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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 395 386
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 -35
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 80 30 108
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.18% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.53% 1.12% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43 18 50
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £42,225
25th Percentile £46,276 £38,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -39.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £90,625 £68,313 £97,500
90th Percentile £103,500 £110,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.36% -31.25% +0.46%

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 3,168 2,680 4,865
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.71% 15.89% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,450 1,843 3,108
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £39,425
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £139,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,950
% change year-on-year - -7.62% +3.92%

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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 2 October 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 12 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.25%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 69 (86.25%) GCP
2 20 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 18 (22.50%) dbt
4 17 (21.25%) Google Analytics
5 16 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 10 (12.50%) AWS
7 7 (8.75%) Cloud Composer
7 7 (8.75%) GitHub
7 7 (8.75%) SaaS
8 6 (7.50%) Azure
8 6 (7.50%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (7.50%) Cloud Run
9 5 (6.25%) Fivetran
9 5 (6.25%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (5.00%) Dagster
10 4 (5.00%) Dataform
10 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.75%) Google Ads
11 3 (3.75%) Vertex AI
12 2 (2.50%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) Looker
2 22 (27.50%) Semantic Layer
3 20 (25.00%) Power BI
4 15 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.25%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.75%) Airbyte
9 3 (3.75%) Flink
9 3 (3.75%) Metabase
9 3 (3.75%) Metadata
9 3 (3.75%) Tableau
10 2 (2.50%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (2.50%) MySQL
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) Git
3 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) MLflow
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (18.75%) Retail
4 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (16.25%) Finance
6 11 (13.75%) Marketing
7 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.75%) Back Office
9 2 (2.50%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.25%) Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Data Engineer
2 21 (26.25%) Analyst
3 20 (25.00%) Senior
4 12 (15.00%) Architect
5 10 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
8 7 (8.75%) GCP Architect
9 6 (7.50%) Data Architect
9 6 (7.50%) Web Analyst
10 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
10 5 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Data Scientist
11 4 (5.00%) Lead
11 4 (5.00%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) Node.js
1 15 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Beam
2 3 (3.75%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.75%) CSS
2 3 (3.75%) Pulumi
2 3 (3.75%) REST
3 2 (2.50%) .NET
3 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.50%) Django
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth
3 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.50%) OpenID
3 2 (2.50%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.25%) Flask
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) RESTful
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
4 1 (1.25%) Web Services
4 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.00%) Online Gambling
4 3 (3.75%) PropTech
4 3 (3.75%) Replication
4 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Blog
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Linked Data
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) AI
2 37 (46.25%) Data Engineering
3 35 (43.75%) Analytics
4 33 (41.25%) Mentoring
5 30 (37.50%) CI/CD
6 28 (35.00%) Data Modelling
7 27 (33.75%) Decision-Making
8 24 (30.00%) Roadmaps
9 23 (28.75%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (26.25%) Data Architecture
10 21 (26.25%) Data Strategy
10 21 (26.25%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (25.00%) Agile
12 19 (23.75%) Observability
12 19 (23.75%) Validation
13 18 (22.50%) Actionable Insight
13 18 (22.50%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (22.50%) Test Automation
14 17 (21.25%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
Programming Languages
1 63 (78.75%) SQL
2 47 (58.75%) Python
3 7 (8.75%) Java
4 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.75%) Scala
4 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.50%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) R
6 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (41.25%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) Google
2 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.75%) New Relic
3 3 (3.75%) Splunk
4 2 (2.50%) Apple
4 2 (2.50%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe
5 1 (1.25%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.25%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.25%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
233 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs