Looker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Looker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Looker over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 611 433 762
Rank change year-on-year -178 +329 -143
Permanent jobs citing Looker 81 550 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.56% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.09% 3.02% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 59 165 128
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -32.35% +17.24%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £93,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% -8.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Looker 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 7,431 18,186 22,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.47% 21.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,213 12,623 13,902
10th Percentile £37,500 £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%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Looker in the UK

Looker
Top 15 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 1 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 -175 69 £67,500 +17.39% 297
Work from Home +141 41 £63,750 +15.91% 160
London +78 40 £70,000 +3.70% 201
UK excluding London -145 38 £60,000 +20.00% 153
South East +20 8 £75,000 +76.47% 68
South West +39 6 £98,420 +83.96% 17
Midlands +31 6 £55,000 +7.32% 22
West Midlands +27 6 £55,000 +10.00% 14
Wales +43 5 £60,000 +33.33% 8
North of England -69 5 £37,500 -11.76% 30
Scotland +95 4 £65,000 +52.94% 6
Yorkshire +20 4 £37,500 +7.14% 7
East of England +39 3 £47,500 -26.92% 7
North West -52 1 £95,000 +61.70% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) CMS
2 3 (3.70%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.70%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) NetSuite
1 3 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.15%) Power Platform
2 27 (33.33%) GCP
3 20 (24.69%) Google Analytics
4 19 (23.46%) dbt
5 15 (18.52%) AWS
6 12 (14.81%) Azure
7 8 (9.88%) Snowflake
8 7 (8.64%) GitHub
9 4 (4.94%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (3.70%) SaaS
10 3 (3.70%) Stripe
11 2 (2.47%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (2.47%) Lucidchart
11 2 (2.47%) Siteimprove
12 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.23%) Google Sheets
12 1 (1.23%) Serverless
12 1 (1.23%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (48.15%) Power BI
2 30 (37.04%) Tableau
3 26 (32.10%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (22.22%) BigQuery
5 9 (11.11%) Big Data
6 5 (6.17%) Data Hub
6 5 (6.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.94%) Mixpanel
7 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.94%) Power Query
8 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.70%) Metadata
8 3 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.47%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.47%) Metabase
9 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.47%) Pentaho
9 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 4 (4.94%) Git
3 3 (3.70%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.47%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.47%) ERwin
4 2 (2.47%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.47%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.27%) Marketing
3 25 (30.86%) Finance
4 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (14.81%) Banking
6 8 (9.88%) Advertising
6 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 6 (7.41%) Retail
8 5 (6.17%) Legal
9 4 (4.94%) Games
9 4 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.47%) Law
11 2 (2.47%) Local Government
11 2 (2.47%) Multimedia
11 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.47%) Tech for Good
12 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Analyst
2 20 (24.69%) Senior
3 16 (19.75%) Lead
4 12 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Data Analyst
6 10 (12.35%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (8.64%) Consultant
7 7 (8.64%) Data Consultant
7 7 (8.64%) Lead Data Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Analytics Manager
8 5 (6.17%) Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Provisioning Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (6.17%) Senior SEO Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) Senior SEO Specialist
8 5 (6.17%) SEO Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) SEO Specialist
9 4 (4.94%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) CSS
1 7 (8.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.47%) Social Media
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.23%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) Analytics
2 41 (50.62%) Visualisation
3 39 (48.15%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (41.98%) Data Visualisation
5 27 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 24 (29.63%) Mentoring
7 21 (25.93%) Decision-Making
7 21 (25.93%) Roadmaps
8 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.99%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (19.75%) SEO
11 15 (18.52%) E-Commerce
11 15 (18.52%) ETL
12 14 (17.28%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (14.81%) Data Analysis
13 12 (14.81%) Data Strategy
13 12 (14.81%) Fintech
14 11 (13.58%) Coaching
14 11 (13.58%) Data Engineering
14 11 (13.58%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) SQL
2 22 (27.16%) Python
3 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.70%) Bash
6 2 (2.47%) R
7 1 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
1 2 (2.47%) Degree
2 1 (1.23%) HND
2 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) GDPR
3 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (53.09%) Google
2 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Screaming Frog
3 4 (4.94%) Amplitude
3 4 (4.94%) HubSpot
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) PayPal
4 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.70%) Snowplow
5 2 (2.47%) Optimizely
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Adobe
6 1 (1.23%) Alteryx