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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 251 284
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 +42
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 177 103 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.82% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.19% 3.77% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 62 80
10th Percentile £425 £342 £400
25th Percentile £475 £436 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -1.19% -13.93%
75th Percentile £634 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £693 £752
England median daily rate £543 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.50% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £58.13 - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% +29.63% -52.35%

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 3,408 2,733 4,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.88% 21.80% 22.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 1,911 2,989
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 33
10th Percentile £17.94 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £29.07 £25.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £39.31 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -17.25% -13.64%
75th Percentile £61.19 £61.19 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.61% -14.53% -29.76%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -6 30 £600 +14.29% 2
West London -14 13 £603 +7.11% 2
East London - 5 £525 - 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 27 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 24 (13.56%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (9.60%) Apache
4 6 (3.39%) Confluence
4 6 (3.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.82%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (71.75%) GCP
2 43 (24.29%) AWS
3 42 (23.73%) Snowflake
4 41 (23.16%) Azure
5 31 (17.51%) Power Platform
6 28 (15.82%) dbt
7 22 (12.43%) Amazon S3
8 15 (8.47%) Cloud Run
9 14 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (7.91%) Cloud Functions
9 14 (7.91%) Vertex AI
10 12 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (6.78%) Collibra
11 11 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.65%) GitHub
12 10 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.52%) Dagster
14 8 (4.52%) Serverless
15 6 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.03%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.51%) Power BI
3 26 (14.69%) Tableau
4 25 (14.12%) Looker
5 19 (10.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (10.73%) Data Lake
6 16 (9.04%) NoSQL
7 15 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (6.21%) Mixpanel
8 11 (6.21%) OLAP
8 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.65%) Big Data
9 10 (5.65%) OLTP
10 7 (3.95%) Flink
10 7 (3.95%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.39%) Parquet
11 6 (3.39%) Power Query
11 6 (3.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Git
2 6 (3.39%) GitLab
2 6 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.13%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.13%) ERwin
3 2 (1.13%) MLflow
3 2 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.13%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 49 (27.68%) Finance
2 25 (14.12%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.86%) Retail
5 17 (9.60%) Banking
6 9 (5.08%) Marketing
6 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.39%) Games
7 6 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.82%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Billing
9 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 68 (38.42%) Data Engineer
2 32 (18.08%) GCP Engineer
3 29 (16.38%) Senior
4 26 (14.69%) GCP Data Engineer
5 25 (14.12%) Architect
6 16 (9.04%) Analyst
6 16 (9.04%) Lead
7 11 (6.21%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.21%) Developer
7 11 (6.21%) Lead Data Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Principal Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.65%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Principal Data Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Data Analyst
11 7 (3.95%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.95%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) Kafka
2 13 (7.34%) Great Expectations
3 8 (4.52%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.95%) Apache Beam
4 7 (3.95%) REST
5 6 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.82%) Apache Avro
6 5 (2.82%) LangChain
7 4 (2.26%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (2.26%) PySpark
7 4 (2.26%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.69%) ADO
8 3 (1.69%) JSON
8 3 (1.69%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.69%) OAuth
8 3 (1.69%) OpenID
8 3 (1.69%) Pandas
8 3 (1.69%) SAML
9 2 (1.13%) NumPy
9 2 (1.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Podcast
7 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.54%) Analytics
2 71 (40.11%) Data Modelling
3 59 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 58 (32.77%) CI/CD
5 57 (32.20%) Data Pipeline
6 52 (29.38%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (25.99%) ETL
8 44 (24.86%) Machine Learning
9 43 (24.29%) AI
10 39 (22.03%) Agile
11 36 (20.34%) Data Governance
12 33 (18.64%) Decision-Making
13 32 (18.08%) DevOps
14 30 (16.95%) Data Science
15 29 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (15.82%) Data Architecture
17 26 (14.69%) Observability
18 23 (12.99%) LLM
19 21 (11.86%) Containerisation
19 21 (11.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 108 (61.02%) SQL
2 91 (51.41%) Python
3 18 (10.17%) Java
4 12 (6.78%) Go
5 11 (6.21%) C#
6 6 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.39%) PHP
6 6 (3.39%) Scala
7 3 (1.69%) LookML
8 2 (1.13%) Bash
8 2 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.13%) Korn
8 2 (1.13%) R
8 2 (1.13%) Ruby
8 2 (1.13%) VBA
9 1 (0.56%) Cypher
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) SOQL
9 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.56%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) ISEB
4 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.51%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.04%) GDPR
3 12 (6.78%) QA
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) ITGC
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (13.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (21.47%) Terraform
2 29 (16.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.26%) Istio
3 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 56 (31.64%) Google
2 43 (24.29%) Databricks
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.52%) Oracle
5 7 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.82%) Workday
7 4 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.69%) Citrix
9 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.56%) Sage
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) SAP
9 1 (0.56%) Yardi