BigQuery Contract Job Trends in West London

Google BigQuery
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 12 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.88% 1.16% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.14% 6.52% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile £520 £483 -
25th Percentile £591 £494 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% +31.25% -44.83%
75th Percentile £638 £581 -
90th Percentile - £608 -
London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -15.32%

All Database & BI Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 70 46 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 16.79% 17.83% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 35 50
10th Percentile £393 £363 £189
25th Percentile £506 £414 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £700 £552 £544
90th Percentile £788 £750 £606
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £31.66 £22.68
25th Percentile - £35.55 £31.40
Median hourly rate - £42.04 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - -19.55% -34.69%
75th Percentile - £48.52 £69.00
90th Percentile - £52.41 £72.60
London median hourly rate £43.50 £42.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.57% -11.58% -22.76%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in West London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in West London over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in West London

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Richmond upon Thames - 9 £603 -
Hillingdon - 1 £1,000 -
BigQuery
London

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 9 (75.00%) Apache
1 9 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Power Platform
2 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) GCP
3 9 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
3 9 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 9 (75.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (75.00%) Collibra
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Power BI
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (75.00%) Data Lake
2 9 (75.00%) Mixpanel
2 9 (75.00%) OLAP
2 9 (75.00%) OLTP
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Looker
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Data Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Lead
2 9 (75.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 9 (75.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) Great Expectations
1 9 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Analytics
1 11 (91.67%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) ETL
2 10 (83.33%) RBAC
3 9 (75.00%) AI
3 9 (75.00%) Batch Processing
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Data Architecture
3 9 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (75.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (75.00%) Data Privacy
3 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (75.00%) LLM
3 9 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (75.00%) MapReduce
3 9 (75.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (75.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Databricks
1 9 (75.00%) Google