Google BigQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BigQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BigQuery over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 499 404
Rank change year-on-year +115 -95 +113
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 675 597 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.58% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 2.70% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 285 251 388
10th Percentile - £55,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,725 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £67,071 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.59% +11.78% -4.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

BigQuery is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.78%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Salary trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +121 639 £57,500 -32.35% 111
UK excluding London +267 520 £51,250 -23.59% 53
Work from Home +79 241 £60,000 -29.41% 78
North of England +193 208 £45,249 -32.54% 16
London -54 132 £77,500 -8.82% 63
South East +68 102 £54,000 -6.09% 13
North West +70 86 £45,249 -26.04% 7
South West +34 85 £70,576 -21.58% 1
Yorkshire +126 76 £45,249 -33.41% 7
Midlands +68 72 £61,250 +8.41% 8
North East - 46 £45,249 - 2
West Midlands +44 45 £57,500 +1.77% 4
East Midlands - 27 £100,000 - 4
East of England +36 24 £71,250 +58.33% 6
Scotland -53 21 £116,430 - 7
Wales +12 8 £88,750 - 3

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 46 (6.81%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (5.19%) Apache Spark
3 33 (4.89%) Apache
4 11 (1.63%) Confluence
5 4 (0.59%) SAS
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 593 (87.85%) GCP
2 260 (38.52%) AWS
3 258 (38.22%) Azure
4 78 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (9.33%) Power Platform
6 51 (7.56%) Snowflake
7 40 (5.93%) Google Analytics
8 36 (5.33%) dbt
9 26 (3.85%) GitHub
10 17 (2.52%) SaaS
11 16 (2.37%) Stackdriver
12 15 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.48%) Cloud Composer
15 10 (1.48%) Serverless
16 9 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.19%) VPN
2 4 (0.59%) SMS
3 3 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (61.63%) Looker
2 248 (36.74%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (9.33%) Power BI
3 63 (9.33%) Tableau
4 49 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 38 (5.63%) Data Lake
6 33 (4.89%) SQL Server
7 30 (4.44%) Big Data
7 30 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 27 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.41%) Hadoop
10 19 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (2.37%) MongoDB
12 15 (2.22%) Data Hub
12 15 (2.22%) Data Mining
13 13 (1.93%) MySQL
14 12 (1.78%) DB2
14 12 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.78%) Flink
15 10 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 34 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 26 (3.85%) Git
3 22 (3.26%) GitLab
4 12 (1.78%) JIRA
5 8 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Maven
7 1 (0.15%) Spinnaker
General
1 378 (56.00%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (12.15%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.81%) Billing
4 69 (10.22%) Finance
5 57 (8.44%) Banking
6 42 (6.22%) Retail
7 24 (3.56%) Marketing
8 20 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.93%) Law
11 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.59%) Games
14 4 (0.59%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.44%) Legal
15 3 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (40.30%) Data Engineer
2 175 (25.93%) Platform Engineer
3 172 (25.48%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (25.33%) Principal Data Engineer
5 132 (19.56%) Architect
6 122 (18.07%) Data Architect
7 94 (13.93%) Analyst
8 79 (11.70%) Data Manager
9 76 (11.26%) Digital Analyst
10 72 (10.67%) Engineering Manager
11 70 (10.37%) Digital Performance Analyst
11 70 (10.37%) Performance Analyst
12 53 (7.85%) Senior
13 43 (6.37%) Lead
14 27 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (2.22%) Head of Engineering
17 11 (1.63%) Cloud Architect
17 11 (1.63%) Cloud Engineer
17 11 (1.63%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.22%) Kafka
2 28 (4.15%) Apache Beam
3 11 (1.63%) RESTful
4 8 (1.19%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.89%) Pandas
5 6 (0.89%) React
6 5 (0.74%) REST
6 5 (0.74%) Vue
7 4 (0.59%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.44%) HTML
8 3 (0.44%) PySpark
9 2 (0.30%) NumPy
9 2 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.30%) Spring
9 2 (0.30%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.30%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
9 2 (0.30%) Unreal Engine
10 1 (0.15%) Keras
10 1 (0.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 279 (41.33%) Self-Motivation
2 79 (11.70%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.41%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.78%) Cyberattack
7 12 (1.78%) Data Fabric
8 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.48%) Blog
8 10 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.04%) NHS
12 6 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.74%) Replication
14 4 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.11%) Linux
2 12 (1.78%) Windows
2 12 (1.78%) zOS
3 1 (0.15%) Android
3 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (63.11%) Data Engineering
2 390 (57.78%) Agile
3 374 (55.41%) Problem-Solving
4 373 (55.26%) Mentoring
5 371 (54.96%) Platform Engineering
6 286 (42.37%) ETL
7 261 (38.67%) DevOps
8 250 (37.04%) Data Modelling
9 236 (34.96%) Data Pipeline
10 204 (30.22%) Analytics
11 202 (29.93%) Data Science
12 169 (25.04%) DataOps
13 162 (24.00%) Change Management
14 149 (22.07%) Data Governance
15 138 (20.44%) Data Architecture
16 137 (20.30%) CI/CD
17 136 (20.15%) Data Integration
18 135 (20.00%) Visualisation
19 115 (17.04%) Data Security
20 111 (16.44%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 233 (34.52%) SQL
2 142 (21.04%) Python
3 39 (5.78%) Java
4 21 (3.11%) Go
5 20 (2.96%) Scala
6 16 (2.37%) T-SQL
7 12 (1.78%) R
8 6 (0.89%) PHP
9 5 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.74%) Perl
9 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.44%) Bash
10 3 (0.44%) C#
11 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) C++
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (3.70%) Degree
2 7 (1.04%) CIPD
2 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.04%) DBS Check
3 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.44%) PhD
5 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (40.44%) GDPR
2 150 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 77 (11.41%) QA
4 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (4.00%) Docker
2 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (9.04%) Terraform
2 59 (8.74%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.78%) Ansible
4 5 (0.74%) logstash
5 3 (0.44%) Argo
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.44%) Puppet
6 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 491 (72.74%) Google
2 33 (4.89%) Databricks
3 25 (3.70%) Oracle
4 20 (2.96%) Teradata
5 18 (2.67%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.78%) F5
7 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.04%) Splunk
8 4 (0.59%) Adobe
8 4 (0.59%) Coremetrics
9 3 (0.44%) Informatica
10 2 (0.30%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.30%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.30%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.30%) Medallia
10 2 (0.30%) New Relic
10 2 (0.30%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.30%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.30%) Twitter
11 1 (0.15%) HubSpot