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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 335 334
Rank change year-on-year +28 -1 +99
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 90 70 251
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.53% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 2.09% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 61 54 216
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,750 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £94,637 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +57.73% -29.41%
75th Percentile £92,500 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -29.41%

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 3,347 7,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.02% 25.13% 22.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 2,437 6,221
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,177 £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 £74,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 20 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 33 (36.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) SAS
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 83 (92.22%) GCP
2 42 (46.67%) AWS
3 31 (34.44%) Azure
4 21 (23.33%) Snowflake
5 20 (22.22%) Google Analytics
6 18 (20.00%) Dagster
7 14 (15.56%) dbt
8 12 (13.33%) Power Platform
9 11 (12.22%) Vertex AI
10 9 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (7.78%) Cloud Composer
11 7 (7.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (6.67%) Firebase
12 6 (6.67%) SaaS
13 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (3.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (33.33%) Looker
2 21 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (23.33%) Tableau
3 18 (20.00%) Metadata
4 17 (18.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (14.44%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (13.33%) Power BI
7 11 (12.22%) Data Lake
8 10 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (11.11%) Delta Lake
8 10 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (10.00%) Pinecone
9 9 (10.00%) Weaviate
10 8 (8.89%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.22%) Big Data
13 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (1.11%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) MLflow
2 6 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 5 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) Storybook
5 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 15 (16.67%) Law
2 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Finance
5 7 (7.78%) Marketing
6 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.56%) Retail
7 3 (3.33%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.11%) Publishing
8 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Senior
2 27 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 25 (27.78%) Analyst
4 13 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Consultant
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (10.00%) Data Consultant
8 8 (8.89%) Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Product Analyst
10 6 (6.67%) Lead
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
11 5 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) Kafka
2 10 (11.11%) React
3 9 (10.00%) Faiss
3 9 (10.00%) Node.js
3 9 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 9 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 9 (10.00%) vLLM
4 6 (6.67%) React Native
5 5 (5.56%) Django
6 4 (4.44%) Redux
7 3 (3.33%) RESTful
8 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.22%) CSS
8 2 (2.22%) CSS3
8 2 (2.22%) Express.js
8 2 (2.22%) HTML
8 2 (2.22%) HTML5
8 2 (2.22%) Jest
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth
8 2 (2.22%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 14 (15.56%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.78%) Social Media
4 6 (6.67%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.44%) Blog
6 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.33%) Online Gambling
7 3 (3.33%) Sports Betting
8 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.11%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.11%) Podcast
9 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Android
1 6 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.89%) Analytics
2 32 (35.56%) Data Engineering
3 26 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (27.78%) Data Science
5 23 (25.56%) Mentoring
6 20 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 20 (22.22%) ETL
7 19 (21.11%) AI
7 19 (21.11%) Coaching
7 19 (21.11%) Roadmaps
8 16 (17.78%) CI/CD
8 16 (17.78%) Data Governance
8 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 16 (17.78%) Workflow
9 14 (15.56%) Machine Learning
10 13 (14.44%) Visualisation
11 12 (13.33%) Microservices
11 12 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 62 (68.89%) SQL
2 44 (48.89%) Python
3 19 (21.11%) Java
4 15 (16.67%) Scala
5 12 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.11%) Bash
6 10 (11.11%) Go
7 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.67%) C++
9 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Degree
2 10 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (2.22%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Terraform
2 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (48.89%) Google
2 12 (13.33%) Databricks
3 9 (10.00%) Palantir
4 6 (6.67%) Adobe
5 2 (2.22%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.11%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.11%) Informatica
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.11%) Spotify