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 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 105 135
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 -22
Contract jobs citing Google 877 600 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.31% 2.47% 1.76%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 5.23% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 351 435
10th Percentile £263 £256 £219
25th Percentile £406 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.75%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +0.15% -2.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 49
10th Percentile £19.88 £16.95 £11.18
25th Percentile £25.88 £24.66 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -25.71%
75th Percentile £35.87 £55.75 £32.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £62.50 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.63 £26.00
% change year-on-year +12.24% +21.65% -30.25%

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 16,599 11,482 15,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.72% 47.34% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,821 7,454 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 413 946
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.91 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £77.40 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -40.28%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -7 443 £525 -2.14% 228
North of England -2 165 £500 -9.09% 94
Yorkshire -3 93 £500 -7.66% 42
South East -52 79 £421 -15.75% 109
Midlands -18 78 £525 +40.56% 38
North West -16 63 £544 -13.00% 44
South West +3 59 £525 +5.00% 20
West Midlands -27 43 £488 -7.14% 15
East of England -16 37 £568 +74.62% 23
East Midlands -5 35 £550 +67.68% 23
North East -5 12 £475 +43.94% 9
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 35 (3.99%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.76%) Apache
3 28 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.94%) Confluence
5 15 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.14%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) Drupal
8 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.25%) Chatbot
3 11 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.68%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Actimize
4 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 542 (61.80%) GCP
2 284 (32.38%) Azure
3 250 (28.51%) AWS
4 153 (17.45%) Google Workspace
5 93 (10.60%) GitHub
6 81 (9.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 80 (9.12%) Power Platform
8 52 (5.93%) Google Analytics
9 41 (4.68%) Google Sheets
9 41 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (3.53%) Cloud Run
11 31 (3.53%) SaaS
11 31 (3.53%) Vertex AI
12 30 (3.42%) Amazon S3
12 30 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
13 29 (3.31%) Entra ID
14 27 (3.08%) Google Gemini
14 27 (3.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.30%) Firewall
2 32 (3.65%) VPN
3 31 (3.53%) DNS
4 28 (3.19%) Network Security
5 12 (1.37%) VoIP
6 11 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.14%) Internet
8 9 (1.03%) DHCP
9 6 (0.68%) BGP
9 6 (0.68%) Wireless
10 5 (0.57%) SAN
11 4 (0.46%) HTTP
11 4 (0.46%) LAN
11 4 (0.46%) OSPF
11 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 3 (0.34%) IPv6
12 3 (0.34%) SMTP
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.77%) BigQuery
2 70 (7.98%) Power BI
3 37 (4.22%) Tableau
4 28 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 26 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.51%) Looker
8 20 (2.28%) Mixpanel
8 20 (2.28%) OLAP
8 20 (2.28%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.17%) Big Data
10 18 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (1.94%) OLTP
12 16 (1.82%) Metadata
13 13 (1.48%) MySQL
14 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
15 6 (0.68%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.68%) Redis
15 6 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (9.69%) Jenkins
2 60 (6.84%) Git
3 46 (5.25%) GitLab
3 46 (5.25%) JIRA
4 11 (1.25%) JUnit
5 6 (0.68%) Selenium
6 5 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
6 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.46%) Gatling
7 4 (0.46%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.46%) Mockito
7 4 (0.46%) Postman
7 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
8 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.34%) ERwin
8 3 (0.34%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 295 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.16%) Finance
3 116 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (8.89%) Banking
5 71 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 68 (7.75%) Marketing
7 50 (5.70%) Retail
8 26 (2.96%) Legal
9 24 (2.74%) Advertising
9 24 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.17%) Publishing
12 17 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.14%) Military
16 8 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 117 (13.34%) GCP Engineer
