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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 342 312
Rank change year-on-year +41 -30 +223
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 66 94 209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.57% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.11% 2.26% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50 41 170
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,725
25th Percentile £54,063 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +13.35% -16.97%
75th Percentile £99,375 £130,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 2,119 4,164 6,065
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.63% 25.40% 24.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 2,472 5,043
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -4.00%

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 23 January 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 24 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (15.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.06%) Apache
4 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (92.42%) GCP
2 39 (59.09%) AWS
3 37 (56.06%) Azure
4 23 (34.85%) Snowflake
5 13 (19.70%) GitHub
6 12 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 12 (18.18%) Vertex AI
7 11 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 11 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 10 (15.15%) dbt
8 10 (15.15%) SaaS
9 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (10.61%) Dagster
10 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (10.61%) Google Analytics
11 6 (9.09%) Firebase
11 6 (9.09%) Fivetran
11 6 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (7.58%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Broadband
1 1 (1.52%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) Tableau
2 23 (34.85%) Looker
3 20 (30.30%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (21.21%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (19.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (18.18%) Power BI
7 11 (16.67%) Metadata
8 10 (15.15%) Pinecone
9 9 (13.64%) Data Lake
9 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (12.12%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (12.12%) Delta Lake
11 7 (10.61%) Weaviate
12 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
13 5 (7.58%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (6.06%) DataStage
14 4 (6.06%) QlikView
15 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
16 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) MLflow
3 6 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 4 (6.06%) ER Studio
4 4 (6.06%) ERwin
4 4 (6.06%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) Storybook
General
1 16 (24.24%) Finance
2 11 (16.67%) Retail
3 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Law
5 6 (9.09%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Marketing
7 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.06%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.52%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.52%) Publishing
9 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Senior
2 15 (22.73%) Analyst
2 15 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Consultant
5 7 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 7 (10.61%) Data Consultant
5 7 (10.61%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Senior Consultant
6 6 (9.09%) Product Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) GCP Architect
8 4 (6.06%) GCP Data Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) React
2 9 (13.64%) Node.js
3 7 (10.61%) Faiss
3 7 (10.61%) PyTorch
3 7 (10.61%) TensorFlow
3 7 (10.61%) vLLM
4 6 (9.09%) React Native
5 5 (7.58%) Django
6 4 (6.06%) Hugging Face
6 4 (6.06%) Kafka
6 4 (6.06%) NumPy
6 4 (6.06%) Pandas
6 4 (6.06%) Redux
6 4 (6.06%) scikit-learn
7 3 (4.55%) LangChain
7 3 (4.55%) Next.js
7 3 (4.55%) RESTful
8 2 (3.03%) CSS3
8 2 (3.03%) HTML5
8 2 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.61%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.06%) Reinsurance
6 3 (4.55%) Blog
6 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.52%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.52%) Podcast
8 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.52%) Social Media
8 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Android
1 6 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Analytics
2 28 (42.42%) AI
3 25 (37.88%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 22 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 20 (30.30%) Data Engineering
6 19 (28.79%) ETL
7 17 (25.76%) Data Science
7 17 (25.76%) Roadmaps
7 17 (25.76%) Software Engineering
8 16 (24.24%) Data Modelling
8 16 (24.24%) DevOps
9 14 (21.21%) Machine Learning
10 13 (19.70%) Data Management
11 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 12 (18.18%) Microservices
11 12 (18.18%) Use Case
12 11 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 11 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 39 (59.09%) SQL
2 38 (57.58%) Python
3 13 (19.70%) TypeScript
4 11 (16.67%) Java
5 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 8 (12.12%) Bash
6 8 (12.12%) Go
7 7 (10.61%) Scala
8 4 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (33.33%) Degree
2 14 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.03%) QA
4 2 (3.03%) WCAG
5 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Terraform
2 11 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (56.06%) Google
2 15 (22.73%) Databricks
3 8 (12.12%) Palantir
4 6 (9.09%) Informatica
5 5 (7.58%) Adobe
6 4 (6.06%) Alteryx
6 4 (6.06%) HubSpot
6 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 4 (6.06%) OpenAI
6 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (6.06%) Talend
6 4 (6.06%) Zoho
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.03%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.52%) Apple
8 1 (1.52%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.52%) Foundry
8 1 (1.52%) Spotify