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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 666 571 683
Rank change year-on-year -95 +112 +35
Permanent jobs citing Looker 112 195 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 1.55% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 52 108 195
10th Percentile £38,850 £40,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £50,938 £56,313 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +9.26% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,938 £84,056 £86,875
90th Percentile £103,125 £97,290 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +31.82% +12.82%

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 12,193 12,560 35,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.12% 21.12% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,209 9,440 18,525
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 -110 107 £65,000 -7.14% 46
London -5 53 £70,000 -8.20% 27
UK excluding London -97 53 £60,000 -17.24% 20
Work from Home -59 26 £65,000 -18.37% 43
South East -53 17 £57,500 +43.75% 8
North of England -33 15 £52,500 -34.07% 5
Midlands -23 10 £65,000 +48.57% 4
West Midlands -31 8 £65,000 +48.57% 1
North West -22 7 £52,500 -34.07% 4
East of England -40 6 - - 2
Yorkshire +21 5 £80,000 +6.67% 1
South West -22 4 £28,500 -36.67% 1
North East - 3 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
Scotland -12 1 £41,500 -47.89%

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 6 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.89%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 68 (60.71%) GCP
2 51 (45.54%) Power Platform
3 40 (35.71%) AWS
4 37 (33.04%) Azure
5 26 (23.21%) Google Data Studio
6 21 (18.75%) Google Analytics
7 15 (13.39%) Snowflake
8 14 (12.50%) dbt
9 10 (8.93%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.46%) Google Ads
11 4 (3.57%) GitHub
11 4 (3.57%) SaaS
12 3 (2.68%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.68%) Google Sheets
12 3 (2.68%) Matillion
13 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 1 (0.89%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Internet
1 1 (0.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (50.00%) Tableau
2 53 (47.32%) BigQuery
3 51 (45.54%) Power BI
4 45 (40.18%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (7.14%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.36%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.46%) MySQL
9 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.68%) Big Data
11 3 (2.68%) Data Mining
11 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.68%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) Spinnaker
General
1 35 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.07%) Finance
4 15 (13.39%) Marketing
5 6 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Retail
6 4 (3.57%) Advertising
6 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.57%) Publishing
7 2 (1.79%) Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Billing
8 1 (0.89%) Law
8 1 (0.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (44.64%) Analyst
2 30 (26.79%) Senior
3 23 (20.54%) Data Engineer
4 16 (14.29%) Insight Analyst
4 16 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Data Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Digital Analyst
6 11 (9.82%) Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Google Analytics Analyst
7 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 10 (8.93%) Lead
8 8 (7.14%) Google Analytics Specialist
9 7 (6.25%) Business Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.36%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.36%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
11 5 (4.46%) Digital Analytics Analyst
11 5 (4.46%) Senior Data Analyst
11 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Kafka
2 4 (3.57%) HTML
3 3 (2.68%) CSS
3 3 (2.68%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.89%) Pandas
4 1 (0.89%) Web Services
4 1 (0.89%) XML
4 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (5.36%) PropTech
3 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.57%) Social Media
5 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.79%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.79%) FMCG
6 2 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.79%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.89%) Anti-Piracy
7 1 (0.89%) New Media
7 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (47.32%) Business Intelligence
1 53 (47.32%) Visualisation
2 52 (46.43%) Analytics
3 43 (38.39%) Data Science
4 36 (32.14%) Data Engineering
5 35 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
6 30 (26.79%) Agile
7 27 (24.11%) ETL
8 25 (22.32%) Decision-Making
9 23 (20.54%) Mentoring
10 22 (19.64%) Data Analysis
10 22 (19.64%) Data Analytics
10 22 (19.64%) Data Modelling
11 21 (18.75%) Coaching
11 21 (18.75%) Scrum
12 20 (17.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 19 (16.96%) Data Governance
14 18 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (67.86%) SQL
2 42 (37.50%) Python
3 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.14%) Java
5 7 (6.25%) R
6 5 (4.46%) Scala
7 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 9 (8.04%) Degree
3 6 (5.36%) SnowPro
4 4 (3.57%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (2.68%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (50.00%) Google
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.57%) Databricks
5 3 (2.68%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.68%) Hortonworks
6 2 (1.79%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.79%) Confluent
6 2 (1.79%) Informatica
6 2 (1.79%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.79%) Talend
7 1 (0.89%) Adobe
7 1 (0.89%) Facebook
7 1 (0.89%) Snapchat
7 1 (0.89%) TikTok