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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 328 348
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +93
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 91 73 255
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.92% 2.19% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 56 216
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £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 3,328 7,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.17% 25.16% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,428 6,257
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,625 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,375 £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 17 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 34 (37.36%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (19.78%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.40%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) SAS
5 2 (2.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 84 (92.31%) GCP
2 42 (46.15%) AWS
3 31 (34.07%) Azure
4 21 (23.08%) Snowflake
5 20 (21.98%) Google Analytics
6 18 (19.78%) Dagster
7 14 (15.38%) dbt
8 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
8 12 (13.19%) Vertex AI
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (9.89%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (6.59%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (6.59%) Firebase
11 6 (6.59%) SaaS
12 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.30%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (3.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.97%) Looker
2 22 (24.18%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (24.18%) Tableau
3 18 (19.78%) Metadata
4 17 (18.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (13.19%) Power BI
7 11 (12.09%) Data Lake
8 10 (10.99%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (10.99%) Delta Lake
8 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (9.89%) Pinecone
9 9 (9.89%) Weaviate
10 8 (8.79%) Semantic Layer
11 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.20%) Big Data
12 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
12 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) MLflow
2 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
3 5 (5.49%) Git
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
4 2 (2.20%) Storybook
General
1 15 (16.48%) Law
2 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.99%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Finance
5 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.69%) Marketing
7 5 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.49%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Advertising
10 1 (1.10%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.10%) Publishing
10 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (36.26%) Senior
2 27 (29.67%) Data Engineer
3 25 (27.47%) Analyst
4 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Consultant
6 10 (10.99%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (9.89%) Data Consultant
8 8 (8.79%) Architect
8 8 (8.79%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.79%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Product Analyst
10 6 (6.59%) Lead
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.49%) Data Architect
11 5 (5.49%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (5.49%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) Kafka
2 10 (10.99%) React
3 9 (9.89%) Faiss
3 9 (9.89%) Node.js
3 9 (9.89%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.89%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.89%) vLLM
4 6 (6.59%) React Native
5 5 (5.49%) Django
6 4 (4.40%) Redux
7 3 (3.30%) RESTful
8 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.20%) CSS
8 2 (2.20%) CSS3
8 2 (2.20%) Express.js
8 2 (2.20%) HTML
8 2 (2.20%) HTML5
8 2 (2.20%) Jest
8 2 (2.20%) OAuth
8 2 (2.20%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Data Structures
2 14 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.69%) Social Media
4 6 (6.59%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.40%) Blog
6 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.30%) Online Gambling
7 3 (3.30%) Sports Betting
8 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.10%) Podcast
9 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Android
1 6 (6.59%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Analytics
2 32 (35.16%) Data Engineering
3 27 (29.67%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (27.47%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (27.47%) Data Science
5 23 (25.27%) Mentoring
6 21 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 21 (23.08%) ETL
7 20 (21.98%) AI
7 20 (21.98%) Computer Science
8 19 (20.88%) Coaching
8 19 (20.88%) Roadmaps
9 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
9 16 (17.58%) Data Governance
9 16 (17.58%) Software Engineering
9 16 (17.58%) Workflow
10 14 (15.38%) Machine Learning
10 14 (15.38%) Visualisation
11 12 (13.19%) Microservices
11 12 (13.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 63 (69.23%) SQL
2 45 (49.45%) Python
3 19 (20.88%) Java
4 15 (16.48%) Scala
5 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.99%) Bash
6 10 (10.99%) Go
7 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.59%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) Degree
2 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.58%) Terraform
2 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (49.45%) Google
2 12 (13.19%) Databricks
3 9 (9.89%) Palantir
4 6 (6.59%) Adobe
5 2 (2.20%) Informatica
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.20%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.10%) Apple
6 1 (1.10%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.10%) Spotify