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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 362 361
Rank change year-on-year +43 -1 +55
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 100 62 222
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 1.92% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63 46 197
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,375 -
25th Percentile £54,375 £66,274 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +72.07% -31.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -32.35%

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 2,533 3,237 7,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.22% 22.20% 22.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,141 6,237
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £120,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

BigQuery
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

BigQuery
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

BigQuery
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

BigQuery salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BigQuery
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 33 (33.00%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (17.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.00%) SAS
4 2 (2.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 93 (93.00%) GCP
2 36 (36.00%) AWS
3 25 (25.00%) Azure
4 20 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 19 (19.00%) Google Analytics
6 18 (18.00%) Dagster
7 17 (17.00%) dbt
8 14 (14.00%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
9 10 (10.00%) Vertex AI
10 9 (9.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (6.00%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (5.00%) GitHub
12 5 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.00%) SaaS
14 3 (3.00%) Firebase
14 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.00%) Looker
2 22 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
4 18 (18.00%) Tableau
5 16 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (16.00%) Metadata
6 14 (14.00%) Data Lake
6 14 (14.00%) Power BI
7 12 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (10.00%) Delta Lake
9 9 (9.00%) Pinecone
9 9 (9.00%) Weaviate
10 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.00%) Big Data
12 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.00%) MySQL
13 1 (1.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (9.00%) MLflow
2 4 (4.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.00%) Storybook
General
1 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (14.00%) Law
3 11 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.00%) Finance
5 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 6 (6.00%) Retail
7 4 (4.00%) Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 31 (31.00%) Senior
3 23 (23.00%) Analyst
4 15 (15.00%) Architect
4 15 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Consultant
5 10 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 10 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
5 10 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (9.00%) Data Consultant
6 9 (9.00%) GCP Architect
6 9 (9.00%) GCP Data Architect
7 8 (8.00%) Performance Analyst
7 8 (8.00%) Principal Data Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Lead
9 6 (6.00%) Product Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) Web Analyst
10 5 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Node.js
2 12 (12.00%) Kafka
3 9 (9.00%) Faiss
3 9 (9.00%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.00%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.00%) vLLM
4 5 (5.00%) React
5 4 (4.00%) CSS
5 4 (4.00%) OAuth
5 4 (4.00%) React Native
6 3 (3.00%) Django
7 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.00%) CSS3
7 2 (2.00%) HTML
7 2 (2.00%) HTML5
7 2 (2.00%) OpenID
7 2 (2.00%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (2.00%) REST
7 2 (2.00%) RESTful
7 2 (2.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.00%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.00%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.00%) Social Media
5 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.00%) Blog
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.00%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.00%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Clustering
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Android
2 4 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.00%) Analytics
1 44 (44.00%) Data Engineering
2 33 (33.00%) Roadmaps
3 32 (32.00%) Mentoring
4 28 (28.00%) AI
5 27 (27.00%) CI/CD
6 25 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 23 (23.00%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (23.00%) Data Science
8 21 (21.00%) Data Architecture
9 19 (19.00%) Coaching
10 18 (18.00%) ETL
11 17 (17.00%) Data Governance
12 16 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (16.00%) Computer Science
12 16 (16.00%) Data Strategy
13 15 (15.00%) Machine Learning
13 15 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (15.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 71 (71.00%) SQL
2 55 (55.00%) Python
3 19 (19.00%) Java
4 15 (15.00%) Scala
5 10 (10.00%) Bash
6 9 (9.00%) Go
7 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 6 (6.00%) C++
10 2 (2.00%) C#
10 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) WCAG
4 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) Terraform
2 8 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 48 (48.00%) Google
2 11 (11.00%) Databricks
3 9 (9.00%) Palantir
4 7 (7.00%) Adobe
5 2 (2.00%) OneLogin
5 2 (2.00%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.00%) Dataiku