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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 277 296
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +79
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 150 69 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 2.46% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 41 68
10th Percentile £348 £313 £421
25th Percentile £500 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -3.76% -7.39%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £652
90th Percentile £760 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £475 £545
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.84% -5.22%
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 3,173 2,809 3,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.05% 22.18% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,164 2,001 2,732
10th Percentile £363 £375 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 30 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.56 £28.60 £26.02
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% +3.14%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.63 £65.03
England median hourly rate £50.00 £33.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +47.91% -16.01% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 23 £613 +19.51% 28
West London +3 22 £603 +20.50% 4
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 26 (17.33%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.00%) Apache
3 18 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 118 (78.67%) GCP
2 42 (28.00%) Azure
3 41 (27.33%) AWS
4 33 (22.00%) Power Platform
5 26 (17.33%) Amazon S3
6 21 (14.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (12.67%) Cloud Run
8 18 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (12.00%) Collibra
8 18 (12.00%) Snowflake
9 16 (10.67%) dbt
9 16 (10.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (6.67%) GitHub
10 10 (6.67%) Vertex AI
11 9 (6.00%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (6.00%) Google Gemini
12 7 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.00%) Serverless
13 6 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) FTP
2 3 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (0.67%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.00%) Power BI
2 26 (17.33%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (14.00%) Looker
4 20 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 18 (12.00%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (12.00%) Mixpanel
5 18 (12.00%) OLAP
6 17 (11.33%) OLTP
7 13 (8.67%) Tableau
8 12 (8.00%) SQL Server
9 10 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (6.67%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (4.00%) Metadata
11 6 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.67%) Big Data
13 3 (2.00%) Redis
13 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 3 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (9.33%) Git
2 13 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.67%) GitLab
3 7 (4.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.33%) MLflow
4 2 (1.33%) Selenium
4 2 (1.33%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.67%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (24.67%) Finance
2 22 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.67%) Retail
5 15 (10.00%) Banking
6 7 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.33%) Marketing
7 5 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Billing
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 31 (20.67%) GCP Engineer
3 26 (17.33%) Analyst
4 23 (15.33%) Senior
5 18 (12.00%) Lead
6 16 (10.67%) Principal Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) Architect
7 15 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
7 15 (10.00%) Principal Data Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Test Analyst
10 10 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (6.00%) Software Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Principal Software Engineer
12 8 (5.33%) Python Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Developer
13 7 (4.67%) GCP Architect
13 7 (4.67%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.67%) Kafka
2 19 (12.67%) Great Expectations
3 9 (6.00%) LangChain
4 8 (5.33%) PyTorch
4 8 (5.33%) React
5 7 (4.67%) AngularJS
5 7 (4.67%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (4.00%) ADO
6 6 (4.00%) Node.js
6 6 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (4.00%) Spring
6 6 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.33%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.67%) Apache Beam
8 4 (2.67%) Pandas
8 4 (2.67%) pytest
9 3 (2.00%) NumPy
9 3 (2.00%) OAuth
9 3 (2.00%) OpenID
9 3 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.67%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.67%) Life Science
4 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.00%) Genomics
5 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.33%) Podcast
6 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.67%) Clustering
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.00%) Analytics
2 57 (38.00%) CI/CD
3 52 (34.67%) Data Modelling
4 51 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (30.67%) AI
6 45 (30.00%) Data Engineering
7 44 (29.33%) Machine Learning
8 42 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
9 39 (26.00%) ETL
10 38 (25.33%) Agile
10 38 (25.33%) DevOps
11 33 (22.00%) Data Governance
11 33 (22.00%) Observability
12 32 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (18.67%) Data Architecture
14 26 (17.33%) Software Engineering
15 25 (16.67%) Containerisation
16 24 (16.00%) LLM
17 23 (15.33%) Test Automation
18 21 (14.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.00%) SQL
2 76 (50.67%) Python
3 18 (12.00%) C#
4 16 (10.67%) Java
5 6 (4.00%) Scala
6 3 (2.00%) Go
6 3 (2.00%) LookML
7 2 (1.33%) Bash
7 2 (1.33%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (1.33%) Ruby
7 2 (1.33%) VBA
8 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (2.67%) Degree
2 4 (2.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.67%) ISEB
3 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (26.00%) Data Quality
2 23 (15.33%) GDPR
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.33%) MiFID
4 2 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) PERC
System Software
1 30 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (27.33%) Terraform
2 28 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.33%) Istio
4 6 (4.00%) Argo
5 3 (2.00%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (50.67%) Google
2 33 (22.00%) Databricks
3 10 (6.67%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.00%) Citrix
5 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.00%) Splunk
5 3 (2.00%) Workday
6 2 (1.33%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) Facebook
7 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.67%) PayPal
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Yardi