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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 283 341
Rank change year-on-year +44 +58 +89
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 124 106 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.92% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.34% 2.86% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 84
10th Percentile £381 £383 £437
25th Percentile £463 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £611
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -6.75% +1.88%
75th Percentile £600 £681 £738
90th Percentile £695 £766 £775
England median daily rate £500 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -6.19% -11.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £39.08 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £66.70 - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +236.96%

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 2,859 3,701 4,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.28% 22.92% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,990 2,657 3,041
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 24 38
10th Percentile £28.26 £25.40 £19.05
25th Percentile £33.56 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £69.75 £57.51 £71.99
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.22%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 -2 16 £600 -2.04% 24
West London -2 5 £525 +31.25%
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 22 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (12.90%) Apache Spark
3 14 (11.29%) Apache
4 2 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (88.71%) GCP
2 38 (30.65%) Azure
3 37 (29.84%) AWS
4 24 (19.35%) Snowflake
5 21 (16.94%) dbt
6 17 (13.71%) Power Platform
7 12 (9.68%) GitHub
8 10 (8.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (7.26%) Vertex AI
10 8 (6.45%) Cloud Composer
11 7 (5.65%) Cloud Functions
11 7 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.65%) Google Data Studio
12 6 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.84%) Google Compute Engine
13 5 (4.03%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (3.23%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (34.68%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (20.97%) Looker
3 21 (16.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (13.71%) Power BI
4 17 (13.71%) Tableau
5 16 (12.90%) Big Data
6 15 (12.10%) Data Lake
7 14 (11.29%) NoSQL
8 9 (7.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.84%) Metadata
11 5 (4.03%) Parquet
12 4 (3.23%) Flink
12 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
12 4 (3.23%) Power Query
12 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.23%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.42%) Apache Hive
13 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
13 3 (2.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (9.68%) JIRA
2 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.84%) ER Studio
4 5 (4.03%) Git
5 4 (3.23%) MLflow
5 4 (3.23%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.42%) ERwin
6 3 (2.42%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.61%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.81%) git-flow
8 1 (0.81%) GitLab
8 1 (0.81%) GoCD
8 1 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.81%) Selenium
8 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.74%) Finance
4 13 (10.48%) Marketing
5 9 (7.26%) Retail
6 6 (4.84%) Banking
7 4 (3.23%) Advertising
7 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (21.77%) Analyst
2 26 (20.97%) Senior
3 23 (18.55%) Architect
3 23 (18.55%) GCP Engineer
4 21 (16.94%) Data Engineer
5 17 (13.71%) Data Analyst
6 15 (12.10%) Data Architect
7 11 (8.87%) GCP Architect
8 7 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Developer
8 7 (5.65%) GCP Data Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Lead
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Data Modeller
10 5 (4.03%) Product Manager
10 5 (4.03%) QA Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Senior QA Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) Kafka
2 7 (5.65%) Great Expectations
3 6 (4.84%) TensorFlow
4 5 (4.03%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.23%) Apache Beam
5 4 (3.23%) Node.js
5 4 (3.23%) Pandas
6 3 (2.42%) JSON
6 3 (2.42%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.42%) React
6 3 (2.42%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.61%) .NET
7 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.61%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.61%) iOS SDK
7 2 (1.61%) NumPy
7 2 (1.61%) PySpark
7 2 (1.61%) pytest
8 1 (0.81%) Flask
8 1 (0.81%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Virtual Team
3 8 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.84%) Digital Media
5 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.42%) PDA
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Android
1 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.16%) Data Modelling
2 52 (41.94%) ETL
3 48 (38.71%) Analytics
4 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
5 35 (28.23%) Data Pipeline
6 30 (24.19%) Agile
7 28 (22.58%) Data Integration
7 28 (22.58%) Visualisation
8 27 (21.77%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (20.16%) Data Engineering
9 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (18.55%) Machine Learning
11 22 (17.74%) Data Governance
11 22 (17.74%) Data Science
12 20 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (15.32%) Actionable Insight
14 18 (14.52%) DevOps
15 17 (13.71%) Data Analysis
15 17 (13.71%) Data Visualisation
16 16 (12.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 86 (69.35%) SQL
2 64 (51.61%) Python
3 23 (18.55%) Java
4 10 (8.06%) Scala
5 6 (4.84%) Bash
5 6 (4.84%) Go
6 4 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.42%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.42%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.42%) Swift
8 2 (1.61%) C++
8 2 (1.61%) Groovy
8 2 (1.61%) LookML
8 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.81%) C#
9 1 (0.81%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.81%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (4.84%) Degree
2 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) CISSP
3 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.10%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.87%) QA
3 4 (3.23%) GDPR
4 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (5.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (20.16%) Terraform
2 9 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.03%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.42%) Grafana
5 2 (1.61%) Istio
5 2 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 67 (54.03%) Google
2 12 (9.68%) Oracle
3 11 (8.87%) Databricks
4 7 (5.65%) Informatica
4 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.42%) Okta
5 3 (2.42%) Talend
5 3 (2.42%) Teradata
6 2 (1.61%) SAP
6 2 (1.61%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) WooCommerce