Looker Job Trends in England

Looker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Looker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 530 396
Rank change year-on-year -22 -134 +339
Permanent jobs citing Looker 129 72 501
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.19% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.87% 1.07% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 65 50 152
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,105 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.99% +13.04% -32.35%
75th Percentile £71,109 £87,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,988 £102,410 £97,125
UK median annual salary £48,105 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -19.83% +6.67% -33.82%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

Looker 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 6,894 6,716 14,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.02% 18.09% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,233 4,764 11,493
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Looker job vacancy trend in England

Looker
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Looker

Looker
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Looker in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Looker in England

Looker
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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 +10 54 £62,500 -3.85% 47
North of England -40 19 £37,500 - 9
South East -27 17 £60,000 -20.00% 27
Midlands -42 16 £40,000 -27.27% 17
East of England -13 14 £86,725 +82.58% 3
West Midlands -17 14 £40,000 -27.27% 8
North West -10 9 £27,699 -70.84% 3
Yorkshire -55 7 £48,105 +28.28% 4
South West -46 5 £40,000 -59.36% 7
North East - 3 £37,500 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 9
Looker
UK

Looker
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 31 (24.03%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (18.60%) Apache Spark
3 15 (11.63%) CMS
4 2 (1.55%) SAS
4 2 (1.55%) WordPress
5 1 (0.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) Power Platform
2 52 (40.31%) GCP
3 48 (37.21%) dbt
4 35 (27.13%) Google Analytics
5 32 (24.81%) Snowflake
6 31 (24.03%) AWS
7 27 (20.93%) Azure
8 24 (18.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (10.85%) Google Tag Manager
10 11 (8.53%) Google Data Studio
11 9 (6.98%) Dataform
12 8 (6.20%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (4.65%) Contentsquare
14 3 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (2.33%) GitHub
15 2 (1.55%) Fivetran
15 2 (1.55%) Google Docs
15 2 (1.55%) Google Sheets
15 2 (1.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (51.94%) Power BI
2 61 (47.29%) Tableau
3 56 (43.41%) BigQuery
4 33 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (21.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (20.16%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (17.83%) Data Lake
7 23 (17.83%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (5.43%) Metadata
9 6 (4.65%) Metabase
10 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.33%) Big Data
11 3 (2.33%) Flink
11 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.33%) Redis
11 3 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.55%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (17.83%) MLflow
2 6 (4.65%) Git
3 3 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 64 (49.61%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (27.13%) Marketing
3 31 (24.03%) Social Skills
4 17 (13.18%) Finance
5 16 (12.40%) Retail
6 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.20%) Banking
9 7 (5.43%) Law
10 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Legal
12 2 (1.55%) Games
12 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (31.01%) Analyst
2 35 (27.13%) Senior
3 23 (17.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 23 (17.83%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Data Analyst
4 17 (13.18%) Lead
5 10 (7.75%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Performance Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Product Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Data Scientist
7 8 (6.20%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (4.65%) Senior Data Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) Senior Data Scientist
9 4 (3.10%) Ad Operations Executive
9 4 (3.10%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) Architect
10 3 (2.33%) Customer Analyst
10 3 (2.33%) GCP Architect
11 2 (1.55%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.16%) Kafka
2 23 (17.83%) LangChain
2 23 (17.83%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (17.83%) pgvector
2 23 (17.83%) PyTorch
2 23 (17.83%) scikit-learn
2 23 (17.83%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.55%) CSS
3 2 (1.55%) HTML
3 2 (1.55%) YAML
4 1 (0.78%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.78%) Flask
4 1 (0.78%) Node.js
4 1 (0.78%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.83%) Clustering
2 23 (17.83%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.75%) Marketing Technology
4 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.65%) Blog
6 4 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.55%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.55%) Podcast
8 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.78%) Social Media
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Android
1 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (86.82%) Analytics
2 72 (55.81%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (39.53%) AI
4 42 (32.56%) Data Modelling
5 41 (31.78%) Data Science
5 41 (31.78%) Machine Learning
6 38 (29.46%) Storytelling
7 37 (28.68%) Data Pipeline
8 36 (27.91%) Data Engineering
8 36 (27.91%) Data Governance
9 31 (24.03%) ETL
10 30 (23.26%) CRM
11 28 (21.71%) Actionable Insight
11 28 (21.71%) E-Commerce
12 27 (20.93%) Use Case
13 26 (20.16%) Digital Marketing
13 26 (20.16%) Generative AI
14 25 (19.38%) Data Management
14 25 (19.38%) Dimensional Modelling
14 25 (19.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (57.36%) SQL
2 49 (37.98%) Python
3 7 (5.43%) R
4 6 (4.65%) Julia
5 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.78%) Bash
6 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (6.98%) DBS Check
1 9 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (2.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.55%) AAT
3 2 (1.55%) ACCA
3 2 (1.55%) CIMA
4 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.91%) GDPR
2 29 (22.48%) Data Quality
3 23 (17.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (6.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (2.33%) PERC
6 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Terraform
2 4 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 55 (42.64%) Google
2 26 (20.16%) Databricks
3 23 (17.83%) Cloudera
3 23 (17.83%) Dell
4 12 (9.30%) Adobe
5 10 (7.75%) Braze
5 10 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.65%) Hotjar
7 3 (2.33%) Confluent
8 2 (1.55%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.55%) Xero
9 1 (0.78%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.78%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.78%) Sitebulb