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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 365 386
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 +10
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 102 67 218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.43% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 2.05% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 59 47 191
10th Percentile £45,521 £41,660 -
25th Percentile £49,388 £63,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +72.07% -30.16%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £85,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -25.00%

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 2,744 3,272 7,541
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.58% 21.12% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,145 2,188 6,292
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,048
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -9.68%

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 21 June 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 28 (27.45%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (13.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.94%) SAS
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 94 (92.16%) GCP
2 31 (30.39%) AWS
3 20 (19.61%) Azure
3 20 (19.61%) Google Analytics
4 19 (18.63%) Power Platform
5 18 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 17 (16.67%) dbt
7 16 (15.69%) Dagster
8 10 (9.80%) Cloud Composer
8 10 (9.80%) Vertex AI
9 7 (6.86%) Amazon SageMaker
9 7 (6.86%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (5.88%) Cloud Run
11 5 (4.90%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 5 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.92%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.49%) Looker
2 25 (24.51%) Semantic Layer
3 21 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (18.63%) Power BI
5 15 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (14.71%) Tableau
6 14 (13.73%) Metadata
7 12 (11.76%) Data Lake
8 10 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (6.86%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (6.86%) Delta Lake
9 7 (6.86%) Pinecone
9 7 (6.86%) Weaviate
10 5 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.96%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.96%) MySQL
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 15 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.84%) MLflow
3 5 (4.90%) Git
4 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.98%) Storybook
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.76%) Law
5 8 (7.84%) Marketing
5 8 (7.84%) Retail
6 7 (6.86%) Finance
7 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.92%) Banking
8 2 (1.96%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (32.35%) Data Engineer
2 31 (30.39%) Senior
3 24 (23.53%) Analyst
4 18 (17.65%) Architect
5 16 (15.69%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (12.75%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (10.78%) GCP Architect
7 11 (10.78%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (8.82%) Data Architect
8 9 (8.82%) GCP Data Architect
9 8 (7.84%) Consultant
9 8 (7.84%) Principal Data Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Data Consultant
10 7 (6.86%) Web Analyst
11 6 (5.88%) Lead
12 5 (4.90%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
12 5 (4.90%) Web Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.65%) Node.js
2 11 (10.78%) Kafka
3 7 (6.86%) Faiss
3 7 (6.86%) PyTorch
3 7 (6.86%) TensorFlow
3 7 (6.86%) vLLM
4 3 (2.94%) CSS
4 3 (2.94%) Django
4 3 (2.94%) OAuth
5 2 (1.96%) .NET
5 2 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.96%) OpenID
5 2 (1.96%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (1.96%) React
5 2 (1.96%) React Native
5 2 (1.96%) REST
6 1 (0.98%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.98%) pytest
6 1 (0.98%) Scrapy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.69%) Data Structures
3 11 (10.78%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.88%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.88%) Social Media
5 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.92%) Blog
6 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.94%) Online Gambling
6 3 (2.94%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.96%) Clustering
7 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.98%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Android
2 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) Data Engineering
2 45 (44.12%) Analytics
3 41 (40.20%) Mentoring
4 38 (37.25%) Roadmaps
5 34 (33.33%) AI
6 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
7 31 (30.39%) Data Modelling
8 29 (28.43%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (25.49%) Data Architecture
10 22 (21.57%) Data Strategy
11 21 (20.59%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (20.59%) Data Science
12 20 (19.61%) Agile
12 20 (19.61%) Coaching
12 20 (19.61%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (18.63%) Validation
14 17 (16.67%) ETL
14 17 (16.67%) Machine Learning
14 17 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (76.47%) SQL
2 61 (59.80%) Python
3 19 (18.63%) Java
4 13 (12.75%) Scala
5 8 (7.84%) Bash
6 7 (6.86%) Go
7 6 (5.88%) C++
8 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.96%) C#
10 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Degree
2 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (31.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (3.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) QA
4 1 (0.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (18.63%) Terraform
2 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 49 (48.04%) Google
2 10 (9.80%) Databricks
3 7 (6.86%) Palantir
4 5 (4.90%) Adobe
5 2 (1.96%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.98%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.98%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.98%) SendGrid