Looker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Looker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Looker over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 764 633
Rank change year-on-year +333 -131 +65
Permanent jobs citing Looker 548 232 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.23% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.01% 1.07% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 167 127 236
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +17.24% +11.54%
75th Percentile £71,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year - -15.25% +7.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Looker 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 18,197 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.35% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 13,515 21,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Looker in the UK

Looker
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Looker in the UK

Looker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Looker over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Looker in the UK

Looker
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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 +285 492 £57,500 -32.35% 66
UK excluding London +337 463 £50,000 - 27
North of England +195 167 £42,500 -22.73% 8
South East +111 97 £42,500 -10.53% 8
Work from Home +67 91 £50,000 -41.18% 43
North West +88 86 £57,500 +4.55% 3
South West +43 72 £53,500 +18.89% 3
London +54 71 £68,750 -19.12% 39
Yorkshire - 60 £35,000 - 4
Midlands +34 57 £51,250 +13.89%
Scotland - 41 £42,500 - 1
West Midlands +15 29 £50,000 -
East Midlands +14 28 £52,500 +69.35%
East of England +31 21 £65,000 -23.53% 4
North East - 21 £32,500 - 1
Wales - 8 £45,000 - 3

Looker
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 25 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (3.47%) Apache
3 12 (2.19%) Confluence
4 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) WordPress
6 2 (0.36%) CMS
6 2 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 418 (76.28%) GCP
2 217 (39.60%) AWS
3 201 (36.68%) Azure
4 76 (13.87%) Power Platform
5 73 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (11.86%) Google Analytics
7 38 (6.93%) dbt
8 23 (4.20%) Snowflake
9 20 (3.65%) Google Ads
10 18 (3.28%) Google Tag Manager
11 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Advertising
12 12 (2.19%) Google Data Studio
13 9 (1.64%) Fivetran
13 9 (1.64%) GitHub
14 8 (1.46%) Cloud Composer
15 6 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.09%) Stitch
16 5 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 4 (0.73%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 211 (38.50%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (17.88%) Tableau
4 76 (13.87%) Power BI
5 26 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 26 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (3.10%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.82%) Airbyte
8 7 (1.28%) MySQL
9 6 (1.09%) Redshift Spectrum
10 5 (0.91%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.73%) HDInsight
11 4 (0.73%) QlikView
12 3 (0.55%) Redis
13 2 (0.36%) Big Data
13 2 (0.36%) Bigtable
13 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 17 (3.10%) Git
2 13 (2.37%) JIRA
3 12 (2.19%) GitLab
4 5 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.18%) Spinnaker
General
1 380 (69.34%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (13.32%) Billing
3 61 (11.13%) Marketing
4 56 (10.22%) Social Skills
5 40 (7.30%) Finance
6 27 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.83%) Law
8 17 (3.10%) Advertising
9 14 (2.55%) Brand Awareness
9 14 (2.55%) Retail
10 10 (1.82%) Games
11 7 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.73%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.36%) Local Government
14 2 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (35.04%) Data Engineer
2 168 (30.66%) Principal Data Engineer
2 168 (30.66%) Principal Engineer
3 159 (29.01%) Platform Engineer
4 114 (20.80%) Architect
5 112 (20.44%) Data Architect
6 80 (14.60%) Data Manager
7 73 (13.32%) Engineering Manager
8 41 (7.48%) Analyst
9 36 (6.57%) Senior
10 27 (4.93%) Lead
11 26 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (4.01%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Lead Software Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) UI Engineer
14 18 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 12 (2.19%) Analytics Manager
15 12 (2.19%) Data Analyst
16 10 (1.82%) PPC Manager
17 9 (1.64%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.74%) CSS
2 23 (4.20%) HTML
3 20 (3.65%) React
4 11 (2.01%) Apache Beam
5 8 (1.46%) REST
6 6 (1.09%) Kafka
6 6 (1.09%) XML
7 4 (0.73%) Web Services
7 4 (0.73%) YAML
8 3 (0.55%) jQuery
8 3 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.36%) .NET
9 2 (0.36%) Handlebars
9 2 (0.36%) JSON
10 1 (0.18%) D3.js
10 1 (0.18%) Matplotlib
10 1 (0.18%) NumPy
10 1 (0.18%) OpenLayers
10 1 (0.18%) Pandas
10 1 (0.18%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 287 (52.37%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (18.61%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.65%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 7 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.28%) NHS
6 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.09%) Digital Media
6 6 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (0.91%) Photography
7 5 (0.91%) Replication
8 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.55%) Social Media
9 2 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.36%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.36%) Mobile Games
10 1 (0.18%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.18%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (68.25%) Data Engineering
2 373 (68.07%) Problem-Solving
3 351 (64.05%) Platform Engineering
4 297 (54.20%) Agile
5 291 (53.10%) Mentoring
6 255 (46.53%) DevOps
7 231 (42.15%) Data Modelling
8 223 (40.69%) ETL
9 186 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
10 175 (31.93%) Data Science
11 161 (29.38%) DataOps
12 160 (29.20%) Change Management
13 138 (25.18%) Data Governance
14 128 (23.36%) Analytics
15 119 (21.72%) Data Architecture
16 118 (21.53%) Data Integration
17 113 (20.62%) CI/CD
17 113 (20.62%) Data Security
18 111 (20.26%) ERD
18 111 (20.26%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 129 (23.54%) SQL
2 48 (8.76%) Python
3 29 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 16 (2.92%) Java
5 11 (2.01%) Scala
6 6 (1.09%) R
7 5 (0.91%) Perl
7 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.55%) PHP
9 2 (0.36%) C#
9 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.36%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (4.56%) Degree
2 7 (1.28%) CIPD
2 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
3 5 (0.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (0.91%) Security Cleared
4 4 (0.73%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (50.36%) GDPR
2 132 (24.09%) Data Quality
3 82 (14.96%) QA
4 20 (3.65%) PMO
5 6 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.18%) GMP
System Software
1 4 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (1.82%) Terraform
2 8 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 454 (82.85%) Google
2 21 (3.83%) Atlassian
3 17 (3.10%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.82%) Teradata
5 7 (1.28%) Databricks
6 4 (0.73%) HubSpot
6 4 (0.73%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.73%) Twitter
6 4 (0.73%) YouTube
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe
7 3 (0.55%) Facebook
7 3 (0.55%) TikTok
7 3 (0.55%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.36%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.36%) Medallia
8 2 (0.36%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.18%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.18%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.18%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.18%) Vertica