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 17 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
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Google 1,031 728 738
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.62% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.33% 5.55% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 415 440
10th Percentile £320 £213 £312
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £536
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.36% -2.64%
75th Percentile £598 £598 £688
90th Percentile £686 £700 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 41 60
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £22.56 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% -67.77% +112.12%
75th Percentile £43.13 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £24.95 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.22% -64.36% +87.79%

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 19,330 13,111 14,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.64% 47.22% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 8,324 8,828
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £620 £616 £630
90th Percentile £710 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,118 613 594
10th Percentile £14.11 £14.75 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -16.17% -31.56%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -30 527 £505 +1.00% 2,319
North of England -24 212 £481 +6.94% 298
South East -28 112 £505 +124.44% 276
Yorkshire -16 108 £538 +27.22% 86
North West -30 80 £464 -7.20% 188
South West +10 76 £550 +22.22% 169
Midlands -32 48 £483 +17.68% 135
West Midlands -44 32 £445 +0.85% 96
North East -20 25 £440 -29.60% 25
East of England -26 20 £540 +8.00% 79
East Midlands +2 16 £625 +66.67% 39
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 47 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.39%) Confluence
4 31 (3.01%) Apache
5 30 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (2.42%) CMS
7 19 (1.84%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.68%) WordPress
11 4 (0.39%) Drupal
12 3 (0.29%) IIS
13 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.19%) nginx
14 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.097%) JBoss
14 1 (0.097%) Luigi
14 1 (0.097%) Mendix
14 1 (0.097%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 37 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.48%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.29%) InDesign
8 1 (0.097%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.097%) Maya
8 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.29%) iTrent
3 3 (0.29%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.097%) Actimize
5 1 (0.097%) Maximo
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.097%) Primavera
5 1 (0.097%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.097%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.097%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.097%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 645 (62.56%) GCP
2 306 (29.68%) Azure
3 300 (29.10%) AWS
4 138 (13.39%) Google Workspace
5 92 (8.92%) GitHub
6 88 (8.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 72 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (6.30%) Google Analytics
9 56 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (5.33%) SaaS
11 54 (5.24%) Power Platform
12 47 (4.56%) Vertex AI
13 46 (4.46%) dbt
13 46 (4.46%) Google Sheets
14 44 (4.27%) Entra ID
15 38 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
16 32 (3.10%) Google Drive
17 29 (2.81%) Snowflake
18 27 (2.62%) Cloud Run
19 26 (2.52%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.04%) Firewall
2 49 (4.75%) DNS
3 31 (3.01%) VPN
4 26 (2.52%) Network Security
5 24 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.65%) DHCP
7 12 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.07%) DKIM
8 11 (1.07%) DMARC
8 11 (1.07%) HTTP
9 10 (0.97%) Internet
10 9 (0.87%) WAN
11 8 (0.78%) DNSSEC
12 7 (0.68%) BGP
12 7 (0.68%) LAN
12 7 (0.68%) VLAN
12 7 (0.68%) VoIP
13 6 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.39%) MPLS
14 4 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (12.22%) BigQuery
2 65 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.56%) Power BI
4 39 (3.78%) Looker
5 36 (3.49%) Metadata
6 35 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.23%) Tableau
9 20 (1.94%) Big Data
10 18 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.75%) MySQL
11 17 (1.65%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.45%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.78%) Flink
14 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.68%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.68%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.68%) Redis
16 6 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 94 (9.12%) Jenkins
2 74 (7.18%) Git
3 67 (6.50%) JIRA
4 64 (6.21%) GitLab
5 14 (1.36%) Gradle
5 14 (1.36%) JUnit
6 11 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.97%) Zephyr
8 9 (0.87%) Maven
9 8 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.68%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.68%) Gatling
10 7 (0.68%) JMeter
10 7 (0.68%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.58%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.58%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.58%) IntelliJ
11 6 (0.58%) MLflow
12 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.48%) fastlane
General
1 268 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 199 (19.30%) Finance
3 132 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 73 (7.08%) Marketing
6 55 (5.33%) Banking
7 47 (4.56%) Retail
8 35 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.42%) Publishing
11 24 (2.33%) Legal
