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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 252 298
Rank change year-on-year -4 +46 +33
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 193 117 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 4.10% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 74 66
10th Percentile £413 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -18.20%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £652
90th Percentile £699 £671 £744
England median daily rate £531 £525 £507
% change year-on-year +1.19% +3.55% -15.50%
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 £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +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 3,614 2,856 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.24% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,446 1,999 2,817
10th Percentile £364 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £547
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.31% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 27 £600 +6.67% 2
West London -24 6 £625 +19.05% 2
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 43 (22.28%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (17.10%) Apache Spark
3 30 (15.54%) Apache
4 6 (3.11%) Confluence
4 6 (3.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) PowerExchange
6 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.59%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 146 (75.65%) GCP
2 55 (28.50%) Snowflake
3 51 (26.42%) dbt
4 44 (22.80%) AWS
5 42 (21.76%) Azure
6 26 (13.47%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.77%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.77%) GitHub
8 13 (6.74%) Cloud Functions
9 12 (6.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.70%) Vertex AI
11 10 (5.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (4.66%) Cloud Run
13 8 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.15%) Cloud Composer
13 8 (4.15%) SaaS
13 8 (4.15%) Serverless
14 7 (3.63%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
1 1 (0.52%) FTP
1 1 (0.52%) MPLS
1 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.52%) VPN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (31.09%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (17.10%) Looker
3 32 (16.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (13.47%) Power BI
5 25 (12.95%) Tableau
6 15 (7.77%) Flink
7 13 (6.74%) NoSQL
8 12 (6.22%) Data Lake
9 11 (5.70%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.18%) Big Data
10 10 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.66%) Metadata
12 8 (4.15%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (3.63%) Apache Iceberg
13 7 (3.63%) Delta Lake
13 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.63%) Parquet
14 6 (3.11%) Power Query
14 6 (3.11%) PowerPivot
14 6 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (8.29%) Git
2 9 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.63%) GitLab
4 6 (3.11%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.04%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.04%) ERwin
6 2 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 49 (25.39%) Finance
2 28 (14.51%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.92%) Retail
4 18 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.74%) Marketing
6 11 (5.70%) Banking
7 10 (5.18%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.63%) Games
8 7 (3.63%) Legal
9 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.55%) Billing
11 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (40.93%) Data Engineer
2 39 (20.21%) GCP Engineer
2 39 (20.21%) Senior
3 31 (16.06%) GCP Data Engineer
4 26 (13.47%) Architect
5 20 (10.36%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (9.84%) Lead
7 15 (7.77%) Analyst
7 15 (7.77%) Python Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Python Data Engineer
9 13 (6.74%) Data Architect
9 13 (6.74%) Developer
9 13 (6.74%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.63%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) BigQuery Data Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.11%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.54%) Kafka
2 12 (6.22%) Apache Beam
2 12 (6.22%) PySpark
2 12 (6.22%) REST
3 7 (3.63%) PyTorch
4 6 (3.11%) JSON
4 6 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.59%) Apache Avro
5 5 (2.59%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.59%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.07%) Pandas
6 4 (2.07%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.55%) JSON-LD
7 3 (1.55%) LangChain
7 3 (1.55%) NetworkX
7 3 (1.55%) NumPy
7 3 (1.55%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.55%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (1.55%) YAML
8 2 (1.04%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.11%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.55%) Clustering
7 3 (1.55%) Life Science
7 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.04%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (53.89%) Analytics
2 81 (41.97%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (40.41%) Data Modelling
4 74 (38.34%) Data Engineering
5 72 (37.31%) CI/CD
6 54 (27.98%) ETL
7 46 (23.83%) Machine Learning
8 45 (23.32%) AI
9 44 (22.80%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (21.24%) Agile
11 39 (20.21%) Data Science
12 38 (19.69%) DevOps
13 37 (19.17%) Decision-Making
14 31 (16.06%) Data Governance
15 30 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 28 (14.51%) Data Transformation
16 28 (14.51%) Migration
17 25 (12.95%) Observability
18 24 (12.44%) Data Architecture
19 21 (10.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 128 (66.32%) SQL
2 99 (51.30%) Python
3 29 (15.03%) Java
4 16 (8.29%) Scala
5 11 (5.70%) Go
6 8 (4.15%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.11%) LookML
7 6 (3.11%) PHP
8 5 (2.59%) Bash
8 5 (2.59%) C#
8 5 (2.59%) R
9 3 (1.55%) Cypher
9 3 (1.55%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.55%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.04%) Korn
10 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.04%) Ruby
11 1 (0.52%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 13 (6.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Degree
4 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) ISEB
4 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (34.72%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.22%) QA
3 10 (5.18%) GDPR
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) ITGC
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (16.58%) Docker
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 35 (18.13%) Terraform
3 2 (1.04%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Control-M
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Istio
Vendors
1 54 (27.98%) Google
2 48 (24.87%) Databricks
3 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.63%) Oracle
5 6 (3.11%) New Relic
5 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.59%) Informatica
6 5 (2.59%) Splunk
6 5 (2.59%) Workday
7 2 (1.04%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.04%) Citrix
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.52%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.52%) Sage
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) SAP