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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 273 328
Rank change year-on-year +18 +55 +75
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 121 91 65
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 0.64% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.10% 2.95% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 50 49
10th Percentile £333 £362 £470
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -3.04% -12.65%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £638
90th Percentile £738 £751 £775
England median daily rate £525 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +5.53% -9.55% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £39.38 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £68.70 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -

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 2,952 3,083 3,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.63% 21.55% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 2,119 2,534
10th Percentile £359 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £22.75
25th Percentile £29.72 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.50 £59.50 £60.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.77
England median hourly rate £54.70 £41.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +31.81% -10.13% -16.04%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -2 14 £700 +25.84% 28
West London - 14 £600 - 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 22 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (16.53%) Apache Spark
3 17 (14.05%) Apache
4 7 (5.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 101 (83.47%) GCP
2 33 (27.27%) AWS
3 29 (23.97%) Azure
4 20 (16.53%) Power Platform
5 19 (15.70%) GitHub
6 15 (12.40%) dbt
7 14 (11.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 14 (11.57%) Snowflake
8 13 (10.74%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.74%) Vertex AI
9 12 (9.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (7.44%) Google Gemini
12 8 (6.61%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.61%) Cloud Run
12 8 (6.61%) Collibra
13 5 (4.13%) Cloud Functions
13 5 (4.13%) Stackdriver
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) DNS
2 2 (1.65%) FTP
3 1 (0.83%) DSL
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (16.53%) Power BI
3 16 (13.22%) Looker
4 14 (11.57%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.92%) NoSQL
6 11 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (8.26%) Tableau
8 9 (7.44%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (6.61%) Mixpanel
9 8 (6.61%) OLAP
9 8 (6.61%) OLTP
10 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
11 5 (4.13%) Big Data
11 5 (4.13%) Metadata
12 3 (2.48%) Redis
13 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.22%) Git
2 15 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.79%) GitLab
4 6 (4.96%) JIRA
5 3 (2.48%) MLflow
5 3 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.83%) GoCD
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Retail
5 7 (5.79%) Marketing
6 6 (4.96%) Banking
7 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.65%) Games
9 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (26.45%) Data Engineer
2 25 (20.66%) Analyst
3 24 (19.83%) GCP Engineer
4 23 (19.01%) Senior
5 12 (9.92%) Test Analyst
6 11 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Developer
8 8 (6.61%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Senior Test Analyst
9 7 (5.79%) Data Scientist
9 7 (5.79%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Architect
11 5 (4.13%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.40%) Kafka
2 10 (8.26%) Great Expectations
3 9 (7.44%) LangChain
4 8 (6.61%) Pandas
4 8 (6.61%) PyTorch
5 7 (5.79%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (5.79%) Node.js
5 7 (5.79%) React
5 7 (5.79%) TensorFlow
6 5 (4.13%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.13%) NumPy
6 5 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (4.13%) pytest
6 5 (4.13%) Spring
6 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.31%) ADO
7 4 (3.31%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.31%) scikit-learn
8 3 (2.48%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.79%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.31%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.31%) Genomics
4 4 (3.31%) Life Science
4 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Android
2 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.88%) CI/CD
2 40 (33.06%) Analytics
3 36 (29.75%) AI
4 34 (28.10%) ETL
5 32 (26.45%) Machine Learning
6 31 (25.62%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (23.97%) Agile
8 28 (23.14%) Data Modelling
8 28 (23.14%) DevOps
9 25 (20.66%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (20.66%) Data Engineering
10 22 (18.18%) Containerisation
11 21 (17.36%) Test Automation
12 20 (16.53%) Data Governance
13 19 (15.70%) Software Engineering
14 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (14.05%) Data Analytics
15 17 (14.05%) Data Science
15 17 (14.05%) LLM
15 17 (14.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 68 (56.20%) SQL
2 58 (47.93%) Python
3 20 (16.53%) Java
4 9 (7.44%) C#
5 5 (4.13%) Bash
5 5 (4.13%) Go
5 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.13%) Scala
6 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.48%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.48%) Swift
7 2 (1.65%) C++
7 2 (1.65%) Groovy
7 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.65%) R
8 1 (0.83%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.83%) LookML
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.44%) Degree
2 4 (3.31%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.48%) MCP
3 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.92%) GDPR
3 7 (5.79%) QA
4 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.65%) MiFID
5 2 (1.65%) NCSC
6 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.83%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (20.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (18.18%) Terraform
2 21 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.44%) Istio
4 5 (4.13%) Argo
5 3 (2.48%) Grafana
5 3 (2.48%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.83%) Ansible
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 62 (51.24%) Google
2 17 (14.05%) Databricks
3 9 (7.44%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.48%) SAP
7 2 (1.65%) Facebook
7 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.83%) IBM
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica
8 1 (0.83%) Instagram
8 1 (0.83%) PayPal
8 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) Teradata
8 1 (0.83%) TikTok
8 1 (0.83%) YouTube