BigQuery Contracts in London

Google BigQuery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 293 341
Rank change year-on-year +41 +48 +60
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 108 114 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.83% 2.79% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 80 121
10th Percentile £376 £400 £425
25th Percentile £469 £455 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -15.32% +12.73%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £720
90th Percentile £700 £739 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -3.57% -12.50% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.75 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -42.94% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.25 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -52.35% +269.57%

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 2,819 4,081 5,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.51% 23.16% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 3,047 3,686
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -2.54%
75th Percentile £708 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 45
10th Percentile £25.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £27.50 £35.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59.00 £53.75 £83.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +11 19 £525 -16.83% 93
West London +11 3 £525 +31.25% 11
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (15.74%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (13.89%) Apache Spark
3 11 (10.19%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Magento
1 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (92.59%) GCP
2 31 (28.70%) Azure
3 26 (24.07%) AWS
4 22 (20.37%) dbt
5 21 (19.44%) Snowflake
6 17 (15.74%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
8 8 (7.41%) Cloud Composer
9 7 (6.48%) GitHub
9 7 (6.48%) Vertex AI
10 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
10 6 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.63%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.78%) Cloud Run
12 3 (2.78%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (35.19%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (19.44%) Looker
3 19 (17.59%) Tableau
4 17 (15.74%) Power BI
5 16 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (12.04%) Data Lake
7 11 (10.19%) Big Data
7 11 (10.19%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.48%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.56%) Flink
9 6 (5.56%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.56%) Metadata
10 5 (4.63%) Parquet
10 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.70%) Power Query
11 4 (3.70%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.78%) Apache Hive
12 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.78%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) JIRA
2 6 (5.56%) ER Studio
2 6 (5.56%) Git
3 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.70%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.78%) ERwin
5 3 (2.78%) MLflow
5 3 (2.78%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.93%) git-flow
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.07%) Finance
3 20 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.48%) Banking
4 7 (6.48%) Marketing
4 7 (6.48%) Retail
5 6 (5.56%) Advertising
6 4 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (26.85%) Architect
2 23 (21.30%) Analyst
2 23 (21.30%) Data Engineer
3 22 (20.37%) Senior
4 18 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 17 (15.74%) Data Analyst
5 17 (15.74%) GCP Engineer
6 14 (12.96%) GCP Architect
7 9 (8.33%) GCP Data Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Lead
9 7 (6.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) GCP Data Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Data Modeller
11 5 (4.63%) Developer
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Architect
11 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.70%) Java Architect
12 4 (3.70%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) Kafka
2 5 (4.63%) Apache Avro
2 5 (4.63%) Great Expectations
3 4 (3.70%) PySpark
4 3 (2.78%) Apache Beam
4 3 (2.78%) React
4 3 (2.78%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.85%) .NET
5 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.85%) JSON
5 2 (1.85%) Node.js
5 2 (1.85%) pytest
5 2 (1.85%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.85%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.93%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.93%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.93%) JWT
6 1 (0.93%) LangChain
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 12 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 10 (9.26%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.63%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.78%) PDA
6 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Unix
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.22%) Data Modelling
2 45 (41.67%) ETL
3 39 (36.11%) Analytics
4 37 (34.26%) CI/CD
5 33 (30.56%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (27.78%) Data Integration
7 27 (25.00%) Agile
8 26 (24.07%) Visualisation
9 25 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.22%) Data Engineering
11 23 (21.30%) Data Governance
12 18 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 17 (15.74%) Data Visualisation
14 16 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
15 15 (13.89%) Data Analysis
15 15 (13.89%) Decision-Making
15 15 (13.89%) DevOps
15 15 (13.89%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (59.26%) SQL
2 53 (49.07%) Python
3 19 (17.59%) Java
4 10 (9.26%) Scala
5 4 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.78%) Bash
6 3 (2.78%) Go
6 3 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.93%) CodeQL
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Korn
7 1 (0.93%) LookML
7 1 (0.93%) R
7 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (4.63%) Degree
2 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) CISSP
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.33%) QA
3 4 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (21.30%) Terraform
2 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.70%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 65 (60.19%) Google
2 12 (11.11%) Oracle
3 9 (8.33%) Databricks
4 7 (6.48%) Informatica
5 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.78%) Okta
6 3 (2.78%) Talend
7 2 (1.85%) Teradata
8 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.93%) WooCommerce