Looker salary and hiring demand
Reviewed by Mark Dickie · Last updated
Looker is a business intelligence and data visualization platform, now part of Google Cloud, that data teams use to model, explore, and share analytics. This report covers Looker salary and hiring demand: what the market pays professionals who work with the technology, and how actively employers are recruiting for it.
Demand for Looker skills occupies a specialized corner of the data tooling market. Companies already running Looker need analysts and analytics engineers who can write LookML and deliver dashboards to business stakeholders. Hiring tracks with existing platform adoption rather than greenfield picks, which keeps posting volume narrower than general SQL or BI roles but tends to reward hands-on LookML experience.
What does the Looker job market look like in 2026?
The two tables below cover salary percentiles for roles naming Looker as a required or preferred technology, and a hiring-demand series tracking how posting volume has shifted over time.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Salary percentiles | The 10th through 90th percentile pay band for roles that mention Looker |
| Hiring-demand series | A time series of job postings referencing Looker, showing how employer interest has moved |
| Salary scope | Figures are technology-wide and not split by seniority level |
How should you use the salary and demand data?
- Compare your current offer or target against the salary percentiles to see where you sit in the market band for Looker roles.
- Read the demand series to track whether employers are posting more or fewer roles mentioning Looker over time.
- Pair both signals: a tight salary band alongside rising demand points to a competitive hiring market.
- Set this page against reports for adjacent BI tools like Tableau or Power BI if you want a side-by-side comparison.
Looker salary & hiring demand
From live job postings, the median Looker salary is £64,908, across 73 postings in August 2026. These figures are technology-wide across all seniority levels, as of August 2026.
| 25th percentile | £53,866 |
|---|---|
| Median (50th percentile) | £64,908 |
| 75th percentile | £81,763 |
Hiring demand over time
We need 3 complete months of tracking before we publish a month-by-month series. Months we only partly covered are left out rather than shown as low demand.