LookML Job Trends

LookML
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LookML skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 - 770
Rank change year-on-year - - +418
Permanent jobs citing LookML 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% - 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £125,000 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £135,000 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - £68,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

LookML falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,035 24,192 25,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.57% 30.43% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,419 16,033 21,026
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £105,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

LookML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LookML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LookML in the UK

LookML
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LookML.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LookML

LookML
Top 1 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LookML within the UK over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Work from Home - 1 £130,000 - 1

LookML
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform