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 2 September 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 98 105
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 991 732 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 2.67% 2.24%
As % of the Vendors category 5.23% 5.68% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 416 444
10th Percentile £321 £237 £304
25th Percentile £413 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £688
90th Percentile £688 £691 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 50 62
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.48 £25.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.95 £33.00
Median hourly rate £30.79 £19.66 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.59% -71.91% +105.88%
75th Percentile £39.76 £35.99 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.62 -
UK median hourly rate £27.75 £18.82 £70.00
% change year-on-year +47.45% -73.11% +76.99%

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 18,963 12,897 14,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.10% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,876 8,177 9,059
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £707 £708 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 614 655
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.93
90th Percentile £84.58 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -13.28% -31.76%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -27 516 £500 - 2,182
North of England -26 200 £500 +11.11% 257
South East -44 104 £525 +40.00% 206
Yorkshire -9 102 £550 +30.18% 70
North West -37 77 £475 -5.00% 165
South West +1 68 £550 +22.22% 226
Midlands -39 46 £440 +10.00% 102
West Midlands -38 31 £425 +1.19% 62
East of England -22 23 £510 +2.00% 56
North East -27 22 £445 -28.80% 24
East Midlands -7 15 £625 +66.67% 40
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 48 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (3.03%) Apache
5 29 (2.93%) Confluence
6 23 (2.32%) Apache Spark
6 23 (2.32%) CMS
7 9 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Drupal
9 4 (0.40%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) JBoss
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) Mendix
11 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.30%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.10%) Maya
8 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.30%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.20%) iTrent
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Actimize
5 1 (0.10%) Maximo
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 617 (62.26%) GCP
2 300 (30.27%) Azure
3 297 (29.97%) AWS
4 130 (13.12%) Google Workspace
5 94 (9.49%) GitHub
6 81 (8.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 70 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (6.16%) Google Analytics
9 56 (5.65%) SaaS
10 53 (5.35%) Power Platform
11 52 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (4.54%) Google Sheets
13 43 (4.34%) Vertex AI
14 41 (4.14%) Entra ID
15 39 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (3.63%) dbt
17 32 (3.23%) Google Drive
18 31 (3.13%) Snowflake
19 25 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
20 24 (2.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.55%) Firewall
2 54 (5.45%) DNS
3 36 (3.63%) VPN
4 26 (2.62%) Network Security
5 23 (2.32%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.72%) DHCP
7 12 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.11%) DKIM
8 11 (1.11%) DMARC
9 10 (1.01%) Internet
10 9 (0.91%) HTTP
10 9 (0.91%) WAN
11 8 (0.81%) BGP
11 8 (0.81%) DNSSEC
11 8 (0.81%) LAN
11 8 (0.81%) VLAN
12 6 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.61%) VoIP
13 5 (0.50%) OSPF
13 5 (0.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (10.29%) BigQuery
2 61 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (4.64%) Power BI
4 33 (3.33%) Looker
4 33 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.72%) Metadata
6 26 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.52%) Tableau
8 24 (2.42%) Big Data
9 18 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.72%) MySQL
10 17 (1.72%) SQL Server
11 14 (1.41%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.81%) Flink
14 7 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.71%) Data Vault
14 7 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.71%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (8.78%) Jenkins
2 68 (6.86%) Git
3 61 (6.16%) JIRA
4 58 (5.85%) GitLab
5 16 (1.61%) JUnit
6 12 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.01%) Gradle
8 9 (0.91%) Zephyr
9 8 (0.81%) Gatling
10 7 (0.71%) IntelliJ
10 7 (0.71%) JMeter
10 7 (0.71%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.61%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.61%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.61%) MLflow
11 6 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.50%) fastlane
12 5 (0.50%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 253 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 185 (18.67%) Finance
3 125 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.57%) Marketing
6 51 (5.15%) Banking
7 44 (4.44%) Retail
8 34 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.72%) Publishing
11 26 (2.62%) Legal
12 22 (2.22%) Advertising
13 21 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.21%) Games
16 12 (1.21%) Military
