Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Google over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Google.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 114 61
Rank change year-on-year +18 -53 +27
Permanent jobs citing Google 2,706 3,147 8,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.74% 3.03% 5.31%
As % of the Vendors category 7.38% 7.25% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,691 1,824 2,933
10th Percentile £26,500 £36,325 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £43,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,590 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.99% -0.75% +15.79%

All Vendors
UK

Google is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,672 43,426 60,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.19% 41.84% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25,141 24,776 33,270
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK

Google
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google.

Salary trend for Google in the UK

Google
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +21 2,366 £55,000 -15.38% 896
UK excluding London +55 1,825 £47,500 -12.99% 502
Work from Home -2 957 £57,500 -11.54% 455
London -13 774 £70,000 -6.67% 423
North of England +50 564 £48,750 -15.67% 160
South East +28 337 £45,000 -10.00% 110
North West +48 281 £50,000 -13.51% 102
South West +32 263 £47,500 -12.99% 78
Midlands +65 250 £47,500 - 77
Yorkshire +46 224 £47,500 -20.20% 51
Scotland -1 206 £69,500 +15.35% 25
East of England +83 134 £28,500 -50.43% 46
West Midlands +1 127 £46,250 -5.13% 42
East Midlands +90 122 £47,500 +11.76% 35
North East +39 59 £52,500 +11.11% 10
Northern Ireland +44 37 £60,000 +51.90% 8
Wales -2 31 £50,000 +11.94% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 2 - - 3

Google
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
1 151 (5.58%) Apache
2 125 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 123 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 74 (2.73%) CMS
6 71 (2.62%) WordPress
7 60 (2.22%) SharePoint
8 53 (1.96%) Confluence
9 27 (1.00%) SAS
10 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
11 13 (0.48%) nginx
12 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.37%) Joomla!
14 9 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.33%) SharePoint 2013
15 8 (0.30%) Drupal
15 8 (0.30%) IIS
16 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
17 5 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
18 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 162 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 158 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (3.14%) MS Visio
4 34 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (0.81%) Photoshop
7 17 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 17 (0.63%) Adobe XD
8 15 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 14 (0.52%) Trello
10 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
11 8 (0.30%) InDesign
12 4 (0.15%) SPSS
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.11%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.074%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.074%) InCopy
14 2 (0.074%) Notion
14 2 (0.074%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (1.40%) Shopify
2 19 (0.70%) Magento
3 9 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.11%) iTrent
7 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.074%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.074%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.037%) FastStats
9 1 (0.037%) HFM
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.037%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.037%) Unica
9 1 (0.037%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,363 (50.37%) GCP
2 1,091 (40.32%) Azure
3 1,032 (38.14%) AWS
4 346 (12.79%) Google Analytics
5 298 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
6 218 (8.06%) SaaS
7 194 (7.17%) Google Workspace
8 182 (6.73%) Power Platform
9 138 (5.10%) Google Drive
10 134 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
11 121 (4.47%) OneDrive
12 119 (4.40%) Dropbox
13 85 (3.14%) GitHub
14 83 (3.07%) Google Ads
15 82 (3.03%) Google Play
16 71 (2.62%) Google Sheets
17 65 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
18 60 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
18 60 (2.22%) Serverless
19 55 (2.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (4.36%) Firewall
2 80 (2.96%) Wireless
3 59 (2.18%) DNS
4 58 (2.14%) LAN
5 43 (1.59%) WAN
6 42 (1.55%) VPN
7 39 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 38 (1.40%) Internet
9 30 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.00%) Broadband
11 26 (0.96%) VoIP
12 25 (0.92%) AMQP
13 24 (0.89%) VLAN
14 22 (0.81%) HTTP
15 20 (0.74%) DHCP
16 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
17 16 (0.59%) NAS
18 11 (0.41%) Network Security
19 10 (0.37%) OSPF
19 10 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (18.14%) BigQuery
2 459 (16.96%) Looker
3 278 (10.27%) Data Warehouse
4 179 (6.61%) Power BI
5 164 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 164 (6.06%) SQL Server
6 107 (3.95%) Tableau
7 106 (3.92%) Apache Ignite
8 96 (3.55%) Hadoop
9 91 (3.36%) Relational Database
10 76 (2.81%) Big Data
10 76 (2.81%) NoSQL
11 67 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
12 64 (2.37%) Data Lake
13 59 (2.18%) MySQL
14 53 (1.96%) Redis
15 39 (1.44%) MongoDB
16 32 (1.18%) Data Mining
17 25 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (0.85%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 175 (6.47%) Git
2 138 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 92 (3.40%) JIRA
4 59 (2.18%) GitLab
5 48 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 32 (1.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 31 (1.15%) Selenium
8 29 (1.07%) Android Studio
9 22 (0.81%) Visual Studio
10 21 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 20 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 18 (0.67%) Maven
13 16 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 15 (0.55%) Spinnaker
15 11 (0.41%) Appium
16 10 (0.37%) JUnit
17 9 (0.33%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.33%) webpack
18 7 (0.26%) git-flow
18 7 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 648 (23.95%) Analytical Skills
2 606 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 574 (21.21%) Finance
4 362 (13.38%) Marketing
5 279 (10.31%) Banking
6 195 (7.21%) Retail
7 184 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 143 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
9 100 (3.70%) Law
10 80 (2.96%) Front Office
11 79 (2.92%) Advertising
12 73 (2.70%) Billing
13 72 (2.66%) Public Sector
14 62 (2.29%) Legal
15 41 (1.52%) Games
16 39 (1.44%) Manufacturing
16 39 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 36 (1.33%) Aerospace
18 34 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 409 (15.11%) Senior
2 391 (14.45%) Architect
3 389 (14.38%) Developer
4 273 (10.09%) Data Engineer
5 255 (9.42%) Software Engineer
6 247 (9.13%) Principal Engineer
7 184 (6.80%) Lead
8 180 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
8 180 (6.65%) Principal Data Engineer
9 167 (6.17%) Analyst
10 137 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
11 120 (4.43%) Data Architect
12 117 (4.32%) Python Engineer
13 104 (3.84%) IT Technician
14 102 (3.77%) Data Manager
15 99 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
15 99 (3.66%) Python Developer
16 93 (3.44%) React Developer
17 92 (3.40%) Engineering Manager
