BigQuery Job Trends in the North West

Google BigQuery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 193 166
Rank change year-on-year +23 -27 +129
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 11 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.27% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% 1.80% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 11
10th Percentile £41,250 - £58,664
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £66,936
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -43.49% +30.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £55,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,875 £78,803 -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 495 778 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.03% 14.96% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 377 390 614
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,084
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,985 £82,500 £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 West

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the North West

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the North West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the North West

BigQuery
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +18 7 £75,000 +66.67% 26
Merseyside - 4 £55,000 - 12
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (9.09%) Firebase
5 1 (9.09%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Tableau
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) Looker
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
3 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Semantic Layer
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Data Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Data Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Django
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Visualisation
1 6 (54.55%) Visualisation
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 5 (45.45%) Data Science
2 5 (45.45%) E-Commerce
3 4 (36.36%) A/B Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
3 4 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (36.36%) CRM
3 4 (36.36%) Dashboard Development
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Economics
3 4 (36.36%) Predictive Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Statistical Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 4 (36.36%) HubSpot
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks