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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 264 349
Rank change year-on-year +14 +85 +69
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 133 109 70
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.69% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 3.23% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 62 52
10th Percentile £340 £365 £428
25th Percentile £463 £427 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £634 £697 £669
90th Percentile £738 £764 £775
England median daily rate £525 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +5.53% -9.55% -8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £36.02 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £43.61 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £65.38 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £69.35 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +5.17% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,943 3,370 3,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.78% 21.45% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,049 2,363 2,738
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £687
90th Percentile £780 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £48.45
% change year-on-year +32.63% -29.97% -3.11%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 14 £660 +18.65% 66
West London -5 7 £525 +31.25% 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 31 (23.31%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (13.53%) Apache Spark
3 15 (11.28%) Apache
4 5 (3.76%) Confluence
5 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 118 (88.72%) GCP
2 35 (26.32%) Azure
3 34 (25.56%) AWS
4 24 (18.05%) dbt
5 23 (17.29%) Snowflake
6 18 (13.53%) GitHub
7 16 (12.03%) Power Platform
8 14 (10.53%) Vertex AI
9 11 (8.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.76%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.76%) Cloud Functions
13 5 (3.76%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.01%) Serverless
15 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (2.26%) Google Analytics
15 3 (2.26%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) FTP
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (18.05%) Looker
3 17 (12.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (12.03%) Power BI
5 12 (9.02%) Big Data
5 12 (9.02%) NoSQL
5 12 (9.02%) Tableau
6 11 (8.27%) Data Lake
7 10 (7.52%) Metadata
8 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.50%) Mixpanel
12 2 (1.50%) Power Query
12 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Git
2 10 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.52%) JIRA
3 6 (4.51%) MLflow
4 3 (2.26%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.26%) ERwin
4 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.50%) GitLab
5 2 (1.50%) Spinnaker
5 2 (1.50%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.75%) git-flow
6 1 (0.75%) GoCD
6 1 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.75%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Finance
3 20 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.02%) Marketing
5 8 (6.02%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) Retail
6 4 (3.01%) Advertising
6 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Analyst
2 30 (22.56%) Data Engineer
3 25 (18.80%) GCP Engineer
4 23 (17.29%) Senior
5 14 (10.53%) Architect
6 13 (9.77%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Test Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) GCP Architect
8 8 (6.02%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 7 (5.26%) Data Scientist
9 7 (5.26%) Developer
10 5 (3.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Product Manager
10 5 (3.76%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior QA Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.52%) Kafka
2 9 (6.77%) Pandas
2 9 (6.77%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.02%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (6.02%) PyTorch
4 7 (5.26%) Great Expectations
5 6 (4.51%) pytest
6 5 (3.76%) LangChain
6 5 (3.76%) NumPy
6 5 (3.76%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.26%) ADO
7 3 (2.26%) Faiss
7 3 (2.26%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.50%) Apache Beam
8 2 (1.50%) Gradio
8 2 (1.50%) iOS SDK
8 2 (1.50%) Node.js
8 2 (1.50%) pgvector
8 2 (1.50%) React
8 2 (1.50%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.01%) Digital Media
5 4 (3.01%) Genomics
5 4 (3.01%) Life Science
5 4 (3.01%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.75%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) Social Media
8 1 (0.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.77%) Windows
2 3 (2.26%) Android
2 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.09%) ETL
2 46 (34.59%) Analytics
3 44 (33.08%) CI/CD
4 38 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 37 (27.82%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (25.56%) Agile
7 32 (24.06%) Machine Learning
8 29 (21.80%) AI
9 28 (21.05%) Data Engineering
10 26 (19.55%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (18.80%) Data Science
12 23 (17.29%) DevOps
12 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (16.54%) Data Governance
13 22 (16.54%) Visualisation
14 19 (14.29%) Data Integration
15 18 (13.53%) Test Automation
16 17 (12.78%) Actionable Insight
17 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
18 15 (11.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (62.41%) SQL
2 66 (49.62%) Python
3 22 (16.54%) Java
4 7 (5.26%) Scala
5 6 (4.51%) Bash
5 6 (4.51%) Go
6 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.26%) C#
7 3 (2.26%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.26%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.26%) Swift
8 2 (1.50%) C++
8 2 (1.50%) Groovy
8 2 (1.50%) LookML
8 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.75%) Korn
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) R
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (7.52%) Degree
2 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.26%) CISSP
3 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.52%) QA
3 6 (4.51%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (12.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (13.53%) Terraform
2 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.51%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.26%) Grafana
5 2 (1.50%) Istio
5 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 67 (50.38%) Google
2 13 (9.77%) Databricks
3 10 (7.52%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.26%) Informatica
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.26%) SAP
6 2 (1.50%) Okta
6 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.50%) Teradata
7 1 (0.75%) Facebook
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) Instagram
7 1 (0.75%) Talend
7 1 (0.75%) TikTok
7 1 (0.75%) YouTube