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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 258 302
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 +34
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 178 97 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.79% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.28% 3.59% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 59 64
10th Percentile £425 £371 £400
25th Percentile £475 £453 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -13.22%
75th Percentile £636 £575 £652
90th Percentile £690 £681 £718
England median daily rate £548 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.50% -4.76% -11.58%
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 £40.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 3,374 2,705 3,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.90% 22.03% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,291 1,886 2,948
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £715
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 25 32 34
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £28.60 £25.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.81 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% -21.24% -12.73%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £39.50 £33.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.59% -15.30% -31.73%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -8 29 £600 +14.29% 11
West London -12 14 £603 +7.11% 2
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 26 (14.61%) Apache Spark
2 21 (11.80%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (8.99%) Apache
4 6 (3.37%) Confluence
4 6 (3.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (71.91%) GCP
2 41 (23.03%) AWS
2 41 (23.03%) Azure
3 40 (22.47%) Snowflake
4 30 (16.85%) Power Platform
5 26 (14.61%) dbt
6 21 (11.80%) Amazon S3
7 20 (11.24%) Cloud Run
8 14 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (7.87%) Cloud Functions
8 14 (7.87%) GitHub
8 14 (7.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 14 (7.87%) Vertex AI
9 13 (7.30%) Collibra
9 13 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.74%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.62%) Google Gemini
12 8 (4.49%) Dagster
13 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.79%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (16.85%) Power BI
3 26 (14.61%) Tableau
4 25 (14.04%) Looker
5 20 (11.24%) Data Lake
6 17 (9.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (8.99%) NoSQL
8 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (6.74%) Mixpanel
9 12 (6.74%) OLAP
9 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
10 11 (6.18%) OLTP
11 10 (5.62%) Big Data
12 7 (3.93%) Flink
12 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.37%) Parquet
13 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.37%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (2.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Git
2 11 (6.18%) GitLab
2 11 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.37%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.12%) ERwin
4 2 (1.12%) MLflow
4 2 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (25.84%) Finance
2 25 (14.04%) Retail
3 22 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.80%) Social Skills
5 17 (9.55%) Banking
6 9 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.49%) Marketing
8 7 (3.93%) Games
9 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.81%) Legal
11 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Billing
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.56%) Automotive
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (37.64%) Data Engineer
2 36 (20.22%) GCP Engineer
3 31 (17.42%) Senior
4 25 (14.04%) GCP Data Engineer
5 24 (13.48%) Architect
6 17 (9.55%) Lead
7 15 (8.43%) Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Data Architect
9 11 (6.18%) Developer
9 11 (6.18%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Principal Data Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Python Data Engineer
14 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.80%) Kafka
2 14 (7.87%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.62%) LangChain
4 8 (4.49%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.93%) Apache Beam
5 7 (3.93%) React
5 7 (3.93%) Spring
5 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.37%) Node.js
6 6 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.37%) REST
7 5 (2.81%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.25%) ADO
8 4 (2.25%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.25%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.69%) OAuth
9 3 (1.69%) OpenID
9 3 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.81%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Life Science
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Podcast
7 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.00%) Analytics
2 70 (39.33%) Data Modelling
3 60 (33.71%) CI/CD
4 56 (31.46%) Data Engineering
5 54 (30.34%) Data Pipeline
6 53 (29.78%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (26.40%) AI
8 45 (25.28%) ETL
9 43 (24.16%) Machine Learning
10 39 (21.91%) Agile
11 37 (20.79%) DevOps
12 36 (20.22%) Data Governance
13 32 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (17.98%) Observability
14 30 (16.85%) Decision-Making
15 29 (16.29%) Data Architecture
16 28 (15.73%) Data Science
17 26 (14.61%) Software Engineering
18 25 (14.04%) Containerisation
19 24 (13.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (57.87%) SQL
2 87 (48.88%) Python
3 18 (10.11%) Java
4 12 (6.74%) C#
5 11 (6.18%) Go
6 6 (3.37%) PHP
6 6 (3.37%) Scala
7 4 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.69%) LookML
9 2 (1.12%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.12%) Korn
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby
9 2 (1.12%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
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 51 (28.65%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.55%) GDPR
3 12 (6.74%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
4 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (15.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (23.03%) Terraform
2 31 (17.42%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.06%) Istio
4 6 (3.37%) Argo
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 62 (34.83%) Google
2 42 (23.60%) Databricks
3 10 (5.62%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.06%) Oracle
5 7 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.81%) Workday
7 4 (2.25%) 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