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

 6 months to
19 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 376 397
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 -28
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 72 57 108
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.31% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 1.91% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40 43 66
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £62,500
25th Percentile £46,276 £41,875 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £90,313 £102,410 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 3,136 2,984 5,055
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.70% 18.10% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,515 2,042 3,867
10th Percentile £36,350 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £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 £122,861
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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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 19 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 8 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 65 (90.28%) GCP
2 19 (26.39%) Power Platform
3 18 (25.00%) Google Analytics
4 12 (16.67%) dbt
5 10 (13.89%) AWS
5 10 (13.89%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.33%) Cloud Run
7 5 (6.94%) Cloud Functions
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub
8 4 (5.56%) Azure
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (4.17%) Dagster
9 3 (4.17%) Dataform
9 3 (4.17%) Fivetran
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.17%) Google Ads
9 3 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Pulumi
9 3 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.22%) Broadband
2 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.17%) Semantic Layer
2 19 (26.39%) Power BI
3 15 (20.83%) Looker
4 14 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (9.72%) Data Lake
7 5 (6.94%) MongoDB
8 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
9 3 (4.17%) Tableau
10 2 (2.78%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (2.78%) Metadata
10 2 (2.78%) MySQL
11 1 (1.39%) Airbyte
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (19.44%) Retail
4 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.28%) Marketing
5 9 (12.50%) Finance
6 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Data Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Analyst
3 15 (20.83%) Architect
3 15 (20.83%) Senior
4 11 (15.28%) Principal Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) GCP Architect
6 9 (12.50%) Data Architect
7 8 (11.11%) GCP Data Architect
7 8 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Digital Analyst
8 7 (9.72%) Web Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Marketing Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Performance Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) Testing Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Web Analytics Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) Node.js
2 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 3 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (2.78%) .NET
3 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.78%) CSS
3 2 (2.78%) OAuth
3 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.78%) OpenID
3 2 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.39%) Beautiful Soup
4 1 (1.39%) Django
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) Playwright
4 1 (1.39%) pytest
4 1 (1.39%) Scrapy
4 1 (1.39%) SOAP
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.56%) Online Gambling
4 3 (4.17%) Replication
4 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.17%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Blog
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 30 (41.67%) AI
2 30 (41.67%) Analytics
2 30 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 28 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 25 (34.72%) Data Modelling
4 25 (34.72%) Roadmaps
5 22 (30.56%) Data Architecture
5 22 (30.56%) Data Strategy
6 20 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (27.78%) Collaborative Working
6 20 (27.78%) Decision-Making
6 20 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (25.00%) Agile
7 18 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 17 (23.61%) Validation
9 16 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (22.22%) Anomaly Detection
9 16 (22.22%) Observability
9 16 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 56 (77.78%) SQL
2 41 (56.94%) Python
3 4 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) C#
4 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) Terraform
2 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) Google
2 4 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (2.78%) OneLogin
4 1 (1.39%) Adobe
4 1 (1.39%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.39%) Dataiku
90 hybrid/remote BigQuery jobs