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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 350 293
Rank change year-on-year +33 -57 +226
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 65 83 257
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.52% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 2.04% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47 40 217
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,188 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +32.78% -24.69%
75th Percentile £105,000 £104,436 £84,056
90th Percentile £113,750 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -13.33%

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 2,133 4,076 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.47% 25.50% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,418 5,768
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 3 February 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 25 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (16.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.15%) Apache
4 2 (3.08%) Confluence
5 1 (1.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 59 (90.77%) GCP
2 37 (56.92%) AWS
3 34 (52.31%) Azure
4 20 (30.77%) Snowflake
5 13 (20.00%) Vertex AI
6 9 (13.85%) GitHub
7 8 (12.31%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (12.31%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (12.31%) Dagster
7 8 (12.31%) dbt
7 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
8 7 (10.77%) Google Analytics
9 6 (9.23%) Firebase
9 6 (9.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (9.23%) SaaS
10 5 (7.69%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (6.15%) Alation
11 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (6.15%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
1 1 (1.54%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (36.92%) Tableau
2 21 (32.31%) Looker
3 18 (27.69%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (16.92%) Metadata
5 11 (16.92%) Pinecone
6 10 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (13.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (13.85%) Data Lake
7 9 (13.85%) Delta Lake
8 8 (12.31%) Power BI
8 8 (12.31%) Weaviate
9 5 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (6.15%) DataStage
10 4 (6.15%) QlikView
11 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
11 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
12 2 (3.08%) Big Data
12 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MLflow
2 6 (9.23%) CircleCI
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 4 (6.15%) ER Studio
3 4 (6.15%) ERwin
3 4 (6.15%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) Storybook
General
1 13 (20.00%) Finance
2 9 (13.85%) Law
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Retail
4 7 (10.77%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.15%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.08%) Advertising
9 1 (1.54%) Marketing
9 1 (1.54%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.54%) Publishing
9 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Senior
2 16 (24.62%) Data Engineer
3 13 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Analyst
5 10 (15.38%) Consultant
6 8 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 8 (12.31%) Data Consultant
6 8 (12.31%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (10.77%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (9.23%) Product Analyst
8 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Architect
9 5 (7.69%) Data Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Data Analyst
10 4 (6.15%) GCP Architect
10 4 (6.15%) GCP Data Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Principal Data Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
11 3 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) React
2 9 (13.85%) Node.js
3 8 (12.31%) Faiss
3 8 (12.31%) PyTorch
3 8 (12.31%) TensorFlow
3 8 (12.31%) vLLM
4 6 (9.23%) React Native
5 5 (7.69%) Django
5 5 (7.69%) Kafka
6 4 (6.15%) Redux
7 3 (4.62%) LangChain
7 3 (4.62%) Next.js
7 3 (4.62%) RESTful
8 2 (3.08%) CSS
8 2 (3.08%) CSS3
8 2 (3.08%) HTML
8 2 (3.08%) HTML5
8 2 (3.08%) Jest
8 2 (3.08%) JWT
8 2 (3.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.77%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.15%) Blog
5 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.15%) Reinsurance
6 3 (4.62%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.54%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.54%) Podcast
8 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.54%) Social Media
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Android
1 6 (9.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Analytics
2 25 (38.46%) AI
3 23 (35.38%) CI/CD
3 23 (35.38%) Computer Science
4 22 (33.85%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (32.31%) Data Engineering
6 20 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (29.23%) Data Science
8 18 (27.69%) Roadmaps
9 17 (26.15%) Data Modelling
9 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
10 15 (23.08%) ETL
11 14 (21.54%) Data Management
12 12 (18.46%) DevOps
12 12 (18.46%) Generative AI
12 12 (18.46%) Machine Learning
12 12 (18.46%) Mentoring
12 12 (18.46%) Microservices
12 12 (18.46%) Presales
13 11 (16.92%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) SQL
2 36 (55.38%) Python
3 13 (20.00%) Java
3 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 9 (13.85%) Bash
4 9 (13.85%) Go
4 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.31%) Scala
6 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.54%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) Degree
2 14 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.08%) QA
4 2 (3.08%) WCAG
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) Terraform
2 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 33 (50.77%) Google
2 16 (24.62%) Databricks
3 9 (13.85%) Palantir
4 6 (9.23%) Informatica
5 5 (7.69%) Adobe
6 4 (6.15%) IBM
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.08%) SendGrid
8 1 (1.54%) Apple
8 1 (1.54%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.54%) Foundry
8 1 (1.54%) Spotify