diff --git a/google/cloud/bigquery/opentelemetry_tracing.py b/google/cloud/bigquery/opentelemetry_tracing.py
index b5f6bf991..5192fb807 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigquery/opentelemetry_tracing.py
+++ b/google/cloud/bigquery/opentelemetry_tracing.py
@@ -161,4 +161,8 @@ def _set_job_attributes(job_ref):
     if total_bytes_processed is not None:
         job_attributes["total_bytes_processed"] = total_bytes_processed
 
+    query = getattr(job_ref, "query", None)
+    if query is not None:
+        job_attributes["db.query.text"] = query
+
     return job_attributes
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_opentelemetry_tracing.py b/tests/unit/test_opentelemetry_tracing.py
index 546cc02bd..c6117d240 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_opentelemetry_tracing.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_opentelemetry_tracing.py
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 TEST_SPAN_ATTRIBUTES = {"foo": "baz"}
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(opentelemetry is None, reason="Require `opentelemetry`")
 @pytest.fixture
 def setup():
     importlib.reload(opentelemetry_tracing)
@@ -132,6 +131,7 @@ def test_default_job_attributes(setup):
     expected_attributes = {
         "db.system": "BigQuery",
         "db.name": "test_project_id",
+        "db.query.text": "SELECT 1",
         "location": "test_location",
         "num_child_jobs": "0",
         "job_id": "test_job_id",
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ def test_default_job_attributes(setup):
         test_job_ref.job_id = "test_job_id"
         test_job_ref.location = "test_location"
         test_job_ref.project = "test_project_id"
+        test_job_ref.query = "SELECT 1"
         test_job_ref.num_child_jobs = "0"
         test_job_ref.parent_job_id = "parent_job_id"
         test_job_ref.created = time_created