BigQuery Jobs

Google BigQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 403 535
Rank change year-on-year -144 +132 -50
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 165 573 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 3.41% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 273 258
10th Percentile £42,500 - £52,675
25th Percentile £58,250 £42,725 £59,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -28.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £100,442 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £141,151 £105,000 £107,797
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £45,249 £65,000
% change year-on-year +59.10% -30.39% +18.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,526 16,805 24,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.69% 19.22% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,310 12,210 14,919
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,484
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

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 15 March 2025.

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 15 March 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
England -161 146 £70,000 +27.27% 299
Work from Home -3 90 £94,637 +72.07% 161
UK excluding London -129 84 £71,991 +59.10% 95
London +29 70 £81,250 +12.85% 227
North of England -73 43 £71,991 +59.10% 42
North West -29 24 £87,319 +92.98% 27
Yorkshire +11 17 £60,743 +34.24% 14
Scotland +74 10 £94,637 -18.72% 6
Midlands -1 10 £65,000 +13.04% 11
South West +27 9 £77,931 +10.42% 3
South East +26 9 £62,500 +15.74% 30
West Midlands -23 6 £70,000 +24.44% 7
East Midlands +22 4 £65,000 -35.00% 4
East of England +10 2 - - 1
North East 0 2 £73,750 +62.99% 1
Wales +35 1 £75,000 +3.45% 1

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 23 (13.94%) Apache Spark
2 21 (12.73%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (9.70%) Apache
4 10 (6.06%) Umbraco
5 6 (3.64%) IBM Domino
6 5 (3.03%) Apache Solr
6 5 (3.03%) nginx
7 4 (2.42%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.61%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 152 (92.12%) GCP
2 77 (46.67%) Azure
3 68 (41.21%) AWS
4 37 (22.42%) Snowflake
5 35 (21.21%) Power Platform
6 28 (16.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (13.94%) dbt
8 16 (9.70%) Cloud Composer
9 15 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
9 15 (9.09%) Google Analytics
10 12 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.45%) Serverless
12 8 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.85%) GitHub
12 8 (4.85%) Google Data Studio
12 8 (4.85%) SaaS
13 6 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.88%) Broadband
2 6 (3.64%) DNS
3 2 (1.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (27.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 35 (21.21%) Power BI
4 31 (18.79%) Big Data
4 31 (18.79%) Tableau
5 27 (16.36%) Looker
6 24 (14.55%) Data Lake
7 17 (10.30%) Hadoop
8 14 (8.48%) NoSQL
9 11 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (6.67%) Apache Hive
10 10 (6.06%) Metadata
11 9 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (5.45%) MySQL
11 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (5.45%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (4.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (3.03%) Sqoop
14 4 (2.42%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 22 (13.33%) Git
2 13 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.27%) CircleCI
4 7 (4.24%) JIRA
5 2 (1.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.61%) fastlane
6 1 (0.61%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.61%) Travis CI
General
1 63 (38.18%) Finance
2 60 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 40 (24.24%) Banking
4 39 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.30%) Marketing
6 9 (5.45%) Advertising
6 9 (5.45%) Games
7 6 (3.64%) Law
7 6 (3.64%) Retail
8 5 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.82%) Publishing
11 2 (1.21%) Billing
11 2 (1.21%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (27.88%) Data Engineer
2 40 (24.24%) Lead
3 29 (17.58%) Senior
4 28 (16.97%) Architect
5 25 (15.15%) Analyst
6 18 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (8.48%) Data Architect
8 14 (8.48%) Software Engineer
9 11 (6.67%) Lead Architect
10 10 (6.06%) Developer
10 10 (6.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Digital Analyst
12 7 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.64%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) E-Commerce Analyst
13 6 (3.64%) GCP Architect
13 6 (3.64%) Product Analyst
14 5 (3.03%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.55%) Kafka
2 20 (12.12%) React
3 15 (9.09%) jQuery
3 15 (9.09%) OAuth
4 13 (7.88%) CSS
5 10 (6.06%) Ajax
5 10 (6.06%) OpenID
5 10 (6.06%) SAML
6 6 (3.64%) Node.js
6 6 (3.64%) PySpark
6 6 (3.64%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (3.64%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.42%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.82%) HTML
8 3 (1.82%) MDX
9 2 (1.21%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.21%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.61%) Next.js
10 1 (0.61%) PyTorch
10 1 (0.61%) ReactiveCocoa
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.45%) Social Media
3 9 (5.45%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.24%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.42%) Robotics
9 3 (1.82%) FMCG
9 3 (1.82%) Life Science
10 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.21%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (47.88%) Analytics
2 56 (33.94%) CI/CD
3 50 (30.30%) Data Engineering
4 47 (28.48%) ETL
5 42 (25.45%) Data Pipeline
5 42 (25.45%) Visualisation
6 41 (24.85%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (24.85%) Data Modelling
7 39 (23.64%) Agile
8 37 (22.42%) DevOps
9 35 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
9 35 (21.21%) Data Analytics
9 35 (21.21%) Data Science
9 35 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (20.61%) Machine Learning
11 32 (19.39%) Software Engineering
12 30 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
12 30 (18.18%) Decision-Making
13 29 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
14 28 (16.97%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 99 (60.00%) SQL
2 74 (44.85%) Python
3 24 (14.55%) JavaScript
4 21 (12.73%) Java
5 19 (11.52%) Go
6 8 (4.85%) R
6 8 (4.85%) Scala
7 5 (3.03%) Rust
8 4 (2.42%) Bash
8 4 (2.42%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.82%) Groovy
10 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.21%) Ruby
10 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (16.36%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.64%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.42%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.58%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.61%) COPPA
4 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 23 (13.94%) Docker
2 6 (3.64%) HDFS
3 5 (3.03%) Apache Flume
4 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (15.76%) Terraform
2 18 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.03%) Oozie
5 2 (1.21%) Ansible
5 2 (1.21%) Argo
5 2 (1.21%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 96 (58.18%) Google
2 31 (18.79%) Databricks
3 24 (14.55%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.45%) Cloudera
5 7 (4.24%) Oracle
6 4 (2.42%) Adobe
6 4 (2.42%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.42%) SAP
6 4 (2.42%) Teradata
7 3 (1.82%) Snowplow
8 2 (1.21%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.21%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.21%) Hortonworks
8 2 (1.21%) Informatica
8 2 (1.21%) MapR
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.61%) Confluent
9 1 (0.61%) Gigya
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce