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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 350 317
Rank change year-on-year +41 -33 +230
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 65 92 193
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.56% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.09% 2.22% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 51 40 156
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,225 £42,725
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +13.35% -16.97%
75th Percentile £98,750 £130,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £128,956
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,996 £70,576
% change year-on-year -1.40% +0.60% -5.90%

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 2,101 4,141 5,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.70% 25.42% 24.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,561 2,452 4,701
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 January 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 23 (35.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (13.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.15%) Apache
4 2 (3.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (92.31%) GCP
2 37 (56.92%) AWS
2 37 (56.92%) Azure
3 22 (33.85%) Snowflake
4 13 (20.00%) GitHub
4 13 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (16.92%) Vertex AI
6 10 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (15.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (15.38%) SaaS
7 9 (13.85%) dbt
8 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (10.77%) Google Analytics
10 6 (9.23%) Dagster
10 6 (9.23%) Firebase
10 6 (9.23%) Fivetran
10 6 (9.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (7.69%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
1 1 (1.54%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) Tableau
2 22 (33.85%) Looker
3 19 (29.23%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (20.00%) Power BI
5 12 (18.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (16.92%) Metadata
7 9 (13.85%) Data Lake
7 9 (13.85%) Pinecone
8 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (10.77%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (10.77%) Delta Lake
10 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
10 6 (9.23%) Weaviate
11 5 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (6.15%) DataStage
12 4 (6.15%) QlikView
13 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
14 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) CircleCI
2 6 (9.23%) MLflow
3 4 (6.15%) ER Studio
3 4 (6.15%) ERwin
3 4 (6.15%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) Storybook
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
2 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Retail
4 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.77%) Law
6 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (7.69%) Marketing
7 4 (6.15%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.54%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.54%) Publishing
10 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Senior
2 15 (23.08%) Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Data Engineer
4 13 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Consultant
6 7 (10.77%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 6 (9.23%) Data Consultant
7 6 (9.23%) Product Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Architect
8 5 (7.69%) Data Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) Data Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) GCP Architect
9 4 (6.15%) GCP Data Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Principal Data Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) React
2 9 (13.85%) Node.js
3 6 (9.23%) Faiss
3 6 (9.23%) PyTorch
3 6 (9.23%) React Native
3 6 (9.23%) TensorFlow
3 6 (9.23%) vLLM
4 5 (7.69%) Django
5 4 (6.15%) Hugging Face
5 4 (6.15%) NumPy
5 4 (6.15%) Pandas
5 4 (6.15%) Redux
5 4 (6.15%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.62%) Kafka
6 3 (4.62%) LangChain
6 3 (4.62%) Next.js
6 3 (4.62%) RESTful
7 2 (3.08%) CSS3
7 2 (3.08%) HTML5
7 2 (3.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.15%) Reinsurance
6 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.08%) Blog
7 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.54%) Podcast
8 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.54%) Social Media
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Android
1 6 (9.23%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Analytics
2 27 (41.54%) AI
3 24 (36.92%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
5 21 (32.31%) Computer Science
6 19 (29.23%) Data Engineering
6 19 (29.23%) ETL
7 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
8 16 (24.62%) Data Modelling
8 16 (24.62%) Data Science
8 16 (24.62%) DevOps
8 16 (24.62%) Roadmaps
9 12 (18.46%) Data Management
9 12 (18.46%) Machine Learning
9 12 (18.46%) Mentoring
9 12 (18.46%) Microservices
10 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
10 11 (16.92%) Use Case
10 11 (16.92%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) SQL
2 36 (55.38%) Python
3 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.85%) Java
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.77%) Bash
5 7 (10.77%) Go
6 6 (9.23%) Scala
7 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (32.31%) Degree
2 14 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.69%) DBS Check
3 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.08%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) WCAG
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (23.08%) Terraform
2 10 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (56.92%) Google
2 14 (21.54%) Databricks
3 7 (10.77%) Palantir
4 6 (9.23%) Informatica
5 5 (7.69%) Adobe
6 4 (6.15%) Alteryx
6 4 (6.15%) HubSpot
6 4 (6.15%) IBM
6 4 (6.15%) OpenAI
6 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (6.15%) Talend
6 4 (6.15%) Zoho
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.08%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.54%) Apple
8 1 (1.54%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.54%) Foundry
8 1 (1.54%) Spotify