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 24 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
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 99 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Google 900 655 798
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.62% 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 5.10% 5.52% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 359 494
10th Percentile £300 £211 £300
25th Percentile £415 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £690 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 67 83
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £11.44
25th Percentile £23.00 £16.95 £25.38
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.22% -27.14% -11.56%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.15 £56.15 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £25.08 £33.00
% change year-on-year +41.55% -24.00% -16.67%

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 17,642 11,870 15,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.61% 47.39% 42.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 7,537 10,007
10th Percentile £313 £280 £273
25th Percentile £413 £402 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 947 540 1,063
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.31
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.45 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.38 £26.75 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% +9.50% -34.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +34.35% +4.63% -42.15%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -22 455 £510 +2.00% 270
North of England -16 186 £500 - 88
Yorkshire -5 97 £515 +10.93% 26
South East -76 74 £550 +10.00% 114
North West -28 70 £519 +3.81% 56
South West +1 63 £550 +46.67% 24
Midlands -19 60 £525 +31.25% 42
East of England -16 33 £540 +11.34% 26
East Midlands +6 30 £550 +39.06% 20
West Midlands -44 30 £425 +6.25% 22
North East -17 22 £450 -28.00% 6
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 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.56%) Apache
5 22 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.56%) Confluence
7 9 (1.00%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
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 29 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.22%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.78%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.44%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Maya
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
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
1 534 (59.33%) GCP
2 247 (27.44%) Azure
3 244 (27.11%) AWS
4 166 (18.44%) Google Workspace
5 92 (10.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 86 (9.56%) GitHub
7 76 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
8 58 (6.44%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.67%) SaaS
10 50 (5.56%) Google Sheets
11 45 (5.00%) Vertex AI
12 43 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (4.33%) Google Analytics
14 33 (3.67%) Google Drive
15 32 (3.56%) Entra ID
16 29 (3.22%) Slack
17 28 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
19 24 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
20 23 (2.56%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.11%) Firewall
2 58 (6.44%) DNS
3 42 (4.67%) VPN
4 24 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.56%) Network Security
6 16 (1.78%) DHCP
7 11 (1.22%) DKIM
7 11 (1.22%) DMARC
8 8 (0.89%) BGP
8 8 (0.89%) DNSSEC
8 8 (0.89%) VoIP
9 7 (0.78%) Internet
9 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.67%) OSPF
10 6 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.67%) SMTP
11 5 (0.56%) SAN
11 5 (0.56%) VLAN
12 4 (0.44%) HTTP
12 4 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.33%) BigQuery
2 48 (5.33%) Power BI
3 36 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.56%) Tableau
5 24 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 21 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.11%) MySQL
9 18 (2.00%) Metadata
10 16 (1.78%) Looker
11 14 (1.56%) Big Data
12 13 (1.44%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.33%) OLAP
14 11 (1.22%) NoSQL
15 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.11%) Mixpanel
15 10 (1.11%) OLTP
16 8 (0.89%) Redis
17 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (9.11%) Jenkins
2 55 (6.11%) Git
3 54 (6.00%) JIRA
4 38 (4.22%) GitLab
5 15 (1.67%) JUnit
6 9 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.78%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.67%) Gradle
9 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.56%) fastlane
9 5 (0.56%) MLflow
9 5 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.56%) Selenium
10 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.44%) Gatling
10 4 (0.44%) Postman
11 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.33%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 241 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 182 (20.22%) Finance
3 104 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.89%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.33%) Marketing
6 64 (7.11%) Banking
7 50 (5.56%) Retail
8 30 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.22%) Legal
10 24 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.22%) Publishing
12 18 (2.00%) Advertising
13 15 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.56%) Military
15 10 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.00%) Billing