18 89 (3.29%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (9.02%) React
2 185 (6.84%) AngularJS
3 159 (5.88%) .NET
4 144 (5.32%) HTML
5 137 (5.06%) REST
6 129 (4.77%) CSS
7 123 (4.55%) Kafka
8 122 (4.51%) Node.js
9 113 (4.18%) Spring
10 109 (4.03%) gRPC
11 108 (3.99%) ASP.NET
12 105 (3.88%) Material-UI
13 98 (3.62%) .NET Framework
14 95 (3.51%) .NET Core
15 92 (3.40%) Entity Framework
16 87 (3.22%) Redux
17 85 (3.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 80 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
18 80 (2.96%) Protocol Buffers
19 79 (2.92%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 365 (13.49%) Self-Motivation
2 216 (7.98%) Public Cloud
3 171 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 132 (4.88%) Social Media
5 114 (4.21%) iPad
6 106 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 101 (3.73%) Algorithms
8 97 (3.58%) Management Information System
8 97 (3.58%) PKI
9 96 (3.55%) Mobile App
10 80 (2.96%) Fixed Income
10 80 (2.96%) Hedge funds
11 67 (2.48%) Data Structures
12 64 (2.37%) Onboarding
13 48 (1.77%) BBC
14 42 (1.55%) iPhone
15 36 (1.33%) Equities
16 33 (1.22%) Data Centre
17 31 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (1.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 300 (11.09%) Windows
2 174 (6.43%) Linux
3 121 (4.47%) Android
4 119 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 56 (2.07%) Mac OS
6 54 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 34 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 32 (1.18%) Unix
9 30 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 27 (1.00%) Ubuntu
11 26 (0.96%) CentOS
12 25 (0.92%) Debian
13 23 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
13 23 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.26%) CoreOS
15 7 (0.26%) zOS
16 5 (0.18%) VMS
16 5 (0.18%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 962 (35.55%) Agile
2 842 (31.12%) Problem-Solving
3 540 (19.96%) Analytics
3 540 (19.96%) Mentoring
4 491 (18.14%) DevOps
5 443 (16.37%) Data Engineering
6 394 (14.56%) Platform Engineering
6 394 (14.56%) Software Engineering
7 326 (12.05%) Project Management
8 301 (11.12%) CI/CD
9 272 (10.05%) Data Science
10 264 (9.76%) Data Modelling
10 264 (9.76%) ETL
10 264 (9.76%) Full Stack Development
11 261 (9.65%) Migration
12 254 (9.39%) Roadmaps
13 236 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
14 230 (8.50%) Microservices
15 229 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
16 217 (8.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 524 (19.36%) Python
2 445 (16.44%) SQL
3 289 (10.68%) Java
4 279 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 202 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 184 (6.80%) C#
7 77 (2.85%) Scala
8 73 (2.70%) Go
9 67 (2.48%) PHP
10 64 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 62 (2.29%) Bash
12 61 (2.25%) Kotlin
13 36 (1.33%) R
14 34 (1.26%) C++
15 23 (0.85%) C
15 23 (0.85%) Groovy
16 16 (0.59%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.30%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 400 (14.78%) Degree
2 126 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (4.03%) Security Cleared
4 96 (3.55%) SC Cleared
5 70 (2.59%) DBS Check
6 45 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (0.78%) CISSP
12 18 (0.67%) MCSE
13 15 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.55%) HND
14 14 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.48%) HNC
15 13 (0.48%) PhD
16 12 (0.44%) CISM
17 11 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (11.31%) GDPR
2 184 (6.80%) QA
3 169 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 40 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.89%) SLA
7 18 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 16 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 14 (0.52%) NIST
10 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.41%) COBIT
12 9 (0.33%) WCAG
13 8 (0.30%) PSD2
14 7 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.26%) COSHH
14 7 (0.26%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.18%) NCSC
16 3 (0.11%) CRD IV
16 3 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 261 (9.65%) Docker
2 169 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 107 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 77 (2.85%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.48%) XenDesktop
7 10 (0.37%) XenApp
8 9 (0.33%) KVM
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.22%) Firmware
11 5 (0.18%) vSphere
12 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.074%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.074%) HDFS
13 2 (0.074%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.074%) Varnish
14 1 (0.037%) etcd
14 1 (0.037%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 293 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 237 (8.76%) Terraform
3 94 (3.47%) Ansible
4 51 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.40%) Grafana
6 37 (1.37%) Puppet
7 35 (1.29%) Progress Chef
7 35 (1.29%) SCCM
8 28 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.33%) PaperCut
11 9 (0.33%) SCOM
12 7 (0.26%) CA Endevor
12 7 (0.26%) Packer
13 5 (0.18%) logstash
13 5 (0.18%) Rancher
13 5 (0.18%) SmoothWall
13 5 (0.18%) WSUS
14 3 (0.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 699 (25.83%) Microsoft
2 157 (5.80%) Apple
3 120 (4.43%) VMware
4 79 (2.92%) Adobe
5 70 (2.59%) Facebook
6 68 (2.51%) Oracle
7 57 (2.11%) Cisco
8 55 (2.03%) IBM
9 43 (1.59%) Dell
10 38 (1.40%) Databricks
11 36 (1.33%) Sony
11 36 (1.33%) Yahoo!
12 34 (1.26%) Salesforce
13 30 (1.11%) SAP
14 29 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.07%) Splunk
15 27 (1.00%) Dynatrace
16 26 (0.96%) HP
17 25 (0.92%) Citrix
17 25 (0.92%) Meraki