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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 265 325
Rank change year-on-year -1 +60 +72
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 124 92 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.67% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.19% 3.11% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 48 58
10th Percentile £331 £327 £468
25th Percentile £463 £399 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% -5.68% -10.20%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £656
90th Percentile £756 £751 £708
England median daily rate £525 £445 £550
% change year-on-year +17.98% -19.09% -10.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £37.27 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £46.74 £56.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £55.88 £58.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +19.59% -
75th Percentile £60.73 £59.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £62.54 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £57.77 £58.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -0.41% +46.84% -

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 2,956 2,957 3,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.83% 21.67% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,015 2,677
10th Percentile £351 £363 £381
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £678
90th Percentile £749 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 31 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.56 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £54.00 £42.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -2.86% -1.27%
75th Percentile £76.88 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.75 £64.43
England median hourly rate £51.36 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +23.76% -2.35% -25.26%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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
West London - 17 £603 - 1
Central London -1 15 £663 -5.36% 17
East London +3 3 £540 -
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 23 (18.55%) Apache Spark
2 20 (16.13%) Apache
3 17 (13.71%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (5.65%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.81%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 100 (80.65%) GCP
2 37 (29.84%) AWS
3 33 (26.61%) Azure
4 26 (20.97%) Power Platform
5 20 (16.13%) Amazon S3
6 17 (13.71%) GitHub
6 17 (13.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 16 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (11.29%) Cloud Run
8 14 (11.29%) dbt
9 13 (10.48%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (10.48%) Collibra
9 13 (10.48%) Vertex AI
10 12 (9.68%) Snowflake
11 11 (8.87%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (8.06%) Google Gemini
13 7 (5.65%) Cloud Functions
14 6 (4.84%) Stackdriver
15 4 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) DNS
2 2 (1.61%) FTP
3 1 (0.81%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.97%) Power BI
2 19 (15.32%) Data Lake
3 17 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.71%) Looker
4 13 (10.48%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (10.48%) Mixpanel
5 12 (9.68%) OLAP
5 12 (9.68%) OLTP
6 11 (8.87%) NoSQL
7 10 (8.06%) Tableau
8 8 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.65%) Metadata
9 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
10 3 (2.42%) Redis
11 2 (1.61%) Big Data
11 2 (1.61%) Flink
11 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) Git
2 15 (12.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.65%) GitLab
4 6 (4.84%) JIRA
5 3 (2.42%) MLflow
5 3 (2.42%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.61%) Selenium
6 2 (1.61%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.81%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (22.58%) Finance
2 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.48%) Banking
4 13 (10.48%) Retail
5 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.03%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.61%) Games
7 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Marketing
7 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Billing
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 40 (32.26%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.35%) Analyst
3 22 (17.74%) GCP Engineer
3 22 (17.74%) Senior
4 12 (9.68%) Test Analyst
5 11 (8.87%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (8.06%) Principal Data Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Architect
7 9 (7.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 9 (7.26%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Principal Software Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Senior Test Analyst
9 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Data Scientist
10 6 (4.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.32%) Kafka
2 13 (10.48%) Great Expectations
3 11 (8.87%) LangChain
3 11 (8.87%) PyTorch
4 8 (6.45%) React
5 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.65%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (5.65%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.84%) Node.js
6 6 (4.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (4.84%) Pandas
6 6 (4.84%) Spring
6 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.03%) NumPy
7 5 (4.03%) pytest
8 4 (3.23%) ADO
8 4 (3.23%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.23%) OAuth
8 4 (3.23%) OpenID
9 3 (2.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.03%) Life Science
4 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.23%) Genomics
4 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) Podcast
5 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.81%) Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) AI
1 43 (34.68%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.26%) Analytics
3 37 (29.84%) Machine Learning
4 35 (28.23%) Agile
5 33 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (25.81%) ETL
7 31 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 31 (25.00%) DevOps
8 30 (24.19%) Data Engineering
9 27 (21.77%) Containerisation
9 27 (21.77%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (20.16%) Software Engineering
11 23 (18.55%) Data Governance
11 23 (18.55%) LLM
11 23 (18.55%) Observability
12 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (15.32%) Test Automation
14 18 (14.52%) Data Analytics
14 18 (14.52%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 71 (57.26%) SQL
2 66 (53.23%) Python
3 18 (14.52%) Java
4 13 (10.48%) C#
5 7 (5.65%) Go
6 5 (4.03%) Scala
7 4 (3.23%) Bash
8 2 (1.61%) Groovy
8 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.61%) R
9 1 (0.81%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.81%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.81%) LookML
9 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) Degree
2 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (13.71%) GDPR
3 6 (4.84%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.61%) MiFID
5 2 (1.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.81%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Terraform
2 27 (21.77%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.06%) Istio
4 6 (4.84%) Argo
5 2 (1.61%) Kubeflow
5 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.81%) Grafana
Vendors
1 66 (53.23%) Google
2 20 (16.13%) Databricks
3 9 (7.26%) Oracle
4 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.42%) SAP
5 3 (2.42%) Splunk
6 2 (1.61%) Facebook
6 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.81%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) Instagram
7 1 (0.81%) PayPal
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.81%) TikTok
7 1 (0.81%) YouTube