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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 274 300
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 +67
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 151 73 94
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.72% 2.60% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 43 72
10th Percentile £350 £313 £425
25th Percentile £500 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £581 £650
90th Percentile £756 £700 £736
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.06% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £45.63 £52.05 -
25th Percentile £50.50 £53.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.25 £55.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +14.43% -42.94%
75th Percentile £58.79 £58.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £61.74 £59.75 -
England median hourly rate £56.13 £55.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.14% +70.77% -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 3,200 2,805 3,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.00% 22.21% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,005 2,742
10th Percentile £363 £375 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 38
10th Percentile £18.53 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +4.35%
75th Percentile £65.31 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.50 £65.27
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.73% -17.60% -33.33%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 25 £575 +12.20% 27
West London 0 22 £603 +7.11% 2
East London - 3 £540 - 1
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 25 (16.56%) Apache Spark
2 24 (15.89%) Apache
3 17 (11.26%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.99%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 120 (79.47%) GCP
2 42 (27.81%) Azure
3 40 (26.49%) AWS
4 33 (21.85%) Power Platform
5 26 (17.22%) Amazon S3
6 21 (13.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (13.25%) Snowflake
8 19 (12.58%) Cloud Run
9 18 (11.92%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (11.92%) Collibra
10 17 (11.26%) dbt
11 14 (9.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.62%) GitHub
12 10 (6.62%) Vertex AI
13 9 (5.96%) Cloud Functions
13 9 (5.96%) Google Gemini
14 7 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.97%) Serverless
15 6 (3.97%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) FTP
2 3 (1.99%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.85%) Power BI
2 25 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (13.91%) Looker
4 20 (13.25%) Data Lake
5 18 (11.92%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (11.92%) Mixpanel
5 18 (11.92%) OLAP
6 17 (11.26%) OLTP
7 14 (9.27%) Tableau
8 12 (7.95%) SQL Server
9 10 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.30%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.97%) Metadata
11 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.65%) Big Data
13 3 (1.99%) Redis
13 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Git
2 10 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.64%) GitLab
3 7 (4.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) MLflow
4 2 (1.32%) Selenium
4 2 (1.32%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.66%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.66%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (25.83%) Finance
2 22 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.91%) Retail
4 20 (13.25%) Social Skills
5 15 (9.93%) Banking
6 7 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.65%) Marketing
8 4 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.99%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Back Office
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (39.74%) Data Engineer
2 32 (21.19%) GCP Engineer
3 26 (17.22%) Analyst
4 24 (15.89%) Senior
5 19 (12.58%) Lead
6 17 (11.26%) Architect
7 16 (10.60%) GCP Data Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Principal Engineer
8 15 (9.93%) Principal Data Engineer
9 13 (8.61%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Test Analyst
11 10 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (6.62%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (5.96%) Software Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Principal Software Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) Python Engineer
14 7 (4.64%) Developer
14 7 (4.64%) GCP Architect
14 7 (4.64%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.91%) Kafka
2 19 (12.58%) Great Expectations
3 9 (5.96%) LangChain
4 8 (5.30%) PyTorch
4 8 (5.30%) React
5 7 (4.64%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.64%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (3.97%) ADO
6 6 (3.97%) Node.js
6 6 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.97%) Spring
6 6 (3.97%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.31%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.65%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.65%) Pandas
8 4 (2.65%) pytest
9 3 (1.99%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.99%) OAuth
9 3 (1.99%) OpenID
9 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.65%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.65%) Life Science
3 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.99%) Genomics
4 3 (1.99%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.32%) Podcast
5 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.66%) Clustering
6 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.03%) Analytics
2 55 (36.42%) CI/CD
3 52 (34.44%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (34.44%) Data Modelling
4 47 (31.13%) AI
5 46 (30.46%) Data Engineering
6 45 (29.80%) Machine Learning
7 41 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (25.83%) DevOps
8 39 (25.83%) ETL
9 38 (25.17%) Agile
10 34 (22.52%) Observability
11 33 (21.85%) Data Governance
11 33 (21.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (19.87%) Data Architecture
13 26 (17.22%) Software Engineering
14 24 (15.89%) Containerisation
14 24 (15.89%) LLM
15 23 (15.23%) Test Automation
16 21 (13.91%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 78 (51.66%) SQL
2 75 (49.67%) Python
3 18 (11.92%) C#
4 14 (9.27%) Java
5 6 (3.97%) Scala
6 3 (1.99%) Go
6 3 (1.99%) LookML
7 2 (1.32%) Bash
7 2 (1.32%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.32%) Ruby
7 2 (1.32%) VBA
8 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (5.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (2.65%) Degree
2 4 (2.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.66%) ISEB
3 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (25.83%) Data Quality
2 23 (15.23%) GDPR
3 6 (3.97%) QA
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) MiFID
4 2 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) PERC
System Software
1 27 (17.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (27.81%) Terraform
2 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.30%) Istio
4 6 (3.97%) Argo
5 3 (1.99%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (50.33%) Google
2 35 (23.18%) Databricks
3 11 (7.28%) Oracle
4 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.99%) Citrix
5 3 (1.99%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.99%) Splunk
5 3 (1.99%) Workday
6 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (0.66%) Facebook
7 1 (0.66%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.66%) New Relic
7 1 (0.66%) PayPal
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Yardi