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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 343 307
Rank change year-on-year +17 -36 +241
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 51 88 160
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.33% 0.51% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.32% 2.06% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 43 35 126
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,400 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £59,145 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - -12.10% +6.18%
75th Percentile £96,875 £135,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £113,000 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.26% +1.03% -3.33%

All Database and 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 2,196 4,277 4,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.37% 24.81% 24.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 2,633 3,848
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £94,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%

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 23 December 2025.

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 14 (27.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.88%) Apache
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (90.20%) GCP
2 29 (56.86%) Azure
3 25 (49.02%) AWS
4 16 (31.37%) Snowflake
5 15 (29.41%) Power Platform
6 12 (23.53%) GitHub
7 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (15.69%) dbt
7 8 (15.69%) SaaS
8 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (13.73%) Vertex AI
9 6 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (11.76%) Fivetran
10 5 (9.80%) Firebase
11 4 (7.84%) Alation
11 4 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (7.84%) Google Analytics
11 4 (7.84%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (7.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (45.10%) Tableau
2 15 (29.41%) Looker
2 15 (29.41%) Power BI
3 14 (27.45%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (15.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (15.69%) Metadata
5 7 (13.73%) Data Lake
5 7 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
7 5 (9.80%) Pinecone
7 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (7.84%) DataStage
8 4 (7.84%) QlikView
9 3 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (5.88%) Delta Lake
9 3 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (3.92%) Weaviate
11 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) CircleCI
2 4 (7.84%) ER Studio
2 4 (7.84%) ERwin
2 4 (7.84%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) MLflow
4 1 (1.96%) Storybook
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 11 (21.57%) Retail
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Marketing
6 4 (7.84%) Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Law
6 4 (7.84%) Retail Banking
7 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.92%) Advertising
8 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.96%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Senior
2 14 (27.45%) Analyst
3 10 (19.61%) Software Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) GCP Architect
7 4 (7.84%) GCP Data Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
8 3 (5.88%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Product Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) React
2 6 (11.76%) Node.js
3 4 (7.84%) Hugging Face
3 4 (7.84%) NumPy
3 4 (7.84%) Pandas
3 4 (7.84%) React Native
3 4 (7.84%) Redux
3 4 (7.84%) scikit-learn
4 3 (5.88%) Django
4 3 (5.88%) LangChain
4 3 (5.88%) Next.js
5 2 (3.92%) Faiss
5 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.92%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.92%) vLLM
6 1 (1.96%) Jest
6 1 (1.96%) JWT
6 1 (1.96%) PySpark
6 1 (1.96%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (7.84%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Blog
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.96%) Podcast
6 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Android
1 4 (7.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) Analytics
2 22 (43.14%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (39.22%) AI
4 17 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (31.37%) ETL
6 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 14 (27.45%) Data Modelling
8 13 (25.49%) Computer Science
8 13 (25.49%) DevOps
8 13 (25.49%) Visualisation
9 12 (23.53%) Data Science
9 12 (23.53%) Software Engineering
10 11 (21.57%) Data Management
10 11 (21.57%) Decision-Making
10 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
11 10 (19.61%) Data Engineering
12 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
13 7 (13.73%) Dashboard Development
13 7 (13.73%) Machine Learning
13 7 (13.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 26 (50.98%) Python
3 10 (19.61%) TypeScript
4 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (7.84%) Java
6 3 (5.88%) Go
6 3 (5.88%) R
7 2 (3.92%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) Scala
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 11 (21.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (13.73%) DBS Check
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.84%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (60.78%) Google
2 10 (19.61%) Databricks
3 6 (11.76%) Alteryx
3 6 (11.76%) Informatica
4 4 (7.84%) HubSpot
4 4 (7.84%) IBM
4 4 (7.84%) OpenAI
4 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
4 4 (7.84%) Talend
4 4 (7.84%) Zoho
5 3 (5.88%) Palantir
6 2 (3.92%) Adobe
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.96%) Apple
7 1 (1.96%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.96%) Foundry
7 1 (1.96%) SendGrid
7 1 (1.96%) Spotify