Looker Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Looker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Looker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 499 404
Rank change year-on-year -51 -95 +223
Permanent jobs citing Looker 75 42 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.12% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 0.93% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49 34 82
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,105 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,000 £72,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,598 £102,410 £96,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% -29.03%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Looker 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 5,515 4,523 10,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.71% 13.38% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,732 2,860 7,248
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,485 £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 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -8.00%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Looker job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Looker
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Looker
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Looker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Looker in the UK excluding London

Looker
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 Looker within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 -16 27 £42,500 +13.33% 4
South East +1 16 £60,000 +84.62% 25
East of England -4 14 £86,725 +82.58%
North West +6 12 £30,000 -13.04% 4
Midlands -18 8 £44,500 -19.09% 1
Yorkshire -32 8 £48,105 +28.28%
North East -48 7 £52,500 +68.27%
South West -59 7 £55,000 -44.12% 4
West Midlands -29 6 £44,500 -19.09% 1
Wales -51 5 £66,000 +10.00%
East Midlands -34 2 - -
Looker
UK

Looker
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 15 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (16.00%) CMS
3 7 (9.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.67%) IIS
5 1 (1.33%) Confluence
5 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) Power Platform
2 32 (42.67%) GCP
3 24 (32.00%) dbt
4 22 (29.33%) Google Analytics
5 16 (21.33%) AWS
5 16 (21.33%) Google Tag Manager
6 14 (18.67%) Azure
7 12 (16.00%) Snowflake
8 10 (13.33%) Google Data Studio
9 8 (10.67%) Dataform
10 7 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (5.33%) Google Sheets
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (4.00%) SaaS
13 2 (2.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
13 2 (2.67%) Datadog
13 2 (2.67%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (49.33%) Power BI
2 29 (38.67%) BigQuery
3 25 (33.33%) Tableau
4 15 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (12.00%) Data Lake
7 8 (10.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (9.33%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (8.00%) Metabase
10 3 (4.00%) Flink
10 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.00%) Redis
11 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
12 1 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.33%) Data Hub
12 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
12 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
12 1 (1.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) MLflow
2 2 (2.67%) Git
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 38 (50.67%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (32.00%) Marketing
3 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
4 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
5 11 (14.67%) Finance
6 10 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (10.67%) Retail
8 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.00%) Banking
9 3 (4.00%) Law
10 2 (2.67%) Advertising
10 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.33%) Billing
11 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Analyst
2 14 (18.67%) Data Analyst
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 11 (14.67%) Lead
5 9 (12.00%) Performance Analyst
6 8 (10.67%) Data Scientist
7 7 (9.33%) Data Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) E-Commerce Specialist
7 7 (9.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Principal Data Scientist
8 6 (8.00%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) Ad Operations Executive
11 3 (4.00%) Customer Analyst
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Analyst
12 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 2 (2.67%) Digital Analyst
12 2 (2.67%) Incident Manager
13 1 (1.33%) Digital Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Kafka
2 7 (9.33%) LangChain
2 7 (9.33%) LlamaIndex
2 7 (9.33%) pgvector
2 7 (9.33%) PyTorch
2 7 (9.33%) scikit-learn
2 7 (9.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.33%) CSS
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Marketing Technology
2 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (9.33%) Clustering
4 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
1 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (84.00%) Analytics
2 42 (56.00%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (34.67%) AI
3 26 (34.67%) Data Science
4 24 (32.00%) Actionable Insight
5 22 (29.33%) Data Engineering
5 22 (29.33%) Mentoring
6 21 (28.00%) CRM
6 21 (28.00%) Machine Learning
7 20 (26.67%) Customer Experience
7 20 (26.67%) Data Modelling
7 20 (26.67%) Roadmaps
8 18 (24.00%) Digital Marketing
8 18 (24.00%) Storytelling
9 16 (21.33%) Agile
9 16 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (18.67%) Data Governance
10 14 (18.67%) Decision-Making
10 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (17.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (53.33%) SQL
2 28 (37.33%) Python
3 6 (8.00%) Julia
3 6 (8.00%) R
4 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.33%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 22 (29.33%) GDPR
3 7 (9.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (4.00%) PERC
5 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.67%) GRC
5 2 (2.67%) QA
5 2 (2.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 46 (61.33%) Google
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.33%) Braze
4 9 (12.00%) Databricks
5 7 (9.33%) Cloudera
5 7 (9.33%) Dell
6 5 (6.67%) Adobe
7 3 (4.00%) Confluent
8 2 (2.67%) GoldenSource
8 2 (2.67%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (2.67%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.33%) Ahrefs
9 1 (1.33%) Hotjar