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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 361 306
Rank change year-on-year +60 -55 +203
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 80 76 263
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.49% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 1.87% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 56 39 225
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £52,813 £61,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £80,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% +37.93% -31.76%
75th Percentile £96,563 £98,474 £84,056
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,996 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.40% +18.33% -20.00%

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 2,156 4,061 6,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 26.13% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,411 5,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 17 February 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 31 (38.75%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (21.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.00%) Apache
4 3 (3.75%) SAS
5 2 (2.50%) Confluence
6 1 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.25%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 74 (92.50%) GCP
2 44 (55.00%) AWS
3 37 (46.25%) Azure
4 24 (30.00%) Snowflake
5 14 (17.50%) Dagster
5 14 (17.50%) Power Platform
6 13 (16.25%) dbt
6 13 (16.25%) Google Analytics
6 13 (16.25%) Vertex AI
7 9 (11.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (11.25%) Cloud Composer
7 9 (11.25%) GitHub
8 6 (7.50%) Firebase
8 6 (7.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (7.50%) SaaS
9 5 (6.25%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.00%) Looker
2 25 (31.25%) Tableau
3 22 (27.50%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (25.00%) Metadata
5 15 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (17.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (17.50%) Power BI
7 13 (16.25%) Data Lake
8 11 (13.75%) Pinecone
9 10 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (12.50%) Delta Lake
9 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (11.25%) Weaviate
11 6 (7.50%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (5.00%) DataStage
12 4 (5.00%) QlikView
13 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
13 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
14 2 (2.50%) Big Data
14 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) MLflow
2 6 (7.50%) CircleCI
2 6 (7.50%) Git
3 4 (5.00%) ER Studio
3 4 (5.00%) ERwin
3 4 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 2 (2.50%) Storybook
General
1 14 (17.50%) Law
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Retail
6 7 (8.75%) Banking
7 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (5.00%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Advertising
10 1 (1.25%) Marketing
10 1 (1.25%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Senior
2 22 (27.50%) Data Engineer
3 17 (21.25%) Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Consultant
6 9 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (11.25%) Data Consultant
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Consultant
7 8 (10.00%) Architect
8 7 (8.75%) Performance Analyst
8 7 (8.75%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Product Analyst
9 6 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Data Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
11 4 (5.00%) GCP Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Principal Data Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (5.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) React
2 10 (12.50%) Kafka
3 9 (11.25%) Faiss
3 9 (11.25%) Node.js
3 9 (11.25%) PyTorch
3 9 (11.25%) TensorFlow
3 9 (11.25%) vLLM
4 6 (7.50%) React Native
5 5 (6.25%) Django
6 4 (5.00%) Redux
7 3 (3.75%) RESTful
8 2 (2.50%) CSS
8 2 (2.50%) CSS3
8 2 (2.50%) HTML
8 2 (2.50%) HTML5
8 2 (2.50%) Jest
8 2 (2.50%) Next.js
8 2 (2.50%) OAuth
8 2 (2.50%) RxJS
8 2 (2.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Product Ownership
2 12 (15.00%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (7.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (7.50%) Social Media
5 5 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.25%) Anti-Piracy
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.00%) Blog
6 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.00%) Reinsurance
7 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.25%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.25%) Podcast
9 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Android
1 6 (7.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Analytics
2 29 (36.25%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (35.00%) Data Engineering
3 28 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (35.00%) Data Science
4 25 (31.25%) AI
4 25 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 24 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
7 21 (26.25%) Mentoring
8 19 (23.75%) Coaching
8 19 (23.75%) ETL
8 19 (23.75%) Roadmaps
9 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
10 16 (20.00%) Visualisation
11 15 (18.75%) Data Governance
11 15 (18.75%) Workflow
12 14 (17.50%) Data Management
13 13 (16.25%) Machine Learning
13 13 (16.25%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 51 (63.75%) SQL
2 43 (53.75%) Python
3 19 (23.75%) Java
4 14 (17.50%) Scala
5 13 (16.25%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.50%) Bash
6 10 (12.50%) Go
7 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.25%) C++
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Degree
2 14 (17.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.25%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Terraform
2 11 (13.75%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) Google
2 16 (20.00%) Databricks
3 10 (12.50%) Palantir
4 6 (7.50%) Informatica
5 5 (6.25%) Adobe
6 4 (5.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.25%) Apple
8 1 (1.25%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.25%) Foundry
8 1 (1.25%) Spotify