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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 366 383
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -5
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 95 60 210
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 1.84% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 53 42 183
10th Percentile - £36,650 -
25th Percentile £46,276 £61,563 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +72.07% -26.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,410 £85,625
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -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 2,904 3,263 7,263
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.95% 20.44% 21.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 2,194 6,047
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £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% -8.73%

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 2 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 23 (24.21%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (13.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.16%) SAS
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 87 (91.58%) GCP
2 27 (28.42%) AWS
3 19 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 19 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.89%) Azure
4 17 (17.89%) dbt
5 16 (16.84%) Snowflake
6 15 (15.79%) Dagster
7 10 (10.53%) Cloud Composer
8 9 (9.47%) Vertex AI
9 6 (6.32%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (6.32%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (6.32%) Cloud Run
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.21%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (4.21%) GitHub
11 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.16%) Pulumi
12 3 (3.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.26%) Looker
2 23 (24.21%) Semantic Layer
3 21 (22.11%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (20.00%) Power BI
5 14 (14.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (13.68%) Metadata
6 13 (13.68%) Tableau
7 10 (10.53%) Data Lake
8 8 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (6.32%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (6.32%) Delta Lake
9 6 (6.32%) Pinecone
9 6 (6.32%) Weaviate
10 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.11%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.11%) MySQL
12 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
13 1 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.37%) MLflow
3 4 (4.21%) Git
4 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.63%) Law
5 8 (8.42%) Marketing
5 8 (8.42%) Retail
6 6 (6.32%) Finance
7 4 (4.21%) Banking
8 2 (2.11%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Senior
2 29 (30.53%) Data Engineer
3 23 (24.21%) Analyst
4 19 (20.00%) Architect
5 13 (13.68%) Principal Engineer
5 13 (13.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) GCP Architect
6 11 (11.58%) Performance Analyst
7 10 (10.53%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.47%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (7.37%) Consultant
9 7 (7.37%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (7.37%) Web Analyst
10 6 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 6 (6.32%) Data Consultant
10 6 (6.32%) Lead
10 6 (6.32%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 5 (5.26%) Web Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.89%) Node.js
2 11 (11.58%) Kafka
3 6 (6.32%) Faiss
3 6 (6.32%) PyTorch
3 6 (6.32%) TensorFlow
3 6 (6.32%) vLLM
4 2 (2.11%) .NET
4 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.11%) CSS
4 2 (2.11%) Django
4 2 (2.11%) OAuth
4 2 (2.11%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.11%) OpenID
4 2 (2.11%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.11%) React
4 2 (2.11%) React Native
4 2 (2.11%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.05%) pytest
5 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) Cloud Native
2 14 (14.74%) Data Structures
3 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.32%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.32%) Social Media
5 4 (4.21%) Blog
6 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.16%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.16%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.11%) Clustering
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.11%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.32%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Android
2 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.42%) Data Engineering
2 42 (44.21%) Analytics
3 41 (43.16%) Mentoring
4 36 (37.89%) Roadmaps
5 33 (34.74%) AI
6 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
7 30 (31.58%) Data Modelling
8 28 (29.47%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (28.42%) Data Architecture
10 23 (24.21%) Data Strategy
11 21 (22.11%) Data Science
11 21 (22.11%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (21.05%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (20.00%) Agile
13 19 (20.00%) Coaching
14 18 (18.95%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (17.89%) Machine Learning
15 17 (17.89%) Test Automation
15 17 (17.89%) Validation
16 16 (16.84%) Anomaly Detection
Programming Languages
1 73 (76.84%) SQL
2 56 (58.95%) Python
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 12 (12.63%) Scala
5 7 (7.37%) Bash
6 6 (6.32%) C++
6 6 (6.32%) Go
7 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.11%) C#
8 2 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (20.00%) Terraform
2 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 45 (47.37%) Google
2 10 (10.53%) Databricks
3 6 (6.32%) Palantir
4 4 (4.21%) Adobe
5 2 (2.11%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.05%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.05%) Dataiku