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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 270 327
Rank change year-on-year +10 +57 +65
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 118 88 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.63% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.04% 2.92% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 46 56
10th Percentile £328 £359 £463
25th Percentile £463 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £535
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -0.70% -14.40%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £652
90th Percentile £738 £751 £713
England median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £39.38 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £56.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +19.59% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £68.70 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +46.84% -

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 2,922 3,009 3,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.03% 21.63% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,016 2,058 2,617
10th Percentile £352 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +1.12% -6.67%
75th Percentile £644 £699 £680
90th Percentile £750 £828 £779
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 28 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £21.26
25th Percentile £29.56 £27.64 £28.43
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -7.43% -1.27%
75th Percentile £73.50 £57.00 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.00 £79.13 £64.43
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.99% -25.26%

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 25 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

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 25 January 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
West London - 14 £603 -
Central London -2 13 £663 -5.36% 12
East London +1 3 £540 - 2
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 20 (16.95%) Apache Spark
2 18 (15.25%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (14.41%) Apache
4 7 (5.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 98 (83.05%) GCP
2 34 (28.81%) AWS
3 31 (26.27%) Azure
4 22 (18.64%) Power Platform
5 18 (15.25%) GitHub
6 16 (13.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 15 (12.71%) Amazon S3
7 15 (12.71%) dbt
8 13 (11.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (11.02%) Vertex AI
9 12 (10.17%) Snowflake
10 11 (9.32%) Cloud Run
11 10 (8.47%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (8.47%) Collibra
11 10 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (7.63%) Google Gemini
13 7 (5.93%) Cloud Functions
14 5 (4.24%) Serverless
14 5 (4.24%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) DNS
2 2 (1.69%) FTP
3 1 (0.85%) DSL
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.64%) Power BI
2 19 (16.10%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.56%) Data Lake
4 15 (12.71%) Looker
5 11 (9.32%) NoSQL
6 10 (8.47%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (8.47%) Mixpanel
6 10 (8.47%) OLAP
6 10 (8.47%) OLTP
6 10 (8.47%) Tableau
7 8 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.08%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.24%) Metadata
10 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.54%) Redis
11 2 (1.69%) Big Data
11 2 (1.69%) Flink
11 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Git
2 14 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.08%) GitLab
3 6 (5.08%) JIRA
4 4 (3.39%) MLflow
5 3 (2.54%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.69%) Selenium
6 2 (1.69%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.85%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (20.34%) Finance
2 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.32%) Retail
5 9 (7.63%) Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.69%) Games
8 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.85%) Billing
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Data Engineer
2 23 (19.49%) Analyst
3 22 (18.64%) GCP Engineer
4 20 (16.95%) Senior
5 12 (10.17%) Test Analyst
6 11 (9.32%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (8.47%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Architect
9 8 (6.78%) Principal Data Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (5.93%) Developer
10 7 (5.93%) Principal Software Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Lead
11 6 (5.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) Kafka
2 10 (8.47%) Great Expectations
3 9 (7.63%) LangChain
3 9 (7.63%) PyTorch
4 7 (5.93%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (5.93%) React
4 7 (5.93%) TensorFlow
5 6 (5.08%) Node.js
5 6 (5.08%) Pandas
6 5 (4.24%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.24%) NumPy
6 5 (4.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (4.24%) pytest
6 5 (4.24%) Spring
6 5 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.39%) ADO
7 4 (3.39%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.39%) OAuth
7 4 (3.39%) OpenID
8 3 (2.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.39%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.39%) Genomics
3 4 (3.39%) Life Science
3 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.69%) Podcast
5 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
6 1 (0.85%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Windows
2 3 (2.54%) Android
2 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.90%) CI/CD
2 38 (32.20%) AI
3 35 (29.66%) Analytics
4 33 (27.97%) Agile
4 33 (27.97%) Machine Learning
5 30 (25.42%) ETL
6 28 (23.73%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (23.73%) DevOps
7 27 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (22.03%) Containerisation
8 26 (22.03%) Data Modelling
9 25 (21.19%) Data Engineering
10 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
11 20 (16.95%) Data Governance
12 19 (16.10%) LLM
12 19 (16.10%) Observability
12 19 (16.10%) Test Automation
13 18 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (14.41%) Data Analytics
15 16 (13.56%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.78%) SQL
2 58 (49.15%) Python
3 21 (17.80%) Java
4 11 (9.32%) C#
5 7 (5.93%) Go
6 5 (4.24%) Scala
7 4 (3.39%) Bash
7 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.54%) Swift
9 2 (1.69%) C++
9 2 (1.69%) Groovy
9 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.69%) R
10 1 (0.85%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.85%) LookML
10 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.54%) MCP
3 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.86%) GDPR
3 5 (4.24%) QA
4 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.69%) MiFID
5 2 (1.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) PERC
System Software
1 29 (24.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
1 25 (21.19%) Terraform
2 9 (7.63%) Istio
3 5 (4.24%) Argo
4 3 (2.54%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (51.69%) Google
2 17 (14.41%) Databricks
3 9 (7.63%) Oracle
4 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.39%) Splunk
5 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.54%) SAP
6 2 (1.69%) Facebook
6 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.85%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) Instagram
7 1 (0.85%) PayPal
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) TikTok
7 1 (0.85%) YouTube