BigQuery Job Trends in the City of London

Google BigQuery
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 154 156
Rank change year-on-year +35 +2 +91
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 17 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.75% 0.30% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.50% 1.19% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 13
10th Percentile £73,400 £64,250 £52,600
25th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% +10.34%
75th Percentile £113,750 £106,250 £120,000
90th Percentile £115,750 £111,500 -
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% +15.63% +14.74%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

BigQuery falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 378 672 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 16.79% 25.32% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 321 440 569
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,310 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the City of London

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) GCP
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
3 3 (17.65%) Vertex AI
4 2 (11.76%) Alation
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
5 1 (5.88%) Dagster
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Supabase
5 1 (5.88%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) Tableau
4 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.76%) DataStage
4 2 (11.76%) Metadata
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) QlikView
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.88%) Airbyte
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.88%) Metabase
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ER Studio
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) PowerDesigner
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Advertising
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Principal Software Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Architect
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 1 (5.88%) BigQuery Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Django
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Next.js
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Algorithms
1 10 (58.82%) Data Structures
1 10 (58.82%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Reinsurance
4 1 (5.88%) Media Streaming
4 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Computer Science
2 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
3 10 (58.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (58.82%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Data Science
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) AI
6 5 (29.41%) Analytics
6 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
6 5 (29.41%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) Software Architecture
7 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (23.53%) Data Management
7 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (23.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (70.59%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Google
2 4 (23.53%) Informatica
3 3 (17.65%) Databricks
4 2 (11.76%) Foundry
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Palantir