 43 (23.24%) Machine Learning
8 42 (22.70%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (21.08%) Agile
10 36 (19.46%) Decision-Making
10 36 (19.46%) DevOps
11 35 (18.92%) Data Science
12 31 (16.76%) Data Transformation
13 29 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (15.14%) Data Governance
15 26 (14.05%) Lakehouse
15 26 (14.05%) Migration
16 22 (11.89%) Validation
17 21 (11.35%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 127 (68.65%) SQL
2 98 (52.97%) Python
3 29 (15.68%) Java
4 17 (9.19%) Scala
5 11 (5.95%) Go
6 8 (4.32%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.78%) R
8 6 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (3.24%) LookML
8 6 (3.24%) PHP
9 5 (2.70%) Bash
10 4 (2.16%) C#
11 3 (1.62%) Cypher
11 3 (1.62%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.62%) SPARQL
12 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.08%) Korn
12 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.54%) COBOL
13 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (5.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.54%) Degree
4 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (34.05%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.49%) QA
3 9 (4.86%) GDPR
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.54%) ITGC
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (15.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.54%) Argo
3 1 (0.54%) Control-M
3 1 (0.54%) Grafana
3 1 (0.54%) Istio
3 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 53 (28.65%) Google
2 49 (26.49%) Databricks
3 10 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.78%) Oracle
5 6 (3.24%) New Relic
5 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.70%) Informatica
6 5 (2.70%) Splunk
6 5 (2.70%) Workday
7 3 (1.62%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.54%) IBM
8 1 (0.54%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.54%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.54%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.54%) Sage
8 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) Talend