12 22 (2.13%) Advertising
13 18 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.36%) Games
16 14 (1.36%) Local Government
17 13 (1.26%) Military
18 12 (1.16%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 166 (16.10%) Architect
2 106 (10.28%) GCP Engineer
3 101 (9.80%) Developer
4 99 (9.60%) Senior
5 80 (7.76%) Analyst
6 78 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 75 (7.27%) Data Engineer
8 70 (6.79%) Lead
9 50 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (4.17%) Administrator
11 30 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.42%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.33%) GCP DevOps
14 24 (2.33%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.13%) GCP Data Engineer
16 21 (2.04%) Consultant
16 21 (2.04%) GCP Architect
17 20 (1.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (1.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (19.88%) Terraform
2 77 (7.47%) REST
3 45 (4.36%) React
4 44 (4.27%) Kafka
5 40 (3.88%) OAuth
6 37 (3.59%) Spring
7 36 (3.49%) Spring Boot
8 33 (3.20%) JSON
8 33 (3.20%) Node.js
8 33 (3.20%) RESTful
9 28 (2.72%) SAML
10 25 (2.42%) HTML
11 24 (2.33%) JWT
12 23 (2.23%) XML
13 21 (2.04%) CSS
13 21 (2.04%) LangGraph
13 21 (2.04%) SOAP
14 20 (1.94%) Android Jetpack
14 20 (1.94%) LangChain
14 20 (1.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 183 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 58 (5.63%) AI Agents
3 50 (4.85%) Management Information System
4 46 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 42 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 31 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.42%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.42%) Virtual Team
10 22 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.94%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.45%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.26%) CMDB
14 13 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 13 (1.26%) PKI
14 13 (1.26%) Replication
15 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.57%) Windows
2 76 (7.37%) Linux
3 38 (3.69%) Android
4 26 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.26%) Unix
7 9 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.58%) VMS
10 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.29%) CentOS
12 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.097%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.097%) SUSE
13 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (30.65%) CI/CD
2 247 (23.96%) Agile
3 238 (23.08%) DevOps
4 225 (21.82%) AI
5 202 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 189 (18.33%) Analytics
7 148 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 143 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 141 (13.68%) Migration
10 110 (10.67%) Containerisation
11 107 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (10.18%) Roadmaps
13 101 (9.80%) Software Engineering
14 100 (9.70%) Observability
15 97 (9.41%) Cloud Security
15 97 (9.41%) Data Modelling
16 96 (9.31%) Microservices
17 91 (8.83%) Machine Learning
18 84 (8.15%) Data Pipeline
18 84 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 309 (29.97%) Python
2 195 (18.91%) SQL
3 137 (13.29%) Java
4 88 (8.54%) Bash
5 87 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 49 (4.75%) JavaScript
7 40 (3.88%) Go
8 28 (2.72%) TypeScript
9 25 (2.42%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.94%) Scala
12 19 (1.84%) C#
13 13 (1.26%) Groovy
14 12 (1.16%) Bicep
15 7 (0.68%) Rust
16 6 (0.58%) LookML
16 6 (0.58%) R
16 6 (0.58%) SOQL
17 5 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
17 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 232 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 182 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 92 (8.92%) Degree
4 59 (5.72%) DV Cleared
5 39 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.39%) CISSP
8 31 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.16%) CISM
13 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.68%) CCSP
14 7 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.58%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.56%) QA
3 38 (3.69%) GDPR
4 23 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.04%) NIST
6 20 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.16%) WCAG
8 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.87%) GRC
9 9 (0.87%) NCSC
10 8 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.78%) PMO
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.29%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 134 (13.00%) Docker
2 55 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.29%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.097%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
7 1 (0.097%) zsh
Systems Management
1 211 (20.47%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.33%) Ansible
3 35 (3.39%) Grafana
4 27 (2.62%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.97%) Puppet
10 6 (0.58%) CASB
10 6 (0.58%) Cilium
11 5 (0.48%) Argo
11 5 (0.48%) SCCM
12 4 (0.39%) Istio
12 4 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.39%) Podman
12 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.29%) Nagios
13 3 (0.29%) vMotion
14 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.27%) Oracle
3 34 (3.30%) Adobe
3 34 (3.30%) Splunk
4 32 (3.10%) Databricks
5 29 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 27 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.52%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.42%) IBM
9 22 (2.13%) TikTok
10 20 (1.94%) SAP
11 19 (1.84%) Okta
12 18 (1.75%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.65%) Cisco
13 17 (1.65%) Informatica
14 16 (1.55%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.45%) VMware
16 13 (1.26%) Apple
17 12 (1.16%) TIBCO