BigQuery Job Trends in the South West

Google BigQuery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 175 169
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +72
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 4 7 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.078% 0.17% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.89% 1.00% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 29
10th Percentile £39,125 - £46,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £47,231 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £52,975 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% -24.94% +15.39%
75th Percentile £52,813 £63,187 £84,056
90th Percentile £64,625 - £155,665
England median annual salary £68,750 £73,250 £70,576
% change year-on-year -6.14% +3.79% -4.30%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 449 702 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.81% 16.90% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 263 339 658
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,750 £81,500 £84,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.08%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the South West

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the South West

BigQuery
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol +5 3 £40,000 -24.49% 1
Dorset - 1 £70,000 -
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Fivetran
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Looker
2 1 (25.00%) Airbyte
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) Laravel
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (25.00%) Observability
1 1 (25.00%) Segmentation Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (25.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Talend
2 1 (25.00%) Zoho