Looker Job Trends in the North of England

Looker
England > North of England

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 281 263
Rank change year-on-year -45 -18 +41
Permanent jobs citing Looker 34 19 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.20% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 1.86% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 31 18 17
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,750 £38,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +18.28% -39.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,125 £85,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -13.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,665 1,019 1,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.15% 10.86% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 694 969
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,966 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.21% +0.78%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Looker job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Looker
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Looker in the North of England

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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 Looker within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 September 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 18 £42,500 -26.09% 17
North East -53 12 £81,250 +160.42% 4
Yorkshire -53 4 £48,105 -12.54% 5
Looker
England

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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 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) Google Analytics
2 20 (58.82%) GCP
3 16 (47.06%) Power Platform
4 10 (29.41%) Google Tag Manager
5 9 (26.47%) AWS
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
6 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (14.71%) Azure
6 5 (14.71%) Serverless
7 4 (11.76%) dbt
8 3 (8.82%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.94%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (58.82%) BigQuery
2 16 (47.06%) Power BI
3 7 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (14.71%) Metadata
6 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.88%) Tableau
8 1 (2.94%) Data Hub
8 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.94%) Milvus
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (41.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (23.53%) Marketing
5 7 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (17.65%) Retail
7 5 (14.71%) Finance
8 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
9 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Lead
3 7 (20.59%) Digital Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 6 (17.65%) Data Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Junior
6 2 (5.88%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Performance Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) LangChain
1 1 (2.94%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (2.94%) pgvector
1 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Driving Licence
1 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Clustering
3 1 (2.94%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
1 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) Analytics
2 18 (52.94%) Actionable Insight
3 16 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (47.06%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 15 (44.12%) Decision-Making
4 15 (44.12%) ETL
5 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 13 (38.24%) E-Commerce
5 13 (38.24%) Mentoring
6 12 (35.29%) Dashboard Development
6 12 (35.29%) Data Science
6 12 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
8 10 (29.41%) Data Strategy
9 9 (26.47%) Data Engineering
9 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
9 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
10 8 (23.53%) Performance Analysis
10 8 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 9 (26.47%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 30 (88.24%) Google
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Adobe
4 2 (5.88%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.94%) Dell