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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 366 359
Rank change year-on-year +68 -7 +60
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 101 62 226
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.41% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 1.83% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 64 47 201
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,750 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £63,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +72.07% -31.25%
75th Percentile £91,563 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -32.35%

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 2,432 3,394 7,339
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.95% 22.64% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,841 2,278 6,228
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,425 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,151 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,208
90th Percentile £96,250 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 21 May 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 33 (32.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (17.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 94 (93.07%) GCP
2 38 (37.62%) AWS
3 28 (27.72%) Azure
4 21 (20.79%) Snowflake
5 19 (18.81%) Google Analytics
6 18 (17.82%) Dagster
7 17 (16.83%) dbt
8 13 (12.87%) Power Platform
9 10 (9.90%) Cloud Composer
9 10 (9.90%) Vertex AI
10 9 (8.91%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (8.91%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (5.94%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (4.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (3.96%) GitHub
13 4 (3.96%) SaaS
14 3 (2.97%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (2.97%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.70%) Looker
2 22 (21.78%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (19.80%) Tableau
4 19 (18.81%) Semantic Layer
5 17 (16.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (16.83%) Metadata
6 14 (13.86%) Data Lake
6 14 (13.86%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (12.87%) Power BI
8 10 (9.90%) Apache Iceberg
8 10 (9.90%) Delta Lake
9 9 (8.91%) Pinecone
9 9 (8.91%) Weaviate
10 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.98%) Big Data
13 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.99%) MySQL
13 1 (0.99%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) MLflow
2 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.95%) Git
4 4 (3.96%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.98%) Storybook
General
1 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (13.86%) Law
4 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.91%) Finance
6 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.94%) Marketing
7 6 (5.94%) Retail
8 4 (3.96%) Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (31.68%) Senior
2 31 (30.69%) Data Engineer
3 25 (24.75%) Analyst
4 15 (14.85%) Architect
4 15 (14.85%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Consultant
5 10 (9.90%) Data Architect
5 10 (9.90%) Senior Consultant
6 9 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 9 (8.91%) Data Consultant
6 9 (8.91%) GCP Architect
6 9 (8.91%) GCP Data Architect
6 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Performance Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Principal Data Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Product Analyst
9 6 (5.94%) Lead
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.86%) Node.js
2 12 (11.88%) Kafka
3 9 (8.91%) Faiss
3 9 (8.91%) PyTorch
3 9 (8.91%) TensorFlow
3 9 (8.91%) vLLM
4 5 (4.95%) Django
4 5 (4.95%) React
5 4 (3.96%) React Native
6 3 (2.97%) CSS
6 3 (2.97%) OAuth
6 3 (2.97%) RESTful
7 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.98%) CSS3
7 2 (1.98%) Express.js
7 2 (1.98%) HTML
7 2 (1.98%) HTML5
7 2 (1.98%) Jest
7 2 (1.98%) RxJS
7 2 (1.98%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.82%) Data Structures
2 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
3 14 (13.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.94%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (5.94%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.94%) Social Media
5 5 (4.95%) Blog
6 4 (3.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.97%) Online Gambling
7 3 (2.97%) Sports Betting
8 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.99%) Podcast
9 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Android
2 4 (3.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.57%) Analytics
2 42 (41.58%) Data Engineering
3 33 (32.67%) Mentoring
4 30 (29.70%) Roadmaps
5 27 (26.73%) AI
5 27 (26.73%) CI/CD
6 25 (24.75%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (24.75%) Data Modelling
7 24 (23.76%) Data Science
8 23 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (19.80%) Data Architecture
10 19 (18.81%) Coaching
10 19 (18.81%) ETL
11 18 (17.82%) Computer Science
11 18 (17.82%) Data Governance
12 15 (14.85%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (14.85%) Machine Learning
12 15 (14.85%) Workflow
13 14 (13.86%) Agile
13 14 (13.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (71.29%) SQL
2 55 (54.46%) Python
3 19 (18.81%) Java
4 15 (14.85%) Scala
5 10 (9.90%) Bash
6 9 (8.91%) Go
7 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 6 (5.94%) C++
9 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.99%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.76%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.95%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) WCAG
4 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (16.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (17.82%) Terraform
2 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 49 (48.51%) Google
2 12 (11.88%) Databricks
3 9 (8.91%) Palantir
4 7 (6.93%) Adobe
5 2 (1.98%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.99%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.99%) OneLogin