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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 250 290
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 +52
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 177 104 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.81% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.18% 3.75% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 63 78
10th Percentile £440 £352 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -15.32%
75th Percentile £637 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £704 £741
England median daily rate £543 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +8.50% -4.31% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £58.13 - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% +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 3,415 2,777 4,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.72% 21.54% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 1,944 3,007
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £725
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 28 32 34
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.14 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.31 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -18.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.56 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £38.25 £33.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.70% -15.15% -29.76%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -2 28 £600 +14.29% 15
West London -7 12 £603 +7.11% 1
East London - 5 £525 -
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 28 (15.82%) Apache Spark
2 26 (14.69%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (10.17%) Apache
4 6 (3.39%) Confluence
4 6 (3.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.82%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 128 (72.32%) GCP
2 44 (24.86%) Snowflake
3 43 (24.29%) AWS
4 42 (23.73%) Azure
5 31 (17.51%) Power Platform
6 29 (16.38%) dbt
7 21 (11.86%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (7.91%) Cloud Functions
8 14 (7.91%) Cloud Run
9 12 (6.78%) Vertex AI
10 11 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (6.21%) Collibra
11 10 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (5.65%) GitHub
11 10 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (5.08%) Serverless
13 8 (4.52%) Dagster
14 7 (3.95%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.16%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.51%) Power BI
3 28 (15.82%) Looker
4 27 (15.25%) Tableau
5 20 (11.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (10.17%) Data Lake
7 15 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.91%) NoSQL
9 11 (6.21%) Big Data
10 10 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (5.65%) Mixpanel
10 10 (5.65%) OLAP
11 9 (5.08%) OLTP
12 8 (4.52%) MongoDB
12 8 (4.52%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (4.52%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.95%) Flink
13 7 (3.95%) Metadata
13 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
14 6 (3.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Git
2 6 (3.39%) GitLab
2 6 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.13%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.13%) ERwin
3 2 (1.13%) MLflow
3 2 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.13%) Selenium
4 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.56%) Maven
4 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 50 (28.25%) Finance
2 26 (14.69%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.56%) Retail
4 22 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.60%) Banking
6 10 (5.65%) Marketing
7 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.39%) Games
9 6 (3.39%) Legal
10 3 (1.69%) Billing
10 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) Back Office
12 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.64%) GCP Engineer
3 30 (16.95%) Senior
4 27 (15.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (14.69%) Architect
6 16 (9.04%) Analyst
6 16 (9.04%) Lead
7 11 (6.21%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.21%) Developer
7 11 (6.21%) Lead Data Engineer
7 11 (6.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (5.65%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 9 (5.08%) Principal Data Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.52%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.95%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.43%) Kafka
2 12 (6.78%) Great Expectations
3 9 (5.08%) REST
4 8 (4.52%) PyTorch
5 7 (3.95%) Apache Beam
6 6 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.82%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.82%) LangChain
7 5 (2.82%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.26%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.26%) JSON
8 4 (2.26%) PySpark
9 3 (1.69%) ADO
9 3 (1.69%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.69%) OAuth
9 3 (1.69%) OpenID
9 3 (1.69%) Pandas
9 3 (1.69%) SAML
10 2 (1.13%) CrewAI
10 2 (1.13%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.82%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.69%) Clustering
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.13%) Life Science
7 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.13%) Podcast
7 2 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (53.67%) Analytics
2 72 (40.68%) Data Modelling
3 60 (33.90%) Data Engineering
4 58 (32.77%) Data Pipeline
5 55 (31.07%) CI/CD
6 53 (29.94%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (26.55%) ETL
8 40 (22.60%) AI
8 40 (22.60%) Machine Learning
9 37 (20.90%) Agile
10 35 (19.77%) Decision-Making
11 33 (18.64%) Data Governance
12 32 (18.08%) Data Science
13 31 (17.51%) DevOps
14 29 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (15.82%) Data Architecture
16 24 (13.56%) Observability
17 22 (12.43%) Visualisation
18 21 (11.86%) Data Analysis
19 20 (11.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 111 (62.71%) SQL
2 90 (50.85%) Python
3 20 (11.30%) Java
4 13 (7.34%) Go
5 10 (5.65%) C#
6 8 (4.52%) Scala
7 6 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.39%) PHP
8 3 (1.69%) Bash
8 3 (1.69%) LookML
8 3 (1.69%) R
9 2 (1.13%) Cypher
9 2 (1.13%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.13%) Gremlin
9 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.13%) Korn
9 2 (1.13%) Ruby
9 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.13%) SPARQL
9 2 (1.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.56%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.56%) ISEB
4 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (32.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.04%) GDPR
3 12 (6.78%) QA
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.56%) ITGC
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (21.47%) Terraform
2 28 (15.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.13%) Istio
3 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 54 (30.51%) Google
2 43 (24.29%) Databricks
3 11 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.39%) Oracle
6 5 (2.82%) Workday
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.56%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.56%) New Relic
8 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.56%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.56%) Sage
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Yardi