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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 270 299
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 +60
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 165 80 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.03% 2.82% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 48 69
10th Percentile £412 £313 £423
25th Percentile £478 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £658
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
England median daily rate £548 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +9.50% -6.54% -7.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.25 £54.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% +11.34% -42.94%
75th Percentile £58.79 £57.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £61.74 £59.25 -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £54.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.93% +66.15% -61.76%

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 3,279 2,836 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.70% 22.25% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,250 2,002 2,798
10th Percentile £361 £375 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.69% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 36
10th Percentile £20.68 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £31.03 £28.60 £25.59
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -17.77% -1.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.50 £64.14
England median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -32.54%

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 25 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 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 -2 27 £525 - 10
West London -5 21 £603 +7.11% 2
East London - 4 £533 - 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 29 (17.58%) Apache Spark
2 22 (13.33%) Apache
3 17 (10.30%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.24%) Confluence
5 4 (2.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.03%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 124 (75.15%) GCP
2 45 (27.27%) Azure
3 42 (25.45%) AWS
4 32 (19.39%) Power Platform
5 28 (16.97%) Snowflake
6 24 (14.55%) Amazon S3
7 20 (12.12%) dbt
8 19 (11.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (11.52%) Cloud Run
9 17 (10.30%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (10.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (10.30%) Collibra
10 16 (9.70%) Vertex AI
11 15 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.06%) GitHub
12 10 (6.06%) Google Gemini
13 9 (5.45%) Cloud Functions
14 8 (4.85%) Dagster
14 8 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.64%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.42%) FTP
2 1 (0.61%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.39%) Power BI
2 31 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (14.55%) Looker
4 22 (13.33%) Tableau
5 21 (12.73%) Data Lake
6 17 (10.30%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (10.30%) Mixpanel
6 17 (10.30%) OLAP
7 16 (9.70%) OLTP
8 14 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.88%) SQL Server
10 10 (6.06%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.85%) Metadata
12 7 (4.24%) Big Data
12 7 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (3.64%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (3.03%) Flink
15 4 (2.42%) Parquet
15 4 (2.42%) Redis
15 4 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Git
2 11 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.85%) GitLab
4 7 (4.24%) JIRA
5 3 (1.82%) Selenium
6 2 (1.21%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.21%) ERwin
6 2 (1.21%) MLflow
6 2 (1.21%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.21%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (26.06%) Finance
2 24 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.73%) Retail
3 21 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 17 (10.30%) Banking
5 8 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.03%) Games
7 5 (3.03%) Legal
7 5 (3.03%) Marketing
8 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) Back Office
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 32 (19.39%) GCP Engineer
3 25 (15.15%) Senior
4 21 (12.73%) Analyst
5 20 (12.12%) Lead
6 19 (11.52%) Architect
6 19 (11.52%) GCP Data Engineer
7 15 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (8.48%) Principal Data Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) Python Engineer
10 11 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.45%) Python Data Engineer
13 8 (4.85%) Data Architect
13 8 (4.85%) Developer
13 8 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.85%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.24%) Data Analyst
14 7 (4.24%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.33%) Kafka
2 19 (11.52%) Great Expectations
3 11 (6.67%) LangChain
4 9 (5.45%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.24%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.24%) React
6 6 (3.64%) Node.js
6 6 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.64%) Spring
6 6 (3.64%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.64%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.03%) ADO
7 5 (3.03%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.42%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.42%) Pandas
8 4 (2.42%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.82%) Apache Avro
9 3 (1.82%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.82%) OAuth
9 3 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.97%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.64%) AI Agents
2 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.42%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.82%) Clustering
4 3 (1.82%) Life Science
4 3 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.21%) Genomics
5 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.21%) Podcast
5 2 (1.21%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (48.48%) Analytics
2 63 (38.18%) Data Modelling
3 58 (35.15%) CI/CD
4 54 (32.73%) AI
4 54 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (30.30%) Data Engineering
5 50 (30.30%) Machine Learning
6 49 (29.70%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (26.06%) ETL
8 39 (23.64%) Agile
9 38 (23.03%) Data Governance
9 38 (23.03%) DevOps
10 36 (21.82%) Observability
11 34 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 29 (17.58%) LLM
14 28 (16.97%) Decision-Making
15 27 (16.36%) Data Science
16 26 (15.76%) Software Engineering
17 25 (15.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 89 (53.94%) SQL
2 86 (52.12%) Python
3 17 (10.30%) C#
3 17 (10.30%) Java
4 5 (3.03%) Scala
5 3 (1.82%) Go
5 3 (1.82%) LookML
6 2 (1.21%) Bash
6 2 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.21%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.21%) R
6 2 (1.21%) Ruby
6 2 (1.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.61%) ISEB
5 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (29.09%) Data Quality
2 24 (14.55%) GDPR
3 10 (6.06%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) MiFID
4 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.61%) PERC
System Software
1 27 (16.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (24.85%) Terraform
2 28 (16.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.45%) Istio
4 6 (3.64%) Argo
5 3 (1.82%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (43.64%) Google
2 37 (22.42%) Databricks
3 10 (6.06%) Oracle
4 8 (4.85%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.03%) Workday
6 4 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Facebook
8 1 (0.61%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.61%) New Relic
8 1 (0.61%) PayPal
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Yardi