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

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 370 400
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -32
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 86 58 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.74% 1.87% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 72
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,276 £43,438 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £84,819 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +2.81% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,410 £99,375
90th Percentile £97,000 £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 3,142 3,108 5,060
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.85% 18.90% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,529 2,078 3,922
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,138
25th Percentile £45,500 £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 - - -4.99%

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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

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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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 11 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 (15.12%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.49%) SAS
4 1 (1.16%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 79 (91.86%) GCP
2 22 (25.58%) Google Analytics
2 22 (25.58%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.77%) dbt
4 16 (18.60%) AWS
5 13 (15.12%) Snowflake
6 9 (10.47%) Cloud Composer
7 8 (9.30%) Azure
7 8 (9.30%) Dagster
8 6 (6.98%) Cloud Functions
8 6 (6.98%) Cloud Run
8 6 (6.98%) GitHub
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.49%) Fivetran
11 3 (3.49%) Google Ads
11 3 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.49%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (3.49%) Pulumi
11 3 (3.49%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (24.42%) Broadband
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.58%) Power BI
2 21 (24.42%) Semantic Layer
3 19 (22.09%) Looker
4 18 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (13.95%) Metadata
6 11 (12.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (11.63%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.81%) MongoDB
9 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.65%) Tableau
10 2 (2.33%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (2.33%) MySQL
11 1 (1.16%) Airbyte
11 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.16%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.98%) Git
3 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.16%) JIRA
4 1 (1.16%) MLflow
General
1 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.95%) Retail
5 11 (12.79%) Marketing
6 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.47%) Finance
7 6 (6.98%) Law
8 2 (2.33%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.16%) Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (31.40%) Data Engineer
2 24 (27.91%) Analyst
3 23 (26.74%) Senior
4 19 (22.09%) Architect
5 13 (15.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) GCP Architect
6 11 (12.79%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) Data Architect
7 10 (11.63%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (10.47%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (8.14%) Web Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Digital Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Lead
10 5 (5.81%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Testing Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Web Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.81%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) Node.js
2 6 (6.98%) Kafka
3 3 (3.49%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.49%) REST
4 2 (2.33%) .NET
4 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.33%) CSS
4 2 (2.33%) OAuth
4 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.33%) OpenID
4 2 (2.33%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.16%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.16%) Django
5 1 (1.16%) Playwright
5 1 (1.16%) pytest
5 1 (1.16%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.16%) SOAP
5 1 (1.16%) Web Services
5 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (26.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.95%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Anti-Piracy
3 5 (5.81%) Social Media
4 4 (4.65%) Online Gambling
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.49%) Replication
5 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.49%) Sports Betting
6 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.33%) Clustering
6 2 (2.33%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Blog
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (48.84%) Analytics
1 42 (48.84%) Data Engineering
2 40 (46.51%) Mentoring
3 33 (38.37%) Data Modelling
4 31 (36.05%) AI
5 29 (33.72%) CI/CD
6 27 (31.40%) Roadmaps
7 26 (30.23%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (30.23%) Data Architecture
8 23 (26.74%) Data Strategy
9 20 (23.26%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (23.26%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (22.09%) Agile
10 19 (22.09%) ETL
11 18 (20.93%) Decision-Making
11 18 (20.93%) Test Automation
12 17 (19.77%) Validation
13 16 (18.60%) Anomaly Detection
13 16 (18.60%) Observability
13 16 (18.60%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (76.74%) SQL
2 47 (54.65%) Python
3 9 (10.47%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) C++
4 5 (5.81%) Scala
5 2 (2.33%) C#
5 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Degree
2 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (36.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.65%) GDPR
3 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (53.49%) Google
2 4 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (2.33%) Adobe
3 2 (2.33%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.16%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.16%) Dataiku
83 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs