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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 276 294
Rank change year-on-year +34 +18 +61
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 164 78 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.00% 2.79% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 47 69
10th Percentile £433 £313 £423
25th Percentile £484 £419 £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 £731 £725 £738
England median daily rate £550 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.84% -10.57%
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 3,280 2,799 3,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.54% 22.30% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 1,978 2,822
10th Percentile £361 £375 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 33 36
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.14 £28.60 £25.59
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -17.77% -6.19%
75th Percentile £62.63 £58.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.50 £64.14
England median hourly rate £48.13 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.41% -18.93% -31.09%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +6 28 £538 +2.38% 9
West London -5 20 £603 +7.11% 1
East London - 4 £533 - 1
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 (17.68%) Apache Spark
2 21 (12.80%) Apache
3 17 (10.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.27%) Confluence
5 4 (2.44%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.05%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 121 (73.78%) GCP
2 44 (26.83%) Azure
3 40 (24.39%) AWS
4 33 (20.12%) Power Platform
5 30 (18.29%) Snowflake
6 23 (14.02%) Amazon S3
7 20 (12.20%) dbt
8 19 (11.59%) Cloud Run
9 18 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (9.76%) Collibra
11 15 (9.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (9.15%) Vertex AI
12 10 (6.10%) GitHub
12 10 (6.10%) Google Gemini
13 9 (5.49%) Cloud Functions
14 8 (4.88%) Dagster
14 8 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.66%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) FTP
2 1 (0.61%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.12%) Power BI
2 31 (18.90%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (15.24%) Looker
4 24 (14.63%) Tableau
5 20 (12.20%) Data Lake
6 16 (9.76%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (9.76%) Mixpanel
6 16 (9.76%) OLAP
7 15 (9.15%) OLTP
8 14 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.93%) SQL Server
10 11 (6.71%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.88%) Metadata
12 7 (4.27%) Big Data
12 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (3.66%) Flink
13 6 (3.66%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (3.05%) Parquet
15 4 (2.44%) RDBMS
15 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Git
2 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.88%) GitLab
4 7 (4.27%) JIRA
5 3 (1.83%) Selenium
6 2 (1.22%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.22%) ERwin
6 2 (1.22%) MLflow
6 2 (1.22%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.22%) 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 44 (26.83%) Finance
2 24 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.41%) Retail
4 21 (12.80%) Social Skills
5 18 (10.98%) Banking
6 8 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.05%) Games
8 5 (3.05%) Legal
8 5 (3.05%) Marketing
9 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) Back Office
10 1 (0.61%) Billing
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (40.24%) Data Engineer
2 33 (20.12%) GCP Engineer
3 25 (15.24%) Senior
4 21 (12.80%) GCP Data Engineer
5 20 (12.20%) Architect
5 20 (12.20%) Lead
6 19 (11.59%) Analyst
7 14 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Principal Data Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Python Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.88%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.88%) Developer
12 8 (4.88%) Python Data Engineer
13 7 (4.27%) Data Analyst
13 7 (4.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.80%) Kafka
2 18 (10.98%) Great Expectations
3 10 (6.10%) LangChain
4 9 (5.49%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.27%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.27%) React
6 6 (3.66%) Apache Beam
6 6 (3.66%) Node.js
6 6 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.66%) Spring
6 6 (3.66%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.66%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.05%) ADO
8 4 (2.44%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.44%) Pandas
8 4 (2.44%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.83%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.83%) OpenID
9 3 (1.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.83%) Clustering
4 3 (1.83%) Life Science
4 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Genomics
5 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.22%) Podcast
5 2 (1.22%) Reference Data
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%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (48.78%) Analytics
2 63 (38.41%) Data Modelling
3 58 (35.37%) CI/CD
4 55 (33.54%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (31.71%) AI
6 50 (30.49%) Data Engineering
7 49 (29.88%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (29.27%) Machine Learning
9 43 (26.22%) ETL
10 39 (23.78%) Agile
11 38 (23.17%) DevOps
12 37 (22.56%) Data Governance
13 35 (21.34%) Observability
14 33 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (17.68%) Data Architecture
16 28 (17.07%) Data Science
16 28 (17.07%) Decision-Making
17 27 (16.46%) LLM
18 25 (15.24%) Containerisation
18 25 (15.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (54.88%) SQL
2 84 (51.22%) Python
3 18 (10.98%) Java
4 16 (9.76%) C#
5 6 (3.66%) Scala
6 3 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.83%) Go
6 3 (1.83%) LookML
7 2 (1.22%) Bash
7 2 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.22%) R
7 2 (1.22%) Ruby
7 2 (1.22%) VBA
8 1 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) ISEB
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (29.27%) Data Quality
2 23 (14.02%) GDPR
3 10 (6.10%) 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 (16.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (25.00%) Terraform
2 28 (17.07%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.49%) Istio
4 6 (3.66%) Argo
5 3 (1.83%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 70 (42.68%) Google
2 38 (23.17%) Databricks
3 10 (6.10%) Oracle
4 8 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.05%) Workday
6 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.83%) 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