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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 238 286
Rank change year-on-year -28 +48 +51
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 190 125 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.33% 4.34% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 86 63
10th Percentile £400 £391 £365
25th Percentile £468 £463 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £635 £589 £694
90th Percentile £700 £678 £763
England median daily rate £538 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +7.50% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £51.83 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £52.69 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £54.75 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -
75th Percentile £56.19 £62.06 -
90th Percentile £56.68 £68.03 -
England median hourly rate £54.75 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.45% - -

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 3,564 2,878 3,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.59% 21.32% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 1,990 2,603
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £713
90th Percentile £738 £815 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.18 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -29.91%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -16 19 £600 - 28
West London -23 3 £538 +2.38% 8
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London - 1 £175 - 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 54 (28.42%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (19.47%) Apache
3 32 (16.84%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.16%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.63%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.05%) Cloudability
1 2 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 154 (81.05%) GCP
2 61 (32.11%) dbt
3 53 (27.89%) Snowflake
4 49 (25.79%) AWS
5 42 (22.11%) Azure
6 17 (8.95%) GitHub
6 17 (8.95%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.84%) SaaS
8 12 (6.32%) Amazon S3
8 12 (6.32%) Cloud Composer
9 11 (5.79%) Cloud Functions
10 10 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (5.26%) Vertex AI
11 8 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (4.21%) Serverless
12 7 (3.68%) Cloud Run
12 7 (3.68%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) DNS
1 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.53%) MPLS
2 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.53%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
2 1 (0.53%) WAN
2 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (32.63%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (18.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 31 (16.32%) Looker
4 17 (8.95%) Power BI
5 16 (8.42%) Tableau
6 15 (7.89%) Flink
7 14 (7.37%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.37%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (6.84%) Big Data
8 13 (6.84%) Metadata
9 10 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (5.26%) Delta Lake
9 10 (5.26%) MongoDB
9 10 (5.26%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.68%) Power Query
10 7 (3.68%) PowerPivot
11 5 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.63%) Parquet
11 5 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (14.21%) Git
2 10 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.21%) GitLab
4 7 (3.68%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.05%) ERwin
6 2 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.53%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.53%) GoCD
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 52 (27.37%) Finance
2 31 (16.32%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.53%) Retail
5 15 (7.89%) Banking
6 13 (6.84%) Marketing
7 7 (3.68%) Games
7 7 (3.68%) Legal
8 6 (3.16%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.63%) Billing
10 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Law
13 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 40 (21.05%) Senior
3 35 (18.42%) GCP Engineer
4 26 (13.68%) GCP Data Engineer
5 21 (11.05%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (8.95%) Analyst
6 17 (8.95%) Architect
7 15 (7.89%) Lead
8 14 (7.37%) Developer
9 13 (6.84%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Databricks Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Data Architect
14 6 (3.16%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.16%) Data Scientist
14 6 (3.16%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
15 5 (2.63%) BigQuery Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.37%) Terraform
2 29 (15.26%) Kafka
3 19 (10.00%) PySpark
4 13 (6.84%) Apache Beam
4 13 (6.84%) REST
5 7 (3.68%) JSON
5 7 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.16%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.16%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.63%) Pandas
8 3 (1.58%) Apache Avro
8 3 (1.58%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.58%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.58%) OAuth
8 3 (1.58%) RESTful
8 3 (1.58%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.58%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.58%) YAML
9 2 (1.05%) NumPy
9 2 (1.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.63%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.74%) Clustering
4 8 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.63%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.58%) Life Science
9 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.58%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.58%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.53%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.58%) Linux
1 3 (1.58%) Unix
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (55.79%) Analytics
2 89 (46.84%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (41.05%) Data Modelling
4 74 (38.95%) CI/CD
5 73 (38.42%) Data Engineering
6 56 (29.47%) ETL
7 49 (25.79%) AI
8 43 (22.63%) Machine Learning
9 42 (22.11%) Agile
10 38 (20.00%) Data Science
11 36 (18.95%) Data Transformation
11 36 (18.95%) Migration
12 35 (18.42%) Decision-Making
13 32 (16.84%) Data Governance
13 32 (16.84%) DevOps
14 27 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (14.21%) Lakehouse
15 26 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (12.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 135 (71.05%) SQL
2 108 (56.84%) Python
3 27 (14.21%) Java
4 15 (7.89%) Scala
5 14 (7.37%) Go
6 10 (5.26%) LookML
6 10 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.74%) R
8 7 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.68%) PHP
9 6 (3.16%) Bash
10 3 (1.58%) Cypher
10 3 (1.58%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.58%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.05%) Korn
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.58%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.58%) Degree
3 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.53%) PMP
5 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (35.79%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.26%) QA
3 7 (3.68%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) Basel III
5 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.53%) ITGC
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.58%) Control-M
3 3 (1.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Argo
4 1 (0.53%) Istio
4 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (36.84%) Google
2 41 (21.58%) Databricks
3 18 (9.47%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.16%) Informatica
5 6 (3.16%) Oracle
5 6 (3.16%) Splunk
6 5 (2.63%) New Relic
7 3 (1.58%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.05%) Talend
8 2 (1.05%) Workday
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) Okta
9 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.53%) Planview
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Sybase