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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 369 383
Rank change year-on-year +55 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 98 65 220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.43% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 1.98% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 56 46 195
10th Percentile £44,388 £49,375 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £66,274 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,716 £94,637 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +72.07% -31.25%
75th Percentile £91,563 £102,410 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £112,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -28.79%

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 2,564 3,283 7,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.18% 21.72% 21.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,961 2,199 6,274
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,336 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 10 June 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 32 (32.65%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (17.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.06%) SAS
4 2 (2.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 92 (93.88%) GCP
2 33 (33.67%) AWS
3 22 (22.45%) Azure
4 19 (19.39%) Snowflake
5 18 (18.37%) Dagster
5 18 (18.37%) Google Analytics
6 17 (17.35%) dbt
7 15 (15.31%) Power Platform
8 11 (11.22%) Vertex AI
9 10 (10.20%) Cloud Composer
10 9 (9.18%) Amazon SageMaker
10 9 (9.18%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (5.10%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (5.10%) Cloud Run
11 5 (5.10%) GitHub
12 4 (4.08%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (3.06%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) Looker
2 23 (23.47%) Semantic Layer
3 22 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (18.37%) Tableau
5 16 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (15.31%) Metadata
6 15 (15.31%) Power BI
7 14 (14.29%) Data Lake
8 12 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (10.20%) Apache Iceberg
9 10 (10.20%) Delta Lake
10 9 (9.18%) Pinecone
10 9 (9.18%) Weaviate
11 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
12 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
13 2 (2.04%) Big Data
13 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
13 2 (2.04%) MySQL
14 1 (1.02%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.18%) MLflow
3 4 (4.08%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) Storybook
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (12.24%) Law
3 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 7 (7.14%) Marketing
5 6 (6.12%) Retail
6 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) Data Engineer
2 31 (31.63%) Senior
3 21 (21.43%) Analyst
4 16 (16.33%) Architect
4 16 (16.33%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (11.22%) Senior Data Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Consultant
6 10 (10.20%) GCP Architect
6 10 (10.20%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (9.18%) Data Architect
7 9 (9.18%) Data Consultant
7 9 (9.18%) GCP Data Architect
8 8 (8.16%) Performance Analyst
8 8 (8.16%) Principal Data Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Lead
9 6 (6.12%) Web Analyst
10 5 (5.10%) Marketing Analyst
10 5 (5.10%) Product Analyst
10 5 (5.10%) Web Analytics Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) Node.js
2 12 (12.24%) Kafka
3 9 (9.18%) Faiss
3 9 (9.18%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.18%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.18%) vLLM
4 3 (3.06%) CSS
4 3 (3.06%) Django
4 3 (3.06%) OAuth
5 2 (2.04%) .NET
5 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.04%) OpenID
5 2 (2.04%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (2.04%) React
5 2 (2.04%) React Native
5 2 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (1.02%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (1.02%) pytest
6 1 (1.02%) Scrapy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.31%) Data Structures
3 13 (13.27%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.12%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (6.12%) Social Media
5 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.08%) Blog
6 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.06%) Online Gambling
6 3 (3.06%) Sports Betting
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.04%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Android
2 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) Data Engineering
2 42 (42.86%) Analytics
3 36 (36.73%) Roadmaps
4 34 (34.69%) Mentoring
5 32 (32.65%) AI
6 31 (31.63%) CI/CD
7 27 (27.55%) Data Modelling
8 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (24.49%) Data Architecture
10 23 (23.47%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (23.47%) Data Science
11 19 (19.39%) Coaching
11 19 (19.39%) Data Strategy
12 18 (18.37%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (18.37%) ETL
13 17 (17.35%) Agile
13 17 (17.35%) Machine Learning
13 17 (17.35%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (17.35%) Validation
14 16 (16.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 74 (75.51%) SQL
2 59 (60.20%) Python
3 20 (20.41%) Java
4 15 (15.31%) Scala
5 10 (10.20%) Bash
6 9 (9.18%) Go
7 6 (6.12%) C++
8 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.04%) C#
11 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.59%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Terraform
2 7 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.04%) Argo
Vendors
1 46 (46.94%) Google
2 11 (11.22%) Databricks
3 9 (9.18%) Palantir
4 6 (6.12%) Adobe
5 2 (2.04%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.02%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.02%) SendGrid