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 15 December 2025, 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
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 116 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 -30
Contract jobs citing Google 820 631 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.64% 2.17% 1.76%
As % of the Vendors category 5.54% 4.73% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 356 457
10th Percentile £239 £263 £204
25th Percentile £363 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £615 £675 £660
90th Percentile £739 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £519 £534
% change year-on-year -3.66% -2.76% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £27.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £32.88 £19.63
Median hourly rate £30.50 £56.38 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -45.90% +74.43% -7.66%
75th Percentile £42.75 £63.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £55.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -45.05% +71.72% -7.66%

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 14,797 13,332 16,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.58% 45.85% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,603 8,120 10,975
10th Percentile £293 £300 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 392 608
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.19 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.75 £31.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% -31.27% +73.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £76.82
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -7 435 £540 -1.82% 288
North of England +21 166 £440 -12.00% 346
Yorkshire +14 93 £400 -20.00% 144
South East +16 90 £314 -37.20% 457
North West +20 72 £505 +1.00% 181
Midlands +5 55 £488 +38.10% 306
West Midlands +2 39 £500 +21.21% 152
South West -1 37 £525 -15.15% 192
East of England -28 23 £538 +26.47% 228
East Midlands -4 16 £421 +36.69% 131
North East -25 1 £515 +23.35% 22
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 24 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.44%) Confluence
3 18 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.07%) Apache
5 12 (1.46%) CMS
6 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.73%) Mule
8 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Drupal
9 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) SAS
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 35 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 488 (59.51%) GCP
2 269 (32.80%) Azure
3 229 (27.93%) AWS
4 114 (13.90%) Google Workspace
5 88 (10.73%) GitHub
6 70 (8.54%) Power Platform
7 64 (7.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 59 (7.20%) Google Analytics
9 53 (6.46%) SaaS
10 39 (4.76%) Serverless
11 33 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (3.78%) Google Tag Manager
13 29 (3.54%) Entra ID
14 28 (3.41%) Cloud Run
14 28 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.29%) Cloud Functions
16 25 (3.05%) Vertex AI
17 22 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (2.56%) Google Sheets
19 20 (2.44%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.20%) Firewall
2 20 (2.44%) DNS
3 19 (2.32%) Network Security
4 9 (1.10%) HTTP
5 8 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.98%) VPN
6 7 (0.85%) VoIP
7 5 (0.61%) Internet
8 3 (0.37%) DHCP
8 3 (0.37%) Intranet
8 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) SMTP
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
8 3 (0.37%) Wireless
9 2 (0.24%) BGP
9 2 (0.24%) Broadband
9 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.24%) VRRP
9 2 (0.24%) WAN
9 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.83%) BigQuery
2 64 (7.80%) Power BI
3 39 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 38 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (4.02%) Tableau
6 30 (3.66%) Looker
7 25 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.93%) Big Data
9 21 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 15 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.83%) MySQL
11 12 (1.46%) Mixpanel
11 12 (1.46%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.34%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.22%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.22%) Metadata
14 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.98%) Pinecone
15 7 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 84 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 75 (9.15%) Git
3 57 (6.95%) JIRA
4 42 (5.12%) GitLab
5 15 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.34%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.22%) Postman
9 9 (1.10%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.98%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.98%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.98%) Gradle
11 7 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
11 7 (0.85%) Selenium
12 6 (0.73%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 5 (0.61%) JUnit
13 5 (0.61%) Maven
13 5 (0.61%) Mockito
14 4 (0.49%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.49%) webpack
General
1 300 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 164 (20.00%) Finance
3 102 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (12.07%) Banking
5 64 (7.80%) Marketing
6 57 (6.95%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 22 (2.68%) Retail
8 21 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.07%) Advertising
11 16 (1.95%) Publishing
12 15 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.71%) Legal
14 13 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.73%) Automotive
