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 30 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 117 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 -32
Contract jobs citing Google 811 611 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.56% 2.17% 1.70%
As % of the Vendors category 5.43% 4.70% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 342 425
10th Percentile £250 £300 £206
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £650
90th Percentile £747 £738 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 33
10th Percentile £18.93 £26.15 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.38 £30.82 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.32 £43.04 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% +30.42% -5.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.30 £64.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.32 £43.00 £32.66
% change year-on-year -22.52% +31.66% -6.69%

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 14,942 13,002 16,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.25% 46.08% 44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,731 7,902 10,477
10th Percentile £295 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 372 609
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.24
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -34.86% +70.57%
75th Percentile £47.69 £63.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.73 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £46.03
% change year-on-year -13.36% -40.25% +77.03%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +1 429 £538 -2.27% 400
North of England +11 162 £445 -11.00% 436
Yorkshire +4 91 £400 -20.00% 177
South East +4 81 £313 -37.40% 497
North West +12 68 £499 -9.36% 234
Midlands +6 59 £516 +45.01% 328
South West +13 43 £525 -17.65% 211
West Midlands +5 39 £519 +9.21% 172
East of England -23 24 £625 +47.06% 255
East Midlands -2 20 £478 +55.19% 136
North East -18 3 £475 +13.77% 26
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 27 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.59%) Confluence
3 20 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.34%) Apache
5 18 (2.22%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.36%) CMS
7 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.74%) Mule
9 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.37%) Drupal
10 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) Luigi
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.49%) Trello
6 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Sketch
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 497 (61.28%) GCP
2 276 (34.03%) Azure
3 237 (29.22%) AWS
4 107 (13.19%) Google Workspace
5 96 (11.84%) GitHub
6 71 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 65 (8.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 55 (6.78%) Google Analytics
9 41 (5.06%) SaaS
10 39 (4.81%) Serverless
11 35 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 34 (4.19%) Cloud Run
12 34 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
13 30 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
14 29 (3.58%) Entra ID
15 27 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
16 25 (3.08%) Google Sheets
17 24 (2.96%) Vertex AI
18 23 (2.84%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.15%) Firewall
2 21 (2.59%) Network Security
3 17 (2.10%) DNS
4 8 (0.99%) HTTP
4 8 (0.99%) Internet
4 8 (0.99%) VoIP
4 8 (0.99%) VPN
5 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.62%) DHCP
6 5 (0.62%) Wireless
7 4 (0.49%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) Intranet
8 3 (0.37%) SMTP
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
9 2 (0.25%) BGP
9 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) VRRP
9 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.45%) BigQuery
2 65 (8.01%) Power BI
3 41 (5.06%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (4.32%) Tableau
6 29 (3.58%) Looker
7 26 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.71%) Big Data
9 20 (2.47%) SQL Server
10 16 (1.97%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.85%) MySQL
12 14 (1.73%) Mixpanel
13 12 (1.48%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.23%) Metadata
15 9 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (1.11%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.11%) Redis
16 8 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.99%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 90 (11.10%) Jenkins
2 73 (9.00%) Git
3 54 (6.66%) JIRA
4 47 (5.80%) GitLab
5 15 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.36%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.23%) Postman
9 9 (1.11%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.99%) Gradle
11 6 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.62%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.62%) JUnit
12 5 (0.62%) Mockito
12 5 (0.62%) Selenium
13 4 (0.49%) Maven
14 3 (0.37%) Xcode
General
1 308 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 160 (19.73%) Finance
3 104 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (11.34%) Banking
5 63 (7.77%) Marketing
6 58 (7.15%) Public Sector
7 27 (3.33%) Retail
8 22 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 20 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.10%) Advertising
