BigQuery Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 378 438
Rank change year-on-year -21 +60 -19
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 65 228 235
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.78% 2.91% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 50 203 92
10th Percentile £50,875 - £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,725 £64,872
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.59% -28.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £102,410 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £141,151 £111,250 £104,229
UK median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.09% -32.35% +21.43%

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 3,652 7,830 10,063
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.62% 23.17% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,318 6,220 6,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,813 £43,750 £49,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery.

BigQuery salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

BigQuery salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (16.92%) Umbraco
2 7 (10.77%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.15%) Apache
4 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.54%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.54%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.54%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 64 (98.46%) GCP
2 42 (64.62%) Azure
3 35 (53.85%) AWS
4 17 (26.15%) Power Platform
4 17 (26.15%) Snowflake
5 14 (21.54%) Cloud Composer
6 12 (18.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (13.85%) dbt
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.15%) GitHub
9 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.62%) OCI
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.08%) SaaS
11 1 (1.54%) Bitrise
11 1 (1.54%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (1.54%) Figma
11 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (26.15%) Power BI
3 14 (21.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (21.54%) Tableau
4 10 (15.38%) Big Data
5 9 (13.85%) Looker
6 7 (10.77%) Data Lake
7 6 (9.23%) Hadoop
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (7.69%) Data Hub
8 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
9 4 (6.15%) Apache Hive
9 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (6.15%) Metadata
9 4 (6.15%) MySQL
9 4 (6.15%) SAP BW
10 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
10 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.62%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.54%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.54%) fastlane
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (55.38%) Finance
2 32 (49.23%) Banking
3 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Advertising
5 4 (6.15%) Law
5 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Lead
2 20 (30.77%) Data Engineer
3 18 (27.69%) Architect
4 11 (16.92%) Lead Architect
4 11 (16.92%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 11 (16.92%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (12.31%) Lead Data Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Data Architect
6 7 (10.77%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Provisioning Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Senior
9 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 2 (3.08%) Business Manager
10 2 (3.08%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.54%) CSS
1 14 (21.54%) React
2 12 (18.46%) jQuery
3 11 (16.92%) Ajax
3 11 (16.92%) OAuth
3 11 (16.92%) OpenID
3 11 (16.92%) SAML
4 10 (15.38%) Kafka
5 3 (4.62%) HTML
5 3 (4.62%) Next.js
5 3 (4.62%) Node.js
5 3 (4.62%) Shiny
5 3 (4.62%) Vue
6 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.54%) Keras
7 1 (1.54%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.54%) RxJava
7 1 (1.54%) RxSwift
7 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.08%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Android
1 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Analytics
2 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
3 23 (35.38%) Data Engineering
3 23 (35.38%) DevOps
4 20 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 19 (29.23%) ETL
5 19 (29.23%) Mentoring
6 18 (27.69%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (24.62%) Data Analytics
7 16 (24.62%) Migration
8 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (20.00%) Data Strategy
9 13 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
9 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 13 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 12 (18.46%) Agile
10 12 (18.46%) Coaching
10 12 (18.46%) Data Migration
10 12 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (16.92%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (49.23%) SQL
2 23 (35.38%) Python
3 16 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.85%) Java
5 4 (6.15%) Go
5 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.62%) R
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.54%) Bash
7 1 (1.54%) C#
7 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.54%) Rust
7 1 (1.54%) Scala
7 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Kubernetes
1 11 (16.92%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (55.38%) Google
2 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
3 14 (21.54%) Databricks
4 6 (9.23%) SAP
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle
5 4 (6.15%) Teradata
6 2 (3.08%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.08%) Informatica
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Adobe
7 1 (1.54%) Confluent