Google Contract Job Trends in England

Google
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 96 105
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Google 914 672 794
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.09% 2.63% 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 5.13% 5.57% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 370 490
10th Percentile £306 £207 £300
25th Percentile £414 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £652
90th Percentile £691 £701 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 68 83
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £11.44
25th Percentile £24.33 £16.95 £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.08 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.55% -33.12% -5.18%
75th Percentile £38.90 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £55.93 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £34.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -27.47% -14.14%

All Vendors
England

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,825 12,057 15,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.73% 47.27% 42.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,333 7,639 10,010
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 556 1,056
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.44
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.49 £14.67
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.39 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +7.04% -32.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.04 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.19
% change year-on-year +35.15% +3.99% -40.35%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Google job vacancy trend in England

Google
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -22 459 £510 +2.00% 228
North of England -11 191 £500 - 66
Yorkshire 0 103 £525 +13.51% 16
South East -78 80 £544 +8.70% 117
North West -36 70 £500 -6.98% 47
South West +6 64 £550 +48.65% 23
Midlands -28 60 £513 +28.13% 41
East of England -16 32 £510 +27.50% 23
West Midlands -43 31 £425 +13.33% 24
East Midlands +5 29 £550 +39.06% 17
North East -17 21 £450 -28.00% 3
Google
UK

