BigQuery Job Trends in England

Google BigQuery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 491 416
Rank change year-on-year +26 -75 +153
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 148 192 255
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.39% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.49% 2.14% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 100 78 182
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,099 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £119,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,375 £149,500 £104,229
UK median annual salary £67,500 £73,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +1.03% -3.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,944 8,957 9,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.43% 17.99% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,900 5,122 7,376
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.00%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in England

BigQuery
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +42 80 £71,750 -28.38% 116
South East +36 29 £50,000 -6.98% 29
North of England -9 17 £55,000 -12.52% 12
Midlands +25 12 £42,500 -37.04% 1
North West +22 12 £60,000 +33.33% 11
East Midlands -4 9 £42,500 -34.62% 1
South West +16 5 £40,000 -24.49% 7
Yorkshire -16 5 £42,500 -34.62% 1
West Midlands +25 3 £42,500 -39.29%
East of England +19 3 £41,250 - 7
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 29 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.76%) Apache
3 9 (6.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Superset
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
5 2 (1.35%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (85.14%) GCP
2 46 (31.08%) AWS
3 45 (30.41%) Azure
4 35 (23.65%) Snowflake
5 30 (20.27%) GitHub
6 28 (18.92%) Power Platform
7 22 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (13.51%) dbt
9 18 (12.16%) Google Compute Engine
10 17 (11.49%) Cloud Run
11 16 (10.81%) Cloud Functions
12 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.08%) Cloud Composer
13 8 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (5.41%) Datadog
13 8 (5.41%) Fivetran
13 8 (5.41%) SaaS
13 8 (5.41%) Vertex AI
14 7 (4.73%) Firebase
15 6 (4.05%) Dataform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (31.08%) Tableau
2 31 (20.95%) Looker
3 28 (18.92%) Power BI
4 22 (14.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (9.46%) Data Lake
6 13 (8.78%) Metadata
7 11 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.41%) Big Data
10 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (3.38%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.70%) DataStage
12 4 (2.70%) QlikView
13 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.03%) Pinecone
14 2 (1.35%) Airbyte
14 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Git
1 17 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.05%) CircleCI
3 4 (2.70%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.70%) ERwin
3 4 (2.70%) GitLab
3 4 (2.70%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.35%) JIRA
4 2 (1.35%) Storybook
5 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 35 (23.65%) Marketing
2 29 (19.59%) Finance
3 26 (17.57%) Social Skills
4 25 (16.89%) Law
5 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.14%) Retail
7 13 (8.78%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.38%) Advertising
11 4 (2.70%) Banking
11 4 (2.70%) Electronics
11 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.70%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (27.03%) Analyst
2 36 (24.32%) Architect
3 30 (20.27%) GCP Architect
4 29 (19.59%) Data Analyst
5 24 (16.22%) Senior
6 22 (14.86%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (13.51%) Data Engineer
7 20 (13.51%) Platform Architect
8 19 (12.84%) GCP Engineer
9 17 (11.49%) Software Engineer
10 14 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (9.46%) GCP DevOps
10 14 (9.46%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 13 (8.78%) Data Architect
11 13 (8.78%) Data Quality Analyst
11 13 (8.78%) Quality Analyst
12 10 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (5.41%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.43%) Node.js
2 10 (6.76%) Django
2 10 (6.76%) React
3 6 (4.05%) RESTful
4 5 (3.38%) Kafka
4 5 (3.38%) Redux
5 4 (2.70%) Hugging Face
5 4 (2.70%) Next.js
5 4 (2.70%) NumPy
5 4 (2.70%) Pandas
5 4 (2.70%) React Native
5 4 (2.70%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.03%) CSS
6 3 (2.03%) LangChain
7 2 (1.35%) Apache Beam
7 2 (1.35%) Jest
7 2 (1.35%) JWT
7 2 (1.35%) PySpark
7 2 (1.35%) RxJS
7 2 (1.35%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Data Structures
3 11 (7.43%) Algorithms
3 11 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.70%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.35%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) Blog
9 1 (0.68%) FMCG
9 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.70%) Android
1 4 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 4 (2.70%) Unix
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.97%) Analytics
2 44 (29.73%) Data Science
2 44 (29.73%) Visualisation
3 42 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (28.38%) DevOps
4 41 (27.70%) CI/CD
5 37 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 36 (24.32%) ETL
7 35 (23.65%) Data Modelling
8 34 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (22.30%) Data Pipeline
9 33 (22.30%) Decision-Making
10 32 (21.62%) AI
10 32 (21.62%) Cloud Security
10 32 (21.62%) Data Visualisation
10 32 (21.62%) Roadmaps
11 29 (19.59%) Software Engineering
12 26 (17.57%) Computer Science
12 26 (17.57%) Migration
12 26 (17.57%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (72.30%) Python
2 76 (51.35%) SQL
3 26 (17.57%) Java
4 23 (15.54%) Go
5 16 (10.81%) Bash
6 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.03%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.03%) R
9 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.35%) Ruby
10 2 (1.35%) Scala
10 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (17.57%) Degree
2 20 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.81%) GDPR
3 11 (7.43%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.03%) QA
6 2 (1.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
System Software
1 19 (12.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (29.73%) Kubernetes
2 35 (23.65%) Terraform
3 13 (8.78%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.70%) Argo
5 2 (1.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 98 (66.22%) Google
2 13 (8.78%) Databricks
3 8 (5.41%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.05%) Informatica
5 5 (3.38%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.70%) Adobe
6 4 (2.70%) IBM
6 4 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.70%) SAP
6 4 (2.70%) Talend
6 4 (2.70%) Zoho
7 2 (1.35%) Foundry
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.35%) SendGrid
8 1 (0.68%) Apple
8 1 (0.68%) New Relic
8 1 (0.68%) Palantir
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Spotify