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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 501 423
Rank change year-on-year +120 -78 +110
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 677 594 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.57% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 2.65% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 289 246 393
10th Percentile - £55,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £42,725 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £67,071 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.72% +11.78% -4.00%

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 18,136 22,401 43,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.54% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12,594 13,904 21,435
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 £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +135 639 £57,500 -32.35% 105
UK excluding London +263 521 £52,500 -21.72% 50
Work from Home +74 246 £60,000 -29.41% 79
North of England +175 207 £45,249 -32.54% 15
London -40 133 £78,750 -7.35% 62
South East +67 102 £54,000 -6.09% 10
North West +67 85 £45,249 -26.04% 9
South West +41 85 £70,576 -21.58% 2
Yorkshire +137 76 £45,249 -33.41% 4
Midlands +69 72 £61,250 +8.41% 8
North East - 46 £45,249 - 2
West Midlands +58 45 £57,500 +1.77% 4
East Midlands - 27 £100,000 - 4
East of England +35 24 £71,250 +58.33% 6
Scotland -41 22 £120,360 - 6
Wales +17 9 £72,500 - 4

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 45 (6.65%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 32 (4.73%) Apache
4 11 (1.62%) Confluence
5 4 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 594 (87.74%) GCP
2 261 (38.55%) Azure
3 258 (38.11%) AWS
4 77 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (9.31%) Power Platform
6 52 (7.68%) Snowflake
7 38 (5.61%) Google Analytics
8 36 (5.32%) dbt
9 25 (3.69%) GitHub
10 17 (2.51%) SaaS
11 16 (2.36%) Stackdriver
12 14 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.48%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (1.48%) Serverless
15 9 (1.33%) Cloud Composer
15 9 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.18%) VPN
2 4 (0.59%) SMS
3 3 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 413 (61.00%) Looker
2 246 (36.34%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (9.31%) Power BI
4 61 (9.01%) Tableau
5 49 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (5.32%) Data Lake
7 33 (4.87%) SQL Server
8 31 (4.58%) Big Data
9 30 (4.43%) NoSQL
10 27 (3.99%) Relational Database
11 23 (3.40%) Hadoop
12 18 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
13 16 (2.36%) MongoDB
14 15 (2.22%) Data Hub
14 15 (2.22%) Data Mining
15 13 (1.92%) MySQL
16 12 (1.77%) DB2
16 12 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.62%) Flink
18 10 (1.48%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 35 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 26 (3.84%) Git
3 22 (3.25%) GitLab
4 12 (1.77%) JIRA
5 8 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Spinnaker
General
1 376 (55.54%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (12.11%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.78%) Billing
4 69 (10.19%) Finance
5 59 (8.71%) Banking
6 42 (6.20%) Retail
7 24 (3.55%) Marketing
8 18 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.51%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.62%) Law
11 9 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.89%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.59%) Games
16 4 (0.59%) Public Sector
17 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Publishing
18 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 275 (40.62%) Data Engineer
2 175 (25.85%) Platform Engineer
3 172 (25.41%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (25.26%) Principal Data Engineer
5 132 (19.50%) Architect
6 122 (18.02%) Data Architect
7 93 (13.74%) Analyst
8 79 (11.67%) Data Manager
9 75 (11.08%) Digital Analyst
10 72 (10.64%) Engineering Manager
11 70 (10.34%) Digital Performance Analyst
11 70 (10.34%) Performance Analyst
12 51 (7.53%) Senior
13 45 (6.65%) Lead
14 27 (3.99%) Senior Data Engineer
15 23 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (2.22%) Head of Engineering
17 11 (1.62%) Cloud Architect
17 11 (1.62%) Cloud Engineer
18 10 (1.48%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.20%) Kafka
2 28 (4.14%) Apache Beam
3 11 (1.62%) RESTful
4 8 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.89%) Pandas
6 5 (0.74%) React
6 5 (0.74%) REST
7 4 (0.59%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.59%) PySpark
7 4 (0.59%) Vue
8 3 (0.44%) HTML
9 2 (0.30%) NumPy
9 2 (0.30%) Spring
9 2 (0.30%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
10 1 (0.15%) Next.js
10 1 (0.15%) Spark Streaming
10 1 (0.15%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 279 (41.21%) Self-Motivation
2 81 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.77%) Cyberattack
7 12 (1.77%) Data Fabric
8 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.48%) Blog
8 10 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.03%) NHS
12 5 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.74%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.74%) Replication
13 4 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.10%) Linux
2 12 (1.77%) Windows
2 12 (1.77%) zOS
3 1 (0.15%) Android
3 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (62.78%) Data Engineering
2 390 (57.61%) Agile
3 373 (55.10%) Mentoring
4 371 (54.80%) Platform Engineering
4 371 (54.80%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (42.25%) ETL
6 262 (38.70%) DevOps
7 249 (36.78%) Data Modelling
8 234 (34.56%) Data Pipeline
9 201 (29.69%) Analytics
10 200 (29.54%) Data Science
11 169 (24.96%) DataOps
12 161 (23.78%) Change Management
13 149 (22.01%) Data Governance
14 138 (20.38%) Data Architecture
15 136 (20.09%) CI/CD
15 136 (20.09%) Data Integration
16 133 (19.65%) Visualisation
17 115 (16.99%) Data Security
18 111 (16.40%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 236 (34.86%) SQL
2 143 (21.12%) Python
3 36 (5.32%) Java
4 21 (3.10%) Go
5 20 (2.95%) Scala
6 18 (2.66%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.62%) R
8 6 (0.89%) PHP
9 5 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.74%) Perl
9 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.59%) C#
11 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.15%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) Groovy
13 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (3.40%) Degree
2 7 (1.03%) CIPD
2 7 (1.03%) DBS Check
3 5 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.44%) PhD
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (40.32%) GDPR
2 151 (22.30%) Data Quality
3 76 (11.23%) QA
4 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (3.55%) Docker
2 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (9.16%) Terraform
2 58 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.77%) Ansible
4 5 (0.74%) logstash
5 3 (0.44%) Argo
5 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.44%) Puppet
6 2 (0.30%) Grafana
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 490 (72.38%) Google
2 33 (4.87%) Databricks
3 25 (3.69%) Oracle
4 20 (2.95%) Teradata
5 17 (2.51%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.77%) F5
7 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.89%) Splunk
9 4 (0.59%) Adobe
9 4 (0.59%) Coremetrics
10 3 (0.44%) Informatica
11 2 (0.30%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.30%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.30%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.30%) Medallia
11 2 (0.30%) New Relic
11 2 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.30%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.30%) Twitter
12 1 (0.15%) SnapLogic