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.63%) Apache
5 23 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.64%) Confluence
7 10 (1.09%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.20%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.77%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.44%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Maya
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Actimize
4 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
4 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 547 (59.85%) GCP
2 248 (27.13%) AWS
2 248 (27.13%) Azure
3 166 (18.16%) Google Workspace
4 91 (9.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 84 (9.19%) GitHub
6 76 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (6.24%) Power Platform
8 52 (5.69%) SaaS
9 50 (5.47%) Google Sheets
10 46 (5.03%) Vertex AI
11 42 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (4.27%) Google Analytics
13 34 (3.72%) Google Drive
14 32 (3.50%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.95%) Slack
16 26 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
17 24 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (2.63%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.00%) Firewall
2 59 (6.46%) DNS
3 43 (4.70%) VPN
4 25 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.63%) Network Security
6 16 (1.75%) DHCP
7 11 (1.20%) DKIM
7 11 (1.20%) DMARC
8 9 (0.98%) BGP
9 8 (0.88%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.88%) VoIP
10 7 (0.77%) Internet
10 7 (0.77%) OSPF
10 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.66%) LAN
11 6 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.66%) SMTP
11 6 (0.66%) VLAN
12 5 (0.55%) SAN
12 5 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.41%) BigQuery
2 47 (5.14%) Power BI
3 38 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (3.28%) Tableau
5 25 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.41%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.19%) MySQL
9 19 (2.08%) Metadata
10 16 (1.75%) Looker
11 14 (1.53%) Big Data
12 13 (1.42%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.31%) OLAP
14 11 (1.20%) NoSQL
15 10 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.09%) Mixpanel
15 10 (1.09%) OLTP
16 8 (0.88%) Redis
17 6 (0.66%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (9.08%) Jenkins
2 54 (5.91%) Git
3 53 (5.80%) JIRA
4 39 (4.27%) GitLab
5 15 (1.64%) JUnit
6 9 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.77%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.66%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.66%) Gradle
9 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.55%) fastlane
9 5 (0.55%) Gatling
9 5 (0.55%) MLflow
9 5 (0.55%) Postman
9 5 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.55%) Selenium
10 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.44%) JMeter
11 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.33%) Liquibase
General
1 240 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 183 (20.02%) Finance
3 103 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 69 (7.55%) Marketing
5 64 (7.00%) Banking
6 52 (5.69%) Retail
7 31 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (3.28%) Legal
9 25 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.19%) Publishing
11 18 (1.97%) Advertising
12 14 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.53%) Military
13 12 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.98%) Games
16 9 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 116 (12.69%) Architect
2 107 (11.71%) GCP Engineer
3 85 (9.30%) Senior
4 80 (8.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 78 (8.53%) Developer
6 75 (8.21%) Lead
7 68 (7.44%) Analyst
8 55 (6.02%) Data Engineer
9 34 (3.72%) Administrator
10 30 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
12 27 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
13 25 (2.74%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.63%) Consultant
14 24 (2.63%) Network Engineer
15 21 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (2.30%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.80%) REST
2 39 (4.27%) React
3 36 (3.94%) Kafka
3 36 (3.94%) Spring
3 36 (3.94%) Spring Boot
4 30 (3.28%) OAuth
5 29 (3.17%) Node.js
6 22 (2.41%) PyTorch
7 18 (1.97%) SAML
8 17 (1.86%) Android Jetpack
8 17 (1.86%) HTML
8 17 (1.86%) Jetpack Compose
8 17 (1.86%) LangChain
8 17 (1.86%) RESTful
9 16 (1.75%) OpenID
10 15 (1.64%) .NET
10 15 (1.64%) Android SDK
10 15 (1.64%) YAML
11 14 (1.53%) OAuth2
12 13 (1.42%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 137 (14.99%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.05%) Public Cloud
3 36 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 30 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 25 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 22 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.53%) Clustering
11 14 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.09%) Mobile Payment
15 9 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
16 8 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.78%) Windows
2 57 (6.24%) Linux
3 46 (5.03%) Android
4 25 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.98%) VMS
8 8 (0.88%) Unix
9 6 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (27.35%) CI/CD
2 212 (23.19%) DevOps
3 183 (20.02%) AI
4 169 (18.49%) Agile
4 169 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (16.74%) Analytics
6 146 (15.97%) Migration
7 137 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (10.39%) Observability
10 83 (9.08%) Cloud Security
10 83 (9.08%) Roadmaps
11 80 (8.75%) Machine Learning
12 78 (8.53%) Software Engineering
13 77 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 76 (8.32%) Decision-Making
15 67 (7.33%) Microservices
16 64 (7.00%) Data Modelling
17 61 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
18 60 (6.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 257 (28.12%) Python
2 164 (17.94%) SQL
3 130 (14.22%) Java
4 73 (7.99%) PowerShell
5 64 (7.00%) Bash
6 34 (3.72%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.50%) Go
8 27 (2.95%) Kotlin
9 24 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.52%) C#
11 12 (1.31%) Scala
12 11 (1.20%) Groovy
12 11 (1.20%) Rust
13 10 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
14 9 (0.98%) Bicep
15 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.66%) SOQL
16 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.55%) R
16 5 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 161 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 131 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.07%) Degree
4 37 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.61%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.06%) CISSP
7 27 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 9 (0.98%) CCNP
12 9 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.66%) CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) CISM
15 5 (0.55%) OCP
15 5 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.91%) GDPR
2 42 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.50%) QA
4 21 (2.30%) NIST
5 17 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.20%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) NCSC
10 7 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.44%) PERC
13 3 (0.33%) GRC
13 3 (0.33%) PMO
13 3 (0.33%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
14 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (8.86%) Docker
2 47 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.55%) NFS
6 5 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.55%) vSphere
7 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.44%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.22%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 211 (23.09%) Terraform
2 155 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.72%) Ansible
4 29 (3.17%) Grafana
5 24 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.53%) Istio
9 9 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.77%) Puppet
10 7 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.66%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.66%) Podman
12 5 (0.55%) SCCM
12 5 (0.55%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.44%) vMotion
14 3 (0.33%) CASB
14 3 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 145 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.84%) Oracle
2 26 (2.84%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.63%) Databricks
4 22 (2.41%) Apple
4 22 (2.41%) Red Hat
5 19 (2.08%) Adobe
5 19 (2.08%) Okta
5 19 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.08%) Splunk
6 18 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.75%) TikTok
9 14 (1.53%) VMware
10 12 (1.31%) IBM
11 11 (1.20%) SAP
12 10 (1.09%) Rapid7
13 9 (0.98%) Checkmarx
13 9 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.98%) Infoblox