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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 532 372
Rank change year-on-year +115 -160 +141
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 510 397 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.49% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 2.35% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 167 224 353
10th Percentile £42,725 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £94,375 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,861 £104,250 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £67,071 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.72% +7.31% +25.00%

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 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +110 477 £75,000 -6.25% 33
UK excluding London +164 375 £52,500 -21.72% 17
North of England +89 133 £45,249 -35.36% 4
Work from Home -31 125 £75,000 -6.25% 20
London +28 119 £85,000 - 17
South East +54 85 £57,500 -11.54% 6
South West +25 69 £53,500 +12.63% 4
North West +32 58 £51,250 -44.76% 4
Yorkshire +70 45 £45,249 -35.10%
Midlands +20 45 £45,249 +13.12% 2
North East - 30 £45,249 -
East Midlands - 23 - -
West Midlands +14 22 £45,249 +13.12% 2
East of England +12 19 £110,000 +144.44%
Scotland -34 17 - -
Wales +33 7 £67,500 - 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 46 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (6.47%) Apache
3 30 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.57%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 468 (91.76%) GCP
2 186 (36.47%) AWS
3 181 (35.49%) Azure
4 76 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (7.45%) Snowflake
6 33 (6.47%) dbt
7 28 (5.49%) Power Platform
8 18 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
9 16 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (3.14%) Google Analytics
10 15 (2.94%) Stackdriver
11 14 (2.75%) GitHub
12 10 (1.96%) Google Data Studio
13 9 (1.76%) Cloud Composer
13 9 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (1.18%) Fivetran
15 6 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
15 6 (1.18%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Network Security
1 2 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (71.18%) Looker
2 181 (35.49%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (7.45%) Tableau
4 30 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 30 (5.88%) Big Data
5 28 (5.49%) Power BI
6 25 (4.90%) Data Lake
6 25 (4.90%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.94%) Data Mining
7 15 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.75%) MongoDB
8 14 (2.75%) MySQL
9 12 (2.35%) Data Hub
9 12 (2.35%) DB2
9 12 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.16%) Hadoop
10 11 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.57%) Bigtable
12 7 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 27 (5.29%) Git
2 26 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.53%) GitLab
4 9 (1.76%) JIRA
5 5 (0.98%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.78%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.39%) ERwin
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
General
1 318 (62.35%) Analytical Skills
2 72 (14.12%) Billing
3 67 (13.14%) Social Skills
4 46 (9.02%) Finance
5 37 (7.25%) Retail
6 36 (7.06%) Banking
7 20 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.53%) Law
9 14 (2.75%) Marketing
10 13 (2.55%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.78%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.78%) Legal
11 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 222 (43.53%) Data Engineer
2 174 (34.12%) Platform Engineer
3 172 (33.73%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (33.53%) Principal Data Engineer
5 91 (17.84%) Architect
6 88 (17.25%) Data Architect
7 77 (15.10%) Data Manager
8 72 (14.12%) Engineering Manager
9 48 (9.41%) Analyst
10 41 (8.04%) Senior
11 31 (6.08%) Digital Analyst
12 30 (5.88%) Lead
13 28 (5.49%) Digital Performance Analyst
13 28 (5.49%) Performance Analyst
14 19 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (2.55%) GCP Engineer
15 13 (2.55%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (2.35%) Data Analyst
17 10 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.45%) Kafka
2 20 (3.92%) Apache Beam
3 6 (1.18%) PySpark
4 5 (0.98%) REST
5 4 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.59%) jQuery
6 3 (0.59%) React
6 3 (0.59%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (0.59%) Spring
6 3 (0.59%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.39%) Next.js
7 2 (0.39%) Node.js
7 2 (0.39%) NumPy
7 2 (0.39%) Pandas
8 1 (0.20%) .NET
8 1 (0.20%) CSS
8 1 (0.20%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.20%) HTML
8 1 (0.20%) J2EE
8 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 239 (46.86%) Self-Motivation
2 74 (14.51%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (2.55%) Blog
4 13 (2.55%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.35%) Cyberattack
5 12 (2.35%) Data Fabric
5 12 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.37%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.98%) Replication
11 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.78%) NHS
12 2 (0.39%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.39%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.39%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.10%) Linux
2 12 (2.35%) Windows
2 12 (2.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (70.20%) Data Engineering
2 332 (65.10%) Platform Engineering
3 324 (63.53%) Problem-Solving
4 305 (59.80%) Agile
5 282 (55.29%) Mentoring
6 256 (50.20%) DevOps
7 219 (42.94%) ETL
8 204 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
9 192 (37.65%) Data Modelling
10 191 (37.45%) Data Science
11 165 (32.35%) DataOps
12 160 (31.37%) Change Management
13 127 (24.90%) Analytics
14 117 (22.94%) CI/CD
15 104 (20.39%) Data Governance
16 91 (17.84%) Scrum
17 90 (17.65%) Data Architecture
18 88 (17.25%) Project Management
19 81 (15.88%) Data Integration
19 81 (15.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (28.63%) SQL
2 89 (17.45%) Python
3 33 (6.47%) Java
4 19 (3.73%) Go
5 16 (3.14%) Scala
6 5 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.98%) Perl
6 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.78%) Kotlin
7 4 (0.78%) R
8 3 (0.59%) Bash
8 3 (0.59%) Rust
9 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) C#
10 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (2.35%) Degree
2 9 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (0.78%) CIPD
3 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.39%) PhD
6 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (45.10%) GDPR
2 93 (18.24%) Data Quality
3 75 (14.71%) QA
4 8 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (9.80%) Terraform
2 37 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.35%) Ansible
4 5 (0.98%) logstash
5 3 (0.59%) Grafana
5 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 2 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.39%) Puppet
6 2 (0.39%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 404 (79.22%) Google
2 36 (7.06%) Databricks
3 17 (3.33%) Oracle
4 12 (2.35%) F5
5 9 (1.76%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.76%) Teradata
6 3 (0.59%) Cloudera
6 3 (0.59%) Hortonworks
6 3 (0.59%) Splunk
7 2 (0.39%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.39%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.39%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.39%) Medallia
7 2 (0.39%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (0.39%) New Relic
7 2 (0.39%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.39%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.39%) Revolut
7 2 (0.39%) Twitter
8 1 (0.20%) Brio