Google BigQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BigQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BigQuery over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 467 587 542
Rank change year-on-year +120 -45 -33
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 275 570 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.46% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.44% 1.99% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 224 238 431
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £54,674 £55,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £93,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £109,865 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.36% +22.36% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

BigQuery is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,277 28,579 34,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.28% 23.27% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,446 17,544 22,627
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,580 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Salary trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +123 240 £75,000 +11.11% 116
Work from Home +192 166 £79,632 +6.18% 75
UK excluding London +204 128 £70,576 +15.36% 72
London +93 121 £80,000 - 68
South West +81 54 £57,698 -17.57% 5
North of England +144 29 £79,632 +32.72% 27
Scotland +49 19 £120,360 +146.89% 10
Yorkshire +101 15 £69,447 +15.75% 10
North West +120 13 £79,632 +30.16% 14
Midlands +127 11 £50,000 -1.86% 9
West Midlands +122 11 £50,000 -1.86% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £70,000 -
East of England +108 4 £52,500 -19.23% 1
South East +101 3 £75,000 +30.43% 13
Wales +15 3 £72,500 +52.63% 7
North East - 1 £85,000 - 3

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 74 (26.91%) Apache Spark
2 55 (20.00%) Apache
3 31 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.82%) Confluence
5 3 (1.09%) SAS
6 2 (0.73%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.73%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 251 (91.27%) GCP
2 88 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 70 (25.45%) AWS
4 65 (23.64%) Azure
5 54 (19.64%) GitHub
6 48 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
7 47 (17.09%) Vertex AI
8 33 (12.00%) Google Analytics
8 33 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 28 (10.18%) Snowflake
10 18 (6.55%) dbt
11 15 (5.45%) SaaS
12 12 (4.36%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (4.00%) Firebase
14 10 (3.64%) Cloud Composer
15 9 (3.27%) Google Data Studio
16 8 (2.91%) Cloud Run
16 8 (2.91%) Google Compute Engine
16 8 (2.91%) IaaS
16 8 (2.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (32.00%) Power BI
2 81 (29.45%) Big Data
3 80 (29.09%) Looker
4 77 (28.00%) NoSQL
5 76 (27.64%) Data Lake
5 76 (27.64%) Tableau
6 60 (21.82%) PostgreSQL
7 55 (20.00%) Relational Database
8 53 (19.27%) Bigtable
9 50 (18.18%) MySQL
10 48 (17.45%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (14.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (10.55%) Hadoop
13 20 (7.27%) MongoDB
14 12 (4.36%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (4.36%) Apache Hive
14 12 (4.36%) Presto
15 8 (2.91%) SQL Server
16 7 (2.55%) OLAP
17 6 (2.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (31.27%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.91%) Git
3 9 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.27%) Spinnaker
4 7 (2.55%) GitLab
5 6 (2.18%) JIRA
6 5 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (1.82%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 4 (1.45%) ERwin
8 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.09%) Maven
9 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.36%) MLflow
10 1 (0.36%) Selenium
10 1 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 119 (43.27%) Finance
2 96 (34.91%) Banking
3 48 (17.45%) Social Skills
4 46 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.55%) Retail
6 19 (6.91%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (4.73%) Marketing
8 12 (4.36%) Retail Banking
9 9 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.18%) Games
12 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.82%) Publishing
12 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.45%) Health Technology
14 3 (1.09%) Automotive
14 3 (1.09%) Billing
15 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (32.73%) Data Engineer
2 61 (22.18%) Lead
3 46 (16.73%) Senior
4 41 (14.91%) Analyst
5 38 (13.82%) Architect
6 36 (13.09%) GCP Engineer
7 29 (10.55%) Data Architect
8 24 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 20 (7.27%) Chief Architect
9 20 (7.27%) Chief Data Architect
9 20 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
9 20 (7.27%) Data Analytics Architect
10 18 (6.55%) Lead Data Engineer
11 17 (6.18%) Developer
12 16 (5.82%) Data Analyst
12 16 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.45%) Digital Analyst
14 14 (5.09%) Software Engineer
15 12 (4.36%) Enterprise Architect
15 12 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (28.73%) Kafka
2 11 (4.00%) Apache Beam
3 8 (2.91%) OpenID
3 8 (2.91%) Pandas
3 8 (2.91%) Spring Boot
4 5 (1.82%) Spring
5 4 (1.45%) PySpark
5 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.09%) Apache Camel
6 3 (1.09%) JDBC
6 3 (1.09%) RESTful
6 3 (1.09%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.73%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.73%) CSS
7 2 (0.73%) HTML
7 2 (0.73%) Kedro
7 2 (0.73%) REST
8 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.36%) Jest
8 1 (0.36%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 23 (8.36%) Product Ownership
3 22 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.73%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.91%) Blockchain
5 8 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.91%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 8 (2.91%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.18%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.09%) Blog
11 2 (0.73%) FMCG
11 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.45%) Linux
2 9 (3.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (52.73%) Analytics
2 118 (42.91%) CI/CD
3 107 (38.91%) Agile
4 88 (32.00%) ETL
5 87 (31.64%) Business Intelligence
6 86 (31.27%) Data Pipeline
7 83 (30.18%) Machine Learning
8 80 (29.09%) Visualisation
9 74 (26.91%) Data Analytics
9 74 (26.91%) Data Visualisation
10 72 (26.18%) Artificial Intelligence
11 70 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (24.73%) DevOps
13 61 (22.18%) Cloud Security
14 58 (21.09%) Data Engineering
15 53 (19.27%) Coaching
15 53 (19.27%) Data Integration
15 53 (19.27%) Data Modelling
16 50 (18.18%) Database Optimisation
17 37 (13.45%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.00%) SQL
2 130 (47.27%) Python
3 50 (18.18%) Java
4 22 (8.00%) Go
5 21 (7.64%) Scala
6 20 (7.27%) Bash
7 15 (5.45%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.36%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.00%) R
10 9 (3.27%) Groovy
11 7 (2.55%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.18%) C#
13 5 (1.82%) C++
14 2 (0.73%) Rust
15 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.36%) LookML
Qualifications
1 13 (4.73%) Degree
2 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.36%) PhD
4 1 (0.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.27%) QA
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 101 (36.73%) Terraform
2 69 (25.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.55%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.73%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.73%) Puppet
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 149 (54.18%) Google
2 13 (4.73%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.36%) Databricks
4 5 (1.82%) Optimizely
4 5 (1.82%) Oracle
4 5 (1.82%) Splunk
4 5 (1.82%) Teradata
5 4 (1.45%) Adobe
6 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.73%) Hotjar
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.73%) Synopsys
8 1 (0.36%) Aruba
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco
8 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.36%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.36%) TIBCO