13 16 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.85%) Publishing
14 15 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.73%) Legal
16 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.74%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 98 (12.08%) Senior
2 86 (10.60%) Analyst
3 85 (10.48%) Developer
4 74 (9.12%) Architect
5 73 (9.00%) GCP Engineer
6 64 (7.89%) Lead
7 46 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.45%) Consultant
10 28 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (2.96%) Android Developer
14 23 (2.84%) GCP DevOps
15 22 (2.71%) Data Scientist
15 22 (2.71%) Security Engineer
16 21 (2.59%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 21 (2.59%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (7.64%) RESTful
2 43 (5.30%) REST
3 41 (5.06%) React
4 35 (4.32%) HTML
5 34 (4.19%) Node.js
6 31 (3.82%) Spring
7 30 (3.70%) Kafka
8 28 (3.45%) CSS
9 27 (3.33%) FastAPI
10 26 (3.21%) PyTorch
10 26 (3.21%) scikit-learn
11 25 (3.08%) LangChain
11 25 (3.08%) LangGraph
12 24 (2.96%) TensorFlow
13 23 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.84%) Spring Boot
14 20 (2.47%) Android Jetpack
14 20 (2.47%) Jetpack Compose
14 20 (2.47%) OAuth
15 19 (2.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 34 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 23 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.34%) Life Science
8 18 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.97%) Genomics
10 15 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.73%) Social Media
12 12 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
14 8 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.40%) Linux
2 45 (5.55%) Android
2 45 (5.55%) Windows
3 22 (2.71%) Apple iOS
4 18 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.23%) VMS
6 9 (1.11%) Unix
7 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.62%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (26.51%) DevOps
2 214 (26.39%) CI/CD
3 184 (22.69%) Agile
4 169 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (20.35%) Analytics
6 163 (20.10%) AI
7 122 (15.04%) Containerisation
8 112 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 102 (12.58%) Machine Learning
10 95 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (11.59%) Microservices
12 88 (10.85%) Migration
13 82 (10.11%) User Experience
14 77 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (8.38%) Business Intelligence
15 68 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 67 (8.26%) Computer Science
17 65 (8.01%) Software Engineering
18 63 (7.77%) Actionable Insight
18 63 (7.77%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (29.84%) Python
2 138 (17.02%) SQL
3 89 (10.97%) Java
4 58 (7.15%) JavaScript
5 45 (5.55%) PowerShell
6 41 (5.06%) Bash
7 29 (3.58%) TypeScript
8 28 (3.45%) Kotlin
9 26 (3.21%) Go
10 13 (1.60%) C#
11 12 (1.48%) Ruby
12 10 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.86%) VBA
15 6 (0.74%) R
16 5 (0.62%) Bicep
16 5 (0.62%) C++
16 5 (0.62%) Scala
17 3 (0.37%) PHP
17 3 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.84%) Degree
2 96 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (3.82%) Master's Degree
5 23 (2.84%) CISSP
6 19 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.60%) MCP
9 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.11%) CISM
11 9 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 9 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.74%) CCSP
12 6 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.74%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.15%) GDPR
2 40 (4.93%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.19%) QA
4 26 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.60%) NIST
6 13 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.11%) GRC
8 8 (0.99%) NCSC
9 7 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.37%) WCAG
12 2 (0.25%) DICOM
12 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) PERC
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 146 (18.00%) Docker
2 35 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.62%) Squid
5 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.49%) Snort
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
7 1 (0.12%) SRDF
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 160 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 133 (16.40%) Terraform
3 51 (6.29%) Ansible
4 35 (4.32%) Grafana
5 31 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.10%) Argo
7 16 (1.97%) Istio
8 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.48%) SCCM
11 7 (0.86%) QRadar
12 6 (0.74%) NetBackup
12 6 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (0.62%) Nessus
13 5 (0.62%) Puppet
14 4 (0.49%) logstash
14 4 (0.49%) Nexpose
14 4 (0.49%) Suricata
15 3 (0.37%) CSIRT
15 3 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 143 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.41%) Splunk
3 29 (3.58%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.33%) Adobe
5 24 (2.96%) Databricks
6 22 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.47%) Apple
8 19 (2.34%) CyberArk
9 18 (2.22%) Oracle
10 17 (2.10%) SAP
10 17 (2.10%) VMware
11 16 (1.97%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.73%) CrowdStrike
13 13 (1.60%) Cisco
13 13 (1.60%) IBM
13 13 (1.60%) Okta
14 11 (1.36%) Amplitude
14 11 (1.36%) Citrix
14 11 (1.36%) Foundry
15 10 (1.23%) Optimizely