Hybrid/Remote BigQuery Job Trends

Google BigQuery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring BigQuery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 374 386
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -7
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 87 58 115
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.81% 1.84% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 78
10th Percentile £45,521 £36,650 £42,725
25th Percentile £46,276 £43,438 £64,513
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £84,819 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +4.39% +1.56%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £141,151 £115,608
UK median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.36% -31.25% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

BigQuery 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,096 3,155 5,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.90% 19.12% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,496 2,115 4,016
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,175 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% -2.81% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BigQuery and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BigQuery

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

BigQuery salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 16 (18.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 80 (91.95%) GCP
2 21 (24.14%) Power Platform
3 20 (22.99%) Google Analytics
4 18 (20.69%) AWS
5 17 (19.54%) dbt
6 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
7 10 (11.49%) Cloud Composer
7 10 (11.49%) Dagster
8 9 (10.34%) Azure
9 6 (6.90%) Cloud Run
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Functions
10 5 (5.75%) GitHub
11 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.60%) Vertex AI
12 3 (3.45%) Fivetran
12 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
13 2 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (2.30%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.29%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Semantic Layer
2 21 (24.14%) Power BI
3 19 (21.84%) Looker
4 18 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (13.79%) Metadata
6 10 (11.49%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.75%) Tableau
8 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.30%) MySQL
10 1 (1.15%) Airbyte
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.30%) MLflow
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 9 (10.34%) Retail
6 8 (9.20%) Finance
7 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.05%) Law
8 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.15%) Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Data Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Senior
3 23 (26.44%) Analyst
4 19 (21.84%) Architect
5 13 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) GCP Architect
6 11 (12.64%) Performance Analyst
6 11 (12.64%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Data Architect
8 9 (10.34%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (8.05%) Web Analyst
10 6 (6.90%) Lead
11 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Testing Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Web Analytics Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Node.js
2 7 (8.05%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.45%) REST
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.30%) CSS
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
4 2 (2.30%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.15%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.15%) Playwright
5 1 (1.15%) pytest
5 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.15%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
5 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.90%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.90%) Social Media
4 4 (4.60%) Online Gambling
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.45%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Blog
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Data Engineering
2 41 (47.13%) Analytics
2 41 (47.13%) Mentoring
3 33 (37.93%) Data Modelling
4 31 (35.63%) AI
5 29 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 28 (32.18%) Roadmaps
7 26 (29.89%) Data Architecture
8 25 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (26.44%) Data Strategy
10 20 (22.99%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (21.84%) Agile
12 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
13 17 (19.54%) ETL
13 17 (19.54%) Validation
14 16 (18.39%) Anomaly Detection
14 16 (18.39%) Data Governance
14 16 (18.39%) Observability
14 16 (18.39%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.01%) SQL
2 49 (56.32%) Python
3 11 (12.64%) Java
4 7 (8.05%) Scala
5 6 (6.90%) C++
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (51.72%) Google
2 5 (5.75%) Databricks
3 2 (2.30%) Adobe
3 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.15%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.15%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.15%) Palantir
155 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs