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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 325 327
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +148
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 85 83 242
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.60% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.97% 2.20% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 60 55 206
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 -
25th Percentile £52,813 £62,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +72.07% -35.29%
75th Percentile £93,125 £104,624 £82,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £70,932 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.42% +30.43% -28.13%

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 2,139 3,777 7,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.77% 27.29% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 2,445 6,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £118,750 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -8.00%

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 13 March 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 31 (36.47%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (21.18%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.71%) Apache
4 3 (3.53%) SAS
5 2 (2.35%) Confluence
6 1 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 79 (92.94%) GCP
2 44 (51.76%) AWS
3 35 (41.18%) Azure
4 24 (28.24%) Snowflake
5 15 (17.65%) Dagster
5 15 (17.65%) dbt
6 13 (15.29%) Google Analytics
6 13 (15.29%) Power Platform
7 12 (14.12%) Vertex AI
8 11 (12.94%) Cloud Composer
9 9 (10.59%) Amazon SageMaker
9 9 (10.59%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (8.24%) GitHub
10 7 (8.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (7.06%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (7.06%) Firebase
11 6 (7.06%) SaaS
12 4 (4.71%) Alation
12 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.94%) Looker
2 25 (29.41%) Tableau
3 24 (28.24%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (25.88%) Metadata
5 15 (17.65%) Data Lake
6 14 (16.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (15.29%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (15.29%) Power BI
8 10 (11.76%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (11.76%) Delta Lake
8 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (10.59%) Pinecone
9 9 (10.59%) Weaviate
10 7 (8.24%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (4.71%) DataStage
11 4 (4.71%) QlikView
12 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
13 2 (2.35%) Big Data
13 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) MLflow
2 6 (7.06%) CircleCI
2 6 (7.06%) Git
3 4 (4.71%) ER Studio
3 4 (4.71%) ERwin
3 4 (4.71%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.35%) JIRA
4 2 (2.35%) Storybook
General
1 15 (17.65%) Law
2 13 (15.29%) Finance
3 11 (12.94%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Retail
6 7 (8.24%) Banking
7 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.71%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Advertising
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.18%) Publishing
10 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Senior
2 24 (28.24%) Data Engineer
3 17 (20.00%) Analyst
4 13 (15.29%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Architect
5 12 (14.12%) Consultant
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (10.59%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.59%) Data Consultant
8 8 (9.41%) GCP Architect
8 8 (9.41%) GCP Data Architect
8 8 (9.41%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Product Analyst
10 6 (7.06%) Performance Analyst
10 6 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
11 5 (5.88%) Principal Data Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) Kafka
1 11 (12.94%) React
2 9 (10.59%) Faiss
2 9 (10.59%) Node.js
2 9 (10.59%) PyTorch
2 9 (10.59%) TensorFlow
2 9 (10.59%) vLLM
3 6 (7.06%) React Native
4 5 (5.88%) Django
5 4 (4.71%) Redux
6 3 (3.53%) RESTful
7 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.35%) CSS
7 2 (2.35%) CSS3
7 2 (2.35%) Express.js
7 2 (2.35%) HTML
7 2 (2.35%) HTML5
7 2 (2.35%) Jest
7 2 (2.35%) OAuth
7 2 (2.35%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Product Ownership
2 13 (15.29%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.24%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.24%) Social Media
4 6 (7.06%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (7.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.71%) Blog
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.71%) Reinsurance
7 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.18%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.18%) Podcast
9 1 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.06%) Android
1 6 (7.06%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.24%) Analytics
2 31 (36.47%) Data Engineering
3 30 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (34.12%) Data Science
5 28 (32.94%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (30.59%) Data Modelling
7 25 (29.41%) AI
8 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
9 23 (27.06%) Mentoring
9 23 (27.06%) Roadmaps
10 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
10 22 (25.88%) ETL
11 19 (22.35%) Coaching
11 19 (22.35%) Data Governance
12 17 (20.00%) Software Engineering
13 16 (18.82%) Visualisation
13 16 (18.82%) Workflow
14 14 (16.47%) Data Management
14 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
15 13 (15.29%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (62.35%) SQL
2 42 (49.41%) Python
3 20 (23.53%) Java
4 15 (17.65%) Scala
5 13 (15.29%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.76%) Bash
6 10 (11.76%) Go
7 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
8 6 (7.06%) C++
9 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Degree
2 14 (16.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.71%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.35%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (18.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Terraform
2 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.06%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (51.76%) Google
2 16 (18.82%) Databricks
3 10 (11.76%) Palantir
4 6 (7.06%) Adobe
4 6 (7.06%) Informatica
5 4 (4.71%) IBM
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.35%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.18%) Apple
7 1 (1.18%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.18%) Foundry
7 1 (1.18%) Spotify