BigQuery Contracts in London

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England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 292 353
Rank change year-on-year +15 +61 +30
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 76 99 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.71% 2.58% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 70 117
10th Percentile £313 £411 £443
25th Percentile £419 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -11.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £694
90th Percentile £725 £738 £755
England median daily rate £500 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.75 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -42.94% -
75th Percentile £54.75 £50.25 £88.13
90th Percentile £55.35 - £89.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +223.81%

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 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +7 13 £525 -19.23% 7
West London +10 2 £563 +7.14% 2
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (17.11%) Apache Spark
2 12 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (10.53%) Apache
4 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.32%) Magento
2 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (90.79%) GCP
2 18 (23.68%) AWS
3 16 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 14 (18.42%) Azure
5 13 (17.11%) dbt
6 11 (14.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub
7 6 (7.89%) Google Analytics
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.58%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.95%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.63%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.16%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.74%) Tableau
3 14 (18.42%) Looker
4 11 (14.47%) Power BI
5 10 (13.16%) Data Lake
6 9 (11.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (10.53%) Flink
8 6 (7.89%) NoSQL
8 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
9 5 (6.58%) Hadoop
10 4 (5.26%) Big Data
10 4 (5.26%) Parquet
11 3 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (3.95%) Apache Hive
11 3 (3.95%) Bigtable
11 3 (3.95%) Metadata
11 3 (3.95%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.95%) Spark SQL
12 2 (2.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) Git
3 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.95%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.63%) Postman
5 2 (2.63%) Selenium
5 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.32%) RStudio
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Finance
3 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Marketing
5 4 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Advertising
6 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.95%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Data Engineer
2 18 (23.68%) Architect
3 13 (17.11%) Analyst
3 13 (17.11%) Data Architect
4 11 (14.47%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Senior
6 7 (9.21%) Data Analyst
7 6 (7.89%) GCP Architect
7 6 (7.89%) GCP Data Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Architect
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Data Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) Test Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 2 (2.63%) GCP Data Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.79%) Kafka
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Avro
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Beam
2 4 (5.26%) PySpark
3 3 (3.95%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.95%) pytest
4 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.63%) Great Expectations
4 2 (2.63%) gRPC
4 2 (2.63%) JSON
4 2 (2.63%) Node.js
4 2 (2.63%) React
4 2 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (1.32%) .NET
5 1 (1.32%) Django
5 1 (1.32%) HTML
5 1 (1.32%) JWT
5 1 (1.32%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.58%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.95%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.95%) PDA
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Social Media
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Derivative
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) Data Modelling
1 26 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
1 26 (34.21%) ETL
2 22 (28.95%) Analytics
3 21 (27.63%) Visualisation
4 17 (22.37%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.37%) Data Visualisation
4 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (21.05%) Data Integration
6 15 (19.74%) Data Engineering
6 15 (19.74%) Data Governance
7 14 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (18.42%) Machine Learning
8 13 (17.11%) Agile
9 12 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
10 11 (14.47%) Data Architecture
10 11 (14.47%) DevOps
11 9 (11.84%) Containerisation
11 9 (11.84%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (52.63%) Python
2 39 (51.32%) SQL
3 15 (19.74%) Java
4 7 (9.21%) Scala
5 3 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.63%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (2.63%) Go
6 2 (2.63%) R
6 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.63%) GDPR
5 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) Terraform
2 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.32%) Ansible
3 1 (1.32%) Argo
3 1 (1.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (56.58%) Google
2 10 (13.16%) Databricks
3 8 (10.53%) Oracle
4 6 (7.89%) Informatica
5 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.63%) Facebook
6 2 (2.63%) New Relic
6 2 (2.63%) Splunk
6 2 (2.63%) Talend
6 2 (2.63%) YouTube
7 1 (1.32%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Teradata
7 1 (1.32%) WooCommerce