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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 361 369
Rank change year-on-year +37 +8 +37
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 98 67 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 2.05% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 56 47 188
10th Percentile £44,388 £41,660 -
25th Percentile £46,276 £63,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,966 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% +72.07% -31.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -25.00%

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 2,800 3,273 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.74% 20.92% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 2,200 6,105
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £47,500 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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 26 June 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 25 (25.51%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (13.27%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.06%) SAS
4 2 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 90 (91.84%) GCP
2 29 (29.59%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) Google Analytics
4 19 (19.39%) Power Platform
5 18 (18.37%) Azure
6 17 (17.35%) dbt
7 16 (16.33%) Snowflake
8 15 (15.31%) Dagster
9 10 (10.20%) Cloud Composer
10 9 (9.18%) Vertex AI
11 6 (6.12%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (6.12%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (6.12%) Cloud Run
12 5 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.08%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (4.08%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (4.08%) GitHub
13 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) Looker
2 24 (24.49%) Semantic Layer
3 20 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (19.39%) Power BI
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (14.29%) Metadata
5 14 (14.29%) Tableau
6 11 (11.22%) Data Lake
7 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (6.12%) Delta Lake
8 6 (6.12%) Pinecone
8 6 (6.12%) Weaviate
9 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.04%) Cloud Spanner
11 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 2 (2.04%) MySQL
11 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.02%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.14%) MLflow
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.24%) Law
5 8 (8.16%) Marketing
5 8 (8.16%) Retail
6 6 (6.12%) Finance
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.61%) Senior
3 24 (24.49%) Analyst
4 18 (18.37%) Architect
5 15 (15.31%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) GCP Architect
7 11 (11.22%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (9.18%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.18%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Consultant
9 7 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (7.14%) Web Analyst
10 6 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 6 (6.12%) Data Consultant
10 6 (6.12%) Lead
11 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.35%) Node.js
2 11 (11.22%) Kafka
3 6 (6.12%) Faiss
3 6 (6.12%) PyTorch
3 6 (6.12%) TensorFlow
3 6 (6.12%) vLLM
4 3 (3.06%) Django
5 2 (2.04%) .NET
5 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.04%) CSS
5 2 (2.04%) OAuth
5 2 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.04%) OpenID
5 2 (2.04%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (2.04%) React
5 2 (2.04%) React Native
5 2 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (1.02%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.02%) Playwright
6 1 (1.02%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.51%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) Data Structures
3 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.12%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.12%) Social Media
5 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.08%) Blog
6 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.06%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.06%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.04%) Clustering
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.04%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Android
2 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Data Engineering
2 43 (43.88%) Analytics
3 41 (41.84%) Mentoring
4 37 (37.76%) Roadmaps
5 33 (33.67%) AI
6 31 (31.63%) CI/CD
7 30 (30.61%) Data Modelling
8 28 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (26.53%) Data Architecture
10 22 (22.45%) Data Strategy
11 20 (20.41%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (20.41%) Data Science
11 20 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (19.39%) Agile
12 19 (19.39%) Coaching
12 19 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (18.37%) Validation
14 17 (17.35%) Test Automation
15 16 (16.33%) ETL
15 16 (16.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 75 (76.53%) SQL
2 58 (59.18%) Python
3 18 (18.37%) Java
4 12 (12.24%) Scala
5 7 (7.14%) Bash
6 6 (6.12%) C++
6 6 (6.12%) Go
7 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Degree
2 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (31.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Terraform
2 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.04%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (47.96%) Google
2 9 (9.18%) Databricks
3 6 (6.12%) Palantir
4 5 (5.10%) Adobe
5 2 (2.04%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.02%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.02%) Dataiku