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 19 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 119 135
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Google 863 588 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 2.40% 1.77%
As % of the Vendors category 5.31% 5.08% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 341 448
10th Percentile £269 £236 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -1.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 57 49
10th Percentile £19.38 £16.95 £11.18
25th Percentile £25.88 £24.66 £17.50
Median hourly rate £34.34 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +22.15% -34.26%
75th Percentile £35.75 £58.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £46.98 £62.50 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.26%

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 16,264 11,574 16,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.95% 47.30% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 7,420 10,335
10th Percentile £309 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 398 942
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.25 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.70 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.20 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +22.01% -29.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -30.99%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 0 430 £525 - 243
North of England -15 160 £508 -7.73% 97
Yorkshire -7 89 £500 -7.66% 38
South East -39 84 £336 -32.80% 108
Midlands -6 79 £525 +40.56% 42
North West -10 62 £550 -12.00% 50
South West +8 59 £525 -2.33% 25
West Midlands -27 43 £481 +1.32% 21
East of England -8 38 £510 +61.90% 25
East Midlands -5 36 £550 +54.49% 21
North East -6 12 £475 +43.94% 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 36 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.71%) Apache
3 24 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.97%) Confluence
5 16 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.46%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 540 (62.57%) GCP
2 287 (33.26%) Azure
3 264 (30.59%) AWS
4 146 (16.92%) Google Workspace
5 97 (11.24%) GitHub
6 82 (9.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 80 (9.27%) Power Platform
8 48 (5.56%) Google Analytics
9 40 (4.63%) Google Sheets
10 39 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.71%) Cloud Run
13 31 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
14 30 (3.48%) SaaS
14 30 (3.48%) Vertex AI
15 29 (3.36%) Amazon S3
15 29 (3.36%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.24%) Google Gemini
17 27 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.30%) Firewall
2 29 (3.36%) DNS
2 29 (3.36%) VPN
3 28 (3.24%) Network Security
4 12 (1.39%) VoIP
5 10 (1.16%) Internet
6 9 (1.04%) DHCP
6 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.70%) BGP
7 6 (0.70%) Wireless
8 5 (0.58%) SAN
9 4 (0.46%) HTTP
9 4 (0.46%) LAN
9 4 (0.46%) OSPF
9 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.35%) IPv4
10 3 (0.35%) IPv6
10 3 (0.35%) SMTP
11 2 (0.23%) Intranet
11 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.40%) BigQuery
2 70 (8.11%) Power BI
3 37 (4.29%) Tableau
4 32 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.43%) Mixpanel
9 20 (2.32%) OLAP
9 20 (2.32%) SQL Server
10 19 (2.20%) Big Data
10 19 (2.20%) Looker
11 18 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.97%) OLTP
13 16 (1.85%) Metadata
14 14 (1.62%) MySQL
15 8 (0.93%) Redis
16 7 (0.81%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.81%) Relational Database
17 6 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 84 (9.73%) Jenkins
2 67 (7.76%) Git
3 45 (5.21%) JIRA
4 43 (4.98%) GitLab
5 10 (1.16%) JUnit
6 5 (0.58%) Mockito
6 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.58%) Selenium
7 4 (0.46%) Android Studio
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%) Gradle
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
8 3 (0.35%) ERwin
8 3 (0.35%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.35%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 301 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 163 (18.89%) Finance
3 112 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.04%) Banking
5 68 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 59 (6.84%) Marketing
7 49 (5.68%) Retail
8 23 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.55%) Advertising
9 22 (2.55%) Legal
10 21 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.20%) Publishing
12 16 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.04%) Automotive
14 9 (1.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (12.40%) GCP Engineer
2 97 (11.24%) Senior
3 87 (10.08%) Architect
4 82 (9.50%) Analyst
5 78 (9.04%) Lead
6 75 (8.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (7.53%) Developer
8 54 (6.26%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.06%) Consultant
10 30 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (2.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
13 24 (2.78%) GCP DevOps
14 23 (2.67%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.67%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.32%) Administrator
16 20 (2.32%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.26%) REST
2 41 (4.75%) Kafka
3 39 (4.52%) PyTorch
4 35 (4.06%) React
5 34 (3.94%) Spring
6 32 (3.71%) RESTful
7 31 (3.59%) scikit-learn
8 30 (3.48%) LangChain
9 29 (3.36%) TensorFlow
10 27 (3.13%) HTML
10 27 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 26 (3.01%) Node.js
12 22 (2.55%) AngularJS
12 22 (2.55%) CSS
13 21 (2.43%) OAuth
14 18 (2.09%) Great Expectations
14 18 (2.09%) LangGraph
14 18 (2.09%) Pandas
15 17 (1.97%) Android Jetpack
15 17 (1.97%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 42 (4.87%) Onboarding
2 42 (4.87%) Public Cloud
3 28 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.43%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.85%) Life Science
8 16 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.74%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.39%) Clustering
11 12 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.27%) Genomics
13 10 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (1.16%) Smartphone
13 10 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.49%) Windows
2 48 (5.56%) Linux
3 47 (5.45%) Android
4 29 (3.36%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.97%) VMS
7 9 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.58%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.23%) CI/CD
2 227 (26.30%) DevOps
3 190 (22.02%) AI
4 172 (19.93%) Analytics
5 159 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 143 (16.57%) Agile
8 106 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (12.05%) Migration
10 103 (11.94%) Machine Learning
11 92 (10.66%) Containerisation
12 88 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 86 (9.97%) Observability
14 80 (9.27%) Microservices
15 74 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
16 72 (8.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 71 (8.23%) User Experience
18 67 (7.76%) Change Management
18 67 (7.76%) Software Engineering
19 64 (7.42%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 251 (29.08%) Python
2 163 (18.89%) SQL
3 98 (11.36%) Java
4 40 (4.63%) PowerShell
5 39 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 38 (4.40%) Bash
7 28 (3.24%) C#
7 28 (3.24%) Kotlin
8 25 (2.90%) Go
8 25 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.39%) Ruby
10 11 (1.27%) Google Apps Script
11 6 (0.70%) Scala
12 5 (0.58%) Bicep
12 5 (0.58%) Groovy
12 5 (0.58%) Rust
12 5 (0.58%) VBA
13 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 139 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.82%) Degree
4 39 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.32%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.16%) CISSP
12 8 (0.93%) OCP
12 8 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.81%) CCNP
14 6 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.46%) IBM Certification
16 4 (0.46%) OSCP
16 4 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.34%) GDPR
2 50 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.59%) QA
4 18 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.62%) NIST
7 13 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.04%) NCSC
9 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.70%) GRC
10 5 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.46%) PERC
12 3 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.35%) WCAG
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (12.40%) Docker
2 34 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.58%) NFS
5 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.12%) 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%) Varnish
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 183 (21.21%) Terraform
2 161 (18.66%) Kubernetes
3 45 (5.21%) Ansible
4 38 (4.40%) Grafana
5 30 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.01%) Istio
7 15 (1.74%) Argo
8 13 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.16%) SCCM
11 8 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.81%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.70%) QRadar
14 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.58%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.46%) Nessus
16 3 (0.35%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.23%) Knative
17 2 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 124 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.29%) Splunk
3 33 (3.82%) Databricks
4 23 (2.67%) Adobe
5 22 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.32%) Apple
6 20 (2.32%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.74%) IBM
8 15 (1.74%) Oracle
8 15 (1.74%) VMware
9 13 (1.51%) Okta
10 12 (1.39%) Foundry
11 10 (1.16%) Citrix
11 10 (1.16%) SAP
12 8 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.93%) HubSpot
12 8 (0.93%) NetApp
13 7 (0.81%) Palo Alto