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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 773 698 812
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 2.26% 2.04%
As % of the Vendors category 5.51% 5.03% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 383 571
10th Percentile £225 £308 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £612 £658 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 51 32
10th Percentile £15.50 £31.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £16.95 £41.00 £17.38
Median hourly rate £27.21 £70.00 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -61.13% +116.65% -7.69%
75th Percentile £36.00 - £60.00
90th Percentile £52.50 - £66.25
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £70.00 £32.31
% change year-on-year -61.13% +116.65% -7.69%

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 14,030 13,890 17,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.78% 44.93% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,978 8,330 11,723
10th Percentile £280 £300 £256
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 693 434 615
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.52
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.11 £32.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -21.53% -27.11% +75.60%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +5 427 £514 -6.55% 561
North of England +6 162 £450 -10.00% 161
Yorkshire +8 92 £413 -18.64% 47
South East +8 74 £306 -23.50% 414
North West +11 66 £509 +1.75% 105
Midlands +11 48 £463 +29.92% 62
West Midlands +9 42 £488 +44.44% 39
South West -17 30 £519 -9.78% 93
East of England -20 19 £450 +5.88% 38
East Midlands -10 5 £367 +2.95% 23
North East -21 4 £570 +36.53% 10
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 23 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.46%) Confluence
3 18 (2.33%) Apache
4 16 (2.07%) CMS
5 12 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.78%) Mule
7 4 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.39%) Drupal
8 3 (0.39%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.39%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.26%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.03%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.39%) Sketch
7 2 (0.26%) Maya
7 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Maple
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) Magento
3 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 448 (57.96%) GCP
2 211 (27.30%) Azure
3 201 (26.00%) AWS
4 107 (13.84%) Google Workspace
5 84 (10.87%) GitHub
6 69 (8.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 56 (7.24%) SaaS
8 54 (6.99%) Power Platform
9 53 (6.86%) Google Analytics
10 37 (4.79%) Serverless
11 30 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (3.75%) Cloud Functions
12 29 (3.75%) Cloud Run
13 27 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.10%) Entra ID
15 22 (2.85%) Google Sheets
16 21 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (2.72%) Google Play
17 20 (2.59%) Apigee
17 20 (2.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (6.34%) Firewall
2 22 (2.85%) DNS
3 18 (2.33%) Network Security
4 13 (1.68%) HTTP
5 10 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.29%) VPN
6 4 (0.52%) DHCP
7 3 (0.39%) BGP
7 3 (0.39%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.39%) Internet
7 3 (0.39%) Intranet
7 3 (0.39%) LAN
7 3 (0.39%) SMTP
7 3 (0.39%) SSL
7 3 (0.39%) VLAN
7 3 (0.39%) WAN
7 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.39%) Wireless
8 2 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.26%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (13.20%) BigQuery
2 51 (6.60%) Power BI
3 37 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (4.27%) Tableau
6 31 (4.01%) Looker
6 31 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 29 (3.75%) Big Data
8 23 (2.98%) SQL Server
9 19 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.94%) Metadata
11 14 (1.81%) MySQL
12 12 (1.55%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.55%) Mixpanel
12 12 (1.55%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.55%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.78%) Power Query
14 6 (0.78%) Redis
15 5 (0.65%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 82 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 77 (9.96%) Git
3 50 (6.47%) JIRA
4 45 (5.82%) GitLab
5 15 (1.94%) SonarQube
5 15 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (1.42%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.29%) Gradle
7 10 (1.29%) Postman
8 9 (1.16%) SoapUI
9 8 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.03%) Selenium
10 7 (0.91%) Maven
11 6 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.78%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.52%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.52%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.52%) Vite
12 4 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 265 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 164 (21.22%) Finance
3 102 (13.20%) Banking
4 79 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.50%) Marketing
6 51 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 23 (2.98%) Retail
8 22 (2.85%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 16 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.81%) Advertising
12 14 (1.81%) Legal
12 14 (1.81%) Publishing
13 10 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 98 (12.68%) Senior
2 84 (10.87%) Architect
3 77 (9.96%) Developer
4 69 (8.93%) Analyst
