Job market reports · Skill · August 2026
bigquery
226 live US technical postings name bigquery in August 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.
Which roles ask for it
Share of the 226 postings naming bigquery that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".
- 1Data Engineer34.5%
- 2Software Engineer30.1%
- 3Data Analyst10.6%
- 4Data Scientist8.4%
- 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.6%
- 6Backend Engineer2.2%
- 7Machine Learning Engineer2.2%
- 8AI Engineer1.8%
What postings asking for it pay
Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.
Where those jobs are
Metro share of the postings naming this skill.
- 1New York, NY20.4%
- 2Remote16.4%
- 3San Francisco, CA15.5%
- 4Silicon Valley, CA8%
- 5Boston, MA3.1%
- 6Los Angeles, CA2.7%
- 7Austin, TX1.8%
- 8Washington, DC1.8%
How we counted
457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.