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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 248 267
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +82
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 195 127 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.94% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.39% 4.43% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 83 63
10th Percentile £413 £385 £377
25th Percentile £475 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -10.02%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £681
90th Percentile £693 £691 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.84% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

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 3,619 2,868 3,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.92% 21.29% 22.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 2,000 2,675
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £641 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 26
10th Percentile £18.74 £28.26 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +18.92% -13.95%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £62.95 £87.50 £79.38
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%

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 18 September 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
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 18 September 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 -12 26 £600 - 32
West London -24 2 £506 -3.57% 7
East London - 2 £450 - 2
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 47 (24.10%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (17.44%) Apache
3 33 (16.92%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.08%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.56%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.51%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (77.95%) GCP
2 55 (28.21%) dbt
3 53 (27.18%) Snowflake
4 43 (22.05%) AWS
5 39 (20.00%) Azure
6 19 (9.74%) Power Platform
7 18 (9.23%) GitHub
8 14 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.15%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.15%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (6.15%) Vertex AI
10 11 (5.64%) Cloud Composer
10 11 (5.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (4.62%) SaaS
12 8 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.10%) Cloud Run
12 8 (4.10%) Serverless
13 6 (3.08%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) DNS
1 1 (0.51%) Firewall
1 1 (0.51%) MPLS
1 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.51%) VPN
1 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (29.74%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (16.92%) Looker
3 31 (15.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (9.74%) Power BI
4 19 (9.74%) Tableau
5 16 (8.21%) Flink
6 15 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 13 (6.67%) Big Data
7 13 (6.67%) Metadata
7 13 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (6.15%) Data Lake
8 12 (6.15%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.62%) Apache Iceberg
9 9 (4.62%) Delta Lake
9 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.59%) Parquet
10 7 (3.59%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (3.08%) Power Query
11 6 (3.08%) PowerPivot
12 5 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (11.79%) Git
2 10 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.10%) GitLab
4 7 (3.59%) JIRA
5 3 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.03%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.03%) ERwin
6 2 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.03%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.51%) GoCD
7 1 (0.51%) Gradle
7 1 (0.51%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.51%) Storybook
General
1 52 (26.67%) Finance
2 27 (13.85%) Retail
2 27 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.72%) Marketing
5 15 (7.69%) Banking
6 7 (3.59%) Games
6 7 (3.59%) Legal
7 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.54%) Billing
9 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (40.51%) Data Engineer
2 41 (21.03%) Senior
3 40 (20.51%) GCP Engineer
4 32 (16.41%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (13.33%) Architect
6 22 (11.28%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (8.21%) Lead
8 15 (7.69%) Analyst
9 13 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 13 (6.67%) Developer
9 13 (6.67%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.10%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 8 (4.10%) Databricks Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) BigQuery Data Engineer
13 7 (3.59%) Data Scientist
14 6 (3.08%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.92%) Terraform
2 28 (14.36%) Kafka
3 16 (8.21%) PySpark
4 14 (7.18%) Apache Beam
4 14 (7.18%) REST
5 7 (3.59%) JSON
6 6 (3.08%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.08%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.56%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.05%) Pandas
9 3 (1.54%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.54%) LangChain
9 3 (1.54%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (1.54%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.54%) YAML
10 2 (1.03%) CrewAI
10 2 (1.03%) LangGraph
10 2 (1.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.08%) Clustering
5 6 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.54%) Life Science
8 3 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.54%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.51%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Linux
1 2 (1.03%) Unix
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (53.85%) Analytics
2 86 (44.10%) Data Pipeline
3 73 (37.44%) CI/CD
4 72 (36.92%) Data Modelling
5 71 (36.41%) Data Engineering
6 51 (26.15%) ETL
7 50 (25.64%) AI
8 45 (23.08%) Machine Learning
9 40 (20.51%) Agile
10 38 (19.49%) Data Science
11 36 (18.46%) Data Transformation
12 35 (17.95%) DevOps
13 33 (16.92%) Migration
14 32 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (16.41%) Data Governance
15 30 (15.38%) Decision-Making
15 30 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (13.85%) Lakehouse
17 24 (12.31%) Validation
18 21 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (66.67%) SQL
2 103 (52.82%) Python
3 29 (14.87%) Java
4 17 (8.72%) Scala
5 13 (6.67%) Go
6 10 (5.13%) LookML
7 9 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.59%) R
9 6 (3.08%) Bash
9 6 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (3.08%) PHP
10 3 (1.54%) Cypher
10 3 (1.54%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.54%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) Korn
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.51%) C#
12 1 (0.51%) COBOL
12 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (5.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.03%) Degree
3 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.51%) PMP
4 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.13%) QA
3 6 (3.08%) GDPR
4 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.51%) Basel III
5 1 (0.51%) ITGC
5 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (14.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (22.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.03%) Control-M
3 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.51%) Argo
4 1 (0.51%) Istio
4 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 66 (33.85%) Google
2 46 (23.59%) Databricks
3 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.10%) Oracle
4 8 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.08%) New Relic
6 5 (2.56%) Informatica
6 5 (2.56%) Splunk
7 3 (1.54%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.03%) Workday
9 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.51%) IBM
9 1 (0.51%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.51%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.51%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.51%) Planview
9 1 (0.51%) Sage
9 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Talend