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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 376 383
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 87 58 164
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.90% 1.81% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48 42 139
10th Percentile £46,276 £36,650 -
25th Percentile £50,944 £52,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,966 £94,637 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.90% +45.60% -18.75%
75th Percentile £90,313 £102,410 £91,991
90th Percentile £105,000 £141,151 £111,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -12.50%

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 3,005 3,207 6,020
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.87% 19.46% 20.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 2,147 4,893
10th Percentile £36,565 £36,246 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 22 July 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 18 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 79 (90.80%) GCP
2 20 (22.99%) AWS
3 19 (21.84%) Power Platform
4 18 (20.69%) dbt
4 18 (20.69%) Google Analytics
5 14 (16.09%) Snowflake
6 12 (13.79%) Dagster
7 11 (12.64%) Azure
8 10 (11.49%) Cloud Composer
9 6 (6.90%) Cloud Run
9 6 (6.90%) Vertex AI
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Functions
10 5 (5.75%) GitHub
11 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
13 2 (2.30%) Dataform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Semantic Layer
2 20 (22.99%) Looker
3 19 (21.84%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (21.84%) Power BI
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (13.79%) Metadata
5 10 (11.49%) Data Lake
6 8 (9.20%) Tableau
7 4 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.45%) Pinecone
8 3 (3.45%) Weaviate
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Spanner
9 2 (2.30%) MySQL
9 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) MLflow
3 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (18.39%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 9 (10.34%) Law
5 9 (10.34%) Retail
6 7 (8.05%) Finance
7 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Banking
8 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Data Engineer
2 26 (29.89%) Senior
3 21 (24.14%) Analyst
4 19 (21.84%) Architect
5 13 (14.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) GCP Architect
6 11 (12.64%) Performance Analyst
6 11 (12.64%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Data Architect
8 9 (10.34%) GCP Data Architect
9 7 (8.05%) Web Analyst
10 6 (6.90%) Lead
11 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Marketing Analytics Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Principal Data Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Testing Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Web Analytics Analyst
11 5 (5.75%) Web Marketing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Node.js
2 9 (10.34%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) Faiss
3 3 (3.45%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.45%) TensorFlow
3 3 (3.45%) vLLM
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.30%) CSS
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
4 2 (2.30%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.30%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (1.15%) Django
5 1 (1.15%) Playwright
5 1 (1.15%) pytest
5 1 (1.15%) Scrapy
5 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.90%) Anti-Piracy
3 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.90%) Social Media
4 3 (3.45%) Blog
4 3 (3.45%) Online Gambling
4 3 (3.45%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.30%) Clustering
5 2 (2.30%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (49.43%) Data Engineering
2 40 (45.98%) Analytics
2 40 (45.98%) Mentoring
3 32 (36.78%) Data Modelling
4 30 (34.48%) AI
4 30 (34.48%) Roadmaps
5 29 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 26 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (29.89%) Data Architecture
7 23 (26.44%) Data Strategy
8 20 (22.99%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (22.99%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (21.84%) Agile
10 18 (20.69%) Data Science
11 17 (19.54%) Validation
12 16 (18.39%) Anomaly Detection
12 16 (18.39%) Coaching
12 16 (18.39%) Observability
12 16 (18.39%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (18.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.01%) SQL
2 51 (58.62%) Python
3 15 (17.24%) Java
4 9 (10.34%) Scala
5 6 (6.90%) C++
6 3 (3.45%) Bash
6 3 (3.45%) Go
7 2 (2.30%) C#
7 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (35.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Terraform
2 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (49.43%) Google
2 7 (8.05%) Databricks
3 3 (3.45%) Palantir
4 2 (2.30%) Adobe
4 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
5 1 (1.15%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.15%) Dataiku