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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 267 296
Rank change year-on-year +23 +29 +44
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 180 81 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.47% 3.04% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 52 71
10th Percentile £425 £317 £400
25th Percentile £475 £424 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -3.30% -11.67%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £650
90th Percentile £688 £671 £725
England median daily rate £540 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £58.23 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +61.54% -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 3,291 2,667 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.07% 22.04% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 1,867 2,877
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.93 £25.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £34.83 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.91% -29.29% -6.19%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.75 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.46% -20.39% -30.43%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -8 29 £600 +14.29% 17
West London -10 19 £603 +7.11% 1
East London - 5 £525 - 2
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 30 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 21 (11.67%) Apache
3 18 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.33%) Confluence
4 6 (3.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 129 (71.67%) GCP
2 44 (24.44%) Azure
3 42 (23.33%) AWS
4 35 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 35 (19.44%) Snowflake
5 24 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 23 (12.78%) dbt
7 20 (11.11%) Cloud Run
8 18 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (8.89%) Collibra
10 14 (7.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 14 (7.78%) Vertex AI
11 12 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
12 11 (6.11%) GitHub
13 10 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.56%) Google Gemini
14 8 (4.44%) Dagster
15 6 (3.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (0.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.44%) Power BI
2 34 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (15.00%) Looker
3 27 (15.00%) Tableau
4 22 (12.22%) Data Lake
5 16 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (8.89%) Mixpanel
5 16 (8.89%) NoSQL
5 16 (8.89%) OLAP
6 15 (8.33%) OLTP
7 14 (7.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
9 9 (5.00%) Big Data
10 8 (4.44%) Flink
11 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.33%) Parquet
11 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Git
2 12 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.56%) GitLab
4 6 (3.33%) JIRA
5 3 (1.67%) Selenium
6 2 (1.11%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.11%) ERwin
6 2 (1.11%) MLflow
6 2 (1.11%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Postman
7 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (25.56%) Finance
2 24 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (13.33%) Retail
3 21 (11.67%) Social Skills
4 17 (9.44%) Banking
5 8 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.89%) Games
6 7 (3.89%) Marketing
7 6 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.78%) Legal
9 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (37.78%) Data Engineer
2 34 (18.89%) GCP Engineer
3 31 (17.22%) Senior
4 23 (12.78%) Architect
4 23 (12.78%) GCP Data Engineer
5 20 (11.11%) Lead
6 16 (8.89%) Analyst
7 14 (7.78%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Principal Data Engineer
9 11 (6.11%) Developer
9 11 (6.11%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.00%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.89%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.89%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.89%) Kafka
2 18 (10.00%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.56%) LangChain
4 8 (4.44%) Apache Beam
4 8 (4.44%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.89%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.89%) React
5 7 (3.89%) Spring
5 7 (3.89%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.33%) Node.js
6 6 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.33%) REST
7 5 (2.78%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.22%) ADO
8 4 (2.22%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.22%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.67%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.67%) Pandas
9 3 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.11%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.67%) Clustering
6 3 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Life Science
7 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.11%) Podcast
7 2 (1.11%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.56%) Analytics
2 70 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 61 (33.89%) CI/CD
4 59 (32.78%) Data Engineering
5 58 (32.22%) Business Intelligence
6 50 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (27.22%) AI
8 47 (26.11%) ETL
9 46 (25.56%) Machine Learning
10 39 (21.67%) Agile
10 39 (21.67%) DevOps
11 38 (21.11%) Data Governance
12 35 (19.44%) Observability
13 33 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (17.22%) Data Architecture
14 31 (17.22%) Decision-Making
15 29 (16.11%) Data Science
15 29 (16.11%) Software Engineering
16 27 (15.00%) LLM
17 25 (13.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (57.22%) SQL
2 88 (48.89%) Python
3 20 (11.11%) Java
4 16 (8.89%) C#
5 9 (5.00%) Go
6 8 (4.44%) Scala
7 5 (2.78%) PHP
8 4 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.67%) LookML
9 3 (1.67%) R
10 2 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.11%) Korn
10 2 (1.11%) Ruby
10 2 (1.11%) VBA
11 1 (0.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) ISEB
5 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (28.89%) Data Quality
2 23 (12.78%) GDPR
3 13 (7.22%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) PERC
4 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (15.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (22.78%) Terraform
2 32 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.00%) Istio
4 6 (3.33%) Argo
5 4 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 67 (37.22%) Google
2 44 (24.44%) Databricks
3 10 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.56%) Oracle
4 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.78%) Workday
6 4 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.67%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) Facebook
8 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.56%) New Relic
8 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.56%) PayPal
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Yardi