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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 365 339
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 +184
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 38 91 169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.25% 0.46% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.62% 2.03% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 131
10th Percentile £36,650 £36,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £62,188 £61,840
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £78,750 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% -1.11% +6.18%
75th Percentile £100,000 £140,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £118,750 £145,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +7.14%

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 2,343 4,474 5,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.32% 22.77% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,805 2,734 4,219
10th Percentile £35,600 £40,000 £39,723
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 20 November 2025.

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 7 (18.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.89%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (89.47%) GCP
2 19 (50.00%) Azure
3 16 (42.11%) AWS
4 14 (36.84%) Power Platform
5 11 (28.95%) GitHub
5 11 (28.95%) Snowflake
6 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (18.42%) dbt
7 7 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (15.79%) Fivetran
8 6 (15.79%) SaaS
9 5 (13.16%) Vertex AI
10 4 (10.53%) Alation
10 4 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (10.53%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (10.53%) Cloud Run
10 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (10.53%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (7.89%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (57.89%) Tableau
2 14 (36.84%) Power BI
3 12 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (21.05%) Looker
5 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (13.16%) Metadata
7 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
7 4 (10.53%) DataStage
7 4 (10.53%) QlikView
8 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (7.89%) Mixpanel
8 3 (7.89%) Pinecone
8 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) ER Studio
3 4 (10.53%) ERwin
3 4 (10.53%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Retail
3 11 (28.95%) Finance
4 8 (21.05%) Marketing
5 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Banking
6 4 (10.53%) Retail Banking
7 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (5.26%) Advertising
8 2 (5.26%) Law
9 1 (2.63%) Games
9 1 (2.63%) Music Industry
9 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Analyst
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.53%) GCP Architect
5 4 (10.53%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Information Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Information Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
6 3 (7.89%) Analytics Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Manager
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) React
2 4 (10.53%) Hugging Face
2 4 (10.53%) NumPy
2 4 (10.53%) Pandas
2 4 (10.53%) scikit-learn
3 3 (7.89%) LangChain
3 3 (7.89%) Next.js
3 3 (7.89%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) Redux
4 2 (5.26%) React Native
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) CSS
5 1 (2.63%) Django
5 1 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.16%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (10.53%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (10.53%) Reinsurance
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.89%) Podcast
5 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) Social Media
6 1 (2.63%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Android
1 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Analytics
2 21 (55.26%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (39.47%) Visualisation
4 14 (36.84%) AI
4 14 (36.84%) Decision-Making
5 13 (34.21%) ETL
6 12 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (28.95%) Data Modelling
7 11 (28.95%) Data Visualisation
7 11 (28.95%) DevOps
8 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
8 10 (26.32%) Dashboard Development
8 10 (26.32%) Data Management
9 9 (23.68%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
10 8 (21.05%) Data Science
11 7 (18.42%) A/B Testing
11 7 (18.42%) Customer Insight
11 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
11 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) SQL
2 19 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.16%) R
5 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.26%) Java
8 1 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 8 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (18.42%) DBS Check
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.53%) GDPR
3 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Google
2 8 (21.05%) Alteryx
3 6 (15.79%) Databricks
3 6 (15.79%) Informatica
4 4 (10.53%) HubSpot
4 4 (10.53%) IBM
4 4 (10.53%) OpenAI
4 4 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.53%) Talend
4 4 (10.53%) Zoho
5 3 (7.89%) Amplitude
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.63%) Apple
7 1 (2.63%) Foundry
7 1 (2.63%) Palantir
7 1 (2.63%) Spotify