17 11 (1.11%) Billing
18 10 (1.01%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 157 (15.84%) Architect
2 101 (10.19%) GCP Engineer
3 95 (9.59%) Developer
4 94 (9.49%) Senior
5 82 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (7.37%) Analyst
7 72 (7.27%) Lead
8 65 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.63%) Administrator
11 26 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
11 26 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (2.52%) Support Engineer
13 23 (2.32%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.12%) GCP DevOps
16 20 (2.02%) Network Engineer
17 19 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 19 (1.92%) Java Developer
17 19 (1.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (20.18%) Terraform
2 70 (7.06%) REST
3 46 (4.64%) Kafka
4 42 (4.24%) React
5 36 (3.63%) OAuth
6 35 (3.53%) Spring
6 35 (3.53%) Spring Boot
7 31 (3.13%) JSON
7 31 (3.13%) Node.js
8 30 (3.03%) RESTful
9 25 (2.52%) HTML
9 25 (2.52%) SAML
10 21 (2.12%) CSS
10 21 (2.12%) JWT
11 20 (2.02%) LangChain
11 20 (2.02%) Middleware
12 19 (1.92%) Android Jetpack
12 19 (1.92%) YAML
13 18 (1.82%) LangGraph
13 18 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.65%) AI Agents
3 44 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 42 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 40 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.62%) Security Posture
7 25 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 22 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 21 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.31%) CMDB
13 13 (1.31%) PKI
14 12 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 76 (7.67%) Windows
2 67 (6.76%) Linux
3 36 (3.63%) Android
4 25 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.11%) Unix
7 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.50%) VMS
10 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.30%) CentOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.10%) SUSE
13 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (29.67%) CI/CD
2 230 (23.21%) Agile
3 229 (23.11%) DevOps
4 211 (21.29%) AI
5 192 (19.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 180 (18.16%) Analytics
7 133 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
7 133 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 130 (13.12%) Migration
9 110 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 99 (9.99%) Roadmaps
11 97 (9.79%) Containerisation
12 93 (9.38%) Cloud Security
12 93 (9.38%) Observability
13 92 (9.28%) Software Engineering
14 89 (8.98%) Machine Learning
15 87 (8.78%) Data Modelling
16 85 (8.58%) Microservices
17 81 (8.17%) Decision-Making
18 76 (7.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 293 (29.57%) Python
2 174 (17.56%) SQL
3 134 (13.52%) Java
4 86 (8.68%) Bash
4 86 (8.68%) PowerShell
5 47 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.43%) Go
7 28 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.32%) Kotlin
9 21 (2.12%) Scala
9 21 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.82%) C#
11 13 (1.31%) Groovy
12 12 (1.21%) Bicep
13 8 (0.81%) Rust
14 6 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.61%) R
14 6 (0.61%) SOQL
15 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 221 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 174 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.98%) Degree
4 56 (5.65%) DV Cleared
5 42 (4.24%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.33%) CISSP
8 30 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.01%) CISM
14 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.61%) CCNP
15 6 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.61%) PhD
15 6 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.34%) QA
3 42 (4.24%) GDPR
4 23 (2.32%) NIST
5 21 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.31%) WCAG
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.81%) NCSC
8 8 (0.81%) PMO
9 7 (0.71%) GRC
10 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.40%) PERC
10 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 122 (12.31%) Docker
2 58 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.40%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.30%) Firmware
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.10%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.10%) Varnish
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 198 (19.98%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.64%) Ansible
3 37 (3.73%) Grafana
4 31 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (1.01%) Puppet
10 6 (0.61%) Istio
11 5 (0.50%) Cilium
11 5 (0.50%) Podman
11 5 (0.50%) SCCM
11 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.40%) Argo
12 4 (0.40%) CASB
12 4 (0.40%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.40%) vMotion
13 3 (0.30%) Nagios
14 2 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 206 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 40 (4.04%) Oracle
3 33 (3.33%) Databricks
4 31 (3.13%) Adobe
5 28 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.83%) Splunk
6 26 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.22%) IBM
8 22 (2.22%) TikTok
9 19 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.92%) SAP
10 16 (1.61%) Informatica
10 16 (1.61%) Okta
10 16 (1.61%) VMware
11 15 (1.51%) Apple
11 15 (1.51%) Cisco
12 13 (1.31%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.21%) Tealium