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 23 March 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
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 115 132
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 872 601 662
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 2.43% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 5.15% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 561 351 441
10th Percentile £263 £235 £219
25th Percentile £402 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -7.16%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 58 48
10th Percentile £19.63 £16.95 £11.15
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.66 £17.38
Median hourly rate £33.09 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +22.15% -25.71%
75th Percentile £35.75 £57.95 £35.94
90th Percentile £46.63 £62.50 £64.13
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -25.71%

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 16,396 11,660 16,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.86% 47.22% 42.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,487 10,245
10th Percentile £310 £293 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.70%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 877 405 950
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.30 £14.37
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.01%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.75 £52.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -13.28% +22.83% -37.87%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -4 434 £525 - 242
North of England -11 163 £505 -8.18% 98
Yorkshire -12 91 £500 -7.66% 40
South East -47 84 £350 -30.00% 106
Midlands -4 80 £525 +40.56% 40
North West -7 63 £544 -13.00% 48
South West +7 60 £525 +5.00% 22
West Midlands -26 44 £481 +1.32% 19
East of England -16 37 £568 +74.62% 24
East Midlands -5 36 £550 +54.49% 21
North East -12 12 £475 +43.94% 11
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 35 (4.01%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.67%) Apache
3 25 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.95%) Confluence
5 16 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.26%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) Drupal
8 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.46%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 548 (62.84%) GCP
2 292 (33.49%) Azure
3 263 (30.16%) AWS
4 149 (17.09%) Google Workspace
5 99 (11.35%) GitHub
6 83 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 80 (9.17%) Power Platform
8 48 (5.50%) Google Analytics
9 40 (4.59%) Google Sheets
9 40 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (3.67%) Cloud Run
11 32 (3.67%) SaaS
12 31 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (3.56%) Vertex AI
13 30 (3.44%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.33%) Entra ID
15 28 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (3.21%) Google Gemini
16 27 (3.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.34%) Firewall
2 30 (3.44%) VPN
3 29 (3.33%) DNS
4 28 (3.21%) Network Security
5 12 (1.38%) VoIP
6 10 (1.15%) Internet
6 10 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.03%) DHCP
8 6 (0.69%) BGP
8 6 (0.69%) Wireless
9 5 (0.57%) SAN
10 4 (0.46%) HTTP
10 4 (0.46%) LAN
10 4 (0.46%) OSPF
10 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.34%) IPv4
11 3 (0.34%) IPv6
11 3 (0.34%) SMTP
12 2 (0.23%) Intranet
12 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.04%) BigQuery
2 70 (8.03%) Power BI
3 35 (4.01%) Tableau
4 32 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 25 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.41%) Mixpanel
9 20 (2.29%) OLAP
9 20 (2.29%) SQL Server
10 19 (2.18%) Big Data
10 19 (2.18%) Looker
11 18 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.95%) OLTP
13 16 (1.83%) Metadata
14 14 (1.61%) MySQL
15 8 (0.92%) Redis
16 7 (0.80%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
17 6 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 87 (9.98%) Jenkins
2 67 (7.68%) Git
3 45 (5.16%) GitLab
4 43 (4.93%) JIRA
5 10 (1.15%) JUnit
6 5 (0.57%) Mockito
6 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.57%) Selenium
7 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.46%) Gatling
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
8 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.34%) Gradle
8 3 (0.34%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.34%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 300 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 163 (18.69%) Finance
3 113 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.83%) Banking
5 70 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 61 (7.00%) Marketing
7 49 (5.62%) Retail
8 24 (2.75%) Legal
8 24 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (2.64%) Advertising
10 20 (2.29%) Publishing
11 19 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.03%) Automotive
15 9 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (12.73%) GCP Engineer
2 100 (11.47%) Senior
3 88 (10.09%) Architect
4 83 (9.52%) Analyst
5 79 (9.06%) Lead
6 78 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (7.34%) Developer
8 55 (6.31%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.01%) Consultant
10 31 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (2.87%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
12 25 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.75%) Software Engineer
14 23 (2.64%) Security Engineer
15 22 (2.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.29%) Administrator
16 20 (2.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.19%) REST
2 42 (4.82%) Kafka
3 39 (4.47%) PyTorch
4 35 (4.01%) React
5 34 (3.90%) Spring
6 32 (3.67%) RESTful
7 31 (3.56%) scikit-learn
8 30 (3.44%) LangChain
9 29 (3.33%) TensorFlow
10 27 (3.10%) HTML
10 27 (3.10%) Node.js
10 27 (3.10%) Spring Boot
11 22 (2.52%) AngularJS
11 22 (2.52%) CSS
12 21 (2.41%) OAuth
13 18 (2.06%) Great Expectations
13 18 (2.06%) LangGraph
13 18 (2.06%) Pandas
14 17 (1.95%) Android SDK
15 16 (1.83%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 105 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.93%) Public Cloud
3 42 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.72%) Life Science
12 13 (1.49%) Clustering
12 13 (1.49%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (1.15%) Genomics
15 10 (1.15%) Smartphone
15 10 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.54%) Windows
2 49 (5.62%) Linux
3 46 (5.28%) Android
4 29 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.10%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.95%) VMS
7 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (27.06%) CI/CD
2 227 (26.03%) DevOps
3 192 (22.02%) AI
4 175 (20.07%) Analytics
5 161 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 144 (16.51%) Agile
8 105 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (11.93%) Machine Learning
9 104 (11.93%) Migration
10 93 (10.67%) Containerisation
11 88 (10.09%) Observability
12 86 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 78 (8.94%) Microservices
14 75 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
15 71 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 70 (8.03%) User Experience
17 68 (7.80%) Software Engineering
18 67 (7.68%) Change Management
19 64 (7.34%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 254 (29.13%) Python
2 164 (18.81%) SQL
3 100 (11.47%) Java
4 41 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 40 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.47%) Bash
7 30 (3.44%) C#
8 28 (3.21%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 25 (2.87%) Go
11 12 (1.38%) Ruby
12 11 (1.26%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.69%) Scala
14 5 (0.57%) Bicep
14 5 (0.57%) Groovy
14 5 (0.57%) Rust
14 5 (0.57%) VBA
15 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.34%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 142 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 116 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 101 (11.58%) Degree
4 39 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.18%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.15%) CISSP
13 7 (0.80%) CCNP
14 5 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.57%) OCP
14 5 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.46%) CCSP
15 4 (0.46%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.46%) OSCP
15 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.37%) GDPR
2 51 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.56%) QA
4 20 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.61%) NIST
7 13 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.03%) NCSC
9 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.69%) GRC
10 5 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.57%) PERC
10 5 (0.57%) WCAG
11 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
12 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (12.39%) Docker
2 34 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.57%) NFS
5 5 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.23%) Snort
6 2 (0.23%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 185 (21.22%) Terraform
2 163 (18.69%) Kubernetes
3 45 (5.16%) Ansible
4 39 (4.47%) Grafana
5 31 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.98%) Istio
7 15 (1.72%) Argo
8 13 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.26%) SCCM
10 8 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (0.80%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.69%) QRadar
13 5 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.57%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.46%) Nessus
15 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.23%) Knative
16 2 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 129 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.24%) Splunk
3 33 (3.78%) Databricks
4 23 (2.64%) Adobe
5 22 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.29%) Apple
6 20 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.72%) IBM
8 15 (1.72%) Oracle
8 15 (1.72%) VMware
9 13 (1.49%) Okta
10 12 (1.38%) Foundry
11 11 (1.26%) Citrix
12 10 (1.15%) SAP
13 9 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.92%) HubSpot
14 8 (0.92%) NetApp
14 8 (0.92%) Tealium