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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 275 351
Rank change year-on-year +37 +76 +74
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 139 108 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 0.70% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.85% 3.22% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 61 54
10th Percentile £340 £363 £433
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £681
90th Percentile £733 £766 £765
England median daily rate £525 £507 £550
% change year-on-year +3.55% -7.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £36.02 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £43.61 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £65.38 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £69.35 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £61.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +5.17% -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 2,865 3,356 3,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.86% 21.63% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 2,360 2,806
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £43.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.56 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £79.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £34.47 £46.84
% change year-on-year +26.22% -26.42% -6.32%

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -3 16 £660 +18.65% 116
West London -5 7 £525 +31.25% 3
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 29 (20.86%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (12.23%) Apache Spark
3 15 (10.79%) Apache
4 4 (2.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 124 (89.21%) GCP
2 38 (27.34%) AWS
2 38 (27.34%) Azure
3 23 (16.55%) dbt
4 22 (15.83%) Snowflake
5 20 (14.39%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.23%) GitHub
7 14 (10.07%) Vertex AI
8 13 (9.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.04%) Cloud Functions
11 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (3.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.60%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (3.60%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (3.60%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (2.88%) Collibra
13 4 (2.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) DNS
2 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.78%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (20.14%) Looker
3 20 (14.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (14.39%) Power BI
4 16 (11.51%) Tableau
5 14 (10.07%) Big Data
5 14 (10.07%) Data Lake
6 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.76%) Metadata
8 6 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.88%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.16%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.44%) OLAP
11 2 (1.44%) OLTP
11 2 (1.44%) Redis
11 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.63%) Git
2 10 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.47%) JIRA
4 6 (4.32%) ER Studio
4 6 (4.32%) MLflow
5 3 (2.16%) ERwin
5 3 (2.16%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 2 (1.44%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.72%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.72%) git-flow
7 1 (0.72%) GoCD
7 1 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.63%) Marketing
5 8 (5.76%) Retail
6 7 (5.04%) Banking
7 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.88%) Advertising
8 4 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (22.30%) Data Engineer
2 30 (21.58%) Analyst
3 28 (20.14%) GCP Engineer
4 26 (18.71%) Senior
5 17 (12.23%) Architect
6 13 (9.35%) Data Analyst
7 10 (7.19%) GCP Architect
8 9 (6.47%) Data Architect
8 9 (6.47%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Security Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Test Analyst
10 7 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Data Scientist
10 7 (5.04%) Developer
11 6 (4.32%) GCP Data Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Data Modeller
12 5 (3.60%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.60%) QA Engineer
12 5 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.63%) Kafka
2 8 (5.76%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (5.76%) Pandas
2 8 (5.76%) TensorFlow
3 7 (5.04%) Great Expectations
3 7 (5.04%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.60%) LangChain
4 5 (3.60%) pytest
5 4 (2.88%) NumPy
5 4 (2.88%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.16%) Faiss
6 3 (2.16%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.16%) React
7 2 (1.44%) Apache Beam
7 2 (1.44%) Gradio
7 2 (1.44%) iOS SDK
7 2 (1.44%) Node.js
7 2 (1.44%) pgvector
7 2 (1.44%) REST
7 2 (1.44%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.47%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.76%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.60%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.88%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.16%) Genomics
7 3 (2.16%) Life Science
7 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.76%) Windows
2 3 (2.16%) Android
2 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.97%) ETL
2 49 (35.25%) Analytics
3 47 (33.81%) CI/CD
3 47 (33.81%) Data Modelling
4 40 (28.78%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (26.62%) Agile
6 31 (22.30%) Machine Learning
7 30 (21.58%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (21.58%) Data Engineering
8 29 (20.86%) AI
9 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (17.99%) Data Science
11 24 (17.27%) Data Integration
11 24 (17.27%) Visualisation
12 22 (15.83%) Data Governance
13 21 (15.11%) DevOps
14 18 (12.95%) Actionable Insight
15 17 (12.23%) Data Analysis
15 17 (12.23%) Data Analytics
15 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 90 (64.75%) SQL
2 70 (50.36%) Python
3 21 (15.11%) Java
4 7 (5.04%) Scala
5 6 (4.32%) Bash
5 6 (4.32%) Go
6 5 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.16%) C#
8 3 (2.16%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.16%) Objective-C
8 3 (2.16%) Swift
9 2 (1.44%) C++
9 2 (1.44%) Groovy
9 2 (1.44%) LookML
9 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.72%) R
10 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.47%) Degree
2 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (2.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.16%) CISSP
3 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.91%) QA
3 6 (4.32%) GDPR
4 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (11.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (15.11%) Terraform
2 13 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.60%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.16%) Grafana
5 2 (1.44%) Istio
5 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 75 (53.96%) Google
2 14 (10.07%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) Splunk
5 3 (2.16%) Informatica
5 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.16%) SAP
6 2 (1.44%) Okta
6 2 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.44%) Teradata
7 1 (0.72%) Facebook
7 1 (0.72%) IBM
7 1 (0.72%) Instagram
7 1 (0.72%) Talend
7 1 (0.72%) TikTok
7 1 (0.72%) YouTube