Google BigQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BigQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BigQuery over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 501 371
Rank change year-on-year +106 -130 +157
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 655 548 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.56% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 2.61% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 266 227 370
10th Percentile - £55,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,725 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £85,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +25.00% +0.74%
75th Percentile £86,042 £92,500 £85,938
90th Percentile £111,250 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,249 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year -34.25% +14.71% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

BigQuery is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Salary trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 621 £57,500 -30.30% 94
UK excluding London +259 508 £45,249 -34.25% 41
Work from Home +63 222 £55,000 -31.25% 56
North of England +186 206 £45,249 -35.36% 16
London -35 126 £81,250 -4.41% 59
South East +65 102 £54,000 -16.92% 11
North West +73 85 £45,249 -30.39% 10
South West +27 79 £70,576 +2.55% 1
Yorkshire +125 75 £45,249 -35.36% 5
Midlands +50 71 £57,500 +1.77% 5
North East - 46 £45,249 - 1
West Midlands +38 44 £56,250 -0.44% 2
East Midlands - 27 £100,000 - 3
East of England +16 24 £71,250 +58.33% 2
Scotland -46 19 £91,538 - 4
Wales +7 7 £112,500 - 3

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 44 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (5.34%) Apache Spark
3 31 (4.73%) Apache
4 11 (1.68%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.61%) SAS
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 573 (87.48%) GCP
2 257 (39.24%) AWS
3 250 (38.17%) Azure
4 77 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (8.09%) Power Platform
6 49 (7.48%) Snowflake
7 36 (5.50%) dbt
7 36 (5.50%) Google Analytics
8 20 (3.05%) GitHub
9 16 (2.44%) SaaS
9 16 (2.44%) Stackdriver
10 14 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
11 13 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (1.53%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.53%) Cloud Composer
12 10 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.53%) Serverless
13 8 (1.22%) Google Data Studio
13 8 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.22%) VPN
2 4 (0.61%) SMS
3 3 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (63.21%) Looker
2 245 (37.40%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (8.40%) Tableau
4 53 (8.09%) Power BI
5 46 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (5.04%) Data Lake
6 33 (5.04%) SQL Server
7 29 (4.43%) Big Data
8 26 (3.97%) NoSQL
9 23 (3.51%) Relational Database
10 19 (2.90%) Hadoop
11 15 (2.29%) Data Mining
11 15 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
12 14 (2.14%) Flink
13 12 (1.83%) Data Hub
13 12 (1.83%) DB2
13 12 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (4.27%) Git
2 26 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.90%) GitLab
4 12 (1.83%) JIRA
5 8 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.76%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.31%) ERwin
7 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 374 (57.10%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (12.52%) Social Skills
3 73 (11.15%) Billing
4 59 (9.01%) Finance
5 45 (6.87%) Banking
6 38 (5.80%) Retail
7 24 (3.66%) Marketing
8 20 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.29%) Law
11 7 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Legal
14 3 (0.46%) Publishing
15 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.31%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 260 (39.69%) Data Engineer
2 174 (26.56%) Platform Engineer
3 172 (26.26%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (26.11%) Principal Data Engineer
5 134 (20.46%) Architect
6 124 (18.93%) Data Architect
7 91 (13.89%) Analyst
8 79 (12.06%) Data Manager
9 74 (11.30%) Digital Analyst
10 72 (10.99%) Engineering Manager
11 70 (10.69%) Digital Performance Analyst
11 70 (10.69%) Performance Analyst
12 52 (7.94%) Senior
13 36 (5.50%) Lead
14 25 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (1.98%) Head of Engineering
17 12 (1.83%) Cloud Engineer
18 11 (1.68%) Cloud Architect
18 11 (1.68%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.56%) Kafka
2 28 (4.27%) Apache Beam
3 11 (1.68%) RESTful
4 8 (1.22%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.92%) React
6 5 (0.76%) REST
6 5 (0.76%) Vue
7 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.61%) Pandas
7 4 (0.61%) PySpark
7 4 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.46%) HTML
8 3 (0.46%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (0.46%) Spring
8 3 (0.46%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.31%) NumPy
9 2 (0.31%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.15%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 1 (0.15%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 279 (42.60%) Self-Motivation
2 74 (11.30%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 13 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.83%) Cyberattack
5 12 (1.83%) Data Fabric
5 12 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.53%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.53%) Blog
6 10 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.53%) Mainframe
7 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.07%) NHS
9 6 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.76%) Replication
11 4 (0.61%) Clustering
11 4 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.36%) Linux
2 12 (1.83%) Windows
2 12 (1.83%) zOS
3 1 (0.15%) Android
3 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (64.43%) Data Engineering
2 377 (57.56%) Agile
3 376 (57.40%) Problem-Solving
4 372 (56.79%) Platform Engineering
5 370 (56.49%) Mentoring
6 280 (42.75%) ETL
7 256 (39.08%) DevOps
8 242 (36.95%) Data Modelling
9 227 (34.66%) Data Pipeline
10 201 (30.69%) Data Science
11 194 (29.62%) Analytics
12 170 (25.95%) DataOps
13 162 (24.73%) Change Management
14 150 (22.90%) Data Governance
15 136 (20.76%) Data Architecture
16 132 (20.15%) CI/CD
17 131 (20.00%) Data Integration
18 129 (19.69%) Visualisation
19 115 (17.56%) Data Security
20 111 (16.95%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 224 (34.20%) SQL
2 130 (19.85%) Python
3 40 (6.11%) Java
4 22 (3.36%) Go
4 22 (3.36%) Scala
5 12 (1.83%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.53%) R
7 6 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.92%) PHP
8 5 (0.76%) Perl
8 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.46%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) C#
11 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (3.97%) Degree
2 7 (1.07%) CIPD
2 7 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.07%) DBS Check
3 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.31%) PhD
5 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (41.68%) GDPR
2 143 (21.83%) Data Quality
3 77 (11.76%) QA
4 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (4.58%) Docker
2 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 53 (8.09%) Terraform
3 14 (2.14%) Ansible
4 5 (0.76%) logstash
5 3 (0.46%) Grafana
5 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.31%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 476 (72.67%) Google
2 33 (5.04%) Databricks
3 25 (3.82%) Oracle
4 20 (3.05%) Teradata
5 15 (2.29%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.83%) F5
7 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
8 5 (0.76%) Splunk
9 4 (0.61%) Adobe
9 4 (0.61%) Coremetrics
10 3 (0.46%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.46%) Hortonworks
10 3 (0.46%) Informatica
11 2 (0.31%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.31%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.31%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.31%) New Relic
11 2 (0.31%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.31%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.31%) Twitter