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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 107
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Google 852 621 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.61% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 4.98% 5.47% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 358 484
10th Percentile £306 £228 £283
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £650
90th Percentile £697 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 60 69
10th Percentile £13.51 - £11.25
25th Percentile £24.33 £16.95 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% +9.38% -31.81%
75th Percentile £35.91 £46.91 £70.00
90th Percentile £43.97 £60.36 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.76 £28.50
% change year-on-year +27.88% -2.60% -28.03%

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 17,099 11,350 15,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.63% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,027 7,270 9,806
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £521 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +0.68% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 474 1,017
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +16.36% -41.56%
75th Percentile £59.88 £55.43 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -19 437 £520 -0.95% 311
North of England -18 165 £500 - 98
Yorkshire -20 86 £505 +8.78% 29
Midlands -22 67 £533 +29.98% 27
South West +7 63 £550 +46.67% 40
North West -26 63 £548 -4.78% 59
South East -81 56 £588 +15.76% 103
East Midlands +3 38 £550 +40.66% 13
East of England -14 37 £510 +5.15% 28
West Midlands -48 29 £425 -14.57% 14
North East -11 19 £450 - 10
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 42 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 27 (3.17%) Apache
5 17 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.76%) Confluence
7 8 (0.94%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.29%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.94%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.47%) InDesign
10 3 (0.35%) Trello
11 2 (0.23%) Maya
11 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) Actimize
3 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 516 (60.56%) GCP
2 239 (28.05%) Azure
3 222 (26.06%) AWS
4 168 (19.72%) Google Workspace
5 88 (10.33%) GitHub
6 87 (10.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 72 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (7.39%) Power Platform
9 59 (6.92%) Google Sheets
10 48 (5.63%) SaaS
11 46 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (4.69%) Google Analytics
13 38 (4.46%) Vertex AI
14 33 (3.87%) Entra ID
15 32 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (3.40%) Google Drive
17 28 (3.29%) Cloud Run
17 28 (3.29%) Slack
18 27 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
19 26 (3.05%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.75%) Firewall
2 41 (4.81%) DNS
3 34 (3.99%) VPN
4 19 (2.23%) Network Security
5 13 (1.53%) VoIP
6 11 (1.29%) DKIM
6 11 (1.29%) DMARC
6 11 (1.29%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.17%) Internet
8 7 (0.82%) DHCP
9 6 (0.70%) BGP
9 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.59%) OSPF
10 5 (0.59%) SAN
11 4 (0.47%) Wireless
12 3 (0.35%) HTTP
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) IPv6
12 3 (0.35%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.62%) BigQuery
2 54 (6.34%) Power BI
3 36 (4.23%) Tableau
4 33 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (2.58%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.23%) Looker
7 18 (2.11%) Metadata
8 17 (2.00%) OLAP
9 15 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (1.76%) Mixpanel
9 15 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (1.64%) OLTP
11 13 (1.53%) MySQL
12 12 (1.41%) Big Data
13 11 (1.29%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.82%) Redis
15 6 (0.70%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (9.27%) Jenkins
2 51 (5.99%) JIRA
3 49 (5.75%) Git
4 38 (4.46%) GitLab
5 11 (1.29%) JUnit
6 9 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.82%) IntelliJ
8 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.59%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.47%) Gatling
9 4 (0.47%) Gradle
9 4 (0.47%) Postman
10 3 (0.35%) Crashlytics
10 3 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.35%) ERwin
10 3 (0.35%) fastlane
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 234 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 167 (19.60%) Finance
3 94 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 93 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (7.86%) Marketing
6 61 (7.16%) Banking
7 46 (5.40%) Retail
8 29 (3.40%) Legal
9 26 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.23%) Publishing
11 17 (2.00%) Advertising
11 17 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.88%) Military
13 12 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.94%) Games
17 8 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 112 (13.15%) GCP Engineer
2 98 (11.50%) Architect
3 86 (10.09%) Senior
4 78 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 74 (8.69%) Lead
6 72 (8.45%) Analyst
