Which roles ask for BigQuery at tech companies · 65 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
65 roles counted that list BigQuery, one per company, title and level; 110 postings in the window.
In short
BigQuery: listed in 65 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 42 and preferred in 23. The largest group is data engineer roles: 17 of 65 (26%).
- Required
- 42 of 65 (65%)
- Of the roles that list BigQuery
- Preferred
- 23 of 65 (35%)
- Of the roles that list BigQuery
- Largest group
- 17 of 65 (26%)
- Data engineer
Roles that ask for BigQuery
Roles listing BigQuery, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | 17 | 17 of 99 (17%) |
| Software engineer | 14 | 14 of 719 (2%) |
| Data scientist | 12 | 12 of 112 (11%) |
| Analytics engineer | 9 | 9 of 28 |
| Data analyst | 3 | 3 of 47 |
| Data architect | 3 | 3 of 11 |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 1 | 1 of 79 (1%) |
| Platform engineer | 1 | 1 of 57 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Spotify6 roles
- Cohere4 roles
- Leadtech3 roles
- Cloudflare2 roles
- LangChain2 roles
- Ramp2 roles
- Be | Shaping the Future1 role
- DRIMO1 role
- Fingerprint1 role
- Unravel Carbon Pte Ltd1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 65 BigQuery roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| SQL | 41 of 65 (63%) |
| Python | 40 of 65 (62%) |
| GCP | 23 of 65 (35%) |
| AI | 21 of 65 (32%) |
| Snowflake | 21 of 65 (32%) |
| Data Modeling | 20 of 65 (31%) |
| Data Warehousing | 20 of 65 (31%) |
| dbt | 18 of 65 (28%) |
| CI/CD | 16 of 65 (25%) |
| Redshift | 15 of 65 (23%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| dbt | 11 of 65 (17%) |
| GCP | 10 of 65 (15%) |
| Airflow | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| CI/CD | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Data Infrastructure | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Looker | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Snowflake | 8 of 65 (12%) |
| Data Warehousing | 7 of 65 (11%) |
| Stream Processing | 7 of 65 (11%) |
| Data Modeling | 6 of 65 (9%) |
Experience
Of the 36 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 36 of 36
- 2+ years
- 36 of 36
- 3+ years
- 34 of 36
- 5+ years
- 24 of 36
- 8+ years
- 4 of 36
- 10+ years
- 1 of 36
Degree
Of the 53 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 7 of 53 (13%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 5 of 53 (9%)
- Preferred
- 6 of 53 (11%)
- Not mentioned
- 35 of 53 (66%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 65 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 29 of 65 (45%)
- Remote roles
- 48 of 65 (74%)
How we count: 65 roles from 52 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology