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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 245 284
Rank change year-on-year -33 +39 +55
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 180 129 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 0.97% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.03% 4.59% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 89 64
10th Percentile £400 £396 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -1.20% -13.54%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £691
90th Percentile £700 £667 £761
England median daily rate £538 £506 £507
% change year-on-year +6.17% -0.15% -13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £52.40 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £54.13 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile - £62.06 -
90th Percentile - £68.03 -
England median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -

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 3,581 2,809 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.58% 21.13% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 1,947 2,547
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £806 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 38 22
10th Percentile £19.38 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £24.79 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £68.63 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -22 15 £600 - 22
West London -21 3 £538 +2.38% 3
South London - 1 £175 - 2
East London - 1 £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 54 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (20.56%) Apache
3 31 (17.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.78%) Confluence
5 4 (2.22%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.11%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Cloudability
2 2 (1.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 148 (82.22%) GCP
2 61 (33.89%) dbt
3 51 (28.33%) AWS
3 51 (28.33%) Snowflake
4 43 (23.89%) Azure
5 19 (10.56%) GitHub
6 14 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.78%) SaaS
7 13 (7.22%) Cloud Composer
8 12 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.44%) Cloud Functions
10 8 (4.44%) Cloud Run
10 8 (4.44%) Serverless
11 7 (3.89%) Google Compute Engine
11 7 (3.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) DNS
1 2 (1.11%) Firewall
1 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.56%) MPLS
2 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.56%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.56%) VPN
2 1 (0.56%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (19.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 30 (16.67%) Looker
4 14 (7.78%) Data Lake
4 14 (7.78%) Flink
4 14 (7.78%) Power BI
5 13 (7.22%) Big Data
5 13 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.22%) Tableau
6 12 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 11 (6.11%) Metadata
8 10 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (5.56%) Delta Lake
8 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
9 9 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.89%) Power Query
10 7 (3.89%) PowerPivot
11 5 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (2.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 28 (15.56%) Git
2 10 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.44%) GitLab
3 8 (4.44%) JIRA
4 3 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.56%) GoCD
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Postman
5 1 (0.56%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.11%) Retail
5 13 (7.22%) Banking
5 13 (7.22%) Marketing
6 6 (3.33%) Billing
7 5 (2.78%) Games
7 5 (2.78%) Legal
7 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (38.89%) Data Engineer
2 39 (21.67%) Senior
3 33 (18.33%) GCP Engineer
4 24 (13.33%) GCP Data Engineer
5 20 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (10.56%) Analyst
7 17 (9.44%) Architect
8 16 (8.89%) Lead
9 14 (7.78%) Developer
10 10 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.44%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.89%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.89%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 7 (3.89%) Databricks Engineer
14 6 (3.33%) GCP Architect
14 6 (3.33%) Technical Leader
15 5 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
15 5 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.89%) Terraform
2 29 (16.11%) Kafka
3 19 (10.56%) PySpark
4 13 (7.22%) REST
5 12 (6.67%) Apache Beam
6 7 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.33%) Pandas
8 5 (2.78%) JSON
8 5 (2.78%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.67%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.67%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.67%) OAuth
9 3 (1.67%) RESTful
9 3 (1.67%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (1.11%) Apache Avro
10 2 (1.11%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.11%) React
10 2 (1.11%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.89%) Clustering
4 7 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.67%) Life Science
7 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.67%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
1 3 (1.67%) Unix
2 2 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (56.11%) Analytics
2 85 (47.22%) Data Pipeline
3 75 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 72 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 71 (39.44%) Data Engineering
6 54 (30.00%) ETL
7 45 (25.00%) AI
8 40 (22.22%) Agile
9 38 (21.11%) Machine Learning
10 36 (20.00%) Migration
11 34 (18.89%) Data Transformation
12 31 (17.22%) Decision-Making
12 31 (17.22%) DevOps
13 30 (16.67%) Data Science
14 29 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (15.56%) Data Governance
16 25 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
17 24 (13.33%) Lakehouse
18 22 (12.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 129 (71.67%) SQL
2 101 (56.11%) Python
3 26 (14.44%) Java
4 14 (7.78%) Go
4 14 (7.78%) Scala
5 11 (6.11%) LookML
6 10 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.44%) R
8 7 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.89%) PHP
9 6 (3.33%) Bash
10 3 (1.67%) Cypher
10 3 (1.67%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.67%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.11%) Korn
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (3.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.67%) Degree
4 3 (1.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (37.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.00%) QA
3 6 (3.33%) GDPR
4 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) Basel III
5 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) ITGC
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (16.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.67%) Control-M
2 3 (1.67%) Grafana
2 3 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Argo
3 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (37.78%) Google
2 38 (21.11%) Databricks
3 18 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.89%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.33%) Informatica
5 6 (3.33%) Splunk
6 5 (2.78%) New Relic
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.67%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.11%) Talend
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) Marketo
9 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.56%) Okta
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic
9 1 (0.56%) Zuora