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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 261 285
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +44
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 190 110 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 3.77% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 71 71
10th Percentile £408 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -15.66%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £664
90th Percentile £675 £695 £738
England median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.63% -14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 -
75th Percentile £55.75 £56.25 -
90th Percentile £58.13 £57.75 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% +61.54% -58.73%

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 3,517 2,917 3,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.71% 21.45% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,371 2,052 2,876
10th Percentile £363 £378 £364
25th Percentile £438 £437 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.80 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.80 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.31 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.24% -10.19% -30.00%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -1 30 £600 +14.29% 7
West London -13 8 £625 +19.05% 1
East London - 2 £450 -
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 33 (17.37%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (13.16%) Apache Spark
3 21 (11.05%) Apache
4 6 (3.16%) Confluence
4 6 (3.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.63%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (74.74%) GCP
2 50 (26.32%) Snowflake
3 39 (20.53%) dbt
4 38 (20.00%) AWS
4 38 (20.00%) Azure
5 27 (14.21%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.42%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.84%) Vertex AI
8 12 (6.32%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.32%) Cloud Run
8 12 (6.32%) GitHub
9 11 (5.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (4.21%) Dagster
13 7 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (3.68%) Collibra
13 7 (3.68%) Prefect
13 7 (3.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) FTP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) MPLS
2 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
2 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (16.84%) Looker
3 27 (14.21%) Power BI
3 27 (14.21%) Tableau
4 21 (11.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (7.37%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (6.32%) Big Data
8 10 (5.26%) Flink
8 10 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.21%) Metadata
9 8 (4.21%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.68%) OLAP
10 7 (3.68%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (3.16%) OLTP
11 6 (3.16%) Power Query
11 6 (3.16%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Git
2 8 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.68%) GitLab
4 6 (3.16%) JIRA
5 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.05%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.05%) ERwin
5 2 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.53%) Maven
6 1 (0.53%) MLflow
6 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 51 (26.84%) Finance
2 30 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.68%) Retail
4 23 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.89%) Banking
6 13 (6.84%) Marketing
7 10 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
9 6 (3.16%) Games
9 6 (3.16%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Billing
11 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Back Office
12 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (37.89%) Data Engineer
2 37 (19.47%) GCP Engineer
3 31 (16.32%) Senior
4 30 (15.79%) GCP Data Engineer
5 24 (12.63%) Architect
6 19 (10.00%) Analyst
7 15 (7.89%) Lead
8 14 (7.37%) Developer
9 13 (6.84%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Data Architect
11 10 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Data Analyst
14 7 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (3.68%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Data Scientist
15 6 (3.16%) Principal Data Engineer
15 6 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.05%) Kafka
2 11 (5.79%) REST
3 10 (5.26%) Apache Beam
4 8 (4.21%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.68%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.16%) JSON
6 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.63%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.63%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.11%) LangChain
8 4 (2.11%) PySpark
8 4 (2.11%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.58%) ADO
9 3 (1.58%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.58%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.58%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.58%) Pandas
9 3 (1.58%) YAML
10 2 (1.05%) ebXML
10 2 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.21%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.58%) Life Science
7 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.58%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.05%) Clustering
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (54.21%) Analytics
2 77 (40.53%) Data Modelling
3 67 (35.26%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (34.74%) Data Engineering
5 61 (32.11%) CI/CD
6 50 (26.32%) ETL
7 49 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (21.58%) Agile
8 41 (21.58%) AI
8 41 (21.58%) Machine Learning
9 39 (20.53%) Decision-Making
10 37 (19.47%) Data Science
11 32 (16.84%) Data Governance
11 32 (16.84%) DevOps
12 28 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (13.68%) Data Architecture
14 23 (12.11%) Data Analysis
14 23 (12.11%) Observability
14 23 (12.11%) Visualisation
15 22 (11.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 122 (64.21%) SQL
2 97 (51.05%) Python
3 26 (13.68%) Java
4 14 (7.37%) Scala
5 11 (5.79%) Go
6 6 (3.16%) C#
6 6 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.16%) PHP
6 6 (3.16%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.63%) Bash
7 5 (2.63%) R
8 4 (2.11%) LookML
9 3 (1.58%) Cypher
9 3 (1.58%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.58%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.05%) Korn
10 2 (1.05%) Ruby
10 2 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.05%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science 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%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.32%) GDPR
2 12 (6.32%) QA
3 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) ITGC
4 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (13.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (18.42%) Terraform
2 32 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Argo
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Istio
4 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 60 (31.58%) Google
2 44 (23.16%) Databricks
3 11 (5.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.16%) Oracle
6 5 (2.63%) Workday
7 4 (2.11%) New Relic
8 3 (1.58%) Citrix
8 3 (1.58%) Splunk
9 2 (1.05%) Informatica
10 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.53%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.53%) Sage
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) SAP
10 1 (0.53%) Talend
10 1 (0.53%) Yardi