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

 6 months to
6 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 371 399
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 -28
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 86 58 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.75% 1.84% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 72
10th Percentile £45,521 £36,650 £46,675
25th Percentile £46,276 £43,438 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £84,819 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +2.81% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £141,151 £121,825
UK median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.36% -31.25% -

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 3,124 3,151 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 19.12% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 2,111 4,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £37,940
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 August 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 14 (16.28%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.49%) SAS
4 1 (1.16%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 79 (91.86%) GCP
2 21 (24.42%) Google Analytics
2 21 (24.42%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.77%) dbt
4 16 (18.60%) AWS
5 13 (15.12%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.47%) Cloud Composer
7 8 (9.30%) Azure
7 8 (9.30%) Dagster
8 6 (6.98%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (6.98%) Cloud Run
8 6 (6.98%) GitHub
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.49%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.49%) Google Ads
11 3 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.49%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (3.49%) Pulumi
11 3 (3.49%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.42%) Broadband
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.58%) Semantic Layer
2 21 (24.42%) Power BI
3 18 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (20.93%) Looker
4 12 (13.95%) Metadata
5 11 (12.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.79%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.65%) Tableau
8 2 (2.33%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (2.33%) MySQL
9 1 (1.16%) Airbyte
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.16%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.98%) Git
3 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) MLflow
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.60%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.79%) Marketing
5 10 (11.63%) Retail
6 9 (10.47%) Finance
7 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (6.98%) Law
9 2 (2.33%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.16%) Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (32.56%) Data Engineer
2 23 (26.74%) Analyst
2 23 (26.74%) Senior
3 19 (22.09%) Architect
4 13 (15.12%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) GCP Architect
5 11 (12.79%) Performance Analyst
5 11 (12.79%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.47%) GCP Data Architect
8 7 (8.14%) Web Analyst
9 6 (6.98%) Lead
10 5 (5.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Principal Data Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Testing Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Web Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) Node.js
2 6 (6.98%) Kafka
3 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.49%) REST
4 2 (2.33%) .NET
4 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.33%) CSS
4 2 (2.33%) OAuth
4 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.33%) OpenID
4 2 (2.33%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.16%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.16%) Django
5 1 (1.16%) Playwright
5 1 (1.16%) pytest
5 1 (1.16%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.16%) SOAP
5 1 (1.16%) Web Services
5 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.95%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (5.81%) Social Media
4 4 (4.65%) Online Gambling
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.49%) Replication
5 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.49%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.33%) Clustering
6 2 (2.33%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Blog
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 41 (47.67%) Analytics
2 41 (47.67%) Mentoring
3 33 (38.37%) Data Modelling
4 31 (36.05%) AI
5 29 (33.72%) CI/CD
6 27 (31.40%) Roadmaps
7 26 (30.23%) Data Architecture
8 25 (29.07%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (26.74%) Data Strategy
10 20 (23.26%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (22.09%) Agile
12 18 (20.93%) Test Automation
13 17 (19.77%) ETL
13 17 (19.77%) Validation
14 16 (18.60%) Anomaly Detection
14 16 (18.60%) Decision-Making
14 16 (18.60%) Observability
14 16 (18.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (76.74%) SQL
2 48 (55.81%) Python
3 9 (10.47%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) C++
4 5 (5.81%) Scala
5 2 (2.33%) C#
5 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (36.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.65%) GDPR
3 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (53.49%) Google
2 4 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (2.33%) Adobe
3 2 (2.33%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.16%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.16%) Dataiku
85 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs