BigQuery Job Trends in the North of England

Google BigQuery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 280 280
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 -18
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 49 16 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.17% 1.62% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42 15 9
10th Percentile £41,250 - £45,100
25th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.53% -36.67% -5.82%
75th Percentile £90,688 £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £61,500 £86,750
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
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,546 988 1,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.44% 10.31% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 667 773
10th Percentile £37,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £83,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the North of England

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the North of England

BigQuery
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -3 29 £50,000 -9.09% 47
Yorkshire -28 11 £90,000 +111.76% 14
North East -59 9 £85,000 +78.95% 5
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (26.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 48 (97.96%) GCP
2 33 (67.35%) AWS
3 22 (44.90%) Azure
4 18 (36.73%) Google Analytics
5 17 (34.69%) dbt
6 13 (26.53%) Google Tag Manager
7 11 (22.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
8 10 (20.41%) Snowflake
9 9 (18.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
10 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (10.20%) Serverless
11 3 (6.12%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (6.12%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (6.12%) Fivetran
12 2 (4.08%) Dataform
12 2 (4.08%) GitHub
12 2 (4.08%) Google Ads
12 2 (4.08%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (44.90%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (36.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (34.69%) Looker
4 10 (20.41%) Metadata
4 10 (20.41%) Power BI
5 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.12%) Data Vault
6 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.12%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.04%) Flink
7 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 27 (55.10%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (26.53%) Retail
4 9 (18.37%) Finance
4 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
5 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (12.24%) Marketing
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Data Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) Lead
3 12 (24.49%) Analyst
3 12 (24.49%) Senior
3 12 (24.49%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) GCP Data Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Data Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Principal Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Principal Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Principal Data Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Junior
7 2 (4.08%) Junior Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Web Analyst
8 1 (2.04%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Replication
3 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.08%) Online Gambling
5 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Sports Betting
5 1 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) ETL
2 31 (63.27%) Data Engineering
3 29 (59.18%) Analytics
4 27 (55.10%) Agile
5 25 (51.02%) Decision-Making
6 23 (46.94%) Mentoring
7 21 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 20 (40.82%) Data Modelling
9 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
10 17 (34.69%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (32.65%) Data Governance
11 16 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (30.61%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (26.53%) E-Commerce
15 12 (24.49%) Data Transformation
16 11 (22.45%) Data Strategy
17 10 (20.41%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 40 (81.63%) SQL
2 30 (61.22%) Python
3 9 (18.37%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) BPSS Clearance
1 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) Degree
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (16.33%) GDPR
3 4 (8.16%) QA
4 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Google
2 7 (14.29%) Databricks