BigQuery Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 360 593
Rank change year-on-year -145 +233 +76
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 72 509 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.63% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 4.09% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 57 172 39
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,522 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,698 £42,725 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £45,249 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +76.80% -34.25% +14.71%
75th Percentile £98,474 £72,433 £80,000
90th Percentile £141,151 £99,847 £89,500
UK median annual salary £73,750 £60,000 £82,000
% change year-on-year +22.92% -26.83% +21.48%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,556 12,453 10,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.48% 15.48% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 8,146 6,488
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North of England -97 27 £80,000 +76.80% 65
Midlands +26 17 £50,000 -13.04% 9
North West -44 16 £127,680 +182.18% 34
Scotland +105 11 £94,637 +3.39% 8
South West +49 11 £77,931 +10.42% 20
West Midlands +31 11 £55,000 -2.22% 4
Yorkshire -4 8 £60,000 +32.60% 21
East Midlands +34 6 £45,000 -55.00% 5
South East +1 5 £55,000 -1.35% 133
North East +7 3 £47,500 +4.98% 10
Wales +37 1 £75,000 -33.33% 7
East of England +23 1 £45,000 -36.84% 1
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Umbraco
2 6 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.17%) Apache
4 3 (4.17%) SAS
5 2 (2.78%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (94.44%) GCP
2 54 (75.00%) Azure
3 42 (58.33%) AWS
4 20 (27.78%) Power Platform
5 15 (20.83%) Snowflake
6 14 (19.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (18.06%) Cloud Composer
8 7 (9.72%) dbt
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.94%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (5.56%) Google App Engine
11 4 (5.56%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (5.56%) SaaS
11 4 (5.56%) Serverless
12 3 (4.17%) GitHub
13 2 (2.78%) H2O.ai
13 2 (2.78%) IaaS
13 2 (2.78%) PaaS
13 2 (2.78%) Pulumi
13 2 (2.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.78%) Power BI
2 16 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 14 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (18.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (16.67%) Tableau
6 10 (13.89%) Big Data
7 9 (12.50%) Looker
8 7 (9.72%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (9.72%) Cloud Spanner
9 6 (8.33%) Metadata
9 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
10 5 (6.94%) Apache Hive
10 5 (6.94%) Data Hub
10 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
10 5 (6.94%) Hadoop
10 5 (6.94%) HBase
10 5 (6.94%) Impala
11 3 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (4.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (61.11%) Finance
2 34 (47.22%) Banking
3 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.89%) Retail
6 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.94%) Advertising
8 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.78%) Law
9 2 (2.78%) Legal
9 2 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Lead
2 23 (31.94%) Data Engineer
3 20 (27.78%) Architect
4 16 (22.22%) Lead Architect
5 15 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (15.28%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Lead Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Provisioning Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
10 4 (5.56%) Voice Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Analyst
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Senior
11 3 (4.17%) SQL Developer
12 2 (2.78%) Data Analyst
12 2 (2.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) React
2 11 (15.28%) Ajax
2 11 (15.28%) CSS
2 11 (15.28%) jQuery
2 11 (15.28%) Kafka
2 11 (15.28%) OAuth
2 11 (15.28%) OpenID
2 11 (15.28%) SAML
3 8 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (5.56%) Express.js
4 4 (5.56%) React Native
5 3 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (4.17%) Plotly
5 3 (4.17%) PySpark
5 3 (4.17%) Regular Expression
5 3 (4.17%) Shiny
6 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.56%) Robotics
5 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) IoT
6 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Analytics
2 29 (40.28%) Software Engineering
3 27 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 25 (34.72%) Agile
5 23 (31.94%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 23 (31.94%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (30.56%) Data Modelling
6 22 (30.56%) DevOps
7 21 (29.17%) ETL
8 19 (26.39%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 16 (22.22%) Migration
11 15 (20.83%) Coaching
12 14 (19.44%) Data Analysis
12 14 (19.44%) Data Migration
13 13 (18.06%) Data Analytics
14 12 (16.67%) Visualisation
15 11 (15.28%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) SQL
2 23 (31.94%) Python
3 15 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 14 (19.44%) Java
5 4 (5.56%) Bash
5 4 (5.56%) R
6 3 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.17%) Go
6 3 (4.17%) PROC SQL
6 3 (4.17%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.78%) Ruby
7 2 (2.78%) VBA
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.72%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.94%) QA
4 4 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) HDFS
3 3 (4.17%) Apache Flume
4 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
1 11 (15.28%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Kibana
3 3 (4.17%) logstash
3 3 (4.17%) Oozie
4 2 (2.78%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 41 (56.94%) Google
2 11 (15.28%) Databricks
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) Informatica
3 3 (4.17%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (4.17%) SAP
4 2 (2.78%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.78%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.78%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.78%) MapR
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.39%) Confluent