2 98 (11.17%) Senior
3 90 (10.26%) Architect
4 86 (9.81%) Analyst
5 81 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 78 (8.89%) Lead
7 60 (6.84%) Data Engineer
8 56 (6.39%) Developer
9 37 (4.22%) Consultant
10 30 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (2.85%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
14 23 (2.62%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.62%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.51%) Network Engineer
16 21 (2.39%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.17%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.27%) REST
2 41 (4.68%) Kafka
3 38 (4.33%) PyTorch
4 32 (3.65%) RESTful
5 31 (3.53%) scikit-learn
6 30 (3.42%) LangChain
6 30 (3.42%) Spring
7 29 (3.31%) Spring Boot
8 28 (3.19%) TensorFlow
9 27 (3.08%) React
10 23 (2.62%) HTML
11 21 (2.39%) OAuth
11 21 (2.39%) Pandas
12 20 (2.28%) Node.js
13 18 (2.05%) CSS
13 18 (2.05%) Great Expectations
13 18 (2.05%) LangGraph
14 17 (1.94%) NumPy
15 16 (1.82%) Android SDK
15 16 (1.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 39 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.71%) Life Science
9 14 (1.60%) Clustering
10 13 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
12 11 (1.25%) Social Media
13 10 (1.14%) Smartphone
14 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.39%) Windows
2 49 (5.59%) Linux
3 46 (5.25%) Android
4 29 (3.31%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.08%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.94%) VMS
7 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (26.34%) CI/CD
2 218 (24.86%) DevOps
3 193 (22.01%) AI
4 181 (20.64%) Analytics
5 156 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (17.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 140 (15.96%) Agile
8 107 (12.20%) Machine Learning
9 106 (12.09%) Migration
10 96 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 88 (10.03%) Observability
13 87 (9.92%) Containerisation
14 78 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
15 75 (8.55%) Microservices
16 70 (7.98%) Software Engineering
17 68 (7.75%) User Experience
18 64 (7.30%) LLM
18 64 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 63 (7.18%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 250 (28.51%) Python
2 167 (19.04%) SQL
3 97 (11.06%) Java
4 40 (4.56%) PowerShell
5 39 (4.45%) Bash
6 36 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 30 (3.42%) C#
8 28 (3.19%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.96%) Go
10 19 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.25%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.80%) Scala
13 6 (0.68%) Ruby
14 5 (0.57%) Bicep
14 5 (0.57%) Groovy
14 5 (0.57%) Rust
15 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.46%) VBA
16 3 (0.34%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 135 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 108 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 99 (11.29%) Degree
4 34 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.14%) CISSP
12 7 (0.80%) CCNP
13 5 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.57%) OCP
13 5 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.46%) CCSP
14 4 (0.46%) CSPO
14 4 (0.46%) IBM Certification
14 4 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.78%) GDPR
2 53 (6.04%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.88%) QA
4 21 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.71%) NIST
7 14 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.03%) NCSC
9 7 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.68%) GRC
11 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.57%) PERC
11 5 (0.57%) WCAG
12 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (11.74%) Docker
2 35 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.57%) NFS
5 5 (0.57%) 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 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 188 (21.44%) Terraform
2 156 (17.79%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.25%) Ansible
4 40 (4.56%) Grafana
5 32 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.74%) Istio
7 13 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (1.14%) SCCM
10 9 (1.03%) Argo
10 9 (1.03%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.68%) QRadar
13 5 (0.57%) SnapMirror
14 4 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.46%) Nessus
15 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.23%) Knative
16 2 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 136 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.22%) Splunk
3 34 (3.88%) Databricks
4 24 (2.74%) Adobe
5 22 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.39%) Apple
6 21 (2.39%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.94%) Oracle
9 16 (1.82%) IBM
10 15 (1.71%) VMware
11 13 (1.48%) Okta
12 12 (1.37%) Foundry
12 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.25%) Citrix
14 10 (1.14%) SAP
15 9 (1.03%) Dynatrace
16 8 (0.91%) HubSpot
16 8 (0.91%) NetApp
16 8 (0.91%) Tealium