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

 6 months to
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 396 383
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 -29
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 72 32 98
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.19% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.32% 1.22% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 41
10th Percentile £39,500 £36,650 £39,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -33.33% +3.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,861
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £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 3,097 2,626 4,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.50% 15.64% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 1,799 2,981
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,854 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £83,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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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 9 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 10 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 62 (86.11%) GCP
2 18 (25.00%) dbt
3 15 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 13 (18.06%) Google Analytics
5 12 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 8 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
6 8 (11.11%) SaaS
7 7 (9.72%) AWS
7 7 (9.72%) GitHub
8 6 (8.33%) Azure
8 6 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (8.33%) Cloud Run
9 5 (6.94%) Fivetran
9 5 (6.94%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (5.56%) Dataform
10 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.17%) Google Ads
11 3 (4.17%) Vertex AI
12 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.78%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.22%) Broadband
2 1 (1.39%) HTTP
2 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.17%) Looker
1 21 (29.17%) Semantic Layer
2 15 (20.83%) Power BI
3 11 (15.28%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.56%) Flink
6 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.17%) Airbyte
7 3 (4.17%) Metabase
7 3 (4.17%) Metadata
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (2.78%) MySQL
8 2 (2.78%) Tableau
9 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (19.44%) Retail
5 12 (16.67%) Finance
6 9 (12.50%) Marketing
7 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.17%) Back Office
9 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.39%) Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Law
10 1 (1.39%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 18 (25.00%) Senior
3 17 (23.61%) Analyst
4 12 (16.67%) Architect
5 10 (13.89%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Digital Analyst
7 7 (9.72%) GCP Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Data Scientist
9 5 (6.94%) GCP Data Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Web Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Consultant
11 3 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) Node.js
2 13 (18.06%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
4 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.17%) CSS
4 3 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (2.78%) .NET
5 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.78%) Django
5 2 (2.78%) OAuth
5 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.78%) OpenID
5 2 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.39%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.39%) Celery
6 1 (1.39%) Flask
6 1 (1.39%) Kafka
6 1 (1.39%) pytest
6 1 (1.39%) React
6 1 (1.39%) Scrapy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.17%) PropTech
2 3 (4.17%) Replication
2 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.78%) Clustering
3 2 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.39%) Blog
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.39%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) AI
2 33 (45.83%) Data Engineering
3 31 (43.06%) Mentoring
4 30 (41.67%) Analytics
4 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 26 (36.11%) Data Modelling
6 25 (34.72%) Decision-Making
7 24 (33.33%) Roadmaps
8 21 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (27.78%) Agile
9 20 (27.78%) Data Strategy
9 20 (27.78%) Observability
10 19 (26.39%) Validation
11 18 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (25.00%) Data Architecture
11 18 (25.00%) Test Automation
12 17 (23.61%) Actionable Insight
12 17 (23.61%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (22.22%) Anomaly Detection
13 16 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 56 (77.78%) SQL
2 44 (61.11%) Python
3 8 (11.11%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) Scala
4 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.39%) R
7 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (45.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) Google
2 4 (5.56%) New Relic
2 4 (5.56%) Splunk
3 3 (4.17%) Databricks
4 2 (2.78%) Apple
4 2 (2.78%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.39%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.39%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
215 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs