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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 250 286
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +57
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 187 114 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 0.84% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.37% 3.92% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 73 79
10th Percentile £425 £352 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -15.66%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £655
90th Percentile £675 £691 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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% -48.57%

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 3,482 2,908 4,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.62% 21.44% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,335 2,028 3,020
10th Percentile £363 £384 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 28
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £34.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -9.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60.12 £62.88 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £84.50 £69.40
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.49% -10.39% -33.04%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 30 £600 +14.29% 7
West London -7 11 £603 +17.56%
East London - 5 £525 -
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 (16.04%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (13.90%) Apache Spark
3 20 (10.70%) Apache
4 6 (3.21%) Confluence
4 6 (3.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (74.87%) GCP
2 49 (26.20%) Snowflake
3 43 (22.99%) AWS
4 42 (22.46%) Azure
5 34 (18.18%) dbt
6 30 (16.04%) Power Platform
7 20 (10.70%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.49%) Cloud Functions
8 14 (7.49%) Cloud Run
9 13 (6.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.42%) Vertex AI
11 11 (5.88%) GitHub
11 11 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (5.35%) Collibra
12 10 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.81%) Serverless
14 8 (4.28%) Dagster
15 7 (3.74%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.67%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (16.04%) Power BI
3 29 (15.51%) Looker
4 27 (14.44%) Tableau
5 20 (10.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (9.09%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (6.95%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.88%) Big Data
10 9 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (4.81%) Metadata
10 9 (4.81%) Mixpanel
10 9 (4.81%) OLAP
11 8 (4.28%) Flink
11 8 (4.28%) OLTP
11 8 (4.28%) Relational Database
11 8 (4.28%) Semantic Layer
11 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
12 7 (3.74%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.21%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.21%) GitLab
3 6 (3.21%) JIRA
4 2 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.07%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.07%) ERwin
4 2 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.07%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) MLflow
5 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (26.74%) Finance
2 29 (15.51%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.90%) Retail
4 23 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.09%) Banking
6 12 (6.42%) Marketing
7 9 (4.81%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.74%) Legal
9 6 (3.21%) Games
9 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.60%) Billing
12 2 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.53%) Back Office
13 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (37.43%) Data Engineer
2 35 (18.72%) GCP Engineer
3 30 (16.04%) Senior
4 28 (14.97%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (13.90%) Architect
6 18 (9.63%) Analyst
7 17 (9.09%) Lead
8 13 (6.95%) Developer
9 11 (5.88%) Data Architect
9 11 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.28%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Principal Data Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Python Data Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.76%) Kafka
2 11 (5.88%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.35%) REST
4 8 (4.28%) Apache Beam
5 7 (3.74%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.67%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.67%) JSON
7 5 (2.67%) LangChain
8 4 (2.14%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.14%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.60%) ADO
9 3 (1.60%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.60%) OAuth
9 3 (1.60%) OpenID
9 3 (1.60%) Pandas
9 3 (1.60%) PySpark
9 3 (1.60%) React
9 3 (1.60%) SAML
9 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.67%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.60%) Clustering
7 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.07%) Life Science
7 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.07%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.07%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (54.01%) Analytics
2 76 (40.64%) Data Modelling
3 65 (34.76%) Data Engineering
4 60 (32.09%) Data Pipeline
5 58 (31.02%) CI/CD
6 52 (27.81%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (26.74%) ETL
8 41 (21.93%) AI
9 40 (21.39%) Agile
9 40 (21.39%) Machine Learning
10 37 (19.79%) Decision-Making
11 34 (18.18%) Data Governance
11 34 (18.18%) Data Science
12 33 (17.65%) DevOps
13 29 (15.51%) Data Architecture
13 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (13.37%) Observability
15 23 (12.30%) Visualisation
16 22 (11.76%) Data Analysis
17 20 (10.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 120 (64.17%) SQL
2 96 (51.34%) Python
3 23 (12.30%) Java
4 14 (7.49%) Go
5 12 (6.42%) Scala
6 9 (4.81%) C#
7 6 (3.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.21%) PHP
8 4 (2.14%) R
9 3 (1.60%) Bash
9 3 (1.60%) LookML
9 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.07%) Cypher
10 2 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.07%) Gremlin
10 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.07%) Korn
10 2 (1.07%) Ruby
10 2 (1.07%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.07%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.07%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.53%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.53%) ISEB
4 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (32.62%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.02%) GDPR
3 13 (6.95%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) ITGC
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (20.32%) Terraform
2 30 (16.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.07%) Istio
3 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Argo
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 62 (33.16%) Google
2 44 (23.53%) Databricks
3 12 (6.42%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.21%) Oracle
6 5 (2.67%) Workday
7 3 (1.60%) Citrix
8 2 (1.07%) Informatica
8 2 (1.07%) New Relic
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.53%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.53%) Sage
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) SAP
9 1 (0.53%) Splunk
9 1 (0.53%) Talend
9 1 (0.53%) Yardi