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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 193 176
Rank change year-on-year +29 -17 +116
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 12 17 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 2.26% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £52,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £40,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -21.16% -1.52%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,625 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,875 £97,376 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.45% +2.73% -5.90%

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 484 753 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.68% 14.93% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 367 383 706
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,021
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,708 £65,302 £69,538
90th Percentile £84,250 £84,150 £83,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 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
Manchester +14 8 £90,000 +100.00% 4
Merseyside 0 4 £55,000 -31.25% 1
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 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Apigee
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Firebase
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Google App Engine
5 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 4 (33.33%) Looker
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
1 4 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
1 4 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Principal Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Apigee Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) Django
1 1 (8.33%) JWT
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Data Science
1 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 4 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 4 (33.33%) Economics
2 4 (33.33%) People Management
2 4 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Statistics
2 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Google
2 4 (33.33%) HubSpot
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks