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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 316 337
Rank change year-on-year +24 +21 +134
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 90 77 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.60% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.98% 2.24% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 63 59 203
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,500 -
25th Percentile £54,375 £62,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +72.07% -35.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,329 £82,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £145,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,932 £74,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.79% +29.57% -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 2,260 3,432 7,171
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.41% 26.71% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 2,426 6,143
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,375 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 2 April 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 (36.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.44%) Apache
4 3 (3.33%) SAS
5 2 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 84 (93.33%) GCP
2 45 (50.00%) AWS
3 35 (38.89%) Azure
4 25 (27.78%) Snowflake
5 17 (18.89%) Dagster
5 17 (18.89%) Google Analytics
6 15 (16.67%) dbt
6 15 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 12 (13.33%) Vertex AI
8 11 (12.22%) Cloud Composer
9 9 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (7.78%) GitHub
10 7 (7.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (6.67%) Firebase
11 6 (6.67%) SaaS
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (33.33%) Looker
2 26 (28.89%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (27.78%) Tableau
4 22 (24.44%) Metadata
5 15 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 15 (16.67%) Power BI
6 13 (14.44%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (11.11%) Delta Lake
7 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (10.00%) Pinecone
8 9 (10.00%) Weaviate
9 7 (7.78%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (4.44%) DataStage
10 4 (4.44%) QlikView
11 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.22%) Big Data
12 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) MLflow
2 6 (6.67%) CircleCI
2 6 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (4.44%) ER Studio
3 4 (4.44%) ERwin
3 4 (4.44%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.22%) JIRA
4 2 (2.22%) Storybook
General
1 15 (16.67%) Law
2 12 (13.33%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.89%) Retail
6 7 (7.78%) Banking
7 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.44%) Retail Banking
9 3 (3.33%) Marketing
10 2 (2.22%) Advertising
11 1 (1.11%) Music Industry
11 1 (1.11%) Publishing
11 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Senior
2 26 (28.89%) Data Engineer
3 21 (23.33%) Analyst
4 13 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Architect
5 12 (13.33%) Consultant
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (10.00%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.00%) Data Consultant
8 8 (8.89%) GCP Architect
8 8 (8.89%) GCP Data Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Product Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.56%) Lead
11 5 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) Kafka
2 10 (11.11%) React
3 9 (10.00%) Faiss
3 9 (10.00%) Node.js
3 9 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 9 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 9 (10.00%) vLLM
4 6 (6.67%) React Native
5 5 (5.56%) Django
6 4 (4.44%) Redux
7 3 (3.33%) RESTful
8 2 (2.22%) CSS
8 2 (2.22%) CSS3
8 2 (2.22%) Express.js
8 2 (2.22%) HTML
8 2 (2.22%) HTML5
8 2 (2.22%) Jest
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth
8 2 (2.22%) RxJS
8 2 (2.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 14 (15.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.78%) Social Media
4 6 (6.67%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.44%) Blog
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.44%) Reinsurance
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.22%) Online Gambling
8 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.22%) Sports Betting
9 1 (1.11%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.11%) Podcast
9 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Android
1 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Analytics
2 32 (35.56%) Data Engineering
3 30 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (32.22%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (32.22%) Data Science
5 25 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 25 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 24 (26.67%) AI
6 24 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 24 (26.67%) ETL
7 23 (25.56%) Roadmaps
8 22 (24.44%) CI/CD
9 19 (21.11%) Coaching
9 19 (21.11%) Data Governance
10 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.78%) Visualisation
10 16 (17.78%) Workflow
11 14 (15.56%) Data Management
11 14 (15.56%) Machine Learning
12 13 (14.44%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (65.56%) SQL
2 43 (47.78%) Python
3 19 (21.11%) Java
4 15 (16.67%) Scala
5 12 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.11%) Bash
6 10 (11.11%) Go
7 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.67%) C++
9 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Degree
2 14 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Terraform
2 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (52.22%) Google
2 15 (16.67%) Databricks
3 9 (10.00%) Palantir
4 6 (6.67%) Adobe
4 6 (6.67%) Informatica
5 4 (4.44%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.22%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.11%) Apple
7 1 (1.11%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.11%) Spotify