Looker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Looker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 579 466
Rank change year-on-year -48 -113 +168
Permanent jobs citing Looker 158 109 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.76% 1.44% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 95 67 104
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -25.81%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,713
90th Percentile £92,988 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

All Database & 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 8,956 7,590 13,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.45% 15.24% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,020 4,827 8,596
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Looker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Looker job vacancy trend in the UK

Looker
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Looker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Looker

Looker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Looker over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 2026. 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 -33 150 £50,000 -13.04% 236
UK excluding London -68 80 £52,500 +10.53% 79
London -37 65 £60,000 -14.29% 180
Work from Home -2 60 £52,500 +13.51% 115
North of England -31 35 £42,500 +14.86% 29
North West -7 17 £42,500 +23.19% 20
South East -21 15 £60,000 +41.18% 15
East of England -24 14 £86,725 +82.58% 3
North East -44 12 £76,250 +144.39% 2
South West -65 8 £55,000 -44.12% 16
Yorkshire -31 6 £48,105 +28.28% 7
Midlands -22 5 £37,500 -31.82% 8
Wales -54 4 £66,000 +10.00% 7
West Midlands -24 3 £37,500 -31.82% 6
East Midlands -19 2 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £95,000 - 1

Looker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (21.52%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (15.19%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.70%) CMS
4 2 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 85 (53.80%) Power Platform
2 80 (50.63%) GCP
3 58 (36.71%) dbt
4 52 (32.91%) Google Analytics
5 48 (30.38%) AWS
6 45 (28.48%) Azure
7 31 (19.62%) Snowflake
8 24 (15.19%) Google Tag Manager
9 23 (14.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (8.86%) Dataform
11 10 (6.33%) Google Data Studio
12 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.80%) Serverless
13 5 (3.16%) SaaS
14 4 (2.53%) GitHub
14 4 (2.53%) Google Ads
14 4 (2.53%) Google Sheets
15 3 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
15 3 (1.90%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (53.80%) Power BI
2 70 (44.30%) Tableau
3 68 (43.04%) BigQuery
4 39 (24.68%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (18.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (15.82%) Data Lake
6 25 (15.82%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (14.56%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (4.43%) Metadata
9 6 (3.80%) Metabase
10 4 (2.53%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (1.90%) Flink
11 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.27%) Redis
12 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (14.56%) MLflow
2 6 (3.80%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.63%) ERwin
General
1 92 (58.23%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (34.18%) Social Skills
3 40 (25.32%) Marketing
4 33 (20.89%) Finance
5 27 (17.09%) Public Sector
6 20 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (12.03%) Retail
8 10 (6.33%) Banking
8 10 (6.33%) Law
9 9 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (2.53%) Advertising
12 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) Billing
13 1 (0.63%) Military
13 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (39.24%) Analyst
2 34 (21.52%) Senior
3 30 (18.99%) Data Analyst
4 23 (14.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 23 (14.56%) Systems Engineer
5 20 (12.66%) Lead
6 16 (10.13%) Data Engineer
6 16 (10.13%) Performance Analyst
7 10 (6.33%) Data Scientist
7 10 (6.33%) Digital Analyst
7 10 (6.33%) Product Analyst
8 8 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) E-Commerce Specialist
10 6 (3.80%) Principal Data Scientist
10 6 (3.80%) Senior Data Scientist
11 5 (3.16%) Marketing Analyst
11 5 (3.16%) Senior Data Analyst
12 4 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 4 (2.53%) Junior
12 4 (2.53%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.46%) Kafka
2 23 (14.56%) LangChain
2 23 (14.56%) LlamaIndex
2 23 (14.56%) pgvector
2 23 (14.56%) PyTorch
2 23 (14.56%) scikit-learn
2 23 (14.56%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.27%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.63%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.63%) Beautiful Soup
4 1 (0.63%) CSS
4 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.63%) HTML
4 1 (0.63%) Playwright
4 1 (0.63%) PySpark
4 1 (0.63%) pytest
4 1 (0.63%) RESTful
4 1 (0.63%) Scrapy
4 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.82%) Cloud Native
1 25 (15.82%) Public Cloud
2 23 (14.56%) Clustering
3 10 (6.33%) Blog
4 8 (5.06%) Educational Technology
4 8 (5.06%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.16%) Social Media
7 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.63%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
1 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (89.24%) Analytics
2 95 (60.13%) Business Intelligence
3 60 (37.97%) Actionable Insight
4 57 (36.08%) AI
4 57 (36.08%) Data Modelling
4 57 (36.08%) Visualisation
5 53 (33.54%) Data Engineering
6 51 (32.28%) Data Science
6 51 (32.28%) Decision-Making
7 49 (31.01%) Machine Learning
8 42 (26.58%) Data Pipeline
9 41 (25.95%) Storytelling
10 40 (25.32%) Data Governance
11 38 (24.05%) ETL
12 37 (23.42%) Agile
13 35 (22.15%) Dashboard Development
14 33 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (20.25%) Mentoring
16 29 (18.35%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (77.85%) SQL
2 76 (48.10%) Python
3 12 (7.59%) R
4 6 (3.80%) Julia
5 2 (1.27%) Bash
5 2 (1.27%) Java
5 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.63%) Bicep
6 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 13 (8.23%) SC Cleared
1 13 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.33%) Degree
3 9 (5.70%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) ACCA
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CIMA
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) OCP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PMP
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (29.11%) Data Quality
2 39 (24.68%) GDPR
3 24 (15.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (6.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (6.33%) QA
6 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.63%) GRC
7 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.43%) Terraform
2 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.27%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 75 (47.47%) Google
2 25 (15.82%) Databricks
3 23 (14.56%) Cloudera
3 23 (14.56%) Dell
4 11 (6.96%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.43%) Braze
6 5 (3.16%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Confluent
7 2 (1.27%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.63%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.63%) Facebook
8 1 (0.63%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.63%) Instagram
8 1 (0.63%) Marketo
8 1 (0.63%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) Sparx