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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 388 358
Rank change year-on-year +7 -30 +89
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 35 109 160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.29% 2.27% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 23 60 112
10th Percentile £36,650 £54,075 £50,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £82,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.60% +13.76%
75th Percentile £97,987 £97,500 £94,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £82,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.60% +20.27%

All Database and 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 2,719 4,811 6,263
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 20.75% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,896 3,295 5,234
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,350 £40,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,563 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%

BigQuery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BigQuery
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing BigQuery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

BigQuery salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (91.43%) GCP
2 20 (57.14%) Azure
3 16 (45.71%) AWS
4 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
5 10 (28.57%) Snowflake
6 7 (20.00%) GitHub
6 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) Cloud Run
7 4 (11.43%) dbt
7 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (11.43%) Fivetran
7 4 (11.43%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (11.43%) SaaS
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Stack
8 3 (8.57%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (8.57%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) Tableau
2 13 (37.14%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (37.14%) Power BI
3 10 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (20.00%) Looker
5 5 (14.29%) Big Data
6 4 (11.43%) Apache Hive
6 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
6 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
6 4 (11.43%) Metadata
6 4 (11.43%) SAP BW
6 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
7 3 (8.57%) Mixpanel
7 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
7 3 (8.57%) MySQL
7 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
7 3 (8.57%) Pinecone
7 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Marketing
3 8 (22.86%) Retail
4 7 (20.00%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Law
6 3 (8.57%) Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Data Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Information Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Information Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Product Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Next.js
2 5 (14.29%) CSS
3 4 (11.43%) HTML
3 4 (11.43%) Hugging Face
3 4 (11.43%) NumPy
3 4 (11.43%) Pandas
3 4 (11.43%) React
3 4 (11.43%) scikit-learn
4 3 (8.57%) LangChain
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) Shiny
4 3 (8.57%) Vue
5 1 (2.86%) Ajax
5 1 (2.86%) jQuery
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth
5 1 (2.86%) OpenID
5 1 (2.86%) PySpark
5 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.57%) Podcast
4 2 (5.71%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.86%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.86%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Analytics
2 18 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (45.71%) Data Visualisation
3 16 (45.71%) Visualisation
4 15 (42.86%) DevOps
5 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
5 12 (34.29%) ETL
6 10 (28.57%) Data Science
7 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.86%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
9 7 (20.00%) A/B Testing
9 7 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 7 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
9 7 (20.00%) Customer Insight
9 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (17.14%) Data Architecture
10 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) SQL
2 20 (57.14%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) R
4 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
4 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
1 4 (11.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Google
2 8 (22.86%) Alteryx
3 5 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) HubSpot
4 4 (11.43%) OpenAI
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 4 (11.43%) Salesforce
4 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 4 (11.43%) Talend
4 4 (11.43%) Teradata
4 4 (11.43%) Zoho
5 3 (8.57%) Amplitude