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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 238 244
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +154
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 16 35 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 2.74% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 24
10th Percentile - £40,000 £34,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,875 £56,185
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,372 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -30.47% +32.72%
75th Percentile £79,375 £74,789 £84,917
90th Percentile £95,125 £85,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £67,500 £73,250 £72,000
% change year-on-year -7.85% +1.74% -4.00%

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 992 1,276 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.42% 13.45% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 691 679 1,244
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,625 £40,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £50,867
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +3.21% -7.51%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,389 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +21 11 £57,500 +27.78% 53
Yorkshire -13 5 £42,500 -30.03% 45
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 4 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) GCP
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (6.25%) Firebase
6 1 (6.25%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Tableau
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (37.50%) Power BI
3 5 (31.25%) Looker
4 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (18.75%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
1 9 (56.25%) Data Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Data Quality Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Quality Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) Django
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Visualisation
2 9 (56.25%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Data Science
3 6 (37.50%) Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Dashboard Development
4 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (31.25%) Data Validation
4 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
4 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) A/B Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) CRM
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Economics
5 4 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks