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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 375 378
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 +10
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 94 61 211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.38% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.22% 1.85% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53 43 183
10th Percentile £46,276 £36,650 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +72.07% -26.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +14.58% -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 2,915 3,291 7,091
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.99% 20.36% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,305 2,213 5,879
10th Percentile £37,350 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.99%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £81,350
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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 4 July 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 22 (23.40%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (12.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.19%) SAS
4 2 (2.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 86 (91.49%) GCP
2 26 (27.66%) AWS
3 19 (20.21%) Power Platform
4 18 (19.15%) Google Analytics
5 17 (18.09%) dbt
6 16 (17.02%) Azure
7 15 (15.96%) Snowflake
8 14 (14.89%) Dagster
9 10 (10.64%) Cloud Composer
10 8 (8.51%) Vertex AI
11 6 (6.38%) Cloud Run
12 5 (5.32%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (5.32%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (4.26%) GitHub
13 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.19%) Pulumi
14 3 (3.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) Looker
1 23 (24.47%) Semantic Layer
2 20 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (20.21%) Power BI
4 13 (13.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (12.77%) Metadata
6 11 (11.70%) Tableau
7 10 (10.64%) Data Lake
8 7 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (5.32%) Apache Iceberg
9 5 (5.32%) Delta Lake
9 5 (5.32%) Pinecone
9 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (5.32%) Weaviate
10 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.13%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.13%) MySQL
11 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.38%) MLflow
3 4 (4.26%) Git
4 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.77%) Law
5 9 (9.57%) Marketing
5 9 (9.57%) Retail
6 6 (6.38%) Finance
7 4 (4.26%) Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (30.85%) Data Engineer
1 29 (30.85%) Senior
2 22 (23.40%) Analyst
3 19 (20.21%) Architect
4 13 (13.83%) Principal Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) GCP Architect
5 11 (11.70%) Performance Analyst
6 10 (10.64%) Data Architect
7 9 (9.57%) GCP Data Architect
8 7 (7.45%) Web Analyst
9 6 (6.38%) Consultant
9 6 (6.38%) Lead
9 6 (6.38%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Data Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Web Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) Node.js
2 11 (11.70%) Kafka
3 5 (5.32%) Faiss
3 5 (5.32%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.32%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.32%) vLLM
4 2 (2.13%) .NET
4 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.13%) CSS
4 2 (2.13%) Django
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.13%) OpenID
4 2 (2.13%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.13%) React
4 2 (2.13%) React Native
4 2 (2.13%) REST
5 1 (1.06%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.06%) pytest
5 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.89%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.38%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.38%) Social Media
5 4 (4.26%) Blog
6 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.19%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.19%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.13%) Clustering
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Android
2 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.87%) Data Engineering
2 41 (43.62%) Analytics
2 41 (43.62%) Mentoring
3 34 (36.17%) Roadmaps
4 31 (32.98%) AI
5 30 (31.91%) CI/CD
5 30 (31.91%) Data Modelling
6 27 (28.72%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (28.72%) Data Architecture
7 23 (24.47%) Data Strategy
8 21 (22.34%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (21.28%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (21.28%) Data Science
10 19 (20.21%) Agile
11 18 (19.15%) Coaching
12 17 (18.09%) Test Automation
12 17 (18.09%) Validation
13 16 (17.02%) Anomaly Detection
13 16 (17.02%) Machine Learning
13 16 (17.02%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (75.53%) SQL
2 55 (58.51%) Python
3 18 (19.15%) Java
4 11 (11.70%) Scala
5 6 (6.38%) Bash
5 6 (6.38%) C++
6 5 (5.32%) Go
7 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) C#
8 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) Terraform
2 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (47.87%) Google
2 9 (9.57%) Databricks
3 5 (5.32%) Palantir
4 3 (3.19%) Adobe
5 2 (2.13%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.06%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.06%) Dataiku