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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 515 386
Rank change year-on-year +5 -129 +94
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 210 135 561
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.67% 1.97% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 132 73 227
10th Percentile £43,875 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £47,194 £42,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £68,958 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -0.80% -21.88%

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 7,860 6,847 14,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.97% 15.77% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,348 4,546 10,524
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,529
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%

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 13 July 2026.

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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 115 £83,750 +19.64% 106
North of England -7 44 £66,750 +11.25% 34
North West -9 20 £66,750 -49.30% 23
Yorkshire -21 19 £72,966 +82.41% 10
South West -59 13 £58,750 -40.31% 11
East of England -6 12 £52,500 +16.67% 2
South East -24 10 £45,000 -18.18% 17
West Midlands -29 6 £51,552 +21.30% 3
Midlands -50 6 £51,552 +14.56% 3
North East -49 5 £75,000 +57.89% 1
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 64 (30.48%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (15.24%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.33%) Apache
4 6 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 187 (89.05%) GCP
2 93 (44.29%) AWS
3 79 (37.62%) Azure
4 63 (30.00%) dbt
5 53 (25.24%) Power Platform
6 46 (21.90%) Snowflake
7 38 (18.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 26 (12.38%) Google Analytics
9 15 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
10 12 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.24%) Google Tag Manager
12 9 (4.29%) Cloud Run
12 9 (4.29%) Dagster
12 9 (4.29%) GitHub
13 8 (3.81%) Dataform
13 8 (3.81%) SaaS
14 6 (2.86%) Google Compute Engine
14 6 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
15 5 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.52%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (27.62%) Looker
3 53 (25.24%) Power BI
4 52 (24.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 40 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (19.05%) Tableau
6 35 (16.67%) Data Lake
7 24 (11.43%) Semantic Layer
8 23 (10.95%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (7.14%) Metadata
10 9 (4.29%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 6 (2.86%) MySQL
13 5 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
14 4 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.90%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.90%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.43%) MLflow
2 18 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) JIRA
4 1 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 54 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (15.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.48%) Marketing
5 22 (10.48%) Retail
6 19 (9.05%) Finance
7 14 (6.67%) Law
8 6 (2.86%) Banking
9 5 (2.38%) Billing
10 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.43%) Advertising
12 2 (0.95%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (31.90%) Senior
2 65 (30.95%) Data Engineer
3 47 (22.38%) Analyst
4 26 (12.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 25 (11.90%) Lead
6 24 (11.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 23 (10.95%) Systems Engineer
8 20 (9.52%) Architect
9 18 (8.57%) GCP Engineer
10 16 (7.62%) GCP Data Engineer
11 15 (7.14%) Data Analyst
11 15 (7.14%) Performance Analyst
12 13 (6.19%) Digital Analyst
12 13 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (4.29%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.81%) GCP Architect
14 8 (3.81%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.33%) Web Analyst
16 5 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.19%) Kafka
2 24 (11.43%) scikit-learn
2 24 (11.43%) TensorFlow
3 23 (10.95%) LangChain
3 23 (10.95%) LlamaIndex
3 23 (10.95%) pgvector
3 23 (10.95%) PyTorch
4 17 (8.10%) Django
5 15 (7.14%) Node.js
6 10 (4.76%) CSS
7 8 (3.81%) HTML
7 8 (3.81%) RESTful
8 4 (1.90%) Apache Beam
9 3 (1.43%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.43%) REST
10 2 (0.95%) OAuth
10 2 (0.95%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.95%) OpenID
10 2 (0.95%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (0.95%) React
Miscellaneous
1 63 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 31 (14.76%) Data Structures
3 25 (11.90%) Clustering
4 23 (10.95%) Public Cloud
5 18 (8.57%) Algorithms
6 17 (8.10%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
9 10 (4.76%) Social Media
10 8 (3.81%) Blog
11 7 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (3.33%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.86%) Anti-Piracy
13 5 (2.38%) Online Gambling
13 5 (2.38%) Sports Betting
14 4 (1.90%) Replication
15 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 2 (0.95%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (49.52%) Analytics
2 95 (45.24%) Data Engineering
3 75 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
4 73 (34.76%) AI
5 71 (33.81%) Data Modelling
5 71 (33.81%) ETL
5 71 (33.81%) Mentoring
6 58 (27.62%) Agile
7 56 (26.67%) Data Science
8 51 (24.29%) Data Governance
9 43 (20.48%) Performance Tuning
10 41 (19.52%) CI/CD
10 41 (19.52%) Machine Learning
11 34 (16.19%) Data Management
12 33 (15.71%) Storytelling
13 32 (15.24%) Data Architecture
14 31 (14.76%) Predictive Modelling
14 31 (14.76%) Roadmaps
15 30 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 139 (66.19%) Python
2 135 (64.29%) SQL
3 26 (12.38%) Java
4 17 (8.10%) Scala
5 10 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.86%) C++
7 4 (1.90%) Bash
8 3 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.95%) C#
9 2 (0.95%) Go
9 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (19.52%) Degree
2 21 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
7 1 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (27.14%) Data Quality
2 35 (16.67%) GDPR
3 23 (10.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 13 (6.19%) QA
5 7 (3.33%) PERC
6 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (18.10%) Terraform
2 12 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.95%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 88 (41.90%) Google
2 38 (18.10%) Databricks
3 23 (10.95%) Cloudera
3 23 (10.95%) Dell
4 6 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.95%) Adobe
5 2 (0.95%) Braze
5 2 (0.95%) GoCardless
5 2 (0.95%) mParticle
5 2 (0.95%) OneLogin
5 2 (0.95%) PayPal
5 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.95%) Vertica
5 2 (0.95%) Zuora
6 1 (0.48%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.48%) Dataiku