BigQuery Contracts in London

Google BigQuery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 289 336
Rank change year-on-year +34 +47 +61
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 89 104 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.60% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 2.68% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 118
10th Percentile £330 £400 £418
25th Percentile £425 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -11.58% +8.99%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £700
90th Percentile £694 £726 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £581
% change year-on-year -4.76% -9.68% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.75 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -42.94% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.25 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +29.63% -52.35% +269.57%

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 2,714 3,875 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.14% 22.20% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,897 2,877 3,813
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -0.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.67 £25.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% -7.62% -2.33%
75th Percentile £54.38 £54.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 May 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
Central London +21 18 £525 -25.00% 6
West London +10 2 £563 +7.14%
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.36%) Apache Spark
2 10 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.87%) Apache
4 2 (2.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
1 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (92.13%) GCP
2 21 (23.60%) Azure
3 20 (22.47%) AWS
4 16 (17.98%) dbt
4 16 (17.98%) Power Platform
5 14 (15.73%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.11%) Cloud Functions
7 8 (8.99%) Cloud Composer
8 6 (6.74%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (6.74%) GitHub
8 6 (6.74%) Google Compute Engine
9 5 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.49%) Google Analytics
11 3 (3.37%) Collibra
11 3 (3.37%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (2.25%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (35.96%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (22.47%) Looker
3 19 (21.35%) Tableau
4 16 (17.98%) Power BI
5 14 (15.73%) Data Lake
6 11 (12.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.87%) Flink
8 6 (6.74%) Big Data
8 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
9 5 (5.62%) Parquet
9 5 (5.62%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.49%) Hadoop
10 4 (4.49%) Power Query
10 4 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (4.49%) Star Schema
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (3.37%) Apache Hive
11 3 (3.37%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.25%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) JIRA
2 6 (6.74%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.37%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.37%) Zephyr
4 2 (2.25%) Postman
4 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 2 (2.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.12%) RStudio
5 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.10%) Finance
3 6 (6.74%) Retail
4 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 4 (4.49%) Marketing
6 3 (3.37%) Advertising
6 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Architect
1 23 (25.84%) Data Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Analyst
3 17 (19.10%) GCP Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior
5 15 (16.85%) Data Architect
6 12 (13.48%) Data Analyst
7 11 (12.36%) GCP Architect
8 10 (11.24%) GCP Data Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Lead
10 6 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Developer
11 5 (5.62%) GCP Data Architect
11 5 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) Senior Architect
12 4 (4.49%) Senior Data Architect
12 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (4.49%) Test Analyst
13 3 (3.37%) Java Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) Kafka
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Avro
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Beam
3 4 (4.49%) PySpark
4 3 (3.37%) Great Expectations
4 3 (3.37%) React
5 2 (2.25%) .NET
5 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.25%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.25%) JSON
5 2 (2.25%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) pytest
5 2 (2.25%) SOAP
6 1 (1.12%) Django
6 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.12%) JWT
6 1 (1.12%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.12%) RESTful
6 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Virtual Team
2 8 (8.99%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) PDA
5 2 (2.25%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.12%) Derivative
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Unix
1 2 (2.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Data Modelling
2 33 (37.08%) ETL
3 31 (34.83%) Analytics
4 29 (32.58%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
6 25 (28.09%) Visualisation
7 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (25.84%) Data Integration
8 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (22.47%) Data Engineering
10 18 (20.22%) Agile
11 17 (19.10%) Data Visualisation
12 15 (16.85%) Data Governance
13 14 (15.73%) Decision-Making
14 13 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence
14 13 (14.61%) Data Architecture
14 13 (14.61%) DevOps
15 12 (13.48%) Data Analysis
15 12 (13.48%) Data Ingestion
15 12 (13.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 52 (58.43%) SQL
2 45 (50.56%) Python
3 16 (17.98%) Java
4 7 (7.87%) Scala
5 4 (4.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.37%) Bash
6 3 (3.37%) Go
6 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.12%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.12%) LookML
7 1 (1.12%) R
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.87%) QA
3 3 (3.37%) GDPR
4 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (12.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (21.35%) Terraform
2 14 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Argo
3 1 (1.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 55 (61.80%) Google
2 10 (11.24%) Databricks
2 10 (11.24%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.62%) Informatica
5 3 (3.37%) Okta
6 2 (2.25%) Talend
7 1 (1.12%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) Teradata
7 1 (1.12%) WooCommerce