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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 323 330
Rank change year-on-year +24 +7 +130
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 92 74 247
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.96% 2.19% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 64 58 208
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,125 -
25th Percentile £53,438 £62,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £94,637 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +68.24% -33.82%
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £142,306 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.08% +28.26% -32.35%

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 2,322 3,376 7,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.42% 26.00% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,728 2,439 6,215
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,950 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.20%

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 10 April 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 34 (36.96%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (19.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.35%) Apache
4 3 (3.26%) SAS
5 2 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 85 (92.39%) GCP
2 43 (46.74%) AWS
3 32 (34.78%) Azure
4 23 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 19 (20.65%) Google Analytics
6 18 (19.57%) Dagster
7 15 (16.30%) dbt
8 14 (15.22%) Power Platform
9 12 (13.04%) Vertex AI
10 9 (9.78%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.78%) Azure Machine Learning
11 8 (8.70%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (7.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (6.52%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (6.52%) Firebase
13 6 (6.52%) SaaS
14 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (4.35%) GitHub
15 3 (3.26%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (33.70%) Looker
2 24 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (25.00%) Tableau
4 19 (20.65%) Metadata
5 17 (18.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (15.22%) Power BI
7 13 (14.13%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (13.04%) Data Lake
9 10 (10.87%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (10.87%) Delta Lake
9 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (9.78%) Pinecone
10 9 (9.78%) Weaviate
11 8 (8.70%) Semantic Layer
12 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
13 2 (2.17%) Big Data
13 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
13 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) MLflow
2 6 (6.52%) CircleCI
2 6 (6.52%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Storybook
4 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.09%) ERwin
4 1 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
General
1 15 (16.30%) Law
2 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.87%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Marketing
5 6 (6.52%) Retail
6 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.35%) Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Advertising
9 1 (1.09%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.09%) Publishing
9 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Senior
2 27 (29.35%) Data Engineer
3 24 (26.09%) Analyst
4 13 (14.13%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Consultant
6 10 (10.87%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (9.78%) Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (9.78%) Data Consultant
8 8 (8.70%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Product Analyst
10 6 (6.52%) Data Architect
10 6 (6.52%) Lead
10 6 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) GCP Architect
11 5 (5.43%) GCP Data Architect
11 5 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) Kafka
2 10 (10.87%) React
3 9 (9.78%) Faiss
3 9 (9.78%) Node.js
3 9 (9.78%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.78%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.78%) vLLM
4 6 (6.52%) React Native
5 5 (5.43%) Django
6 4 (4.35%) Redux
7 3 (3.26%) RESTful
8 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.17%) CSS
8 2 (2.17%) CSS3
8 2 (2.17%) Express.js
8 2 (2.17%) HTML
8 2 (2.17%) HTML5
8 2 (2.17%) Jest
8 2 (2.17%) OAuth
8 2 (2.17%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Data Structures
2 14 (15.22%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.61%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.61%) Social Media
4 6 (6.52%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.35%) Blog
6 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.26%) Online Gambling
7 3 (3.26%) Sports Betting
8 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.09%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.09%) Podcast
9 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Android
1 6 (6.52%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.00%) Analytics
2 33 (35.87%) Data Engineering
3 29 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (28.26%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (28.26%) Data Science
5 24 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 23 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 22 (23.91%) ETL
8 21 (22.83%) AI
8 21 (22.83%) Computer Science
9 20 (21.74%) Roadmaps
10 19 (20.65%) Coaching
11 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
12 17 (18.48%) Data Governance
13 16 (17.39%) Software Engineering
13 16 (17.39%) Workflow
14 15 (16.30%) Visualisation
15 14 (15.22%) Machine Learning
16 12 (13.04%) Microservices
16 12 (13.04%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 63 (68.48%) SQL
2 45 (48.91%) Python
3 19 (20.65%) Java
4 15 (16.30%) Scala
5 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.87%) Bash
6 10 (10.87%) Go
7 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.52%) C++
9 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (27.17%) Degree
2 11 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) Terraform
2 9 (9.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 46 (50.00%) Google
2 13 (14.13%) Databricks
3 9 (9.78%) Palantir
4 6 (6.52%) Adobe
5 3 (3.26%) Informatica
6 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.17%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.09%) Apple
7 1 (1.09%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.09%) IBM
7 1 (1.09%) Spotify