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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 397 511
Rank change year-on-year -176 +114 -142
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 129 656 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 3.57% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 78 267 229
10th Percentile £47,231 - £55,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £42,725 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -32.35% +22.74%
75th Percentile £98,474 £85,835 £92,500
90th Percentile £141,151 £111,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £45,249 £68,823
% change year-on-year +76.80% -34.25% +14.71%

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 7,708 18,393 20,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 17.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 12,535 12,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -202 111 £70,000 +21.74% 252
UK excluding London -157 67 £80,000 +76.80% 73
Work from Home -29 62 £94,637 +72.07% 167
London +32 54 £71,250 -10.94% 190
North of England -118 26 £80,000 +76.80% 29
North West -67 16 £127,680 +182.18% 17
Midlands +7 13 £55,000 -4.35% 13
Scotland +114 11 £94,637 +3.39% 3
South West +43 10 £98,420 +39.45% 8
West Midlands +21 9 £55,000 -2.22% 7
Yorkshire -9 9 £60,000 +32.60% 10
South East -19 5 £55,000 +1.85% 12
East Midlands +20 4 £55,000 -45.00% 6
Wales +35 1 £75,000 -33.33% 2
East of England +27 1 £45,000 -36.84% 1
North East +5 1 £47,500 +4.98% 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 24 (18.60%) Apache Spark
2 17 (13.18%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (8.53%) Umbraco
4 8 (6.20%) Apache
5 2 (1.55%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (1.55%) Luigi
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 119 (92.25%) GCP
2 78 (60.47%) Azure
3 70 (54.26%) AWS
4 33 (25.58%) Snowflake
5 32 (24.81%) Power Platform
6 29 (22.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (13.95%) Cloud Composer
8 17 (13.18%) dbt
9 12 (9.30%) SaaS
10 11 (8.53%) Amazon S3
11 8 (6.20%) Google Compute Engine
12 7 (5.43%) Cloud Functions
12 7 (5.43%) PaaS
13 6 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.65%) IaaS
13 6 (4.65%) Serverless
14 5 (3.88%) GitHub
15 4 (3.10%) Google Analytics
15 4 (3.10%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.10%) DNS
2 2 (1.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.78%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (37.98%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (29.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 32 (24.81%) Power BI
4 31 (24.03%) NoSQL
5 21 (16.28%) Big Data
5 21 (16.28%) Data Lake
6 20 (15.50%) Hadoop
7 18 (13.95%) Looker
7 18 (13.95%) Tableau
8 14 (10.85%) Metadata
9 12 (9.30%) Apache Hive
9 12 (9.30%) Relational Database
10 10 (7.75%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (6.98%) MySQL
12 8 (6.20%) MongoDB
13 7 (5.43%) Cloud Spanner
13 7 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (3.88%) Data Hub
14 5 (3.88%) Sqoop
15 4 (3.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Git
2 9 (6.98%) CircleCI
2 9 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.20%) JIRA
4 1 (0.78%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.78%) fastlane
4 1 (0.78%) Travis CI
General
1 56 (43.41%) Finance
2 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 39 (30.23%) Banking
4 36 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.63%) Marketing
6 14 (10.85%) Law
7 11 (8.53%) Retail
8 9 (6.98%) Advertising
9 8 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
10 7 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.33%) Legal
11 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.55%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (32.56%) Lead
2 38 (29.46%) Data Engineer
3 31 (24.03%) Architect
4 17 (13.18%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (12.40%) Lead Architect
6 15 (11.63%) Data Architect
7 13 (10.08%) Developer
8 12 (9.30%) Senior
9 11 (8.53%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.98%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.88%) Analyst
13 5 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (3.88%) Lead Data Architect
13 5 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Provisioning Engineer
14 4 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 4 (3.10%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.93%) React
2 26 (20.16%) Kafka
3 16 (12.40%) CSS
3 16 (12.40%) OAuth
4 15 (11.63%) Node.js
5 12 (9.30%) jQuery
6 11 (8.53%) Ajax
6 11 (8.53%) OpenID
6 11 (8.53%) SAML
7 7 (5.43%) PySpark
8 5 (3.88%) HTML
8 5 (3.88%) Shiny
8 5 (3.88%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (3.10%) Express.js
9 4 (3.10%) Next.js
9 4 (3.10%) React Native
9 4 (3.10%) Vue
10 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.55%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Data Structures
2 16 (12.40%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.43%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.65%) FMCG
6 5 (3.88%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.88%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.10%) Robotics
8 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.55%) Blog
9 2 (1.55%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.55%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.55%) IoT
10 1 (0.78%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Android
1 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
1 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) Analytics
2 57 (44.19%) CI/CD
3 50 (38.76%) DevOps
4 49 (37.98%) Data Engineering
5 46 (35.66%) ETL
6 44 (34.11%) Data Modelling
7 40 (31.01%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (27.91%) Agile
10 32 (24.81%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (23.26%) Software Engineering
12 28 (21.71%) Data Governance
13 26 (20.16%) Data Analytics
14 25 (19.38%) Mentoring
15 24 (18.60%) Visualisation
16 23 (17.83%) Actionable Insight
16 23 (17.83%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (17.83%) Data Science
17 22 (17.05%) Data Management
17 22 (17.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 75 (58.14%) SQL
2 58 (44.96%) Python
3 24 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 22 (17.05%) Java
5 7 (5.43%) R
6 6 (4.65%) Go
6 6 (4.65%) Scala
7 5 (3.88%) Bash
7 5 (3.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.10%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.55%) Ruby
10 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.55%) VBA
11 1 (0.78%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
11 1 (0.78%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Degree
2 15 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.38%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 22 (17.05%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) HDFS
3 6 (4.65%) Apache Flume
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (15.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.73%) Terraform
3 11 (8.53%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.65%) Oozie
5 2 (1.55%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 68 (52.71%) Google
2 33 (25.58%) Databricks
3 25 (19.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.43%) Cloudera
4 7 (5.43%) SAP
5 4 (3.10%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.10%) Informatica
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle
5 4 (3.10%) Teradata
6 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.33%) Snowplow
7 2 (1.55%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.55%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.55%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.55%) MapR
7 2 (1.55%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Adobe
8 1 (0.78%) Confluent
8 1 (0.78%) Sun
8 1 (0.78%) Talend