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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 254 285
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 +42
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 200 114 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.84% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 3.90% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 72 69
10th Percentile £401 £402 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £675
90th Percentile £675 £693 £740
England median daily rate £525 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £55.75 £62.06 -
90th Percentile £58.13 £68.03 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.73% +69.23% -58.73%

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 3,596 2,922 3,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.84% 21.43% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,424 2,057 2,869
10th Percentile £363 £382 £363
25th Percentile £437 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.01 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -15.83%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +1 30 £600 +14.29% 7
West London -13 8 £625 +19.05% 1
East London - 2 £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 37 (18.50%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (14.00%) Apache Spark
3 27 (13.50%) Apache
4 6 (3.00%) Confluence
4 6 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.50%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (74.50%) GCP
2 52 (26.00%) Snowflake
3 44 (22.00%) dbt
4 41 (20.50%) AWS
4 41 (20.50%) Azure
5 28 (14.00%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.50%) GitHub
7 13 (6.50%) Vertex AI
8 12 (6.00%) Cloud Functions
8 12 (6.00%) Cloud Run
9 11 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
11 8 (4.00%) Dagster
11 8 (4.00%) SaaS
12 7 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) FTP
2 1 (0.50%) DNS
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) MPLS
2 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.00%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (17.50%) Looker
3 28 (14.00%) Power BI
3 28 (14.00%) Tableau
4 23 (11.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (7.00%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.50%) Flink
6 13 (6.50%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (6.00%) Big Data
8 11 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.50%) Metadata
10 8 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
11 7 (3.50%) OLAP
11 7 (3.50%) SQL Server
12 6 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (3.00%) OLTP
12 6 (3.00%) PowerPivot
12 6 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Git
2 9 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.50%) GitLab
4 6 (3.00%) JIRA
5 2 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.00%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.00%) ERwin
5 2 (1.00%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.00%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) MLflow
6 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 53 (26.50%) Finance
2 30 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.00%) Retail
4 24 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.50%) Banking
6 13 (6.50%) Marketing
7 10 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.50%) Legal
9 6 (3.00%) Games
9 6 (3.00%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Billing
11 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.50%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Back Office
13 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (39.50%) Data Engineer
2 40 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 35 (17.50%) Senior
4 32 (16.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 24 (12.00%) Architect
6 20 (10.00%) Analyst
7 17 (8.50%) Lead
8 16 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (7.00%) Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Python Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Data Architect
11 11 (5.50%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.50%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Data Scientist
14 6 (3.00%) Principal Data Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.00%) Kafka
2 12 (6.00%) Apache Beam
3 11 (5.50%) REST
4 8 (4.00%) Great Expectations
5 7 (3.50%) PySpark
5 7 (3.50%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.00%) JSON
6 6 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.50%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.50%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.00%) LangChain
8 4 (2.00%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.50%) ADO
9 3 (1.50%) JSON-LD
9 3 (1.50%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.50%) NetworkX
9 3 (1.50%) Pandas
9 3 (1.50%) YAML
10 2 (1.00%) ebXML
10 2 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.00%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.50%) Clustering
6 3 (1.50%) Life Science
6 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.50%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (53.50%) Analytics
2 81 (40.50%) Data Modelling
3 74 (37.00%) Data Pipeline
4 70 (35.00%) Data Engineering
5 67 (33.50%) CI/CD
6 54 (27.00%) ETL
7 51 (25.50%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (23.00%) Machine Learning
9 45 (22.50%) AI
10 43 (21.50%) Agile
11 41 (20.50%) Data Science
11 41 (20.50%) Decision-Making
12 35 (17.50%) DevOps
13 33 (16.50%) Data Governance
14 30 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (13.50%) Data Architecture
16 26 (13.00%) Migration
16 26 (13.00%) Observability
17 23 (11.50%) Data Analysis
17 23 (11.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 129 (64.50%) SQL
2 104 (52.00%) Python
3 28 (14.00%) Java
4 16 (8.00%) Scala
5 11 (5.50%) Go
6 8 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.00%) C#
7 6 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.00%) PHP
8 5 (2.50%) Bash
8 5 (2.50%) LookML
8 5 (2.50%) R
9 3 (1.50%) Cypher
9 3 (1.50%) Gremlin
9 3 (1.50%) SPARQL
10 2 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.00%) Korn
10 2 (1.00%) Ruby
10 2 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.00%) Degree
4 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) ISEB
4 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (34.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.00%) GDPR
2 12 (6.00%) QA
3 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.50%) ITGC
4 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (14.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (18.50%) Kubernetes
1 37 (18.50%) Terraform
2 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) Argo
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) Istio
3 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 63 (31.50%) Google
2 46 (23.00%) Databricks
3 11 (5.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.00%) New Relic
5 6 (3.00%) Oracle
6 5 (2.50%) Splunk
6 5 (2.50%) Workday
7 3 (1.50%) Citrix
7 3 (1.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.50%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.50%) Sage
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Talend
8 1 (0.50%) Yardi