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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 370 320
Rank change year-on-year +41 -50 +225
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 44 92 169
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 2.03% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 34 37 132
10th Percentile £37,280 £36,850 £52,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £61,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £75,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -5.82% +6.18%
75th Percentile £98,750 £140,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £117,250 £145,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% +7.57%

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 2,200 4,530 5,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.56% 23.47% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 2,798 4,123
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,662
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 1 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 8 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Confluence
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (84.09%) GCP
2 22 (50.00%) Azure
3 18 (40.91%) AWS
4 15 (34.09%) Power Platform
5 12 (27.27%) Snowflake
6 11 (25.00%) GitHub
7 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (18.18%) dbt
8 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (13.64%) Fivetran
9 6 (13.64%) SaaS
10 5 (11.36%) Vertex AI
11 4 (9.09%) Alation
11 4 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (9.09%) Cloud Run
11 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (9.09%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (6.82%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (52.27%) Tableau
2 15 (34.09%) Power BI
3 12 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (27.27%) Looker
4 6 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (13.64%) Metadata
4 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.09%) DataStage
6 4 (9.09%) QlikView
7 3 (6.82%) Pinecone
7 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.55%) Mixpanel
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) ER Studio
2 4 (9.09%) ERwin
2 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Retail
3 12 (27.27%) Finance
4 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Marketing
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Advertising
7 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.55%) Law
8 1 (2.27%) Games
8 1 (2.27%) Music Industry
8 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Analyst
2 15 (34.09%) Senior
3 8 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.09%) GCP Architect
5 4 (9.09%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Information Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Information Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
6 3 (6.82%) Analytics Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Analytics Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) React
2 4 (9.09%) Hugging Face
2 4 (9.09%) NumPy
2 4 (9.09%) Pandas
2 4 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 3 (6.82%) Django
3 3 (6.82%) LangChain
3 3 (6.82%) Next.js
3 3 (6.82%) Node.js
3 3 (6.82%) Redux
4 2 (4.55%) React Native
5 1 (2.27%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) CSS
5 1 (2.27%) HTML
5 1 (2.27%) PySpark
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.91%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.09%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (9.09%) Reinsurance
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.82%) Podcast
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Blog
6 1 (2.27%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) Social Media
6 1 (2.27%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Android
1 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Analytics
2 22 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (36.36%) AI
4 15 (34.09%) Visualisation
5 14 (31.82%) Decision-Making
5 14 (31.82%) ETL
6 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (27.27%) DevOps
7 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 11 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 11 (25.00%) Data Management
7 11 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
8 10 (22.73%) Dashboard Development
8 10 (22.73%) Data Science
9 9 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
10 8 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
11 7 (15.91%) Agile
11 7 (15.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) SQL
2 23 (52.27%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.36%) R
5 4 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.55%) Java
8 1 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Degree
2 10 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.91%) DBS Check
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.36%) GDPR
3 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Terraform
2 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (63.64%) Google
2 8 (18.18%) Alteryx
3 7 (15.91%) Databricks
4 6 (13.64%) Informatica
5 4 (9.09%) HubSpot
5 4 (9.09%) IBM
5 4 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 4 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 4 (9.09%) Talend
5 4 (9.09%) Zoho
6 2 (4.55%) Amplitude
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.27%) Apple
7 1 (2.27%) Dataiku
7 1 (2.27%) Foundry
7 1 (2.27%) Palantir
7 1 (2.27%) Spotify