BigQuery Contract Job Trends in London

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England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	286	236	273
Rank change year-on-year	-50	+37	+82
Contract jobs citing BigQuery	176	138	109
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.87%	1.01%	0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	4.94%	4.77%	3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted	131	101	63
10^th Percentile	£400	£340	£363
25^th Percentile	£475	£463	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-	-8.70%
75^th Percentile	£650	£614	£681
90^th Percentile	£725	£725	£763
England median daily rate	£530	£525	£507
% change year-on-year	+0.95%	+3.55%	-8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	3	1
10^th Percentile	£53.55	£36.02	-
25^th Percentile	-	£43.61	£60.25
Median hourly rate	£57.00	£57.50	£60.50
Median % change year-on-year	-0.87%	-4.96%	-
75^th Percentile	-	£65.38	£60.75
90^th Percentile	-	£69.35	-
England median hourly rate	£57.00	£61.00	£60.50
% change year-on-year	-6.56%	+0.83%	-21.94%

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 citing database or business intelligence skills in London.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	3,563	2,893	3,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	17.59%	21.18%	21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,464	2,001	2,411
10^th Percentile	£363	£368	£363
25^th Percentile	£435	£425	£456
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	£535	£575
Median % change year-on-year	+0.47%	-6.96%	-
75^th Percentile	£650	£675	£700
90^th Percentile	£738	£800	£850
England median daily rate	£515	£505	£550
% change year-on-year	+1.98%	-8.18%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	38	40	22
10^th Percentile	£22.53	£18.25	£27.81
25^th Percentile	£26.51	£30.69	£36.25
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£48.00	£45.00
Median % change year-on-year	-11.46%	+6.67%	-1.16%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£66.56	£59.00
90^th Percentile	£67.88	£87.50	£78.75
England median hourly rate	£40.61	£43.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-6.66%	+24.29%	-29.29%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 31 October 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.

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 31 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-22	13	£600	-11.76%	5
West London	-21	4	£538	+2.38%	1
South London	-	1	£175	-
East London	-	1	£450	-	1
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BigQuery Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing BigQuery also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing BigQuery.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GCP	84.7%	149
2	SQL	69.3%	122
3	Python	59.7%	105
4	Analytics	56.8%	100
5	Data Pipeline	46.0%	81
6	CI/CD	44.3%	78
7	Google	40.9%	72
8	Data Engineering	39.8%	70
8	Data Modelling	39.8%	70
10	Data Quality	38.6%	68
11	dbt	36.9%	65
12	Apache Airflow	32.4%	57
13	Data Warehouse	31.3%	55
14	AWS	30.7%	54
15	AI	28.4%	50
16	ETL	27.3%	48
17	Snowflake	26.7%	47
18	Kubernetes	24.4%	43
19	Azure	23.9%	42
20	Databricks	21.6%	38
20	Machine Learning	21.6%	38
22	Migration	21.0%	37
23	Agile	20.5%	36
23	Apache	20.5%	36
23	Data Transformation	20.5%	36
23	Terraform	20.5%	36
27	Amazon Redshift	18.8%	33
28	Infrastructure as Code	18.2%	32
29	Data Governance	17.0%	30
29	Decision-Making	17.0%	30

BigQuery Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Warehouse	31.3%	55
2	Amazon Redshift	18.8%	33
3	Looker	15.9%	28
4	PostgreSQL	7.4%	13
4	Power BI	7.4%	13
6	Metadata	6.8%	12
7	Data Lake	6.3%	11
7	Delta Lake	6.3%	11
7	Flink	6.3%	11
10	Apache Iceberg	5.7%	10
10	MongoDB	5.7%	10
10	NoSQL	5.7%	10
10	Tableau	5.7%	10
14	Big Data	5.1%	9
15	Power Query	4.0%	7
15	PowerPivot	4.0%	7
15	Relational Database	4.0%	7
18	Elasticsearch	2.8%	5
19	Amazon RDS	2.3%	4
19	Snowflake Schema	2.3%	4