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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 257 304
Rank change year-on-year -4 +47 +32
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 191 117 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 4.14% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 74 58
10th Percentile £419 £387 £396
25th Percentile £475 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.59% -12.90%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £675
90th Percentile £690 £689 £755
England median daily rate £538 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +7.50% -5.30% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 3,672 2,826 3,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.19% 21.11% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 1,960 2,708
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -15.83%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -10 24 £600 - 26
West London -19 3 £625 +19.05% 6
East London - 2 £450 - 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 45 (23.56%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (18.32%) Apache Spark
3 34 (17.80%) Apache
4 6 (3.14%) Confluence
4 6 (3.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.05%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (76.44%) GCP
2 55 (28.80%) dbt
3 53 (27.75%) Snowflake
4 42 (21.99%) AWS
5 39 (20.42%) Azure
6 21 (10.99%) Power Platform
7 16 (8.38%) GitHub
8 13 (6.81%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.28%) Cloud Functions
10 11 (5.76%) Vertex AI
11 10 (5.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (5.24%) Cloud Composer
11 10 (5.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (4.71%) SaaS
13 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.19%) Serverless
14 7 (3.66%) Cloud Run
15 6 (3.14%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
1 1 (0.52%) MPLS
1 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.52%) VPN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (31.41%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (17.28%) Looker
3 30 (15.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 21 (10.99%) Power BI
4 21 (10.99%) Tableau
5 16 (8.38%) Flink
6 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.33%) Big Data
8 12 (6.28%) Data Lake
8 12 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.76%) Metadata
9 11 (5.76%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
11 8 (4.19%) Delta Lake
11 8 (4.19%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (3.66%) Parquet
13 6 (3.14%) Power Query
13 6 (3.14%) PowerPivot
14 5 (2.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.47%) Git
2 9 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.66%) GitLab
4 6 (3.14%) JIRA
5 3 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.05%) ERwin
6 2 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 49 (25.65%) Finance
2 29 (15.18%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.14%) Retail
4 21 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.90%) Marketing
6 14 (7.33%) Banking
7 7 (3.66%) Games
7 7 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.14%) Legal
9 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.57%) Billing
10 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Automotive
12 1 (0.52%) Law
12 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (40.84%) Data Engineer
2 42 (21.99%) Senior
3 37 (19.37%) GCP Engineer
4 30 (15.71%) GCP Data Engineer
5 25 (13.09%) Architect
6 22 (11.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (9.42%) Lead
8 17 (8.90%) Analyst
9 14 (7.33%) Python Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Data Architect
10 13 (6.81%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (5.76%) Developer
11 11 (5.76%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) BigQuery Data Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Databricks Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (3.14%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.14%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.71%) Kafka
1 30 (15.71%) Terraform
2 14 (7.33%) Apache Beam
2 14 (7.33%) PySpark
3 13 (6.81%) REST
4 6 (3.14%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.14%) JSON
4 6 (3.14%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.62%) Apache Avro
6 4 (2.09%) Pandas
7 3 (1.57%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.57%) JSON-LD
7 3 (1.57%) LangChain
7 3 (1.57%) NetworkX
7 3 (1.57%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (1.57%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.57%) YAML
8 2 (1.05%) CrewAI
8 2 (1.05%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.66%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.14%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.62%) Clustering
6 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.57%) Life Science
8 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.57%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.52%) Linux
1 1 (0.52%) Unix
1 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (54.45%) Analytics
2 81 (42.41%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (40.31%) Data Modelling
4 73 (38.22%) Data Engineering
5 72 (37.70%) CI/CD
6 51 (26.70%) ETL
7 48 (25.13%) AI
8 45 (23.56%) Machine Learning
9 41 (21.47%) Agile
10 37 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (19.37%) Data Science
11 36 (18.85%) DevOps
12 34 (17.80%) Data Transformation
13 32 (16.75%) Data Governance
13 32 (16.75%) Decision-Making
14 29 (15.18%) Migration
15 28 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (13.61%) Lakehouse
17 24 (12.57%) Validation
18 21 (10.99%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 130 (68.06%) SQL
2 100 (52.36%) Python
3 29 (15.18%) Java
4 17 (8.90%) Scala
5 11 (5.76%) Go
6 8 (4.19%) LookML
6 8 (4.19%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.66%) R
8 6 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (3.14%) PHP
9 5 (2.62%) Bash
10 3 (1.57%) C#
10 3 (1.57%) Cypher
10 3 (1.57%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.57%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.05%) Korn
11 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) COBOL
12 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Degree
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (33.51%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.28%) QA
3 7 (3.66%) GDPR
4 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) ITGC
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (15.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.05%) Control-M
2 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.52%) Argo
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
3 1 (0.52%) Istio
3 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 60 (31.41%) Google
2 47 (24.61%) Databricks
3 13 (6.81%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.19%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.66%) Oracle
6 6 (3.14%) New Relic
7 5 (2.62%) Informatica
7 5 (2.62%) Splunk
8 3 (1.57%) Amplitude
9 2 (1.05%) Workday
10 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.52%) IBM
10 1 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.52%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.52%) Sage
10 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) SAP
10 1 (0.52%) Talend