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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 374 371
Rank change year-on-year +75 -3 +42
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 95 65 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 1.89% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 62 50 203
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,875 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £62,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,466 £94,637 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.26% +64.59% -28.13%
75th Percentile £92,188 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +26.09% -32.35%

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 2,420 3,442 7,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.96% 22.73% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,843 2,318 6,225
10th Percentile £38,300 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 18 May 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 32 (33.68%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (18.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.16%) SAS
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 89 (93.68%) GCP
2 39 (41.05%) AWS
3 29 (30.53%) Azure
4 21 (22.11%) Snowflake
5 19 (20.00%) Google Analytics
6 18 (18.95%) Dagster
7 16 (16.84%) dbt
8 13 (13.68%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.53%) Vertex AI
10 9 (9.47%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.47%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (9.47%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (6.32%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (5.26%) Firebase
12 5 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (4.21%) GitHub
13 4 (4.21%) SaaS
14 3 (3.16%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.58%) Looker
2 21 (22.11%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (20.00%) Tableau
4 17 (17.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 17 (17.89%) Metadata
5 14 (14.74%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (14.74%) Semantic Layer
6 13 (13.68%) Data Lake
6 13 (13.68%) Power BI
7 10 (10.53%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (10.53%) Delta Lake
8 9 (9.47%) Pinecone
8 9 (9.47%) Weaviate
9 7 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.11%) Big Data
12 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
12 1 (1.05%) MySQL
12 1 (1.05%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (9.47%) MLflow
2 5 (5.26%) Git
3 4 (4.21%) CircleCI
3 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.11%) Storybook
General
1 14 (14.74%) Law
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.42%) Finance
6 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.37%) Marketing
7 6 (6.32%) Retail
8 4 (4.21%) Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (32.63%) Senior
2 29 (30.53%) Data Engineer
3 24 (25.26%) Analyst
4 12 (12.63%) Architect
4 12 (12.63%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (11.58%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.53%) Consultant
6 10 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (9.47%) Data Consultant
8 8 (8.42%) Data Architect
8 8 (8.42%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) GCP Architect
9 7 (7.37%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (7.37%) Principal Data Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Product Analyst
10 6 (6.32%) Lead
11 5 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Kafka
2 11 (11.58%) Node.js
3 9 (9.47%) Faiss
3 9 (9.47%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.47%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.47%) vLLM
4 7 (7.37%) React
5 6 (6.32%) Django
6 4 (4.21%) React Native
7 3 (3.16%) CSS
7 3 (3.16%) OAuth
7 3 (3.16%) Redux
7 3 (3.16%) RESTful
8 2 (2.11%) .NET
8 2 (2.11%) CSS3
8 2 (2.11%) HTML
8 2 (2.11%) HTML5
8 2 (2.11%) Jest
8 2 (2.11%) RxJS
8 2 (2.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 14 (14.74%) Product Ownership
3 11 (11.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (6.32%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.32%) Anti-Piracy
5 6 (6.32%) Social Media
6 5 (5.26%) Blog
6 5 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.21%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.16%) Online Gambling
8 3 (3.16%) Sports Betting
9 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.05%) Podcast
10 1 (1.05%) Reference Data
10 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Android
2 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.21%) Analytics
2 37 (38.95%) Data Engineering
3 28 (29.47%) Mentoring
4 25 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (25.26%) Data Science
5 24 (25.26%) Roadmaps
6 23 (24.21%) AI
6 23 (24.21%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (23.16%) CI/CD
8 21 (22.11%) Data Modelling
9 20 (21.05%) Computer Science
10 19 (20.00%) Coaching
11 18 (18.95%) ETL
12 17 (17.89%) Data Governance
13 15 (15.79%) Data Architecture
13 15 (15.79%) Machine Learning
13 15 (15.79%) Workflow
14 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
15 12 (12.63%) Visualisation
16 11 (11.58%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 66 (69.47%) SQL
2 50 (52.63%) Python
3 20 (21.05%) Java
4 15 (15.79%) Scala
5 10 (10.53%) Bash
5 10 (10.53%) Go
6 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.32%) C++
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Degree
2 10 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Terraform
2 8 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (49.47%) Google
2 12 (12.63%) Databricks
3 9 (9.47%) Palantir
4 6 (6.32%) Adobe
5 2 (2.11%) SendGrid
6 1 (1.05%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.05%) OneLogin