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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 268 355
Rank change year-on-year +28 +87 +64
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 131 111 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.71% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 3.28% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 64 48
10th Percentile £340 £369 £468
25th Percentile £463 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -7.98%
75th Percentile £630 £709 £669
90th Percentile £733 £761 £779
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.55 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £49.93 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £65.81 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £69.53 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,901 3,379 3,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.51% 21.72% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,019 2,365 2,710
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 26 34
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.67 £19.63
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.38 £35.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year - -1.16% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £59.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £71.66
England median hourly rate £47.61 £39.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.08% -15.55% -7.64%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 -4 14 £660 +18.65% 4
West London -3 11 £575 +43.75% 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 29 (22.14%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (16.03%) Apache Spark
3 18 (13.74%) Apache
4 6 (4.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 114 (87.02%) GCP
2 36 (27.48%) AWS
3 34 (25.95%) Azure
4 22 (16.79%) dbt
4 22 (16.79%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.98%) Power Platform
6 16 (12.21%) GitHub
7 14 (10.69%) Vertex AI
8 11 (8.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.05%) Collibra
13 4 (3.05%) Google Analytics
13 4 (3.05%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (3.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) DSL
2 1 (0.76%) FTP
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.95%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (13.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (13.74%) Looker
3 17 (12.98%) Power BI
4 14 (10.69%) NoSQL
5 12 (9.16%) Big Data
6 11 (8.40%) Data Lake
7 10 (7.63%) Tableau
8 9 (6.87%) Metadata
9 6 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (3.05%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.05%) Mixpanel
11 4 (3.05%) OLAP
11 4 (3.05%) OLTP
12 3 (2.29%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
13 2 (1.53%) Redis
13 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Git
2 11 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.11%) JIRA
4 6 (4.58%) MLflow
5 3 (2.29%) ER Studio
5 3 (2.29%) ERwin
6 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.53%) GitLab
6 2 (1.53%) Selenium
6 2 (1.53%) Spinnaker
6 2 (1.53%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.76%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.76%) git-flow
7 1 (0.76%) GoCD
7 1 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (23.66%) Finance
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.63%) Marketing
4 8 (6.11%) Banking
5 7 (5.34%) Retail
6 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.05%) Advertising
7 4 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Billing
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) Data Engineer
2 28 (21.37%) Analyst
3 24 (18.32%) Senior
4 22 (16.79%) GCP Engineer
5 12 (9.16%) Architect
6 11 (8.40%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.87%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (6.87%) Test Analyst
8 8 (6.11%) Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Security Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Data Scientist
10 6 (4.58%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.82%) GCP Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Product Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Test Analyst
12 4 (3.05%) Principal Data Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.16%) Kafka
2 9 (6.87%) Pandas
2 9 (6.87%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.11%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (6.11%) Great Expectations
3 8 (6.11%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.82%) LangChain
4 5 (3.82%) NumPy
4 5 (3.82%) pytest
4 5 (3.82%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.05%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.29%) ADO
6 3 (2.29%) Apache Beam
6 3 (2.29%) Faiss
6 3 (2.29%) REST
7 2 (1.53%) Gradio
7 2 (1.53%) iOS SDK
7 2 (1.53%) Node.js
7 2 (1.53%) pgvector
7 2 (1.53%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.05%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.05%) Genomics
4 4 (3.05%) Life Science
4 4 (3.05%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.76%) Social Media
7 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Windows
2 3 (2.29%) Android
2 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.35%) Analytics
1 45 (34.35%) ETL
2 42 (32.06%) CI/CD
3 36 (27.48%) Data Modelling
3 36 (27.48%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (26.72%) Agile
5 32 (24.43%) Machine Learning
6 30 (22.90%) AI
7 26 (19.85%) Data Engineering
8 24 (18.32%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (18.32%) Data Science
9 22 (16.79%) Data Governance
10 21 (16.03%) DevOps
11 20 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.50%) Test Automation
13 17 (12.98%) Containerisation
13 17 (12.98%) Visualisation
14 16 (12.21%) Actionable Insight
15 15 (11.45%) Data Analytics
15 15 (11.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 81 (61.83%) SQL
2 63 (48.09%) Python
3 25 (19.08%) Java
4 8 (6.11%) Scala
5 5 (3.82%) Bash
5 5 (3.82%) C#
5 5 (3.82%) Go
5 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.29%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.29%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.29%) Swift
7 2 (1.53%) C++
7 2 (1.53%) Groovy
7 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.76%) Korn
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.76%) R
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (7.63%) Degree
2 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) CISSP
3 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.63%) QA
3 9 (6.87%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.53%) MiFID
5 2 (1.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) PERC
System Software
1 18 (13.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (13.74%) Terraform
2 15 (11.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.58%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.29%) Grafana
5 2 (1.53%) Istio
5 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 66 (50.38%) Google
2 14 (10.69%) Databricks
3 8 (6.11%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) Splunk
5 3 (2.29%) Informatica
5 3 (2.29%) SAP
6 2 (1.53%) Facebook
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.53%) Teradata
7 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.76%) IBM
7 1 (0.76%) Instagram
7 1 (0.76%) PayPal
7 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) Talend
7 1 (0.76%) TikTok
7 1 (0.76%) YouTube