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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 365 313
Rank change year-on-year +49 -52 +236
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 54 89 162
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.52% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 2.09% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 37 129
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,850 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,145 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% -9.60% +6.18%
75th Percentile £96,250 £130,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £112,250 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £66,500 £71,991 £72,250
% change year-on-year -7.63% -0.36% -3.67%

All Database and 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 2,177 4,257 5,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.17% 24.74% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 2,599 4,034
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,337 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 27 December 2025.

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 16 (29.63%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
4 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (90.74%) GCP
2 31 (57.41%) Azure
3 27 (50.00%) AWS
4 18 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 15 (27.78%) Power Platform
6 13 (24.07%) GitHub
7 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (14.81%) dbt
7 8 (14.81%) SaaS
7 8 (14.81%) Vertex AI
8 7 (12.96%) Amazon SageMaker
8 7 (12.96%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (11.11%) Firebase
9 6 (11.11%) Fivetran
10 5 (9.26%) Google Analytics
11 4 (7.41%) Alation
11 4 (7.41%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (7.41%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) Tableau
2 17 (31.48%) Looker
3 15 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (27.78%) Power BI
4 9 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (16.67%) Metadata
5 8 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (12.96%) Data Lake
7 6 (11.11%) Pinecone
7 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
8 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (7.41%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (7.41%) DataStage
9 4 (7.41%) Delta Lake
9 4 (7.41%) QlikView
10 3 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (5.56%) Weaviate
11 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
11 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) CircleCI
2 4 (7.41%) ER Studio
2 4 (7.41%) ERwin
2 4 (7.41%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (5.56%) MLflow
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Storybook
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Retail
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Marketing
5 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Law
5 4 (7.41%) Retail Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Advertising
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Music Industry
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Senior
2 14 (25.93%) Analyst
3 10 (18.52%) Software Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Architect
6 5 (9.26%) Consultant
6 5 (9.26%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) GCP Architect
7 4 (7.41%) GCP Data Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Product Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
8 3 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) React
2 7 (12.96%) Node.js
3 4 (7.41%) Hugging Face
3 4 (7.41%) NumPy
3 4 (7.41%) Pandas
3 4 (7.41%) React Native
3 4 (7.41%) Redux
3 4 (7.41%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.56%) Django
4 3 (5.56%) Faiss
4 3 (5.56%) LangChain
4 3 (5.56%) Next.js
4 3 (5.56%) PyTorch
4 3 (5.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) TensorFlow
4 3 (5.56%) vLLM
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) HTML5
5 2 (3.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (9.26%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (7.41%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.85%) Blog
6 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.85%) Podcast
6 1 (1.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Android
1 4 (7.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (51.85%) Analytics
2 22 (40.74%) AI
2 22 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (35.19%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
4 17 (31.48%) ETL
5 15 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 15 (27.78%) Data Modelling
6 14 (25.93%) DevOps
7 13 (24.07%) Data Science
7 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
7 13 (24.07%) Visualisation
8 12 (22.22%) Data Engineering
9 11 (20.37%) Data Management
9 11 (20.37%) Decision-Making
9 11 (20.37%) Mentoring
10 10 (18.52%) Roadmaps
11 8 (14.81%) Agile
11 8 (14.81%) Microservices
11 8 (14.81%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) SQL
2 27 (50.00%) Python
3 11 (20.37%) TypeScript
4 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.26%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (7.41%) Go
7 3 (5.56%) Bash
7 3 (5.56%) Scala
8 2 (3.70%) R
8 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Degree
2 12 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.96%) DBS Check
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 32 (59.26%) Google
2 11 (20.37%) Databricks
3 6 (11.11%) Informatica
4 5 (9.26%) Alteryx
5 4 (7.41%) HubSpot
5 4 (7.41%) IBM
5 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
5 4 (7.41%) Palantir
5 4 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 4 (7.41%) Talend
5 4 (7.41%) Zoho
6 3 (5.56%) Adobe
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.70%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.85%) Apple
8 1 (1.85%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.85%) Foundry
8 1 (1.85%) Spotify