16 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 111 (12.33%) Architect
2 107 (11.89%) GCP Engineer
3 86 (9.56%) Senior
4 78 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 72 (8.00%) Developer
6 71 (7.89%) Lead
7 68 (7.56%) Analyst
8 54 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 34 (3.78%) Administrator
10 29 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
13 26 (2.89%) Consultant
14 25 (2.78%) GCP DevOps
15 24 (2.67%) Network Engineer
15 24 (2.67%) Security Engineer
16 22 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (2.33%) Software Engineer
18 20 (2.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.33%) REST
2 40 (4.44%) React
3 34 (3.78%) Kafka
4 32 (3.56%) Spring
4 32 (3.56%) Spring Boot
5 30 (3.33%) OAuth
6 27 (3.00%) Node.js
7 22 (2.44%) PyTorch
8 17 (1.89%) Android Jetpack
8 17 (1.89%) HTML
8 17 (1.89%) Jetpack Compose
8 17 (1.89%) LangChain
8 17 (1.89%) RESTful
8 17 (1.89%) SAML
9 16 (1.78%) .NET
10 15 (1.67%) Android SDK
10 15 (1.67%) OpenID
11 14 (1.56%) OAuth2
11 14 (1.56%) scikit-learn
11 14 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 133 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 39 (4.33%) Public Cloud
3 35 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.67%) AI Agents
7 24 (2.67%) Security Posture
8 21 (2.33%) Mobile App
9 19 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.56%) Clustering
11 14 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.56%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.11%) Mobile Payment
15 9 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
16 8 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.67%) Windows
2 57 (6.33%) Linux
3 47 (5.22%) Android
4 25 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.22%) VMS
7 11 (1.22%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.89%) Unix
9 6 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.44%) 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 Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 215 (23.89%) DevOps
3 178 (19.78%) AI
4 171 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 162 (18.00%) Agile
6 147 (16.33%) Analytics
7 144 (16.00%) Migration
8 135 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (11.11%) Observability
10 96 (10.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (8.89%) Roadmaps
12 79 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (8.67%) Cloud Security
13 78 (8.67%) Machine Learning
14 74 (8.22%) Software Engineering
15 72 (8.00%) Decision-Making
16 61 (6.78%) Microservices
16 61 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
17 60 (6.67%) Data Modelling
18 59 (6.56%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 250 (27.78%) Python
2 160 (17.78%) SQL
3 125 (13.89%) Java
4 71 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 62 (6.89%) Bash
6 33 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 30 (3.33%) Go
8 27 (3.00%) Kotlin
9 23 (2.56%) C#
10 22 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.22%) Groovy
11 11 (1.22%) Rust
12 10 (1.11%) Scala
13 9 (1.00%) Bicep
13 9 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
14 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.56%) R
15 5 (0.56%) Ruby
15 5 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 156 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 127 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.89%) Degree
4 34 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 28 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.89%) CISSP
7 26 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.89%) CCNP
12 7 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.67%) CISM
14 5 (0.56%) OCP
14 5 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.44%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.89%) GDPR
2 41 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.56%) QA
4 19 (2.11%) NIST
5 17 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.78%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.22%) WCAG
9 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.78%) NCSC
10 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.44%) PERC
12 3 (0.33%) GRC
12 3 (0.33%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 2 (0.22%) PSD2
13 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (8.89%) Docker
2 46 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.56%) NFS
5 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.56%) vSphere
6 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.44%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 215 (23.89%) Terraform
2 156 (17.33%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.11%) Ansible
4 30 (3.33%) Grafana
5 26 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.67%) Istio
6 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.78%) Puppet
9 7 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.67%) Podman
11 5 (0.56%) SCCM
11 5 (0.56%) SnapMirror
11 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.44%) vMotion
13 3 (0.33%) Argo
13 3 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 146 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.00%) ServiceNow
3 26 (2.89%) Oracle
4 25 (2.78%) Apple
5 23 (2.56%) Databricks
6 22 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.11%) Okta
8 19 (2.11%) Splunk
9 18 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.00%) OpenAI
10 17 (1.89%) Adobe
11 15 (1.67%) TikTok
12 14 (1.56%) IBM
13 13 (1.44%) VMware
14 11 (1.22%) SAP
15 10 (1.11%) Rapid7
16 9 (1.00%) Checkmarx
16 9 (1.00%) CyberArk
16 9 (1.00%) Infoblox