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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 497 387
Rank change year-on-year +104 -110 +142
Permanent jobs citing BigQuery 660 579 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.57% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 2.68% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 272 244 372
10th Percentile - £55,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,725 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £85,313 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £67,071 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.45% +11.78% -

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 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £79,313
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% +8.25%

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 9 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 9 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 +129 625 £57,500 -32.35% 113
UK excluding London +266 515 £50,000 -25.45% 53
Work from Home +66 230 £57,500 -28.13% 81
North of England +197 207 £45,249 -32.54% 21
London -70 124 £77,500 -8.82% 64
South East +58 102 £54,000 -6.09% 13
North West +78 85 £45,249 -26.04% 9
South West +34 82 £70,576 -11.13% 1
Yorkshire +139 76 £45,249 -33.41% 10
Midlands +44 72 £61,250 +8.41% 6
North East - 46 £45,249 - 2
West Midlands +39 45 £57,500 +1.77% 3
East Midlands - 27 £100,000 - 3
East of England +40 24 £71,250 +58.33% 5
Scotland -54 20 £112,500 - 5
Wales +9 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 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 30 (4.55%) Apache
4 11 (1.67%) Confluence
5 4 (0.61%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 578 (87.58%) GCP
2 257 (38.94%) AWS
3 253 (38.33%) Azure
4 78 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (8.48%) Power Platform
6 49 (7.42%) Snowflake
7 38 (5.76%) Google Analytics
8 36 (5.45%) dbt
9 22 (3.33%) GitHub
10 17 (2.58%) SaaS
11 16 (2.42%) Stackdriver
12 13 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.52%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.52%) Cloud Composer
15 10 (1.52%) Serverless
16 9 (1.36%) Google Tag Manager
17 8 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.21%) VPN
2 4 (0.61%) SMS
3 3 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (62.27%) Looker
2 247 (37.42%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (8.64%) Tableau
4 56 (8.48%) Power BI
5 47 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 33 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.94%) Big Data
8 24 (3.64%) NoSQL
9 23 (3.48%) Relational Database
10 20 (3.03%) Hadoop
11 15 (2.27%) Data Mining
11 15 (2.27%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (1.97%) Data Hub
12 13 (1.97%) Flink
13 12 (1.82%) DB2
13 12 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.52%) Airbyte
14 10 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 28 (4.24%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.64%) Git
3 21 (3.18%) GitLab
4 12 (1.82%) JIRA
5 8 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.15%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 375 (56.82%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (12.27%) Social Skills
3 73 (11.06%) Billing
4 62 (9.39%) Finance
5 49 (7.42%) Banking
6 38 (5.76%) Retail
7 23 (3.48%) Marketing
8 20 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.58%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.12%) Law
11 7 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 5 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.61%) Legal
14 4 (0.61%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.45%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.45%) Publishing
16 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (40.61%) Data Engineer
2 175 (26.52%) Platform Engineer
3 172 (26.06%) Principal Engineer
4 171 (25.91%) Principal Data Engineer
5 132 (20.00%) Architect
6 122 (18.48%) Data Architect
7 91 (13.79%) Analyst
8 79 (11.97%) Data Manager
9 75 (11.36%) Digital Analyst
10 72 (10.91%) Engineering Manager
11 70 (10.61%) Digital Performance Analyst
11 70 (10.61%) Performance Analyst
12 52 (7.88%) Senior
13 37 (5.61%) Lead
14 26 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (1.97%) Head of Engineering
17 11 (1.67%) Cloud Architect
17 11 (1.67%) Cloud Engineer
17 11 (1.67%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.91%) Kafka
2 28 (4.24%) Apache Beam
3 11 (1.67%) RESTful
4 8 (1.21%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.91%) React
6 5 (0.76%) Pandas
6 5 (0.76%) REST
6 5 (0.76%) Vue
7 4 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.61%) PySpark
8 3 (0.45%) HTML
8 3 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.30%) NumPy
9 2 (0.30%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.15%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.15%) Spark Streaming
10 1 (0.15%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 1 (0.15%) Unreal Engine
10 1 (0.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 279 (42.27%) Self-Motivation
2 78 (11.82%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 13 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.82%) Cyberattack
7 12 (1.82%) Data Fabric
8 10 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.52%) Blog
8 10 (1.52%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.06%) NHS
12 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.76%) Replication
14 4 (0.61%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.18%) Linux
2 12 (1.82%) Windows
2 12 (1.82%) zOS
3 1 (0.15%) Android
3 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (64.09%) Data Engineering
2 382 (57.88%) Agile
3 375 (56.82%) Problem-Solving
4 371 (56.21%) Mentoring
4 371 (56.21%) Platform Engineering
5 281 (42.58%) ETL
6 260 (39.39%) DevOps
7 248 (37.58%) Data Modelling
8 230 (34.85%) Data Pipeline
9 201 (30.45%) Data Science
10 196 (29.70%) Analytics
11 170 (25.76%) DataOps
12 162 (24.55%) Change Management
13 150 (22.73%) Data Governance
14 138 (20.91%) Data Architecture
15 132 (20.00%) CI/CD
15 132 (20.00%) Data Integration
16 128 (19.39%) Visualisation
17 115 (17.42%) Data Security
18 111 (16.82%) ERD
Programming Languages
1 226 (34.24%) SQL
2 137 (20.76%) Python
3 39 (5.91%) Java
4 21 (3.18%) Go
5 20 (3.03%) Scala
6 14 (2.12%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.67%) R
8 6 (0.91%) PHP
9 5 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.76%) Perl
9 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.45%) Bash
10 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.30%) C#
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (3.94%) Degree
2 8 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.06%) CIPD
3 7 (1.06%) DBS Check
4 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.45%) PhD
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (41.36%) GDPR
2 146 (22.12%) Data Quality
3 77 (11.67%) QA
4 5 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (4.09%) Docker
2 6 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 53 (8.03%) Terraform
3 12 (1.82%) Ansible
4 5 (0.76%) logstash
5 3 (0.45%) Argo
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.45%) Puppet
6 2 (0.30%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 480 (72.73%) Google
2 34 (5.15%) Databricks
3 25 (3.79%) Oracle
4 20 (3.03%) Teradata
5 16 (2.42%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.82%) F5
7 7 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.91%) Splunk
9 4 (0.61%) Adobe
9 4 (0.61%) Coremetrics
10 3 (0.45%) Informatica
11 2 (0.30%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.30%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.30%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.30%) Medallia
11 2 (0.30%) New Relic
11 2 (0.30%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.30%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.30%) Twitter
12 1 (0.15%) HubSpot