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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 265 311
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 +70
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 141 88 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.66% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.63% 3.04% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 47 63
10th Percentile £338 £313 £430
25th Percentile £463 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £617 £668
90th Percentile £756 £750 £738
England median daily rate £525 £445 £550
% change year-on-year +17.98% -19.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £50.80 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £56.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.50 £58.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +19.59% -
75th Percentile £59.72 £59.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £62.14 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £56.13 £58.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -3.22% +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 3,045 2,899 3,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.43% 21.85% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,091 2,012 2,661
10th Percentile £361 £363 £385
25th Percentile £420 £454 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -1.61% -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £534
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.66% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 31 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £28.84 £25.90
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -5.14% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £91.00 £78.75 £65.27
England median hourly rate £54.50 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.93% -3.53% -22.73%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 - 19 £603 - 1
Central London 0 17 £675 +42.11% 16
East London +7 3 £540 - 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 24 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 22 (15.60%) Apache
3 20 (14.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.71%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 116 (82.27%) GCP
2 45 (31.91%) AWS
3 40 (28.37%) Azure
4 30 (21.28%) Power Platform
5 22 (15.60%) Amazon S3
6 18 (12.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (12.77%) Cloud Run
6 18 (12.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 16 (11.35%) GitHub
8 15 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (10.64%) Collibra
9 14 (9.93%) dbt
9 14 (9.93%) Snowflake
9 14 (9.93%) Vertex AI
10 11 (7.80%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (7.09%) Google Gemini
12 7 (4.96%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (4.26%) Serverless
13 6 (4.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) FTP
2 3 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.71%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.28%) Power BI
2 21 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (14.18%) Data Lake
4 18 (12.77%) Looker
5 15 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (10.64%) Mixpanel
6 14 (9.93%) OLAP
6 14 (9.93%) OLTP
7 12 (8.51%) SQL Server
7 12 (8.51%) Tableau
8 11 (7.80%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.96%) Metadata
11 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.13%) Pinecone
11 3 (2.13%) Redis
11 3 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 16 (11.35%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.67%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) JIRA
5 4 (2.84%) MLflow
6 2 (1.42%) Spinnaker
6 2 (1.42%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (23.40%) Finance
2 18 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.35%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.64%) Banking
4 15 (10.64%) Retail
5 8 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.42%) Games
7 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Marketing
7 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Publishing
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (35.46%) Data Engineer
2 28 (19.86%) GCP Engineer
3 26 (18.44%) Analyst
4 21 (14.89%) Senior
5 15 (10.64%) Lead
6 13 (9.22%) Principal Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 12 (8.51%) Principal Data Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Architect
8 11 (7.80%) Test Analyst
9 10 (7.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (6.38%) GCP Data Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Principal Software Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (4.26%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.18%) Kafka
2 16 (11.35%) Great Expectations
3 12 (8.51%) PyTorch
4 11 (7.80%) LangChain
5 8 (5.67%) React
6 7 (4.96%) AngularJS
6 7 (4.96%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (4.96%) TensorFlow
7 6 (4.26%) ADO
7 6 (4.26%) Node.js
7 6 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.26%) Spring
7 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.55%) NumPy
8 5 (3.55%) Pandas
8 5 (3.55%) pytest
9 4 (2.84%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.13%) Apache Beam
10 3 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
10 3 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.55%) Life Science
4 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.84%) Genomics
4 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.42%) Podcast
6 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Clustering
7 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.71%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.71%) Social Media
7 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.22%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.17%) Analytics
2 49 (34.75%) CI/CD
3 45 (31.91%) AI
4 41 (29.08%) Data Modelling
4 41 (29.08%) Machine Learning
5 40 (28.37%) Agile
6 39 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (27.66%) ETL
7 34 (24.11%) Data Engineering
7 34 (24.11%) DevOps
8 33 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (22.70%) Data Governance
10 30 (21.28%) Observability
11 28 (19.86%) Containerisation
12 27 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (17.73%) LLM
13 25 (17.73%) Software Engineering
14 24 (17.02%) Data Architecture
15 19 (13.48%) Test Automation
15 19 (13.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.03%) SQL
2 77 (54.61%) Python
3 16 (11.35%) Java
4 15 (10.64%) C#
5 7 (4.96%) Go
6 4 (2.84%) Bash
6 4 (2.84%) Scala
7 2 (1.42%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.42%) Groovy
7 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.42%) R
7 2 (1.42%) Ruby
7 2 (1.42%) VBA
8 1 (0.71%) LookML
8 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (6.38%) Degree
2 7 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) ISEB
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 19 (13.48%) GDPR
3 6 (4.26%) QA
4 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.42%) MiFID
5 2 (1.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) PERC
System Software
1 34 (24.11%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (26.24%) Terraform
2 30 (21.28%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.09%) Istio
4 6 (4.26%) Argo
5 2 (1.42%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (53.19%) Google
2 24 (17.02%) Databricks
3 8 (5.67%) Oracle
4 7 (4.96%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.13%) Citrix
5 3 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.13%) SAP
5 3 (2.13%) Splunk
6 2 (1.42%) Facebook
6 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) Instagram
7 1 (0.71%) PayPal
7 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.71%) TikTok
7 1 (0.71%) Yardi
7 1 (0.71%) YouTube