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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 397 398
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -41
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 74 33 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.20% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 1.20% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 60
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £54,075
25th Percentile £46,276 £38,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -33.33% +3.60%
75th Percentile £90,625 £70,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £66,722 £55,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +21.31% -33.33% +3.60%

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 3,197 2,745 4,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.16% 16.90% 20.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,919 3,275
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,500 £39,100
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% +8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £114,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 17 September 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 9 (12.16%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 64 (86.49%) GCP
2 20 (27.03%) Power Platform
3 19 (25.68%) Google Analytics
4 14 (18.92%) dbt
4 14 (18.92%) Snowflake
5 10 (13.51%) AWS
6 6 (8.11%) GitHub
7 5 (6.76%) Azure
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Functions
7 5 (6.76%) Cloud Run
8 4 (5.41%) Dagster
8 4 (5.41%) Dataform
8 4 (5.41%) Fivetran
8 4 (5.41%) Google Tag Manager
8 4 (5.41%) SaaS
9 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.05%) Google Ads
10 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.62%) Broadband
2 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.38%) Semantic Layer
2 20 (27.03%) Looker
2 20 (27.03%) Power BI
3 14 (18.92%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.05%) Metadata
7 3 (4.05%) Tableau
8 2 (2.70%) Airbyte
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (2.70%) Metabase
8 2 (2.70%) MySQL
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.35%) Flink
9 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.46%) Git
3 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) MLflow
General
1 29 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (18.92%) Retail
4 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.22%) Marketing
5 11 (14.86%) Finance
6 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Back Office
7 2 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Data Engineer
2 21 (28.38%) Analyst
3 16 (21.62%) Senior
4 12 (16.22%) Architect
5 10 (13.51%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Digital Analyst
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) GCP Architect
7 7 (9.46%) Web Analyst
8 6 (8.11%) Data Architect
9 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) GCP Data Architect
9 5 (6.76%) Marketing Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Performance Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Testing Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Web Analytics Analyst
9 5 (6.76%) Web Marketing Analyst
10 4 (5.41%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.27%) Node.js
2 13 (17.57%) Terraform
3 3 (4.05%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.05%) Pulumi
3 3 (4.05%) REST
4 2 (2.70%) .NET
4 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.70%) CSS
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.70%) OpenID
4 2 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.35%) Django
5 1 (1.35%) Kafka
5 1 (1.35%) Playwright
5 1 (1.35%) pytest
5 1 (1.35%) SOAP
5 1 (1.35%) Web Services
5 1 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.41%) Online Gambling
4 3 (4.05%) Replication
4 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.70%) Clustering
5 2 (2.70%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.70%) PropTech
6 1 (1.35%) Blog
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) Data Engineering
2 33 (44.59%) AI
3 32 (43.24%) Analytics
4 31 (41.89%) Mentoring
5 29 (39.19%) CI/CD
6 27 (36.49%) Data Modelling
7 24 (32.43%) Decision-Making
7 24 (32.43%) Roadmaps
8 22 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (28.38%) Data Architecture
9 21 (28.38%) Data Strategy
10 20 (27.03%) Agile
10 20 (27.03%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (24.32%) Test Automation
11 18 (24.32%) Validation
12 17 (22.97%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (22.97%) Observability
12 17 (22.97%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (21.62%) Anomaly Detection
Programming Languages
1 60 (81.08%) SQL
2 43 (58.11%) Python
3 5 (6.76%) Java
4 2 (2.70%) C#
4 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.35%) R
5 1 (1.35%) Scala
5 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) Degree
2 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (39.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (52.70%) Google
2 4 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (2.70%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.35%) Adobe
4 1 (1.35%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.35%) Apple
4 1 (1.35%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.35%) New Relic
4 1 (1.35%) Splunk