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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 281 337
Rank change year-on-year +28 +56 +62
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 126 94 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.63% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.23% 2.95% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 50 46
10th Percentile £338 £363 £463
25th Percentile £463 £439 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -0.70% -12.65%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £647
90th Percentile £738 £751 £759
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £39.38 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £56.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £68.70 £60.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,977 3,186 3,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.59% 21.38% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,068 2,196 2,596
10th Percentile £361 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -0.83% -4.58%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.13
25th Percentile £30.42 £27.67 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% -16.28%
75th Percentile £67.38 £58.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £54.35 £38.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +41.17% -16.63% -16.04%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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
West London -4 15 £600 - 1
Central London +7 14 £680 +11.02% 28
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 23 (18.25%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (15.87%) Apache Spark
3 18 (14.29%) Apache
4 7 (5.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 107 (84.92%) GCP
2 33 (26.19%) AWS
3 30 (23.81%) Azure
4 20 (15.87%) Power Platform
5 19 (15.08%) GitHub
6 15 (11.90%) dbt
6 15 (11.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 15 (11.90%) Snowflake
7 13 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 13 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (9.52%) Vertex AI
9 10 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.35%) Cloud Run
10 8 (6.35%) Collibra
10 8 (6.35%) Google Gemini
11 5 (3.97%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (3.97%) Stackdriver
12 4 (3.17%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) DNS
2 2 (1.59%) FTP
3 1 (0.79%) DSL
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (15.87%) Power BI
3 18 (14.29%) Looker
4 14 (11.11%) Data Lake
5 12 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.73%) NoSQL
7 10 (7.94%) Tableau
8 9 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (6.35%) Mixpanel
9 8 (6.35%) OLAP
9 8 (6.35%) OLTP
10 7 (5.56%) Big Data
11 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (3.97%) Metadata
12 5 (3.97%) SQL Server
13 3 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 2 (1.59%) Redis
14 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (11.90%) Git
1 15 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.56%) GitLab
3 6 (4.76%) JIRA
4 3 (2.38%) MLflow
4 3 (2.38%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.79%) GoCD
6 1 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (19.05%) Finance
1 24 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.52%) Retail
4 7 (5.56%) Banking
4 7 (5.56%) Marketing
5 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.59%) Games
7 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (25.40%) Data Engineer
2 27 (21.43%) Analyst
3 25 (19.84%) GCP Engineer
4 23 (18.25%) Senior
5 11 (8.73%) Test Analyst
6 10 (7.94%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) Data Scientist
8 8 (6.35%) Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Architect
10 6 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.90%) Kafka
2 10 (7.94%) Great Expectations
3 9 (7.14%) LangChain
3 9 (7.14%) Pandas
4 8 (6.35%) PyTorch
4 8 (6.35%) TensorFlow
5 7 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (5.56%) Node.js
5 7 (5.56%) React
6 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.97%) NumPy
6 5 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.97%) pytest
6 5 (3.97%) scikit-learn
6 5 (3.97%) Spring
6 5 (3.97%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.17%) ADO
7 4 (3.17%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.38%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.17%) Genomics
4 4 (3.17%) Life Science
4 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.79%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Android
2 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.59%) Linux
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) Analytics
2 41 (32.54%) CI/CD
3 38 (30.16%) ETL
4 36 (28.57%) AI
5 35 (27.78%) Machine Learning
6 32 (25.40%) Data Modelling
6 32 (25.40%) Data Pipeline
7 30 (23.81%) Agile
8 29 (23.02%) DevOps
9 25 (19.84%) Business Intelligence
9 25 (19.84%) Data Engineering
10 21 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
12 19 (15.08%) Data Governance
12 19 (15.08%) Data Science
12 19 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (15.08%) Software Engineering
13 18 (14.29%) Data Analytics
13 18 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (58.73%) SQL
2 62 (49.21%) Python
3 20 (15.87%) Java
4 9 (7.14%) C#
5 5 (3.97%) Bash
5 5 (3.97%) Go
5 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.97%) Scala
6 3 (2.38%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.38%) Objective-C
6 3 (2.38%) Swift
7 2 (1.59%) C++
7 2 (1.59%) Groovy
7 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.59%) R
8 1 (0.79%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.79%) LookML
8 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Degree
2 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) CISSP
4 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.59%) MCP
5 1 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.52%) GDPR
3 7 (5.56%) QA
4 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.59%) MiFID
5 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.79%) PERC
System Software
1 24 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (18.25%) Terraform
2 20 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.35%) Istio
4 5 (3.97%) Argo
5 3 (2.38%) Grafana
5 3 (2.38%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.79%) Ansible
7 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 67 (53.17%) Google
2 17 (13.49%) Databricks
3 8 (6.35%) Oracle
4 5 (3.97%) Splunk
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.38%) SAP
7 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.59%) Facebook
7 2 (1.59%) Informatica
7 2 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.59%) Teradata
8 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.79%) Instagram
8 1 (0.79%) PayPal
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.79%) TikTok
8 1 (0.79%) YouTube