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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 274 306
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 +66
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 145 75 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.62% 2.64% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 46 70
10th Percentile £348 £313 £424
25th Percentile £475 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -6.10% -7.39%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £659
90th Percentile £760 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -6.09%
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% -42.94%
75th Percentile £59.72 £59.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £62.14 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £57.77 £58.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.41% +78.46% -61.76%

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 3,138 2,837 3,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.15% 22.03% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,144 2,019 2,734
10th Percentile £361 £375 £378
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £745 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.23 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £48.25 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.27% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.75 £52.31
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.75 £63.98
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.11 £40.25
% change year-on-year +49.08% -17.74% -32.92%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +2 22 £603 +20.50% 1
Central London +5 21 £675 +35.00% 24
East London - 3 £540 -
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 25 (17.24%) Apache
1 25 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 23 (15.86%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 116 (80.00%) GCP
2 43 (29.66%) AWS
2 43 (29.66%) Azure
3 33 (22.76%) Power Platform
4 26 (17.93%) Amazon S3
5 21 (14.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (13.10%) Cloud Run
6 19 (13.10%) dbt
7 18 (12.41%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (12.41%) Collibra
8 17 (11.72%) Snowflake
9 16 (11.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (9.66%) GitHub
11 13 (8.97%) Vertex AI
12 10 (6.90%) Google Gemini
13 9 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (5.52%) Cloud Functions
15 6 (4.14%) Serverless
15 6 (4.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) FTP
2 3 (2.07%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.76%) Power BI
2 25 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 18 (12.41%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (12.41%) Mixpanel
4 18 (12.41%) OLAP
5 17 (11.72%) OLTP
6 16 (11.03%) Looker
7 13 (8.97%) Tableau
8 12 (8.28%) SQL Server
9 10 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (6.21%) NoSQL
11 8 (5.52%) Metadata
12 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.07%) Big Data
13 3 (2.07%) Pinecone
13 3 (2.07%) Redis
13 3 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.38%) Flink
14 2 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (11.03%) Git
2 13 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.52%) GitLab
4 7 (4.83%) JIRA
5 4 (2.76%) MLflow
6 2 (1.38%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (25.52%) Finance
2 19 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.41%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.34%) Banking
5 14 (9.66%) Retail
6 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.07%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (38.62%) Data Engineer
2 26 (17.93%) Analyst
2 26 (17.93%) GCP Engineer
3 22 (15.17%) Senior
4 19 (13.10%) Lead
5 16 (11.03%) Principal Engineer
6 15 (10.34%) Principal Data Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Test Analyst
9 10 (6.90%) Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (6.21%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Principal Software Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (4.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.86%) Kafka
2 19 (13.10%) Great Expectations
3 11 (7.59%) LangChain
3 11 (7.59%) PyTorch
4 8 (5.52%) React
5 7 (4.83%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.83%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (4.14%) ADO
6 6 (4.14%) Node.js
6 6 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (4.14%) Pandas
6 6 (4.14%) Spring
6 6 (4.14%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.14%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.45%) pytest
8 4 (2.76%) NumPy
9 3 (2.07%) OAuth
9 3 (2.07%) OpenID
9 3 (2.07%) REST
9 3 (2.07%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.83%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.45%) Life Science
4 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.76%) Genomics
4 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.38%) Podcast
6 2 (1.38%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.69%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.69%) Clustering
7 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.69%) Social Media
7 1 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.38%) Analytics
2 56 (38.62%) CI/CD
3 49 (33.79%) Data Modelling
4 46 (31.72%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (31.03%) AI
5 45 (31.03%) Machine Learning
6 43 (29.66%) Data Engineering
7 41 (28.28%) Agile
7 41 (28.28%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (27.59%) ETL
9 36 (24.83%) Data Governance
9 36 (24.83%) DevOps
10 33 (22.76%) Observability
11 30 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (19.31%) Containerisation
12 28 (19.31%) Data Architecture
13 27 (18.62%) LLM
13 27 (18.62%) Software Engineering
14 23 (15.86%) Test Automation
15 21 (14.48%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 84 (57.93%) SQL
2 77 (53.10%) Python
3 18 (12.41%) C#
4 14 (9.66%) Java
5 4 (2.76%) Scala
6 3 (2.07%) Go
7 2 (1.38%) Bash
7 2 (1.38%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.38%) R
7 2 (1.38%) Ruby
7 2 (1.38%) VBA
8 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (4.83%) Degree
2 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.07%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) ISEB
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 25 (17.24%) GDPR
3 7 (4.83%) QA
4 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.38%) MiFID
5 2 (1.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.69%) PERC
System Software
1 33 (22.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (26.21%) Terraform
2 29 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.52%) Istio
4 6 (4.14%) Argo
5 3 (2.07%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 74 (51.03%) Google
2 30 (20.69%) Databricks
3 8 (5.52%) Oracle
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.07%) Citrix
5 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.07%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Workday
6 2 (1.38%) Facebook
6 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.69%) Instagram
7 1 (0.69%) PayPal
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) TikTok
7 1 (0.69%) Yardi
7 1 (0.69%) YouTube