BigQuery Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google BigQuery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 462 345
Rank change year-on-year -48 -117 +216
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 88 69 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.23% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.76% 1.59% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 65 55 170
10th Percentile £42,250 £43,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,276 £52,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £80,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +76.80% -34.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,442 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £141,151 £100,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -27.27%

All Database & 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 4,998 4,327 11,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.51% 14.57% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,147 2,727 8,134
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 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
North of England -25 44 £68,841 -13.95% 17
North West +5 24 £66,750 -47.72% 8
Yorkshire -30 16 £70,932 +18.22% 5
South West -51 12 £60,000 -39.04% 2
East of England -19 10 £50,000 +11.11% 6
South East -22 10 £45,000 -18.18% 29
Wales -35 6 £68,500 -8.67% 1
West Midlands -36 5 £55,000 - 2
Midlands -42 5 £55,000 - 3
North East -38 4 £56,250 +18.42% 4
Scotland -3 3 £50,000 -47.17% 5
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 37 (42.05%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (13.64%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.82%) Apache
4 3 (3.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 75 (85.23%) GCP
2 41 (46.59%) AWS
3 39 (44.32%) Azure
4 25 (28.41%) dbt
5 21 (23.86%) Power Platform
5 21 (23.86%) Snowflake
6 17 (19.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (10.23%) Google Analytics
9 6 (6.82%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (5.68%) Dataform
11 4 (4.55%) Dagster
11 4 (4.55%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (4.55%) SaaS
12 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.41%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (3.41%) Pulumi
13 2 (2.27%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 2 (2.27%) Vertex AI
14 1 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (39.77%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (32.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (28.41%) Looker
4 21 (23.86%) Power BI
5 19 (21.59%) Data Lake
6 12 (13.64%) Tableau
7 10 (11.36%) Metadata
7 10 (11.36%) Semantic Layer
8 7 (7.95%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (7.95%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.68%) RDBMS
9 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
10 4 (4.55%) MySQL
10 4 (4.55%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.41%) Big Data
11 3 (3.41%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
1 7 (7.95%) MLflow
2 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) JMeter
3 1 (1.14%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.23%) Finance
4 9 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.41%) Advertising
5 3 (3.41%) Billing
5 3 (3.41%) Law
5 3 (3.41%) Marketing
5 3 (3.41%) Retail
5 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (48.86%) Data Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Senior
3 18 (20.45%) Analyst
4 15 (17.05%) GCP Engineer
5 14 (15.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (14.77%) Data Analyst
7 12 (13.64%) GCP Data Engineer
8 11 (12.50%) Lead
9 8 (9.09%) Architect
9 8 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (7.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (7.95%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (5.68%) Performance Analyst
12 4 (4.55%) Data Architect
12 4 (4.55%) Data Custodian
12 4 (4.55%) Data Manager
12 4 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
13 3 (3.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Kafka
2 7 (7.95%) LangChain
2 7 (7.95%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (7.95%) pgvector
2 7 (7.95%) PyTorch
2 7 (7.95%) scikit-learn
2 7 (7.95%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.27%) Great Expectations
3 2 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (1.14%) JWT
4 1 (1.14%) OAuth
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
4 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Clustering
2 7 (7.95%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.68%) Online Gambling
3 5 (5.68%) Sports Betting
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.55%) Replication
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) ETL
2 38 (43.18%) Analytics
2 38 (43.18%) Data Engineering
3 36 (40.91%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (34.09%) Agile
6 26 (29.55%) Data Modelling
7 24 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 21 (23.86%) AI
9 20 (22.73%) Data Science
10 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
11 16 (18.18%) Data Governance
12 14 (15.91%) Data Management
13 13 (14.77%) Data Architecture
13 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (13.64%) DevOps
14 12 (13.64%) Machine Learning
15 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (12.50%) Storytelling
15 11 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (67.05%) SQL
2 55 (62.50%) Python
3 11 (12.50%) Java
4 5 (5.68%) Scala
5 2 (2.27%) Bash
5 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.14%) C++
6 1 (1.14%) Go
6 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.36%) GDPR
3 8 (9.09%) QA
4 7 (7.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (35.23%) Google
2 17 (19.32%) Databricks
3 7 (7.95%) Cloudera
3 7 (7.95%) Dell
4 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.27%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (2.27%) Vertica
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle