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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 454 755
Rank change year-on-year -163 +301 -154
Permanent jobs citing Looker 85 536 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.52% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 2.91% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 59 156 126
10th Percentile £35,800 £31,250 £38,063
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -35.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -16.00%

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 7,708 18,393 20,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 17.74% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,841 12,535 12,955
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £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 31 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 31 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 74 £65,000 +18.18% 276
London +75 43 £70,000 -6.67% 196
Work from Home +73 41 £72,500 +61.11% 154
UK excluding London -157 39 £60,000 +41.18% 102
North of England -103 9 £37,500 -6.25% 33
South West +46 6 £98,420 +83.96% 11
West Midlands +32 6 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Midlands +15 6 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire +1 5 £37,500 +7.14% 13
South East -14 5 £75,000 +76.47% 31
Scotland +86 4 £65,000 +52.94% 4
Wales +37 4 £60,000 +33.33% 16
East of England +34 4 £47,500 - 4
North West -70 4 £34,500 -34.29% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 5 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.71%) CMS
3 3 (3.53%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.18%) Kentico
4 1 (1.18%) SAS
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) NetSuite
1 3 (3.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.24%) Power Platform
2 28 (32.94%) GCP
3 21 (24.71%) Google Analytics
4 18 (21.18%) dbt
5 15 (17.65%) AWS
6 14 (16.47%) Azure
7 9 (10.59%) Snowflake
8 7 (8.24%) GitHub
9 5 (5.88%) Google Sheets
10 4 (4.71%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (3.53%) Google Workspace
11 3 (3.53%) SaaS
11 3 (3.53%) Stripe
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.35%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (2.35%) Lucidchart
13 1 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.18%) Google Ads
13 1 (1.18%) Stitch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (48.24%) Power BI
2 35 (41.18%) Tableau
3 24 (28.24%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (21.18%) BigQuery
5 9 (10.59%) Big Data
6 7 (8.24%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.88%) Data Hub
7 5 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.71%) Power Query
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.53%) Metadata
9 3 (3.53%) Mixpanel
9 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.35%) Metabase
10 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Git
3 3 (3.53%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.35%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.35%) ERwin
4 2 (2.35%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 32 (37.65%) Marketing
3 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (27.06%) Finance
5 13 (15.29%) Advertising
6 12 (14.12%) Banking
7 9 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (8.24%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (7.06%) Manufacturing
9 6 (7.06%) Retail
10 5 (5.88%) Games
11 4 (4.71%) Legal
12 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (3.53%) Law
13 2 (2.35%) Local Government
13 2 (2.35%) Multimedia
13 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
13 2 (2.35%) Tech for Good
14 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (29.41%) Analyst
2 15 (17.65%) Senior
3 14 (16.47%) Lead
4 11 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 10 (11.76%) Data Analyst
6 7 (8.24%) Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Consultant
7 6 (7.06%) Data Consultant
7 6 (7.06%) Lead Data Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Analytics Manager
8 5 (5.88%) Provisioning Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.71%) Digital Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.53%) E-Commerce Manager
10 3 (3.53%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) CSS
1 7 (8.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.71%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (3.53%) Social Media
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.35%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.18%) New Media
5 1 (1.18%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.88%) Analytics
2 43 (50.59%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (45.88%) Visualisation
4 33 (38.82%) Data Visualisation
5 28 (32.94%) Data Modelling
6 24 (28.24%) Decision-Making
7 23 (27.06%) Actionable Insight
7 23 (27.06%) Mentoring
8 21 (24.71%) Roadmaps
9 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (21.18%) SEO
11 17 (20.00%) ETL
12 14 (16.47%) E-Commerce
13 13 (15.29%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (15.29%) Data Analysis
13 13 (15.29%) Data Strategy
14 12 (14.12%) Data Engineering
14 12 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
15 11 (12.94%) Coaching
15 11 (12.94%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 48 (56.47%) SQL
2 22 (25.88%) Python
3 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.53%) Bash
4 3 (3.53%) R
4 3 (3.53%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.53%) Degree
2 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.88%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.35%) WCAG
5 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (54.12%) Google
2 6 (7.06%) Screaming Frog
3 5 (5.88%) HubSpot
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 3 (3.53%) Ahrefs
5 3 (3.53%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.53%) Databricks
5 3 (3.53%) PayPal
5 3 (3.53%) Snowplow
5 3 (3.53%) Sun
5 3 (3.53%) YouTube
6 2 (2.35%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Adobe
7 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.18%) Pinterest
7 1 (1.18%) TikTok