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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 374 375
Rank change year-on-year +35 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 90 61 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 1.85% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 50 43 175
10th Percentile £46,276 £36,650 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,966 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% +72.07% -27.87%
75th Percentile £90,938 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -25.00%

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 3,000 3,299 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 20.03% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 2,210 5,653
10th Percentile £37,450 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,748 £46,858 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 July 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 20 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (12.22%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) SAS
4 2 (2.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 82 (91.11%) GCP
2 24 (26.67%) AWS
3 19 (21.11%) Power Platform
4 17 (18.89%) dbt
4 17 (18.89%) Google Analytics
5 14 (15.56%) Azure
5 14 (15.56%) Snowflake
6 13 (14.44%) Dagster
7 10 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
8 7 (7.78%) Vertex AI
9 6 (6.67%) Cloud Run
10 5 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (4.44%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (4.44%) GitHub
11 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.33%) Pulumi
12 3 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.44%) Semantic Layer
2 21 (23.33%) Looker
3 19 (21.11%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (21.11%) Power BI
4 12 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (12.22%) Metadata
6 9 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 9 (10.00%) Tableau
7 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (4.44%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.44%) Pinecone
8 4 (4.44%) Weaviate
9 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.22%) MySQL
10 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.11%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.56%) MLflow
3 4 (4.44%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (17.78%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.33%) Law
5 9 (10.00%) Marketing
5 9 (10.00%) Retail
6 6 (6.67%) Finance
7 4 (4.44%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) Data Engineer
1 28 (31.11%) Senior
2 21 (23.33%) Analyst
3 19 (21.11%) Architect
4 13 (14.44%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) GCP Architect
5 11 (12.22%) Performance Analyst
5 11 (12.22%) Principal Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Data Architect
7 9 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
8 7 (7.78%) Web Analyst
9 6 (6.67%) Lead
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Testing Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Web Analytics Analyst
10 5 (5.56%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) Node.js
2 11 (12.22%) Kafka
3 4 (4.44%) Faiss
3 4 (4.44%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.44%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.44%) vLLM
4 2 (2.22%) .NET
4 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.22%) CSS
4 2 (2.22%) OAuth
4 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.22%) OpenID
4 2 (2.22%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.22%) React
4 2 (2.22%) React Native
4 2 (2.22%) REST
5 1 (1.11%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.11%) Django
5 1 (1.11%) pytest
5 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.44%) Data Structures
3 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.67%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.67%) Social Media
5 4 (4.44%) Blog
6 3 (3.33%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.33%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.22%) Clustering
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.22%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Android
2 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) Data Engineering
2 41 (45.56%) Mentoring
3 40 (44.44%) Analytics
4 32 (35.56%) Roadmaps
5 30 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 29 (32.22%) AI
6 29 (32.22%) CI/CD
7 27 (30.00%) Data Architecture
8 26 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (25.56%) Data Strategy
10 21 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (21.11%) Agile
12 19 (21.11%) Data Science
13 17 (18.89%) Coaching
13 17 (18.89%) Test Automation
13 17 (18.89%) Validation
14 16 (17.78%) Anomaly Detection
14 16 (17.78%) Observability
14 16 (17.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (75.56%) SQL
2 52 (57.78%) Python
3 17 (18.89%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) Scala
5 6 (6.67%) C++
6 5 (5.56%) Bash
7 4 (4.44%) Go
7 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) C#
8 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (34.44%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (21.11%) Terraform
2 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 42 (46.67%) Google
2 8 (8.89%) Databricks
3 4 (4.44%) Palantir
4 2 (2.22%) Adobe
4 2 (2.22%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.11%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.11%) Dataiku