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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 354 324
Rank change year-on-year +54 -30 +201
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 61 89 171
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.54% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.94% 2.15% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 50 38 136
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,675 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,563 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £77,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% -2.68% -3.48%
75th Percentile £97,188 £130,000 £95,572
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £137,913
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,996 £70,576
% change year-on-year -4.92% +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 2,078 4,149 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 25.15% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,488 4,380
10th Percentile £37,250 £39,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,875 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 11 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 21 (34.43%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.64%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (91.80%) GCP
2 35 (57.38%) Azure
3 32 (52.46%) AWS
4 21 (34.43%) Snowflake
5 14 (22.95%) Power Platform
6 13 (21.31%) GitHub
7 10 (16.39%) Vertex AI
8 9 (14.75%) Amazon SageMaker
8 9 (14.75%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (13.11%) dbt
9 8 (13.11%) SaaS
10 7 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (11.48%) Google Analytics
11 6 (9.84%) Firebase
11 6 (9.84%) Fivetran
12 5 (8.20%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (8.20%) Dagster
13 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
13 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) Tableau
2 21 (34.43%) Looker
3 17 (27.87%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (22.95%) Power BI
5 12 (19.67%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (18.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (18.03%) Metadata
7 9 (14.75%) Data Lake
8 8 (13.11%) Pinecone
9 6 (9.84%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (9.84%) Delta Lake
9 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
10 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (8.20%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (8.20%) Weaviate
11 4 (6.56%) DataStage
11 4 (6.56%) QlikView
12 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
12 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Git
2 5 (8.20%) MLflow
3 4 (6.56%) CircleCI
3 4 (6.56%) ER Studio
3 4 (6.56%) ERwin
3 4 (6.56%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) Storybook
General
1 14 (22.95%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Retail
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Marketing
6 4 (6.56%) Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Law
6 4 (6.56%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Advertising
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Senior
2 15 (24.59%) Analyst
3 12 (19.67%) Data Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Software Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Consultant
4 7 (11.48%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Product Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Data Consultant
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) GCP Architect
7 4 (6.56%) GCP Data Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.75%) React
2 7 (11.48%) Node.js
3 5 (8.20%) Django
3 5 (8.20%) Faiss
3 5 (8.20%) PyTorch
3 5 (8.20%) TensorFlow
3 5 (8.20%) vLLM
4 4 (6.56%) Hugging Face
4 4 (6.56%) NumPy
4 4 (6.56%) Pandas
4 4 (6.56%) React Native
4 4 (6.56%) Redux
4 4 (6.56%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.92%) LangChain
5 3 (4.92%) Next.js
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) CSS3
6 2 (3.28%) HTML5
6 2 (3.28%) Jest
6 2 (3.28%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (11.48%) Data Structures
2 7 (11.48%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.56%) Reinsurance
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) Blog
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.64%) Podcast
7 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Android
1 4 (6.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (49.18%) Analytics
2 26 (42.62%) AI
3 23 (37.70%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (36.07%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
5 19 (31.15%) Computer Science
6 18 (29.51%) ETL
7 17 (27.87%) Data Engineering
8 16 (26.23%) Data Modelling
8 16 (26.23%) DevOps
9 15 (24.59%) Data Science
9 15 (24.59%) Software Engineering
10 14 (22.95%) Roadmaps
11 12 (19.67%) Visualisation
12 11 (18.03%) Data Management
12 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
13 10 (16.39%) Decision-Making
13 10 (16.39%) Machine Learning
13 10 (16.39%) Microservices
13 10 (16.39%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) SQL
2 33 (54.10%) Python
3 11 (18.03%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.48%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.84%) Go
6 5 (8.20%) Bash
6 5 (8.20%) Scala
7 4 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Degree
2 14 (22.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) DBS Check
4 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.28%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) WCAG
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Terraform
2 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (60.66%) Google
2 13 (21.31%) Databricks
3 6 (9.84%) Informatica
3 6 (9.84%) Palantir
4 5 (8.20%) Adobe
5 4 (6.56%) Alteryx
5 4 (6.56%) HubSpot
5 4 (6.56%) IBM
5 4 (6.56%) OpenAI
5 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.56%) Talend
5 4 (6.56%) Zoho
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.28%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.64%) Apple
7 1 (1.64%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.64%) Foundry
7 1 (1.64%) Spotify