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 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 540 775 711
Rank change year-on-year +235 -64 -122
Permanent jobs citing Looker 201 303 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 1.05% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 113 178 327
10th Percentile £40,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,563 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £84,056 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,290 £110,375 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% +10.00% -14.89%

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 11,361 28,734 34,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.26% 23.14% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,551 17,608 22,386
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

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 5 December 2023.

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 5 December 2023. 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 +264 193 £67,500 -3.57% 94
UK excluding London +256 128 £67,500 +22.73% 47
Work from Home +248 122 £79,632 -0.46% 43
London +147 65 £75,000 -6.25% 55
South East +178 54 £40,000 -38.46% 8
North of England +160 33 £67,500 +17.39% 27
North West +139 25 £67,500 +25.58% 14
South West +84 23 £79,632 +76.96% 4
Yorkshire +97 7 £79,632 +32.72% 11
Scotland +62 7 £79,632 - 1
Midlands +120 6 £50,000 -1.86% 6
East of England +122 5 £57,500 - 2
West Midlands +114 4 £43,750 -14.13% 6
East Midlands +44 2 £52,500 -8.70%
North East - 1 £60,000 - 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 58 (28.86%) Apache
2 51 (25.37%) Apache Spark
3 13 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 106 (52.74%) Power Platform
2 90 (44.78%) GCP
3 47 (23.38%) GitHub
3 47 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
3 47 (23.38%) Vertex AI
4 26 (12.94%) Google Analytics
5 21 (10.45%) dbt
6 16 (7.96%) AWS
7 12 (5.97%) Snowflake
8 11 (5.47%) Google Data Studio
9 6 (2.99%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (2.49%) Cloud Run
11 4 (1.99%) Azure
11 4 (1.99%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (1.49%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.49%) Google Ads
12 3 (1.49%) Matillion
13 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.00%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) FTP
1 1 (0.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (53.23%) Tableau
2 106 (52.74%) Power BI
3 82 (40.80%) BigQuery
4 57 (28.36%) Big Data
4 57 (28.36%) Data Lake
5 53 (26.37%) Relational Database
6 51 (25.37%) PostgreSQL
7 50 (24.88%) NoSQL
8 47 (23.38%) Bigtable
8 47 (23.38%) MySQL
9 16 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.99%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.99%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.99%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.49%) GIS
11 3 (1.49%) ThoughtSpot
12 2 (1.00%) Redash
12 2 (1.00%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (23.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.99%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 2 (1.00%) Git
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
General
1 88 (43.78%) Analytical Skills
2 77 (38.31%) Social Skills
3 68 (33.83%) Finance
4 49 (24.38%) Manufacturing
5 48 (23.88%) Banking
6 31 (15.42%) Retail
7 24 (11.94%) Marketing
8 11 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.99%) Advertising
10 4 (1.99%) Games
10 4 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.00%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 94 (46.77%) Analyst
2 28 (13.93%) Data Engineer
3 23 (11.44%) Lead
4 21 (10.45%) Architect
4 21 (10.45%) Digital Analyst
5 20 (9.95%) Chief Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Chief Data Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Data Analytics Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Data Architect
6 18 (8.96%) HR Analyst
7 17 (8.46%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 16 (7.96%) Data Analyst
9 13 (6.47%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Senior
11 10 (4.98%) Head of Engineering
12 9 (4.48%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Principal Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.48%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.37%) Kafka
2 10 (4.98%) Apache Beam
3 8 (3.98%) CSS
3 8 (3.98%) HTML
3 8 (3.98%) React
4 7 (3.48%) D3.js
5 4 (1.99%) Leaflet
6 3 (1.49%) HTML5
7 2 (1.00%) JSON
7 2 (1.00%) XML
8 1 (0.50%) EDI
8 1 (0.50%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.93%) Public Cloud
2 7 (3.48%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.99%) PropTech
4 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.00%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.00%) Social Media
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.50%) Clustering
7 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.50%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (84.58%) Business Intelligence
2 155 (77.11%) Analytics
3 109 (54.23%) Visualisation
4 101 (50.25%) Data Visualisation
5 64 (31.84%) ETL
6 60 (29.85%) Machine Learning
7 59 (29.35%) Data Analytics
8 58 (28.86%) Agile
8 58 (28.86%) CI/CD
8 58 (28.86%) Data Pipeline
9 56 (27.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 54 (26.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 51 (25.37%) Data Integration
12 49 (24.38%) Database Optimisation
13 48 (23.88%) Case Management
13 48 (23.88%) Cloud Security
13 48 (23.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
14 47 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 37 (18.41%) Data Engineering
16 31 (15.42%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 80 (39.80%) SQL
2 32 (15.92%) Python
3 12 (5.97%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.49%) Java
5 3 (1.49%) LookML
5 3 (1.49%) Scala
6 2 (1.00%) R
7 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (33.83%) Degree
2 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (1.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.49%) GDPR
3 4 (1.99%) QA
4 3 (1.49%) GMP
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (26.87%) Terraform
2 5 (2.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (42.29%) Google
2 8 (3.98%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.99%) Optimizely
4 5 (2.49%) Adobe
5 4 (1.99%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (1.49%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.50%) ClickTale
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) ESRI
8 1 (0.50%) Facebook
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Mapbox
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.50%) Twitter