BigQuery Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google BigQuery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 177 181
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 +64
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 26 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.65% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 0.85% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £49,375 - -
90th Percentile £51,250 - -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £53,750 £64,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% -16.67% +12.17%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 494 703 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.38% 20.24% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 220 403 504
10th Percentile £35,450 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +13.64% -6.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire - 20 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £42,500 - 2
Oxfordshire +21 2 £46,250 - 2
BigQuery
South East

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (7.69%) dbt
3 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.69%) Fivetran
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (7.69%) Google Data Studio
3 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.69%) Looker
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.69%) Tableau
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 23 (88.46%) Marketing
2 20 (76.92%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Architect
2 20 (76.92%) Cloud Architect
2 20 (76.92%) GCP Architect
2 20 (76.92%) Platform Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Data Insight Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) ETL Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Insight Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Hugging Face
1 2 (7.69%) NumPy
1 2 (7.69%) Pandas
1 2 (7.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (76.92%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Analytics
2 20 (76.92%) Architectural Design
2 20 (76.92%) Cloud Security
2 20 (76.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (76.92%) Cost Management
2 20 (76.92%) Cost Optimisation
2 20 (76.92%) Data Science
2 20 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 20 (76.92%) Performance Optimisation
2 20 (76.92%) Roadmaps
2 20 (76.92%) Strategic Roadmap
3 5 (19.23%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Use Case
6 2 (7.69%) AI
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.69%) CRM
6 2 (7.69%) Customer Intelligence
6 2 (7.69%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
2 20 (76.92%) Go
2 20 (76.92%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Alteryx
2 2 (7.69%) HubSpot
2 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) Talend
2 2 (7.69%) Zoho