7 57 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 56 (6.57%) Developer
9 38 (4.46%) Administrator
10 29 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (2.82%) Consultant
14 23 (2.70%) GCP DevOps
14 23 (2.70%) Network Engineer
14 23 (2.70%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (2.58%) Security Engineer
16 19 (2.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 19 (2.23%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.69%) React
2 39 (4.58%) REST
3 34 (3.99%) Kafka
4 30 (3.52%) Node.js
5 29 (3.40%) OAuth
6 27 (3.17%) PyTorch
7 26 (3.05%) Spring
7 26 (3.05%) Spring Boot
8 25 (2.93%) LangChain
9 17 (2.00%) scikit-learn
9 17 (2.00%) TensorFlow
10 16 (1.88%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.76%) .NET
11 15 (1.76%) Great Expectations
11 15 (1.76%) OpenID
11 15 (1.76%) RESTful
11 15 (1.76%) SAML
12 14 (1.64%) Android Jetpack
12 14 (1.64%) Jetpack Compose
13 13 (1.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.11%) Public Cloud
3 33 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.93%) Virtual Team
5 24 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.53%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.29%) Clustering
13 11 (1.29%) Smartphone
14 10 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
15 8 (0.94%) Freedom of Information
15 8 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.75%) Windows
2 45 (5.28%) Android
3 38 (4.46%) Linux
4 27 (3.17%) Mac OS
5 22 (2.58%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (1.88%) VMS
8 7 (0.82%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.59%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) Solaris
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Unix
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (27.11%) CI/CD
2 197 (23.12%) DevOps
3 163 (19.13%) AI
4 161 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 152 (17.84%) Analytics
6 143 (16.78%) Migration
7 130 (15.26%) Agile
8 120 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 98 (11.50%) Observability
10 92 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (9.27%) Software Engineering
12 78 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (8.57%) Machine Learning
14 71 (8.33%) Decision-Making
15 64 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
15 64 (7.51%) Cloud Security
16 63 (7.39%) Roadmaps
17 60 (7.04%) Data Modelling
18 57 (6.69%) Data Engineering
18 57 (6.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 227 (26.64%) Python
2 159 (18.66%) SQL
3 101 (11.85%) Java
4 57 (6.69%) PowerShell
5 46 (5.40%) Bash
6 29 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.29%) C#
8 25 (2.93%) Go
9 24 (2.82%) Kotlin
10 20 (2.35%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.17%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) Rust
13 8 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
14 7 (0.82%) Groovy
15 6 (0.70%) Bicep
16 5 (0.59%) R
16 5 (0.59%) Ruby
17 3 (0.35%) C++
17 3 (0.35%) Korn
17 3 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 122 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.69%) Degree
4 25 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 24 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (1.64%) CISSP
10 12 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CCNP
13 5 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.59%) CISM
13 5 (0.59%) OCP
13 5 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.16%) GDPR
2 44 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.76%) QA
4 19 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.00%) NIST
6 15 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.94%) WCAG
9 7 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.70%) PERC
11 5 (0.59%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.47%) GRC
12 4 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.35%) SLA
14 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 71 (8.33%) Docker
2 48 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.59%) NFS
4 5 (0.59%) vSphere
5 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) Varnish
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 196 (23.00%) Terraform
2 141 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.11%) Ansible
4 28 (3.29%) Grafana
5 22 (2.58%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.35%) Istio
7 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.17%) SCCM
9 9 (1.06%) Argo
10 8 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.70%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.59%) Podman
13 5 (0.59%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.47%) Puppet
15 2 (0.23%) Cilium
15 2 (0.23%) Nessus
15 2 (0.23%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 128 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (3.40%) Databricks
3 24 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.70%) Apple
5 21 (2.46%) Oracle
6 20 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.11%) Adobe
7 18 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.76%) Okta
9 15 (1.76%) Splunk
10 14 (1.64%) VMware
11 13 (1.53%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.41%) IBM
12 12 (1.41%) TikTok
13 9 (1.06%) Checkmarx
13 9 (1.06%) Citrix
13 9 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.94%) NetApp
14 8 (0.94%) Rapid7