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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 373 405
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 -32
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 84 57 112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.67% 1.83% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 47 43 72
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,276 £41,875 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £99,375
90th Percentile £99,000 £141,151 £122,861
UK median annual salary £66,750 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.36% -31.25% -

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 3,141 3,109 5,056
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.85% 18.93% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,527 2,077 3,919
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £38,225
25th Percentile £45,081 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 12 August 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 13 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) SAS
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 77 (91.67%) GCP
2 21 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 21 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 17 (20.24%) dbt
4 16 (19.05%) AWS
5 12 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.71%) Cloud Composer
7 8 (9.52%) Dagster
8 7 (8.33%) Azure
9 6 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
9 6 (7.14%) Cloud Run
9 6 (7.14%) GitHub
10 4 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.57%) Dataform
11 3 (3.57%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.57%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (3.57%) Pulumi
11 3 (3.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) Power BI
1 21 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
2 18 (21.43%) Looker
3 17 (20.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (13.10%) Metadata
5 10 (11.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (10.71%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
8 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.76%) Tableau
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (2.38%) MySQL
10 1 (1.19%) Airbyte
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.14%) Git
3 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
4 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (15.48%) Retail
4 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.10%) Marketing
6 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (10.71%) Finance
8 6 (7.14%) Law
9 2 (2.38%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.19%) Banking
10 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (32.14%) Data Engineer
2 23 (27.38%) Analyst
3 22 (26.19%) Senior
4 18 (21.43%) Architect
5 13 (15.48%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (13.10%) GCP Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.90%) Data Architect
8 9 (10.71%) GCP Data Architect
9 8 (9.52%) Performance Analyst
10 7 (8.33%) Web Analyst
11 6 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Lead
12 5 (5.95%) Marketing Analyst
12 5 (5.95%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
12 5 (5.95%) Principal Data Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Testing Analyst
12 5 (5.95%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) Node.js
2 6 (7.14%) Kafka
3 3 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.38%) CSS
4 2 (2.38%) OAuth
4 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.38%) OpenID
4 2 (2.38%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.19%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.19%) Django
5 1 (1.19%) Playwright
5 1 (1.19%) pytest
5 1 (1.19%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.19%) SOAP
5 1 (1.19%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.95%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (5.95%) Social Media
4 4 (4.76%) Online Gambling
5 3 (3.57%) Replication
5 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.57%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.38%) Clustering
6 2 (2.38%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Blog
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 40 (47.62%) Analytics
3 37 (44.05%) Mentoring
4 32 (38.10%) Data Modelling
5 31 (36.90%) AI
6 29 (34.52%) CI/CD
7 27 (32.14%) Roadmaps
8 25 (29.76%) Data Architecture
9 24 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (27.38%) Data Strategy
11 20 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (23.81%) ETL
11 20 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (22.62%) Agile
12 19 (22.62%) Decision-Making
13 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
14 17 (20.24%) Validation
15 16 (19.05%) Anomaly Detection
15 16 (19.05%) Observability
15 16 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (77.38%) SQL
2 47 (55.95%) Python
3 9 (10.71%) Java
4 5 (5.95%) C++
4 5 (5.95%) Scala
5 2 (2.38%) C#
5 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.71%) Degree
2 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (53.57%) Google
2 4 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (2.38%) Adobe
3 2 (2.38%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.19%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.19%) Dataiku