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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 348 313
Rank change year-on-year +40 -35 +168
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 81 66 245
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.46% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 1.71% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56 36 209
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £49,069 £60,724 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +40.91% -35.29%
75th Percentile £93,125 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,250 £70,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% +20.69% -25.16%

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 2,119 3,850 6,839
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.84% 26.68% 23.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,533 2,349 5,863
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,387
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 3 March 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 30 (37.04%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (22.22%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.94%) Apache
4 3 (3.70%) SAS
5 2 (2.47%) Confluence
6 1 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 75 (92.59%) GCP
2 44 (54.32%) AWS
3 35 (43.21%) Azure
4 24 (29.63%) Snowflake
5 15 (18.52%) Dagster
6 14 (17.28%) dbt
7 13 (16.05%) Google Analytics
7 13 (16.05%) Power Platform
8 11 (13.58%) Vertex AI
9 10 (12.35%) Cloud Composer
10 9 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (8.64%) GitHub
12 6 (7.41%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (7.41%) Firebase
12 6 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (7.41%) SaaS
13 4 (4.94%) Alation
13 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (34.57%) Looker
2 25 (30.86%) Tableau
3 24 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (27.16%) Metadata
5 14 (17.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (16.05%) Data Lake
6 13 (16.05%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (16.05%) Power BI
7 10 (12.35%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (12.35%) Delta Lake
7 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (11.11%) Pinecone
8 9 (11.11%) Weaviate
9 6 (7.41%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (4.94%) DataStage
10 4 (4.94%) QlikView
11 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
11 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
12 2 (2.47%) Big Data
12 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) MLflow
2 6 (7.41%) CircleCI
2 6 (7.41%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) ER Studio
3 4 (4.94%) ERwin
3 4 (4.94%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.47%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Storybook
General
1 15 (18.52%) Law
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Retail
6 7 (8.64%) Banking
7 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) Marketing
10 1 (1.23%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.23%) Publishing
10 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) Senior
2 23 (28.40%) Data Engineer
3 17 (20.99%) Analyst
4 13 (16.05%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Consultant
6 10 (12.35%) Architect
7 9 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (11.11%) Data Consultant
7 9 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
8 8 (9.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Data Architect
9 7 (8.64%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) Product Analyst
10 6 (7.41%) GCP Architect
10 6 (7.41%) GCP Data Architect
10 6 (7.41%) Performance Analyst
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Data Analyst
12 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) Kafka
1 11 (13.58%) React
2 9 (11.11%) Faiss
2 9 (11.11%) Node.js
2 9 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 9 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 9 (11.11%) vLLM
3 6 (7.41%) React Native
4 5 (6.17%) Django
5 4 (4.94%) Redux
6 3 (3.70%) RESTful
7 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.47%) CSS
7 2 (2.47%) CSS3
7 2 (2.47%) Express.js
7 2 (2.47%) HTML
7 2 (2.47%) HTML5
7 2 (2.47%) Jest
7 2 (2.47%) OAuth
7 2 (2.47%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Product Ownership
2 13 (16.05%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.64%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.64%) Social Media
4 6 (7.41%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.94%) Blog
6 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.94%) Reinsurance
7 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.23%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.23%) Podcast
9 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Android
1 6 (7.41%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) Analytics
2 30 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
3 29 (35.80%) Data Engineering
3 29 (35.80%) Data Science
4 28 (34.57%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (32.10%) Data Modelling
6 24 (29.63%) AI
6 24 (29.63%) Computer Science
7 22 (27.16%) ETL
7 22 (27.16%) Mentoring
7 22 (27.16%) Roadmaps
8 21 (25.93%) CI/CD
9 19 (23.46%) Coaching
10 18 (22.22%) Data Governance
11 17 (20.99%) Software Engineering
12 16 (19.75%) Visualisation
12 16 (19.75%) Workflow
13 14 (17.28%) Data Management
14 13 (16.05%) Machine Learning
14 13 (16.05%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (64.20%) SQL
2 41 (50.62%) Python
3 20 (24.69%) Java
4 15 (18.52%) Scala
5 13 (16.05%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.35%) Bash
6 10 (12.35%) Go
7 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (7.41%) C++
9 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Degree
2 14 (17.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.94%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.94%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.99%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Terraform
2 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (49.38%) Google
2 16 (19.75%) Databricks
3 10 (12.35%) Palantir
4 6 (7.41%) Adobe
4 6 (7.41%) Informatica
5 4 (4.94%) IBM
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.47%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.23%) Apple
7 1 (1.23%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.23%) Foundry
7 1 (1.23%) Spotify