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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 267 293
Rank change year-on-year +25 +26 +49
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 179 82 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.49% 2.94% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 50 73
10th Percentile £425 £313 £403
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £531
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -3.48% -12.95%
75th Percentile £614 £594 £650
90th Percentile £694 £708 £735
England median daily rate £538 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +7.50% -5.66% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £58.79 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £61.74 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -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 3,262 2,786 3,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.25% 22.48% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,215 1,963 2,832
10th Percentile £363 £380 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £837
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.30
England median hourly rate £45.90 £32.43 £40.13
% change year-on-year +41.54% -19.18% -30.22%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +3 28 £563 +7.14% 16
West London -4 20 £603 +7.11%
East London - 5 £525 - 4
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 (16.20%) Apache Spark
2 21 (11.73%) Apache
3 17 (9.50%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.91%) Confluence
5 6 (3.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 130 (72.63%) GCP
2 45 (25.14%) Azure
3 42 (23.46%) AWS
4 35 (19.55%) Power Platform
5 34 (18.99%) Snowflake
6 24 (13.41%) Amazon S3
7 23 (12.85%) dbt
8 20 (11.17%) Cloud Run
9 18 (10.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (8.94%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (8.94%) Collibra
11 15 (8.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (7.82%) Vertex AI
13 11 (6.15%) Cloud Functions
14 10 (5.59%) GitHub
14 10 (5.59%) Google Gemini
15 9 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.47%) Dagster
17 6 (3.35%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) FTP
2 1 (0.56%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.55%) Power BI
2 33 (18.44%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (15.08%) Looker
3 27 (15.08%) Tableau
4 21 (11.73%) Data Lake
5 16 (8.94%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (8.94%) Mixpanel
5 16 (8.94%) OLAP
6 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.38%) OLTP
7 14 (7.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
9 12 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.47%) Big Data
10 8 (4.47%) Flink
11 7 (3.91%) Metadata
12 6 (3.35%) Parquet
12 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.35%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (2.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Git
1 12 (6.70%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.03%) GitLab
3 7 (3.91%) JIRA
4 3 (1.68%) Selenium
5 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.12%) ERwin
5 2 (1.12%) MLflow
5 2 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.12%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.56%) Maven
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
6 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (26.26%) Finance
2 24 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (13.41%) Retail
3 21 (11.73%) Social Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Banking
5 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.91%) Games
7 6 (3.35%) Marketing
7 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (37.99%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.44%) GCP Engineer
3 28 (15.64%) Senior
4 23 (12.85%) Architect
5 22 (12.29%) GCP Data Engineer
6 20 (11.17%) Lead
7 19 (10.61%) Analyst
8 14 (7.82%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (7.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 13 (7.26%) Principal Data Engineer
10 12 (6.70%) Developer
11 11 (6.15%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) Python Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (5.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (5.03%) Data Architect
14 8 (4.47%) Python Data Engineer
15 7 (3.91%) Data Analyst
15 7 (3.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.41%) Kafka
2 18 (10.06%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.59%) LangChain
4 9 (5.03%) PyTorch
5 8 (4.47%) Apache Beam
6 7 (3.91%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.91%) React
6 7 (3.91%) Spring
6 7 (3.91%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.35%) Node.js
7 6 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.79%) ADO
8 5 (2.79%) Apache Avro
8 5 (2.79%) REST
8 5 (2.79%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.23%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (2.23%) Pandas
10 3 (1.68%) LangGraph
10 3 (1.68%) SAML
10 3 (1.68%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.79%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.68%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Life Science
7 2 (1.12%) Podcast
7 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.16%) Analytics
2 69 (38.55%) Data Modelling
3 60 (33.52%) CI/CD
4 58 (32.40%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (30.73%) Data Engineering
6 50 (27.93%) AI
6 50 (27.93%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (26.26%) ETL
8 46 (25.70%) Machine Learning
9 40 (22.35%) Agile
10 39 (21.79%) DevOps
11 38 (21.23%) Data Governance
12 35 (19.55%) Observability
13 33 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (17.32%) Data Architecture
14 31 (17.32%) Decision-Making
15 29 (16.20%) Data Science
16 28 (15.64%) Software Engineering
17 27 (15.08%) LLM
18 25 (13.97%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (56.98%) SQL
2 88 (49.16%) Python
3 22 (12.29%) Java
4 16 (8.94%) C#
5 8 (4.47%) Scala
6 7 (3.91%) Go
7 4 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.68%) LookML
8 3 (1.68%) PHP
8 3 (1.68%) R
9 2 (1.12%) Bash
9 2 (1.12%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.12%) Korn
9 2 (1.12%) Ruby
9 2 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (7.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) ISEB
5 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.49%) Data Quality
2 23 (12.85%) GDPR
3 12 (6.70%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
4 1 (0.56%) MiFID
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) PERC
4 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (15.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (22.91%) Terraform
2 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.03%) Istio
4 6 (3.35%) Argo
5 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 69 (38.55%) Google
2 43 (24.02%) Databricks
3 11 (6.15%) Oracle
4 9 (5.03%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.79%) Workday
7 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.68%) Citrix
9 1 (0.56%) Facebook
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.56%) New Relic
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) PayPal
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) SAP
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Yardi