16 6 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (12.20%) Senior
2 85 (10.37%) Analyst
3 84 (10.24%) Developer
4 79 (9.63%) Architect
5 69 (8.41%) GCP Engineer
6 67 (8.17%) Lead
7 41 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (3.78%) Data Engineer
10 30 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 26 (3.17%) Consultant
12 26 (3.17%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.93%) Android Developer
13 24 (2.93%) GCP DevOps
14 23 (2.80%) Security Engineer
15 22 (2.68%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.68%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.44%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.68%) RESTful
2 42 (5.12%) REST
3 36 (4.39%) HTML
3 36 (4.39%) React
4 31 (3.78%) Node.js
5 29 (3.54%) CSS
6 28 (3.41%) Spring
7 27 (3.29%) FastAPI
7 27 (3.29%) Kafka
8 26 (3.17%) LangGraph
8 26 (3.17%) PyTorch
9 25 (3.05%) scikit-learn
9 25 (3.05%) TensorFlow
10 23 (2.80%) LangChain
11 21 (2.56%) OAuth
12 20 (2.44%) Spring Boot
13 19 (2.32%) Android Jetpack
13 19 (2.32%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.32%) Jetpack Compose
13 19 (2.32%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.22%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.54%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.05%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.32%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.32%) Life Science
10 18 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.95%) Genomics
11 16 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.83%) Social Media
13 14 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.59%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
16 9 (1.10%) Autonomous Agent
16 9 (1.10%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.56%) Linux
2 50 (6.10%) Windows
3 46 (5.61%) Android
4 29 (3.54%) Apple iOS
5 17 (2.07%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.22%) Unix
7 7 (0.85%) VMS
8 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) MVS
10 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (25.73%) CI/CD
2 207 (25.24%) DevOps
3 187 (22.80%) Agile
4 172 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (20.24%) Analytics
6 157 (19.15%) AI
7 127 (15.49%) Containerisation
8 107 (13.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (12.07%) Machine Learning
10 89 (10.85%) Microservices
11 85 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (10.37%) User Experience
12 83 (10.12%) Migration
13 77 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 69 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 68 (8.29%) Computer Science
16 64 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
17 61 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
18 59 (7.20%) Change Management
18 59 (7.20%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 245 (29.88%) Python
2 133 (16.22%) SQL
3 94 (11.46%) Java
4 59 (7.20%) JavaScript
5 50 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 46 (5.61%) Bash
7 30 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.41%) Go
8 28 (3.41%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.46%) Ruby
10 11 (1.34%) C#
10 11 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.85%) Bicep
12 7 (0.85%) R
12 7 (0.85%) VBA
13 5 (0.61%) C++
13 5 (0.61%) Scala
14 4 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 92 (11.22%) Degree
4 43 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.93%) CISSP
7 16 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.59%) MCP
9 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.10%) CISM
11 9 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) CCSP
13 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) GCIH
13 6 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.20%) GDPR
2 43 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.15%) QA
4 29 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 27 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.71%) NIST
7 12 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.10%) GRC
9 8 (0.98%) NCSC
10 7 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.85%) SLA
11 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.49%) WCAG
14 3 (0.37%) ECSS
15 2 (0.24%) DICOM
15 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.24%) PERC
15 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (17.80%) Docker
2 34 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.73%) Squid
5 5 (0.61%) Snort
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
7 1 (0.12%) SRDF
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 153 (18.66%) Kubernetes
2 128 (15.61%) Terraform
3 45 (5.49%) Ansible
4 32 (3.90%) Grafana
5 29 (3.54%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.71%) Argo
6 14 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.22%) Istio
7 10 (1.22%) NetBackup
7 10 (1.22%) SCCM
8 9 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (0.85%) QRadar
10 6 (0.73%) Nessus
11 5 (0.61%) Nexpose
11 5 (0.61%) Puppet
11 5 (0.61%) Suricata
12 4 (0.49%) logstash
13 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 140 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.34%) Splunk
3 27 (3.29%) Adobe
4 26 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.80%) Databricks
6 22 (2.68%) CyberArk
6 22 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 21 (2.56%) Oracle
7 21 (2.56%) VMware
8 17 (2.07%) Apple
8 17 (2.07%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.71%) Cisco
10 14 (1.71%) Okta
10 14 (1.71%) SAP
11 12 (1.46%) Amplitude
12 11 (1.34%) IBM
12 11 (1.34%) Optimizely
12 11 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.22%) Citrix