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 6 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 102 107
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Google 877 634 757
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.62% 2.05%
As % of the Vendors category 5.11% 5.52% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 357 477
10th Percentile £306 £227 £300
25th Percentile £415 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £692 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 61 75
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.56 £11.33
25th Percentile £22.83 £16.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -15.38% -17.83%
75th Percentile £36.13 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £46.97 £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.46% -17.93%

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 17,159 11,491 15,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.68% 47.53% 41.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,027 7,309 9,856
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - -2.83%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £515
% change year-on-year -0.79% -2.14% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 912 497 1,035
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.84 £12.18
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.40 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% +15.13% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.48 £22.90
% change year-on-year +22.76% +15.62% -46.75%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -22 446 £520 +2.46% 345
North of England -17 175 £500 - 125
Yorkshire -22 90 £512 +9.87% 39
Midlands -11 70 £527 +28.52% 27
North West -26 67 £510 +1.91% 72
South West +4 61 £550 +46.67% 34
South East -84 58 £588 +17.50% 112
East Midlands +7 39 £550 +40.66% 11
East of England -9 39 £510 +5.15% 28
West Midlands -43 31 £438 -12.06% 16
North East -8 21 £450 -28.00% 15
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 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 26 (2.96%) Apache
5 17 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.71%) Confluence
7 8 (0.91%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) 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%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.25%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.91%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.46%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Maya
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 528 (60.21%) GCP
2 240 (27.37%) Azure
3 230 (26.23%) AWS
4 175 (19.95%) Google Workspace
5 91 (10.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 90 (10.26%) GitHub
7 78 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (7.18%) Power Platform
9 56 (6.39%) Google Sheets
10 50 (5.70%) SaaS
11 49 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (4.33%) Google Analytics
12 38 (4.33%) Vertex AI
13 37 (4.22%) Entra ID
14 31 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (3.53%) Google Drive
14 31 (3.53%) Slack
15 28 (3.19%) Cloud Run
16 25 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (2.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 58 (6.61%) Firewall
2 44 (5.02%) DNS
3 38 (4.33%) VPN
4 20 (2.28%) Network Security
5 13 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.48%) VoIP
6 11 (1.25%) DKIM
6 11 (1.25%) DMARC
7 10 (1.14%) Internet
8 9 (1.03%) DHCP
9 6 (0.68%) BGP
9 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.57%) OSPF
10 5 (0.57%) SAN
10 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.46%) SMTP
11 4 (0.46%) Wireless
12 3 (0.34%) HTTP
12 3 (0.34%) LAN
12 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.60%) BigQuery
2 53 (6.04%) Power BI
3 35 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.65%) Tableau
5 25 (2.85%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.74%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.17%) MySQL
8 17 (1.94%) Metadata
8 17 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.82%) Looker
10 15 (1.71%) OLAP
11 14 (1.60%) Big Data
12 13 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.48%) Mixpanel
12 13 (1.48%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.48%) OLTP
13 11 (1.25%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.80%) Redis
15 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (9.81%) Jenkins
2 53 (6.04%) JIRA
3 52 (5.93%) Git
4 38 (4.33%) GitLab
5 15 (1.71%) JUnit
6 9 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 5 (0.57%) Android Studio
8 5 (0.57%) Gradle
8 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.57%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) Crashlytics
9 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.46%) fastlane
9 4 (0.46%) Gatling
9 4 (0.46%) Postman
10 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.34%) ERwin
10 3 (0.34%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 242 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.41%) Finance
3 98 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.41%) Banking
5 65 (7.41%) Marketing
6 52 (5.93%) Retail
7 29 (3.31%) Legal
7 29 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.05%) Publishing
10 16 (1.82%) Advertising
10 16 (1.82%) Military
11 11 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.03%) Billing
13 9 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (12.66%) GCP Engineer
2 103 (11.74%) Architect
3 90 (10.26%) Senior
4 79 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 71 (8.10%) Analyst
6 70 (7.98%) Lead
7 60 (6.84%) Developer
8 57 (6.50%) Data Engineer
9 37 (4.22%) Administrator
10 30 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.85%) Consultant
13 25 (2.85%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
15 23 (2.62%) Network Engineer
16 22 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (2.51%) Software Engineer
17 19 (2.17%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.05%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.79%) REST
2 39 (4.45%) React
3 33 (3.76%) Kafka
4 32 (3.65%) Spring
4 32 (3.65%) Spring Boot
5 30 (3.42%) Node.js
5 30 (3.42%) OAuth
6 23 (2.62%) PyTorch
7 21 (2.39%) LangChain
8 16 (1.82%) HTML
8 16 (1.82%) RESTful
8 16 (1.82%) SAML
9 15 (1.71%) .NET
9 15 (1.71%) Android Jetpack
9 15 (1.71%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.71%) Jetpack Compose
9 15 (1.71%) OpenID
9 15 (1.71%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.60%) CSS
10 14 (1.60%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 128 (14.60%) Cloud Native
2 35 (3.99%) Public Cloud
3 32 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 20 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 20 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 18 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.48%) Clustering
11 13 (1.48%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.25%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (1.03%) Mobile Payment
14 8 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.84%) Windows
2 49 (5.59%) Android
3 46 (5.25%) Linux
4 27 (3.08%) Mac OS
5 23 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (2.51%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.82%) VMS
8 11 (1.25%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.57%) Unix
10 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (27.71%) CI/CD
2 207 (23.60%) DevOps
3 167 (19.04%) AI
4 164 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (17.45%) Analytics
6 148 (16.88%) Migration
7 140 (15.96%) Agile
8 129 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (11.52%) Observability
10 99 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (8.55%) Software Engineering
13 73 (8.32%) Roadmaps
14 72 (8.21%) Cloud Security
15 70 (7.98%) Decision-Making
15 70 (7.98%) Machine Learning
16 63 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
17 62 (7.07%) Change Management
18 61 (6.96%) Microservices
19 60 (6.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 227 (25.88%) Python
2 163 (18.59%) SQL
3 111 (12.66%) Java
4 66 (7.53%) PowerShell
5 50 (5.70%) Bash
6 32 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.96%) C#
7 26 (2.96%) Go
8 25 (2.85%) Kotlin
9 20 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.03%) Rust
10 9 (1.03%) Scala
11 8 (0.91%) Bicep
11 8 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.80%) Groovy
13 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.57%) R
14 5 (0.57%) Ruby
15 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 153 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.35%) Degree
4 29 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 28 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.17%) CISSP
9 17 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.68%) CCNP
14 5 (0.57%) CISM
14 5 (0.57%) OCP
14 5 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.50%) GDPR
2 41 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.53%) QA
4 19 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.94%) NIST
6 15 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.03%) WCAG
9 7 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.46%) GRC
11 4 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.46%) NCSC
11 4 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.46%) PERC
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.23%) PMO
14 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 76 (8.67%) Docker
2 51 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.57%) NFS
6 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.57%) vSphere
7 4 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.34%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.11%) Varnish
10 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 204 (23.26%) Terraform
2 145 (16.53%) Kubernetes
3 39 (4.45%) Ansible
4 29 (3.31%) Grafana
5 23 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.28%) Istio
7 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.37%) SCCM
11 9 (1.03%) Argo
11 9 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.68%) Puppet
14 5 (0.57%) Podman
14 5 (0.57%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.34%) vMotion
17 2 (0.23%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 140 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.96%) Oracle
3 25 (2.85%) Databricks
3 25 (2.85%) ServiceNow
4 24 (2.74%) Apple
5 21 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.28%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 17 (1.94%) Adobe
8 17 (1.94%) Okta
8 17 (1.94%) Splunk
9 16 (1.82%) VMware
10 14 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.48%) Citrix
11 13 (1.48%) TikTok
12 11 (1.25%) IBM
13 10 (1.14%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.14%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.14%) SAP
14 9 (1.03%) Checkmarx