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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 248 291
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +51
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 178 94 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.78% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 3.49% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 58 68
10th Percentile £425 £343 £400
25th Percentile £475 £437 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £531
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -3.39% -11.58%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £652
90th Percentile £689 £684 £729
England median daily rate £543 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.50% -4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £58.23 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +29.63% -52.35%

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 3,299 2,691 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.94% 22.28% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,245 1,877 2,871
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £704
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 34
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.99 £25.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% -8.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £54.06 £54.03
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 0 29 £600 +14.29% 19
West London -10 15 £603 +7.11% 2
East London - 5 £525 - 2
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 27 (15.17%) Apache Spark
2 20 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (9.55%) Apache
4 6 (3.37%) Confluence
4 6 (3.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) BambooHR
Cloud Services
1 127 (71.35%) GCP
2 41 (23.03%) Azure
3 40 (22.47%) AWS
4 37 (20.79%) Snowflake
5 31 (17.42%) Power Platform
6 26 (14.61%) dbt
7 22 (12.36%) Amazon S3
8 20 (11.24%) Cloud Run
9 14 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (7.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 14 (7.87%) Vertex AI
10 13 (7.30%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.30%) Cloud Functions
10 13 (7.30%) Collibra
10 13 (7.30%) GitHub
11 12 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.62%) Google Gemini
13 8 (4.49%) Dagster
14 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.42%) Power BI
3 26 (14.61%) Looker
3 26 (14.61%) Tableau
4 20 (11.24%) Data Lake
5 16 (8.99%) NoSQL
6 15 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (7.30%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (7.30%) Mixpanel
7 13 (7.30%) OLAP
8 12 (6.74%) OLTP
8 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.62%) Big Data
10 7 (3.93%) Flink
10 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.37%) Parquet
11 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.37%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (2.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Git
2 11 (6.18%) GitLab
2 11 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.37%) JIRA
4 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.12%) ERwin
4 2 (1.12%) MLflow
4 2 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (25.28%) Finance
2 24 (13.48%) Retail
3 23 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.24%) Social Skills
5 17 (9.55%) Banking
6 8 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.93%) Games
7 7 (3.93%) Marketing
8 5 (2.81%) Legal
8 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 66 (37.08%) Data Engineer
2 36 (20.22%) GCP Engineer
3 31 (17.42%) Senior
4 25 (14.04%) GCP Data Engineer
5 23 (12.92%) Architect
6 18 (10.11%) Lead
7 15 (8.43%) Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Principal Data Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (5.62%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.62%) Developer
11 9 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Data Scientist
12 7 (3.93%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.36%) Kafka
2 15 (8.43%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.62%) LangChain
4 8 (4.49%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.93%) Apache Beam
5 7 (3.93%) React
5 7 (3.93%) Spring
5 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.37%) Node.js
6 6 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.37%) REST
7 5 (2.81%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.25%) ADO
8 4 (2.25%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.25%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.69%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.69%) Pandas
9 3 (1.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.81%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Life Science
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Podcast
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%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.00%) Analytics
2 69 (38.76%) Data Modelling
3 61 (34.27%) CI/CD
4 57 (32.02%) Data Engineering
5 54 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (29.21%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (26.40%) AI
8 45 (25.28%) ETL
9 44 (24.72%) Machine Learning
10 38 (21.35%) Agile
10 38 (21.35%) DevOps
11 36 (20.22%) Data Governance
12 33 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (17.98%) Observability
14 30 (16.85%) Decision-Making
15 29 (16.29%) Data Architecture
15 29 (16.29%) Data Science
16 27 (15.17%) Software Engineering
17 25 (14.04%) Containerisation
18 24 (13.48%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 103 (57.87%) SQL
2 88 (49.44%) Python
3 18 (10.11%) Java
4 13 (7.30%) C#
5 11 (6.18%) Go
6 6 (3.37%) PHP
6 6 (3.37%) Scala
7 4 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.69%) LookML
8 3 (1.69%) R
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
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (7.30%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.25%) 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%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (29.21%) Data Quality
2 18 (10.11%) GDPR
3 12 (6.74%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) ITGC
4 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (15.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (23.03%) Terraform
2 31 (17.42%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.06%) Istio
4 6 (3.37%) Argo
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 62 (34.83%) Google
2 41 (23.03%) Databricks
3 11 (6.18%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.62%) Oracle
5 5 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.81%) Workday
6 4 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.56%) New Relic
8 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Yardi