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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 246 283
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 +58
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 194 125 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 0.93% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.38% 4.34% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 86 62
10th Percentile £400 £391 £364
25th Percentile £463 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% -3.57% -13.22%
75th Percentile £625 £589 £697
90th Percentile £700 £678 £764
England median daily rate £530 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +6.00% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £37.05 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.06 -
90th Percentile - £68.03 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

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 3,607 2,882 3,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.73% 21.40% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,994 2,586
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £649 £675 £724
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 38 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.02 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +19.44% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.25 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +11.99% -28.57%

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 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.

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 1 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -24 21 £600 - 25
West London -21 4 £506 -3.57% 7
East London - 2 £450 - 1
South London - 1 £175 - 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 53 (27.32%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (18.56%) Apache
3 31 (15.98%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.09%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.58%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) BambooHR
1 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.52%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 155 (79.90%) GCP
2 61 (31.44%) dbt
3 52 (26.80%) Snowflake
4 46 (23.71%) AWS
5 41 (21.13%) Azure
6 19 (9.79%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.76%) GitHub
8 13 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.19%) Cloud Composer
9 12 (6.19%) SaaS
9 12 (6.19%) Vertex AI
10 11 (5.67%) Cloud Functions
10 11 (5.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (4.12%) Cloud Run
11 8 (4.12%) Serverless
12 6 (3.09%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) DNS
1 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) Firewall
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.52%) MPLS
2 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.52%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
2 1 (0.52%) WAN
2 1 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.44%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (17.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 32 (16.49%) Looker
4 19 (9.79%) Power BI
5 18 (9.28%) Tableau
6 15 (7.73%) Flink
7 14 (7.22%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.22%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (6.70%) Big Data
8 13 (6.70%) Metadata
9 10 (5.15%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (5.15%) MongoDB
9 10 (5.15%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.64%) Delta Lake
11 6 (3.09%) Power Query
11 6 (3.09%) PowerPivot
12 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.58%) Parquet
13 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (13.40%) Git
2 10 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.12%) GitLab
4 7 (3.61%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.03%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.03%) ERwin
6 2 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.52%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.52%) GoCD
7 1 (0.52%) Gradle
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 50 (25.77%) Finance
2 29 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.34%) Retail
5 15 (7.73%) Banking
6 13 (6.70%) Marketing
7 7 (3.61%) Games
7 7 (3.61%) Legal
7 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.06%) Billing
8 4 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 78 (40.21%) Data Engineer
2 40 (20.62%) Senior
3 37 (19.07%) GCP Engineer
4 28 (14.43%) GCP Data Engineer
5 21 (10.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Architect
7 17 (8.76%) Analyst
8 15 (7.73%) Lead
9 13 (6.70%) Developer
9 13 (6.70%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.19%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Databricks Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.61%) Data Scientist
14 6 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
14 6 (3.09%) Data Analyst
14 6 (3.09%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.49%) Terraform
2 29 (14.95%) Kafka
3 18 (9.28%) PySpark
4 13 (6.70%) Apache Beam
4 13 (6.70%) REST
5 7 (3.61%) JSON
5 7 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.09%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.09%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.06%) Pandas
8 3 (1.55%) Apache Avro
8 3 (1.55%) JSON-LD
8 3 (1.55%) LangChain
8 3 (1.55%) NetworkX
8 3 (1.55%) OAuth
8 3 (1.55%) RESTful
8 3 (1.55%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.55%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.55%) YAML
9 2 (1.03%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.64%) Clustering
4 8 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.61%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (3.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (3.09%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Life Science
9 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.55%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.52%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Linux
1 2 (1.03%) Unix
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (54.64%) Analytics
2 87 (44.85%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (39.18%) Data Modelling
4 74 (38.14%) CI/CD
5 72 (37.11%) Data Engineering
6 54 (27.84%) ETL
7 51 (26.29%) AI
8 44 (22.68%) Machine Learning
9 43 (22.16%) Agile
10 39 (20.10%) Data Science
11 37 (19.07%) Data Transformation
12 35 (18.04%) Migration
13 34 (17.53%) Decision-Making
14 32 (16.49%) Data Governance
15 31 (15.98%) DevOps
16 28 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (13.92%) Lakehouse
18 25 (12.89%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (12.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 135 (69.59%) SQL
2 109 (56.19%) Python
3 27 (13.92%) Java
4 15 (7.73%) Scala
5 14 (7.22%) Go
6 10 (5.15%) LookML
7 9 (4.64%) R
7 9 (4.64%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.61%) PHP
9 6 (3.09%) Bash
9 6 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.55%) Cypher
10 3 (1.55%) Gremlin
10 3 (1.55%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.03%) Korn
11 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) COBOL
12 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (5.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.55%) Degree
3 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) PMP
5 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (34.02%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.15%) QA
3 7 (3.61%) GDPR
4 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) Basel III
5 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.52%) ITGC
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (15.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (23.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.06%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Control-M
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) Istio
5 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (36.60%) Google
2 41 (21.13%) Databricks
3 18 (9.28%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.09%) Splunk
6 5 (2.58%) Informatica
6 5 (2.58%) New Relic
6 5 (2.58%) Oracle
7 3 (1.55%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.03%) Workday
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) IBM
9 1 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.52%) Okta
9 1 (0.52%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.52%) Sage
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) Talend