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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 381 502
Rank change year-on-year -162 +121 -79
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 141 677 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 3.73% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 93 289 246
10th Percentile £47,231 - £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,725 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £98,474 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £111,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £67,071
% change year-on-year +38.10% -21.72% +11.78%

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 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 15 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 30 April 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 -172 122 £70,000 +21.74% 180
UK excluding London -131 80 £72,500 +38.10% 42
Work from Home +16 66 £94,637 +57.73% 116
London +23 52 £80,000 +1.59% 141
North of England -77 36 £73,750 +62.99% 21
North West -30 22 £111,159 +145.66% 11
Midlands +5 16 £65,000 +6.12% 6
West Midlands +18 12 £70,000 +21.74% 3
Yorkshire +7 12 £60,372 +33.42% 8
Scotland +117 11 £94,637 -21.37% 2
South West +41 10 £98,420 +39.45% 3
South East +17 6 £58,750 +8.80% 8
East Midlands +26 4 £65,000 -35.00% 3
North East +8 2 £73,750 +62.99% 2
Wales +32 1 £75,000 +3.45% 2

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 22 (15.60%) Apache Spark
2 17 (12.06%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (7.80%) Umbraco
4 8 (5.67%) Apache
5 6 (4.26%) IBM Domino
6 4 (2.84%) Luigi
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.71%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) HFM
2 2 (1.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 124 (87.94%) GCP
2 77 (54.61%) Azure
3 66 (46.81%) AWS
4 34 (24.11%) Power Platform
4 34 (24.11%) Snowflake
5 27 (19.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (13.48%) dbt
7 16 (11.35%) Cloud Composer
8 12 (8.51%) SaaS
9 11 (7.80%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.67%) Google Compute Engine
10 8 (5.67%) PaaS
11 7 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (4.96%) GitHub
11 7 (4.96%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.96%) IaaS
12 6 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (4.26%) Serverless
13 5 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) DNS
2 2 (1.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (27.66%) Amazon Redshift
3 34 (24.11%) Power BI
4 24 (17.02%) NoSQL
5 22 (15.60%) Tableau
6 20 (14.18%) Big Data
7 19 (13.48%) Data Lake
7 19 (13.48%) Hadoop
8 17 (12.06%) Looker
9 13 (9.22%) Metadata
9 13 (9.22%) Relational Database
10 11 (7.80%) Apache Hive
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (4.96%) Cloud Spanner
12 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (3.55%) Data Hub
13 5 (3.55%) Sqoop
14 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.84%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 18 (12.77%) Git
2 10 (7.09%) CircleCI
2 10 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.71%) fastlane
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Travis CI
General
1 61 (43.26%) Finance
2 50 (35.46%) Social Skills
3 42 (29.79%) Banking
4 41 (29.08%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.51%) Law
6 11 (7.80%) Retail
7 8 (5.67%) Advertising
7 8 (5.67%) Marketing
7 8 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.42%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.71%) Billing
12 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (31.21%) Lead
2 35 (24.82%) Data Engineer
3 34 (24.11%) Architect
4 19 (13.48%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (11.35%) Data Architect
5 16 (11.35%) Lead Architect
5 16 (11.35%) Senior
6 12 (8.51%) Analyst
7 11 (7.80%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Developer
9 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.26%) E-Commerce Analyst
10 6 (4.26%) Product Analyst
11 5 (3.55%) Lead Data Architect
11 5 (3.55%) Provisioning Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.73%) React
2 24 (17.02%) Kafka
3 16 (11.35%) OAuth
4 13 (9.22%) CSS
5 12 (8.51%) jQuery
6 11 (7.80%) Ajax
6 11 (7.80%) Node.js
6 11 (7.80%) OpenID
6 11 (7.80%) SAML
7 6 (4.26%) PySpark
7 6 (4.26%) TensorFlow
8 5 (3.55%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (2.84%) Express.js
9 4 (2.84%) React Native
10 3 (2.13%) MDX
11 2 (1.42%) HTML
11 2 (1.42%) Next.js
11 2 (1.42%) Shiny
11 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.42%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.06%) Data Structures
2 16 (11.35%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.80%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.26%) FMCG
7 5 (3.55%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.55%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.84%) Robotics
9 3 (2.13%) Life Science
9 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.42%) Blog
10 2 (1.42%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.42%) Digital Media
10 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Android
1 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (49.65%) Analytics
2 60 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 49 (34.75%) Data Engineering
3 49 (34.75%) DevOps
4 48 (34.04%) ETL
5 42 (29.79%) Data Modelling
6 40 (28.37%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (24.11%) Agile
8 33 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (21.28%) Data Analytics
9 30 (21.28%) Machine Learning
10 28 (19.86%) Data Governance
10 28 (19.86%) Software Engineering
11 27 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
11 27 (19.15%) Visualisation
12 25 (17.73%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (17.73%) Data Strategy
13 24 (17.02%) Decision-Making
13 24 (17.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (59.57%) SQL
2 59 (41.84%) Python
3 22 (15.60%) JavaScript
4 20 (14.18%) Java
5 7 (4.96%) Go
6 6 (4.26%) Scala
7 5 (3.55%) R
8 4 (2.84%) Bash
8 4 (2.84%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.13%) Groovy
10 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.42%) Ruby
10 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.42%) VBA
11 1 (0.71%) C#
11 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.71%) Rust
11 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (18.44%) Degree
2 16 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.26%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.84%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.42%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.42%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 19 (13.48%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) HDFS
3 5 (3.55%) Apache Flume
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (14.89%) Terraform
2 19 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.80%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.55%) Oozie
5 2 (1.42%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.71%) Ansible
6 1 (0.71%) Istio
Vendors
1 78 (55.32%) Google
2 31 (21.99%) Databricks
3 26 (18.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.96%) Cloudera
4 7 (4.96%) Oracle
5 6 (4.26%) SAP
6 4 (2.84%) Dataiku
6 4 (2.84%) Teradata
7 3 (2.13%) Adobe
7 3 (2.13%) Informatica
7 3 (2.13%) Snowplow
8 2 (1.42%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.42%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.42%) MapR
8 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.42%) Splunk
9 1 (0.71%) Confluent
9 1 (0.71%) Talend