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 11 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
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 117 133
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 859 585 666
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.37% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.34% 5.02% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 339 442
10th Percentile £267 £256 £213
25th Percentile £402 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 54
10th Percentile £18.86 £16.95 £11.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £25.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.00 £42.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +63.46% -49.51%
75th Percentile £35.91 £59.44 £33.44
90th Percentile £50.15 £62.50 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £34.34 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% +22.15% -49.51%

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 16,091 11,643 16,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.32% 47.17% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,483 7,405 10,441
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 384 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.19 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.84 £81.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.63%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -8 427 £525 -4.55% 162
North of England -6 166 £500 -9.09% 106
Yorkshire -8 95 £500 -9.09% 50
South East -32 81 £322 -35.60% 135
Midlands -4 80 £525 +34.27% 46
North West -15 62 £544 -13.00% 50
South West +14 58 £525 -8.70% 38
West Midlands -24 45 £481 -8.33% 23
East Midlands -5 35 £550 +54.49% 20
East of England -16 34 £625 +95.31% 39
North East -10 12 £475 +43.94% 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 36 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.61%) Apache
3 23 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.86%) Confluence
4 16 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.16%) CMS
5 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.35%) Drupal
7 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.23%) InDesign
7 2 (0.23%) Sketch
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 538 (62.63%) GCP
2 290 (33.76%) Azure
3 264 (30.73%) AWS
4 145 (16.88%) Google Workspace
5 99 (11.53%) GitHub
6 83 (9.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 79 (9.20%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.36%) Google Analytics
9 41 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (4.54%) Google Sheets
11 37 (4.31%) Cloud Run
12 36 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (3.61%) Serverless
14 31 (3.61%) Vertex AI
15 30 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (3.49%) SaaS
16 29 (3.38%) Entra ID
16 29 (3.38%) Google Gemini
17 27 (3.14%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.22%) Firewall
2 28 (3.26%) Network Security
3 26 (3.03%) VPN
4 23 (2.68%) DNS
5 11 (1.28%) VoIP
6 10 (1.16%) Internet
7 9 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.81%) DHCP
9 6 (0.70%) BGP
10 5 (0.58%) SAN
10 5 (0.58%) Wireless
11 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 4 (0.47%) LAN
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
11 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) IPv6
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
13 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.69%) BigQuery
2 69 (8.03%) Power BI
3 35 (4.07%) Tableau
4 34 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 21 (2.44%) Mixpanel
7 21 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.33%) Looker
9 19 (2.21%) OLAP
10 18 (2.10%) Big Data
11 17 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (1.86%) MySQL
12 16 (1.86%) OLTP
13 14 (1.63%) Metadata
14 8 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.93%) Redis
14 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
15 5 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 83 (9.66%) Jenkins
2 69 (8.03%) Git
3 44 (5.12%) GitLab
3 44 (5.12%) JIRA
4 7 (0.81%) JUnit
5 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.58%) Mockito
5 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
5 5 (0.58%) Selenium
6 4 (0.47%) Android Studio
6 4 (0.47%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.47%) Gatling
6 4 (0.47%) Gradle
6 4 (0.47%) Liquibase
6 4 (0.47%) Postman
6 4 (0.47%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.35%) ERwin
7 3 (0.35%) Fiddler
General
1 306 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.09%) Finance
3 114 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.43%) Banking
5 67 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 54 (6.29%) Marketing
7 49 (5.70%) Retail
8 23 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.44%) Advertising
9 21 (2.44%) Legal
10 20 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 20 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.86%) Publishing
12 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.05%) Military
16 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 101 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
2 98 (11.41%) Senior
3 92 (10.71%) Architect
4 80 (9.31%) Analyst
5 76 (8.85%) Lead
6 71 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (7.80%) Developer
8 52 (6.05%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.07%) Consultant
10 29 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.14%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.91%) Security Engineer
13 25 (2.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 24 (2.79%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (2.68%) GCP DevOps
16 22 (2.56%) Android Developer
17 20 (2.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 20 (2.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.40%) REST
2 40 (4.66%) PyTorch
3 39 (4.54%) Kafka
4 38 (4.42%) React
5 36 (4.19%) RESTful
6 31 (3.61%) HTML
6 31 (3.61%) LangChain
6 31 (3.61%) scikit-learn
6 31 (3.61%) Spring
7 30 (3.49%) Node.js
7 30 (3.49%) TensorFlow
8 25 (2.91%) CSS
9 24 (2.79%) Spring Boot
10 23 (2.68%) OAuth
11 22 (2.56%) AngularJS
12 21 (2.44%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.44%) LangGraph
13 19 (2.21%) Android Jetpack
13 19 (2.21%) Jetpack Compose
14 18 (2.10%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 104 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.01%) Onboarding
2 43 (5.01%) Public Cloud
3 28 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.26%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 21 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (2.21%) Life Science
6 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (1.63%) Genomics
7 14 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 14 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.16%) Clustering
11 10 (1.16%) Smartphone
12 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.05%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.52%) Windows
2 50 (5.82%) Android
3 49 (5.70%) Linux
4 30 (3.49%) Mac OS
5 28 (3.26%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.98%) VMS
7 9 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.58%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.36%) CI/CD
2 228 (26.54%) DevOps
3 191 (22.24%) AI
4 168 (19.56%) Analytics
5 164 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (17.23%) Agile
6 148 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 107 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (12.22%) Machine Learning
9 102 (11.87%) Migration
10 100 (11.64%) Containerisation
11 91 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 86 (10.01%) Observability
13 82 (9.55%) Microservices
14 73 (8.50%) User Experience
15 72 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
16 71 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 69 (8.03%) Change Management
17 69 (8.03%) Software Engineering
18 64 (7.45%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 257 (29.92%) Python
2 161 (18.74%) SQL
3 99 (11.53%) Java
4 43 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 41 (4.77%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.54%) Bash
7 30 (3.49%) Kotlin
8 27 (3.14%) C#
8 27 (3.14%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.79%) Go
10 11 (1.28%) Ruby
11 10 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
12 8 (0.93%) VBA
13 6 (0.70%) Scala
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
14 5 (0.58%) Rust
15 4 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) Groovy
15 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 110 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.87%) Degree
4 38 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.28%) CISSP
12 10 (1.16%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.93%) OCP
13 8 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.70%) CCNP
15 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.92%) GDPR
2 48 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.61%) QA
4 18 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.63%) NIST
7 13 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.05%) NCSC
9 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.70%) GRC
10 5 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.35%) PERC
11 3 (0.35%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (13.74%) Docker
2 32 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) NFS
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.23%) Snort
7 2 (0.23%) Squid
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (21.07%) Terraform
2 165 (19.21%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.36%) Ansible
4 38 (4.42%) Grafana
5 30 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.91%) Istio
7 15 (1.75%) Argo
8 12 (1.40%) SCCM
9 11 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.81%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.70%) QRadar
14 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.58%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.47%) Nessus
16 2 (0.23%) NetBackup
16 2 (0.23%) OpenVAS
16 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 124 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.54%) Splunk
3 31 (3.61%) Databricks
4 24 (2.79%) Adobe
5 23 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.56%) Apple
6 22 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.86%) Oracle
9 16 (1.86%) VMware
10 15 (1.75%) IBM
11 12 (1.40%) Foundry
11 12 (1.40%) Okta
11 12 (1.40%) SAP
12 9 (1.05%) Citrix
13 8 (0.93%) HubSpot
13 8 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.81%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.81%) Hotjar