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

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 360 389
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 -13
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 87 59 130
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.36% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 1.86% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 96
10th Percentile - £36,650 -
25th Percentile £46,276 £43,438 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £84,819 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +13.09% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £91,991
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £69,479 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +26.33% -26.67% -6.25%

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 3,081 3,167 5,510
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.99% 19.24% 20.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 2,123 4,397
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,109
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,091 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +0.94% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -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 30 July 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 16 (18.39%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 79 (90.80%) GCP
2 20 (22.99%) Power Platform
3 19 (21.84%) Google Analytics
4 18 (20.69%) AWS
4 18 (20.69%) dbt
5 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
6 10 (11.49%) Cloud Composer
6 10 (11.49%) Dagster
7 9 (10.34%) Azure
8 6 (6.90%) Cloud Run
9 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.75%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (5.75%) GitHub
10 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.60%) Vertex AI
11 3 (3.45%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
12 2 (2.30%) Google Ads
12 2 (2.30%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.29%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Semantic Layer
2 20 (22.99%) Power BI
3 19 (21.84%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (21.84%) Looker
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (13.79%) Metadata
5 10 (11.49%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.90%) Tableau
7 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.30%) MySQL
10 1 (1.15%) Airbyte
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.90%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.30%) MLflow
5 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 30 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 8 (9.20%) Finance
5 8 (9.20%) Retail
6 7 (8.05%) Law
7 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.15%) Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Data Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Senior
3 22 (25.29%) Analyst
4 19 (21.84%) Architect
5 13 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) GCP Architect
6 11 (12.64%) Performance Analyst
6 11 (12.64%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Data Architect
8 9 (10.34%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (8.05%) Lead
9 7 (8.05%) Web Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Testing Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Web Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.75%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Node.js
2 7 (8.05%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.45%) REST
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.30%) CSS
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
4 2 (2.30%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.15%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.15%) Playwright
5 1 (1.15%) pytest
5 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.15%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
5 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.90%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.90%) Social Media
4 4 (4.60%) Online Gambling
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
5 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.45%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Blog
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Data Engineering
2 41 (47.13%) Analytics
2 41 (47.13%) Mentoring
3 34 (39.08%) Data Modelling
4 31 (35.63%) AI
5 29 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 28 (32.18%) Roadmaps
7 26 (29.89%) Data Architecture
8 25 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (26.44%) Data Strategy
10 20 (22.99%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (21.84%) Agile
12 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
13 17 (19.54%) Validation
14 16 (18.39%) Anomaly Detection
14 16 (18.39%) Data Governance
14 16 (18.39%) Data Science
14 16 (18.39%) ETL
14 16 (18.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.01%) SQL
2 49 (56.32%) Python
3 11 (12.64%) Java
4 7 (8.05%) Scala
5 6 (6.90%) C++
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (35.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (50.57%) Google
2 5 (5.75%) Databricks
3 2 (2.30%) Adobe
3 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.15%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.15%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.15%) Palantir
60 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs