Looker Job Trends in the West Midlands

Looker
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Looker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 193 168
Rank change year-on-year +34 -25 +104
Permanent jobs citing Looker 21 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.33% 0.94% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +37.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £46,875 - £52,188
90th Percentile £51,000 - £58,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -11.48%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 485 532 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.22% 12.27% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 367 282 560
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,125 £32,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,956
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Looker
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Looker job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Looker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Looker

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Looker within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Staffordshire +5 17 - - 1
Coventry - 4 £40,000 -
Looker
England

Looker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 19 (90.48%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (80.95%) Marketing
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
4 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Games
5 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Experience Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Digital Transformation
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (80.95%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 20 (95.24%) Analytics
3 17 (80.95%) B2B
3 17 (80.95%) Coaching
3 17 (80.95%) Collaborative Working
3 17 (80.95%) Commercialisation
3 17 (80.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (80.95%) CRM
3 17 (80.95%) Customer Experience
3 17 (80.95%) Dashboard Development
3 17 (80.95%) Digital Customer Experience
3 17 (80.95%) Digital Innovation
3 17 (80.95%) Digital Marketing
3 17 (80.95%) Digital Strategy
3 17 (80.95%) GTM Strategy
3 17 (80.95%) Performance Analysis
3 17 (80.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (80.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google