BigQuery Job Trends in London

Google BigQuery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 331 330
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +39
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 109 62 132
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.51% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.94% 2.29% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 60 24 79
10th Percentile £47,375 £57,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £58,199 £60,938 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £70,000 £87,610
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -20.10% +3.07%
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,063 £122,861
90th Percentile £105,500 £100,000 £180,000
England median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +21.36% -33.33% +3.13%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,768 2,712 4,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.63% 22.24% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 1,737 3,208
10th Percentile £46,526 £47,800 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,625 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.03% -3.00% -3.85%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in London

BigQuery
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in London

BigQuery
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Central London +11 27 £85,000 +25.93% 12
West London - 10 - - 2
South London - 7 - - 1
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 33 (30.28%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (17.43%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.59%) CMS
4 4 (3.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 94 (86.24%) GCP
2 36 (33.03%) AWS
3 34 (31.19%) Azure
3 34 (31.19%) dbt
4 27 (24.77%) Power Platform
5 24 (22.02%) Snowflake
6 18 (16.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (9.17%) Cloud Composer
8 7 (6.42%) Cloud Run
9 6 (5.50%) Google Analytics
9 6 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.59%) Vertex AI
11 4 (3.67%) GitHub
12 3 (2.75%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (2.75%) Dagster
12 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.75%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.83%) Google Data Studio
13 2 (1.83%) Google Sheets
13 2 (1.83%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (26.61%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (25.69%) Tableau
3 27 (24.77%) Power BI
4 23 (21.10%) Data Lake
4 23 (21.10%) Looker
5 21 (19.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (14.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 15 (13.76%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (4.59%) Cloud Spanner
9 5 (4.59%) Metadata
10 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.83%) MySQL
11 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.92%) Airbyte
12 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.92%) Presto
12 1 (0.92%) Trino
Development Applications
1 17 (15.60%) MLflow
2 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.67%) Git
4 1 (0.92%) JIRA
4 1 (0.92%) Yeoman
General
1 28 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (21.10%) Marketing
4 19 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (12.84%) Retail
6 5 (4.59%) Finance
6 5 (4.59%) Law
7 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (33.03%) Senior
2 22 (20.18%) Data Engineer
3 18 (16.51%) Analyst
4 17 (15.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 16 (14.68%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Architect
7 10 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Digital Analyst
8 9 (8.26%) GCP Architect
8 9 (8.26%) Lead
8 9 (8.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Data Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Web Analyst
10 6 (5.50%) GCP Data Architect
11 5 (4.59%) Marketing Analyst
11 5 (4.59%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Testing Analyst
11 5 (4.59%) Web Analytics Analyst
11 5 (4.59%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.35%) Kafka
2 16 (14.68%) LangChain
2 16 (14.68%) LlamaIndex
2 16 (14.68%) pgvector
2 16 (14.68%) PyTorch
2 16 (14.68%) scikit-learn
2 16 (14.68%) TensorFlow
3 13 (11.93%) Django
4 10 (9.17%) CSS
5 9 (8.26%) Node.js
6 8 (7.34%) HTML
7 6 (5.50%) RESTful
8 3 (2.75%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.75%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.83%) .NET
9 2 (1.83%) OAuth
9 2 (1.83%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.83%) OpenID
9 2 (1.83%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (1.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 42 (38.53%) Cloud Native
2 23 (21.10%) Data Structures
3 18 (16.51%) Clustering
4 16 (14.68%) Public Cloud
5 14 (12.84%) Algorithms
6 13 (11.93%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.75%) Anti-Piracy
9 3 (2.75%) Social Media
10 2 (1.83%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.92%) Blog
11 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (55.05%) Analytics
2 57 (52.29%) Data Engineering
3 49 (44.95%) AI
4 41 (37.61%) Data Modelling
4 41 (37.61%) Data Pipeline
5 33 (30.28%) Data Governance
6 32 (29.36%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (28.44%) Data Science
8 30 (27.52%) Mentoring
9 28 (25.69%) ETL
9 28 (25.69%) Machine Learning
10 27 (24.77%) Agile
11 26 (23.85%) CI/CD
12 25 (22.94%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (21.10%) Predictive Modelling
14 21 (19.27%) Computer Science
14 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
15 19 (17.43%) Decision-Making
16 18 (16.51%) Dimensional Modelling
16 18 (16.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 69 (63.30%) Python
2 62 (56.88%) SQL
3 12 (11.01%) Java
4 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) Scala
6 3 (2.75%) C++
7 2 (1.83%) C#
7 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.83%) R
8 1 (0.92%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 26 (23.85%) Degree
2 14 (12.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (25.69%) Data Quality
2 24 (22.02%) GDPR
3 16 (14.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (6.42%) PERC
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (15.60%) Terraform
2 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (45.87%) Google
2 22 (20.18%) Databricks
3 17 (15.60%) Dell
4 16 (14.68%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.83%) Adobe
5 2 (1.83%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.92%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.92%) Dataiku