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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 365 368
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +15
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 87 61 197
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.37% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.92% 1.88% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 48 43 168
10th Percentile £46,276 £36,650 -
25th Percentile £50,944 £54,375 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,966 £94,637 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% +73.65% -29.68%
75th Percentile £90,313 £102,410 £85,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.23% -2.80% -21.88%

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 2,978 3,251 6,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.95% 19.72% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,379 2,180 5,552
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,246 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,081 £46,694 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -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 15 July 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 20 (22.99%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (12.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
4 2 (2.30%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 79 (90.80%) GCP
2 21 (24.14%) AWS
3 19 (21.84%) Power Platform
4 17 (19.54%) Google Analytics
5 16 (18.39%) dbt
6 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
7 13 (14.94%) Dagster
8 12 (13.79%) Azure
9 10 (11.49%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (8.05%) Vertex AI
11 6 (6.90%) Cloud Run
12 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (4.60%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (4.60%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (4.60%) GitHub
13 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
15 2 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Semantic Layer
2 21 (24.14%) Looker
3 19 (21.84%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (21.84%) Power BI
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.64%) Metadata
6 9 (10.34%) Data Lake
6 9 (10.34%) Tableau
7 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (4.60%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (4.60%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.60%) Pinecone
8 4 (4.60%) Weaviate
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.30%) MySQL
9 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.75%) MLflow
3 4 (4.60%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.34%) Law
4 9 (10.34%) Marketing
5 8 (9.20%) Retail
6 5 (5.75%) Finance
7 3 (3.45%) Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Data Engineer
1 27 (31.03%) Senior
2 21 (24.14%) Analyst
3 19 (21.84%) Architect
4 13 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) GCP Architect
5 11 (12.64%) Performance Analyst
5 11 (12.64%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (11.49%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.34%) GCP Data Architect
8 7 (8.05%) Web Analyst
9 6 (6.90%) Lead
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Principal Data Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Testing Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Node.js
2 10 (11.49%) Kafka
3 4 (4.60%) Faiss
3 4 (4.60%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.60%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.60%) vLLM
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
4 2 (2.30%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.15%) Django
5 1 (1.15%) Playwright
5 1 (1.15%) pytest
5 1 (1.15%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.90%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.90%) Social Media
5 3 (3.45%) Blog
5 3 (3.45%) Online Gambling
5 3 (3.45%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (49.43%) Data Engineering
2 40 (45.98%) Analytics
2 40 (45.98%) Mentoring
3 32 (36.78%) Roadmaps
4 30 (34.48%) Data Modelling
5 29 (33.33%) AI
5 29 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 27 (31.03%) Data Architecture
7 26 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (26.44%) Data Strategy
9 20 (22.99%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (21.84%) Agile
10 19 (21.84%) Data Science
11 17 (19.54%) Coaching
11 17 (19.54%) Validation
12 16 (18.39%) Anomaly Detection
12 16 (18.39%) Observability
12 16 (18.39%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.01%) SQL
2 51 (58.62%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) Java
4 10 (11.49%) Scala
5 6 (6.90%) C++
6 5 (5.75%) Bash
7 4 (4.60%) Go
8 2 (2.30%) C#
8 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) 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 31 (35.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Terraform
2 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (48.28%) Google
2 8 (9.20%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) Palantir
4 2 (2.30%) Adobe
4 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.15%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.15%) Dataiku