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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 252 286
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 +45
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 190 115 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 0.86% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.19% 4.02% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 73 65
10th Percentile £413 £404 £400
25th Percentile £474 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £635 £600 £650
90th Percentile £693 £672 £738
England median daily rate £531 £525 £507
% change year-on-year +1.19% +3.55% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £42.25 £39.08 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £51.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £52.75 £66.70 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year - +61.54% -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 3,661 2,860 3,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.15% 21.31% 23.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,476 1,999 2,798
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £749 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 35 25
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.53 £28.74
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £84.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%

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 22 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
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 22 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 -8 27 £600 - 11
West London -24 4 £625 +19.05% 3
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 42 (22.11%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (16.84%) Apache Spark
3 29 (15.26%) Apache
4 6 (3.16%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.63%) Confluence
6 2 (1.05%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.63%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (75.26%) GCP
2 54 (28.42%) Snowflake
3 52 (27.37%) dbt
4 41 (21.58%) AWS
5 38 (20.00%) Azure
6 25 (13.16%) Power Platform
7 15 (7.89%) GitHub
8 14 (7.37%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.84%) Cloud Functions
10 12 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (5.79%) Vertex AI
12 10 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (4.74%) Cloud Run
14 8 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (4.21%) Cloud Composer
14 8 (4.21%) SaaS
14 8 (4.21%) Serverless
15 7 (3.68%) Dagster
15 7 (3.68%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) DNS
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
1 1 (0.53%) MPLS
1 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.53%) VPN
1 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (17.37%) Looker
3 32 (16.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (13.16%) Power BI
4 25 (13.16%) Tableau
5 15 (7.89%) Flink
6 13 (6.84%) NoSQL
7 12 (6.32%) Big Data
8 11 (5.79%) Data Lake
8 11 (5.79%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (4.74%) Metadata
11 8 (4.21%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (3.68%) Apache Iceberg
12 7 (3.68%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.68%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.68%) Parquet
13 6 (3.16%) Power Query
13 6 (3.16%) PowerPivot
14 5 (2.63%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 16 (8.42%) Git
2 9 (4.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.68%) GitLab
4 5 (2.63%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.05%) ERwin
6 2 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) Gradle
7 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (25.26%) Finance
2 29 (15.26%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.68%) Retail
4 19 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.89%) Marketing
6 11 (5.79%) Banking
7 10 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.68%) Games
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
9 5 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Billing
11 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.53%) Automotive
13 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Law
13 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 39 (20.53%) Senior
3 37 (19.47%) GCP Engineer
4 29 (15.26%) GCP Data Engineer
5 25 (13.16%) Architect
6 20 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (8.95%) Analyst
8 16 (8.42%) Lead
9 15 (7.89%) Python Engineer
10 14 (7.37%) Python Data Engineer
11 13 (6.84%) Data Architect
11 13 (6.84%) Developer
12 11 (5.79%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (3.16%) BigQuery Data Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.16%) Data Analytics Engineer
14 6 (3.16%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.84%) Terraform
2 29 (15.26%) Kafka
3 12 (6.32%) Apache Beam
3 12 (6.32%) PySpark
3 12 (6.32%) REST
4 7 (3.68%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.16%) JSON
5 6 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.63%) Apache Avro
6 5 (2.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.11%) Great Expectations
7 4 (2.11%) Pandas
7 4 (2.11%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.58%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.58%) LangChain
8 3 (1.58%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.58%) NumPy
8 3 (1.58%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.58%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.74%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 6 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.58%) Clustering
7 3 (1.58%) Life Science
7 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.58%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Unix
1 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.26%) Analytics
2 79 (41.58%) Data Pipeline
3 77 (40.53%) Data Modelling
4 73 (38.42%) Data Engineering
5 72 (37.89%) CI/CD
6 53 (27.89%) ETL
7 47 (24.74%) AI
8 46 (24.21%) Machine Learning
9 43 (22.63%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (21.05%) Agile
11 38 (20.00%) Decision-Making
12 37 (19.47%) Data Science
13 36 (18.95%) DevOps
14 30 (15.79%) Data Transformation
15 29 (15.26%) Data Governance
15 29 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (13.68%) Migration
17 22 (11.58%) Data Analysis
17 22 (11.58%) Observability
17 22 (11.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 129 (67.89%) SQL
2 100 (52.63%) Python
3 29 (15.26%) Java
4 16 (8.42%) Scala
5 11 (5.79%) Go
6 8 (4.21%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.68%) R
8 6 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (3.16%) LookML
8 6 (3.16%) PHP
9 5 (2.63%) Bash
10 4 (2.11%) C#
11 3 (1.58%) Cypher
11 3 (1.58%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.58%) SPARQL
12 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.05%) Korn
12 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.53%) COBOL
13 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (6.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.53%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (34.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.32%) QA
3 9 (4.74%) GDPR
4 4 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) ITGC
5 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.05%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) Argo
3 1 (0.53%) Control-M
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
3 1 (0.53%) Istio
Vendors
1 55 (28.95%) Google
2 49 (25.79%) Databricks
3 9 (4.74%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.68%) Oracle
5 6 (3.16%) New Relic
5 6 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.63%) Informatica
6 5 (2.63%) Splunk
6 5 (2.63%) Workday
7 2 (1.05%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.53%) IBM
8 1 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.53%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.53%) Sage
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) SAP
8 1 (0.53%) Talend