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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 268 340
Rank change year-on-year +8 +72 +77
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 122 105 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 0.69% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 3.21% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 59 48
10th Percentile £340 £363 £468
25th Percentile £463 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -11.02%
75th Percentile £636 £738 £661
90th Percentile £736 £766 £779
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £38.55 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £49.93 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £65.81 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £69.53 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -25.16% -

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 2,943 3,274 3,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.45% 21.53% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 2,260 2,632
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £420 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £752 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.61 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.42 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £43.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.55% -17.22%
75th Percentile £67.38 £58.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £70.33
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

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 17 December 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 December 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 December 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 -1 13 £660 +7.76% 4
West London -4 13 £594 -
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 (18.85%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (14.75%) Apache Spark
3 16 (13.11%) Apache
4 6 (4.92%) Confluence
5 1 (0.82%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 104 (85.25%) GCP
2 30 (24.59%) AWS
3 29 (23.77%) Azure
4 19 (15.57%) Power Platform
5 16 (13.11%) Snowflake
6 15 (12.30%) dbt
7 14 (11.48%) GitHub
8 11 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (9.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (9.02%) Vertex AI
9 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.92%) Collibra
11 5 (4.10%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.28%) Google Analytics
12 4 (3.28%) Google Data Studio
12 4 (3.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) DNS
2 1 (0.82%) DSL
2 1 (0.82%) FTP
2 1 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.13%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (15.57%) Looker
2 19 (15.57%) Power BI
3 12 (9.84%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (9.84%) Data Lake
4 11 (9.02%) Tableau
5 10 (8.20%) Big Data
6 9 (7.38%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (4.92%) Mixpanel
8 6 (4.92%) OLAP
8 6 (4.92%) OLTP
9 5 (4.10%) Metadata
9 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Git
2 10 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.56%) JIRA
4 3 (2.46%) MLflow
5 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.64%) GitLab
5 2 (1.64%) Selenium
5 2 (1.64%) Spinnaker
5 2 (1.64%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.82%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.82%) git-flow
6 1 (0.82%) GoCD
6 1 (0.82%) Postman
6 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (22.13%) Finance
2 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Banking
4 7 (5.74%) Marketing
4 7 (5.74%) Retail
5 5 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Advertising
8 1 (0.82%) Billing
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (25.41%) Data Engineer
2 27 (22.13%) Analyst
3 22 (18.03%) GCP Engineer
4 20 (16.39%) Senior
5 10 (8.20%) Data Analyst
5 10 (8.20%) Security Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Test Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Data Scientist
7 8 (6.56%) Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.74%) Architect
8 7 (5.74%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 5 (4.10%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Test Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Principal Software Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) Kafka
2 9 (7.38%) Pandas
2 9 (7.38%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.56%) Great Expectations
3 8 (6.56%) PyTorch
4 7 (5.74%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (4.10%) LangChain
5 5 (4.10%) NumPy
5 5 (4.10%) pytest
5 5 (4.10%) scikit-learn
6 4 (3.28%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.46%) ADO
7 3 (2.46%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.46%) Faiss
7 3 (2.46%) REST
8 2 (1.64%) Gradio
8 2 (1.64%) iOS SDK
8 2 (1.64%) Node.js
8 2 (1.64%) pgvector
8 2 (1.64%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.74%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.28%) Genomics
4 4 (3.28%) Life Science
4 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.46%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.82%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.46%) Android
2 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.64%) Linux
4 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.43%) Analytics
2 40 (32.79%) ETL
3 37 (30.33%) CI/CD
4 34 (27.87%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (25.41%) Agile
5 31 (25.41%) Machine Learning
6 30 (24.59%) Data Modelling
7 29 (23.77%) AI
8 27 (22.13%) Data Engineering
9 23 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (18.85%) DevOps
10 20 (16.39%) Data Science
11 19 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.75%) Data Governance
12 18 (14.75%) Test Automation
13 17 (13.93%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (13.93%) Containerisation
13 17 (13.93%) Visualisation
14 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (12.30%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 76 (62.30%) SQL
2 61 (50.00%) Python
3 22 (18.03%) Java
4 7 (5.74%) C#
5 5 (4.10%) Bash
5 5 (4.10%) Go
5 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.10%) Scala
6 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.46%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.46%) Swift
7 2 (1.64%) C++
7 2 (1.64%) Groovy
7 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.64%) R
8 1 (0.82%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.82%) Korn
8 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (3.28%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.46%) CISSP
3 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.30%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.02%) GDPR
3 7 (5.74%) QA
4 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) MiFID
5 2 (1.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.82%) PERC
System Software
1 18 (14.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) Terraform
2 14 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.46%) Grafana
3 3 (2.46%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.64%) Istio
4 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 63 (51.64%) Google
2 16 (13.11%) Databricks
3 7 (5.74%) Oracle
4 5 (4.10%) Splunk
5 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.46%) SAP
6 2 (1.64%) Facebook
6 2 (1.64%) Informatica
6 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.64%) Teradata
7 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.82%) IBM
7 1 (0.82%) Instagram
7 1 (0.82%) PayPal
7 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.82%) TikTok
7 1 (0.82%) YouTube