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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 268 340
Rank change year-on-year +18 +72 +58
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 115 88 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.98% 2.91% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 47 47
10th Percentile £326 £360 £465
25th Percentile £463 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% -4.21% -13.18%
75th Percentile £641 £656 £619
90th Percentile £738 £751 £775
England median daily rate £525 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £39.38 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £68.70 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -

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 2,892 3,029 3,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.50% 21.57% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,004 2,076 2,531
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.43
25th Percentile £29.72 £26.21 £32.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70.50 £59.50 £59.06
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.33
England median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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
Central London -5 14 £700 +43.59% 7
West London - 14 £600 - 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 18 (15.65%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (14.78%) Apache Spark
3 13 (11.30%) Apache
4 7 (6.09%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 96 (83.48%) GCP
2 29 (25.22%) AWS
3 25 (21.74%) Azure
4 20 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 19 (16.52%) GitHub
6 14 (12.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (11.30%) Amazon S3
7 13 (11.30%) dbt
7 13 (11.30%) Vertex AI
8 11 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (9.57%) Snowflake
9 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (7.83%) Google Gemini
11 8 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.96%) Cloud Run
11 8 (6.96%) Collibra
12 5 (4.35%) Stackdriver
13 4 (3.48%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (3.48%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) FTP
3 1 (0.87%) DSL
3 1 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.39%) Power BI
2 19 (16.52%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.91%) Looker
4 14 (12.17%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 10 (8.70%) Tableau
6 8 (6.96%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (6.96%) Mixpanel
6 8 (6.96%) OLAP
6 8 (6.96%) OLTP
7 7 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.35%) Metadata
10 4 (3.48%) Big Data
11 3 (2.61%) Redis
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Git
2 15 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) GitLab
4 6 (5.22%) JIRA
5 3 (2.61%) MLflow
5 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.74%) Selenium
6 2 (1.74%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.87%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.87%) GoCD
7 1 (0.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (20.00%) Finance
2 22 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.57%) Retail
5 6 (5.22%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.74%) Games
8 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Publishing
9 1 (0.87%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Billing
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (27.83%) Data Engineer
2 24 (20.87%) Analyst
3 23 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
4 20 (17.39%) Senior
5 12 (10.43%) Test Analyst
6 11 (9.57%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.83%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Senior Test Analyst
9 7 (6.09%) Developer
9 7 (6.09%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Data Scientist
10 6 (5.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) Architect
11 5 (4.35%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Kafka
2 9 (7.83%) LangChain
3 8 (6.96%) Great Expectations
3 8 (6.96%) PyTorch
4 7 (6.09%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (6.09%) Node.js
4 7 (6.09%) Pandas
4 7 (6.09%) React
4 7 (6.09%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.35%) NumPy
5 5 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (4.35%) pytest
5 5 (4.35%) Spring
5 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.48%) ADO
6 4 (3.48%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.48%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.61%) REST
8 2 (1.74%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.48%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.48%) Genomics
3 4 (3.48%) Life Science
3 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.87%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.87%) Social Media
5 1 (0.87%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Android
2 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.74%) Linux
4 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) CI/CD
2 36 (31.30%) AI
3 35 (30.43%) Analytics
4 32 (27.83%) Machine Learning
5 30 (26.09%) ETL
6 29 (25.22%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (24.35%) Agile
7 28 (24.35%) DevOps
8 26 (22.61%) Data Modelling
9 25 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (20.87%) Data Engineering
11 22 (19.13%) Containerisation
12 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
12 19 (16.52%) Test Automation
13 18 (15.65%) Data Governance
13 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (14.78%) Data Analytics
14 17 (14.78%) LLM
14 17 (14.78%) Observability
15 14 (12.17%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (54.78%) SQL
2 54 (46.96%) Python
3 19 (16.52%) Java
4 9 (7.83%) C#
5 5 (4.35%) Bash
5 5 (4.35%) Go
5 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.35%) Scala
6 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.61%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.61%) Swift
7 2 (1.74%) C++
7 2 (1.74%) Groovy
7 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) R
8 1 (0.87%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.87%) LookML
8 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Degree
2 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.61%) MCP
3 3 (2.61%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.43%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) QA
4 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) MiFID
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Terraform
2 21 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.83%) Istio
4 5 (4.35%) Argo
5 3 (2.61%) Grafana
5 3 (2.61%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.87%) Ansible
7 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (51.30%) Google
2 15 (13.04%) Databricks
3 9 (7.83%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) Splunk
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.61%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) Facebook
7 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) Instagram
8 1 (0.87%) PayPal
8 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) TikTok
8 1 (0.87%) YouTube