BigQuery Job Trends in the Midlands

Google BigQuery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 214 260
Rank change year-on-year -49 +46 -37
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 13 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.083% 0.38% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.40% 2.97% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 1
10th Percentile £31,250 - -
25th Percentile £39,375 £41,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -43.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £47,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 - -
England median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +21.36% -33.33% +3.60%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 931 708 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.94% 12.66% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 649 479 537
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,967
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the Midlands

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the Midlands

BigQuery
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
West Midlands -39 13 £50,000 +17.65% 14
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) dbt
2 4 (30.77%) Google Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 2 (15.38%) Fivetran
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Dataform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Looker
2 4 (30.77%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 3 (23.08%) Tableau
4 2 (15.38%) Airbyte
4 2 (15.38%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) FastAPI
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Online Gambling
1 1 (7.69%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) AI
4 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (23.08%) ERP
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
7 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
8 1 (7.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks