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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 94 108
Rank change year-on-year -28 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing Google 922 694 798
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 2.66% 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 5.15% 5.62% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 386 491
10th Percentile £306 £209 £300
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £655
90th Percentile £691 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -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 17,911 12,355 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.79% 47.34% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,379 7,820 10,109
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 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 571 1,051
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.56 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.95 £60.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -21 467 £510 +0.99% 394
North of England -19 190 £500 +0.50% 99
Yorkshire -6 105 £525 +15.07% 26
South East -70 82 £545 +11.79% 127
North West -36 69 £500 -13.04% 69
South West +11 66 £550 +48.65% 34
Midlands -30 59 £500 +25.00% 46
East of England -15 31 £510 +27.50% 24
West Midlands -50 31 £425 +13.33% 26
East Midlands +6 28 £550 +39.06% 20
North East -22 19 £450 -28.00% 4
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 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.60%) Apache
4 24 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.74%) Confluence
6 12 (1.30%) CMS
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
7 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) WordPress
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Luigi
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.43%) InDesign
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.22%) Maya
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) 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
Cloud Services
1 550 (59.65%) GCP
2 250 (27.11%) AWS
3 247 (26.79%) Azure
4 168 (18.22%) Google Workspace
5 89 (9.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 84 (9.11%) GitHub
7 74 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (6.07%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.53%) SaaS
10 49 (5.31%) Google Sheets
11 44 (4.77%) Vertex AI
12 42 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (4.23%) Google Analytics
14 34 (3.69%) Entra ID
14 34 (3.69%) Google Drive
15 26 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (2.82%) Slack
16 24 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (2.60%) Cloud Run
17 23 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.83%) Firewall
2 59 (6.40%) DNS
3 43 (4.66%) VPN
4 25 (2.71%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.60%) Network Security
6 16 (1.74%) DHCP
7 11 (1.19%) DKIM
7 11 (1.19%) DMARC
8 9 (0.98%) BGP
9 8 (0.87%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.87%) VoIP
10 7 (0.76%) Internet
10 7 (0.76%) OSPF
10 7 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.65%) LAN
11 6 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.65%) SMTP
11 6 (0.65%) VLAN
12 5 (0.54%) SAN
12 5 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.33%) BigQuery
2 46 (4.99%) Power BI
3 39 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (3.15%) Tableau
5 26 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (2.39%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.39%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.17%) MySQL
8 19 (2.06%) Metadata
9 18 (1.95%) Looker
10 15 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.52%) Big Data
12 12 (1.30%) OLAP
13 10 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.08%) Mixpanel
13 10 (1.08%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.08%) OLTP
14 8 (0.87%) Redis
15 6 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
15 6 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (9.11%) Jenkins
2 55 (5.97%) JIRA
3 54 (5.86%) Git
4 42 (4.56%) GitLab
5 15 (1.63%) JUnit
6 9 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.76%) Gatling
7 7 (0.76%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.65%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.65%) Gradle
8 6 (0.65%) JMeter
8 6 (0.65%) MLflow
8 6 (0.65%) Postman
9 5 (0.54%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.54%) fastlane
9 5 (0.54%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.54%) Selenium
10 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.43%) LoadRunner
General
1 242 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 185 (20.07%) Finance
3 106 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 103 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (7.70%) Marketing
6 63 (6.83%) Banking
7 52 (5.64%) Retail
8 31 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.25%) Legal
10 25 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.06%) Publishing
12 18 (1.95%) Advertising
13 14 (1.52%) Military
14 13 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.41%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.98%) Games
17 9 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 116 (12.58%) Architect
2 109 (11.82%) GCP Engineer
3 85 (9.22%) Senior
4 80 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 78 (8.46%) Developer
6 75 (8.13%) Lead
7 72 (7.81%) Analyst
8 55 (5.97%) Data Engineer
9 34 (3.69%) Administrator
10 31 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
13 28 (3.04%) GCP DevOps
14 25 (2.71%) Security Engineer
15 24 (2.60%) Network Engineer
16 23 (2.49%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 22 (2.39%) Consultant
18 21 (2.28%) Platform Engineer
18 21 (2.28%) Software Engineer
19 19 (2.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.07%) REST
2 39 (4.23%) React
3 37 (4.01%) Kafka
4 36 (3.90%) Spring
4 36 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 29 (3.15%) Node.js
5 29 (3.15%) OAuth
6 20 (2.17%) PyTorch
7 19 (2.06%) RESTful
7 19 (2.06%) SAML
8 18 (1.95%) Android Jetpack
9 17 (1.84%) Jetpack Compose
9 17 (1.84%) OpenID
9 17 (1.84%) YAML
10 16 (1.74%) Android SDK
10 16 (1.74%) HTML
10 16 (1.74%) LangChain
11 14 (1.52%) .NET
12 13 (1.41%) OAuth2
13 12 (1.30%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 138 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 33 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.93%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 24 (2.60%) Virtual Team
9 23 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (2.39%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.52%) Clustering
12 14 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (1.08%) Mobile Payment
16 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.72%) Windows
2 58 (6.29%) Linux
3 45 (4.88%) Android
4 25 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.19%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.87%) Unix
8 8 (0.87%) VMS
9 6 (0.65%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.54%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.43%) 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
1 251 (27.22%) CI/CD
2 215 (23.32%) DevOps
3 183 (19.85%) AI
4 174 (18.87%) Agile
5 171 (18.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 156 (16.92%) Analytics
7 145 (15.73%) Migration
8 140 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 92 (9.98%) Observability
11 86 (9.33%) Cloud Security
12 84 (9.11%) Roadmaps
13 81 (8.79%) Machine Learning
14 80 (8.68%) Decision-Making
15 79 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (8.35%) Software Engineering
17 69 (7.48%) Microservices
18 66 (7.16%) Data Modelling
19 62 (6.72%) Containerisation
19 62 (6.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 262 (28.42%) Python
2 168 (18.22%) SQL
3 134 (14.53%) Java
4 73 (7.92%) PowerShell
5 66 (7.16%) Bash
6 35 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.47%) Go
8 28 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.71%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.39%) C#
11 13 (1.41%) Scala
12 11 (1.19%) Groovy
12 11 (1.19%) Rust
13 10 (1.08%) Google Apps Script
14 9 (0.98%) Bicep
15 7 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.65%) SOQL
17 5 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.54%) R
17 5 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 161 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.09%) Degree
4 37 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 29 (3.15%) CISSP
6 29 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 9 (0.98%) CCNP
11 9 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.65%) CCSP
13 6 (0.65%) CISM
14 5 (0.54%) OCP
14 5 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.86%) GDPR
2 42 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.58%) QA
4 23 (2.49%) NIST
5 19 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.19%) WCAG
9 7 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.76%) NCSC
10 6 (0.65%) PMO
11 5 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.43%) PERC
13 3 (0.33%) GRC
13 3 (0.33%) SLA
14 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 80 (8.68%) Docker
2 47 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.54%) NFS
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.54%) vSphere
7 4 (0.43%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) 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
1 209 (22.67%) Terraform
2 152 (16.49%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.69%) Ansible
4 30 (3.25%) Grafana
5 23 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.41%) Istio
9 9 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.76%) Puppet
10 7 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.65%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.65%) Podman
12 5 (0.54%) SCCM
12 5 (0.54%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.43%) vMotion
14 3 (0.33%) Argo
14 3 (0.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 148 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.71%) Oracle
2 25 (2.71%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.60%) Databricks
4 22 (2.39%) Red Hat
5 20 (2.17%) Splunk
6 19 (2.06%) Apple
6 19 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 19 (2.06%) Okta
7 18 (1.95%) Adobe
7 18 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 16 (1.74%) TikTok
10 14 (1.52%) VMware
11 12 (1.30%) IBM
12 11 (1.19%) SAP
13 10 (1.08%) Cisco
13 10 (1.08%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.98%) Checkmarx
14 9 (0.98%) Infoblox