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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 262 293
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 +48
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 174 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.40% 2.96% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 50 73
10th Percentile £425 £313 £403
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £531
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -3.48% -12.95%
75th Percentile £614 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £708 £735
England median daily rate £538 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +7.50% -5.84% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +8.25% -42.94%
75th Percentile £58.79 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £61.74 - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.81% +61.54% -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 3,222 2,773 3,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.24% 22.43% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 1,951 2,830
10th Percentile £363 £380 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £826
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 36
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.93
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.88 £58.75 £55.94
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £69.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £32.43 £40.25
% change year-on-year +44.31% -19.43% -28.63%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 27 £525 - 12
West London -9 20 £603 +7.11%
East London - 5 £525 - 3
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 29 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 21 (12.07%) Apache
3 17 (9.77%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.02%) Confluence
5 5 (2.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.87%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 127 (72.99%) GCP
2 44 (25.29%) Azure
3 41 (23.56%) AWS
4 34 (19.54%) Power Platform
5 32 (18.39%) Snowflake
6 24 (13.79%) Amazon S3
7 23 (13.22%) dbt
8 19 (10.92%) Cloud Run
9 18 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (9.20%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (9.20%) Collibra
11 14 (8.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (8.05%) Vertex AI
12 10 (5.75%) Cloud Functions
12 10 (5.75%) GitHub
12 10 (5.75%) Google Gemini
13 9 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.60%) Dagster
15 6 (3.45%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) FTP
2 1 (0.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.54%) Power BI
2 33 (18.97%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (14.94%) Looker
4 25 (14.37%) Tableau
5 21 (12.07%) Data Lake
6 16 (9.20%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (9.20%) Mixpanel
6 16 (9.20%) OLAP
7 15 (8.62%) NoSQL
7 15 (8.62%) OLTP
8 14 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (7.47%) SQL Server
10 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.60%) Big Data
12 7 (4.02%) Flink
12 7 (4.02%) Metadata
13 6 (3.45%) Parquet
13 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (2.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) Git
1 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.17%) GitLab
3 7 (4.02%) JIRA
4 3 (1.72%) Selenium
5 2 (1.15%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.15%) ERwin
5 2 (1.15%) MLflow
5 2 (1.15%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.15%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
6 1 (0.57%) Postman
6 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (25.86%) Finance
2 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (13.79%) Retail
3 21 (12.07%) Social Skills
4 18 (10.34%) Banking
5 8 (4.60%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.45%) Games
6 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.87%) Legal
7 5 (2.87%) Marketing
8 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 68 (39.08%) Data Engineer
2 32 (18.39%) GCP Engineer
3 28 (16.09%) Senior
4 22 (12.64%) Architect
4 22 (12.64%) GCP Data Engineer
5 20 (11.49%) Lead
6 19 (10.92%) Analyst
7 14 (8.05%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 13 (7.47%) Principal Data Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Lead Data Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Python Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Cloud Architect
10 10 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.75%) Developer
10 10 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.60%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.79%) Kafka
2 18 (10.34%) Great Expectations
3 10 (5.75%) LangChain
4 9 (5.17%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.02%) Apache Beam
5 7 (4.02%) React
5 7 (4.02%) Spring
5 7 (4.02%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.45%) Node.js
6 6 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.87%) ADO
7 5 (2.87%) Apache Avro
7 5 (2.87%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.30%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (2.30%) Pandas
8 4 (2.30%) REST
9 3 (1.72%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.87%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.72%) Clustering
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Life Science
7 2 (1.15%) Podcast
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (49.43%) Analytics
2 68 (39.08%) Data Modelling
3 59 (33.91%) CI/CD
4 57 (32.76%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (31.61%) Data Engineering
6 50 (28.74%) AI
6 50 (28.74%) Data Pipeline
7 46 (26.44%) ETL
7 46 (26.44%) Machine Learning
8 40 (22.99%) Agile
9 38 (21.84%) Data Governance
10 37 (21.26%) DevOps
11 35 (20.11%) Observability
12 32 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (17.24%) Data Architecture
13 30 (17.24%) Decision-Making
14 29 (16.67%) Data Science
15 28 (16.09%) Software Engineering
16 27 (15.52%) LLM
17 25 (14.37%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 97 (55.75%) SQL
2 85 (48.85%) Python
3 21 (12.07%) Java
4 16 (9.20%) C#
5 7 (4.02%) Scala
6 6 (3.45%) Go
7 4 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.72%) LookML
8 3 (1.72%) PHP
8 3 (1.72%) R
9 2 (1.15%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.15%) Ruby
9 2 (1.15%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) Bash
10 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Degree
5 1 (0.57%) ISEB
5 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (28.74%) Data Quality
2 23 (13.22%) GDPR
3 12 (6.90%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) ITGC
4 1 (0.57%) MiFID
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) PERC
4 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (15.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (22.99%) Terraform
2 30 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.17%) Istio
4 6 (3.45%) Argo
5 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 68 (39.08%) Google
2 41 (23.56%) Databricks
3 11 (6.32%) Oracle
4 9 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.87%) Workday
6 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.72%) Citrix
8 1 (0.57%) Facebook
8 1 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.57%) New Relic
8 1 (0.57%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.57%) PayPal
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) SAP
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.57%) Yardi