4 69 (8.93%) GCP Engineer
5 51 (6.60%) Lead
6 39 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 37 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 31 (4.01%) Data Engineer
10 26 (3.36%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.23%) GCP Architect
12 24 (3.10%) GCP DevOps
12 24 (3.10%) IT Support
13 23 (2.98%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 22 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 22 (2.85%) Consultant
15 21 (2.72%) IT Engineer
16 20 (2.59%) Support Engineer
17 19 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (8.02%) RESTful
2 38 (4.92%) Node.js
2 38 (4.92%) React
3 35 (4.53%) REST
4 33 (4.27%) HTML
5 28 (3.62%) Kafka
6 27 (3.49%) CSS
7 23 (2.98%) FastAPI
8 22 (2.85%) Spring
9 19 (2.46%) Android Jetpack
10 18 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (2.33%) Jetpack Compose
10 18 (2.33%) LangGraph
11 16 (2.07%) AngularJS
11 16 (2.07%) OAuth
11 16 (2.07%) pytest
11 16 (2.07%) React Native
12 15 (1.94%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.81%) Android SDK
13 14 (1.81%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 93 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 38 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.36%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.46%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.46%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.20%) iPad
11 16 (2.07%) Life Science
12 15 (1.94%) Genomics
12 15 (1.94%) iPhone
12 15 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.68%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.68%) Social Media
14 12 (1.55%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (7.63%) Linux
2 48 (6.21%) Windows
3 40 (5.17%) Android
4 34 (4.40%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.42%) Unix
6 7 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.39%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (27.17%) CI/CD
2 197 (25.49%) DevOps
3 184 (23.80%) Agile
4 173 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (18.76%) Analytics
6 123 (15.91%) AI
7 120 (15.52%) Containerisation
8 100 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (10.48%) Microservices
10 79 (10.22%) User Experience
11 77 (9.96%) Migration
12 76 (9.83%) Machine Learning
13 68 (8.80%) Data Modelling
14 62 (8.02%) Computer Science
15 59 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (7.50%) ETL
17 56 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
18 55 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
19 54 (6.99%) Cloud Security
20 53 (6.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 228 (29.50%) Python
2 135 (17.46%) SQL
3 88 (11.38%) Java
4 49 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 38 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 37 (4.79%) Bash
7 31 (4.01%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.88%) Go
9 25 (3.23%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.55%) Ruby
10 12 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.91%) Bicep
12 7 (0.91%) C#
12 7 (0.91%) R
12 7 (0.91%) VBA
13 6 (0.78%) C++
13 6 (0.78%) Scala
14 4 (0.52%) Korn
14 4 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 88 (11.38%) Degree
3 80 (10.35%) SC Cleared
4 44 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.10%) CISSP
7 16 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.16%) CISM
9 9 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.03%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.03%) MCP
11 6 (0.78%) CEH
11 6 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.78%) GCIH
12 5 (0.65%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.56%) GDPR
2 39 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 31 (4.01%) Accessibility
4 24 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.10%) QA
5 15 (1.94%) NIST
5 15 (1.94%) SLA
6 11 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.16%) GRC
8 6 (0.78%) NCSC
8 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.78%) WCAG
9 5 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.39%) ECSS
11 3 (0.39%) HL7
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) DICOM
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 137 (17.72%) Docker
2 26 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.65%) Squid
5 4 (0.52%) Snort
6 2 (0.26%) Firmware
6 2 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) NFS
7 1 (0.13%) SRDF
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 121 (15.65%) Terraform
3 39 (5.05%) Ansible
4 31 (4.01%) Grafana
5 29 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.07%) Argo
7 12 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.29%) Istio
8 10 (1.29%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.91%) Puppet
11 5 (0.65%) Nessus
11 5 (0.65%) QRadar
12 4 (0.52%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.52%) Suricata
13 3 (0.39%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.39%) SCCM
14 2 (0.26%) logstash
14 2 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 137 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.47%) Splunk
3 26 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 25 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.10%) Adobe
6 21 (2.72%) CyberArk
7 20 (2.59%) Oracle
8 18 (2.33%) Apple
8 18 (2.33%) OpenAI
9 17 (2.20%) Cisco
10 16 (2.07%) Databricks
10 16 (2.07%) Okta
10 16 (2.07%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.94%) MobileIron
11 15 (1.94%) Nexthink
12 14 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
12 14 (1.81%) Hotjar
12 14 (1.81%) SAP
12 14 (1.81%) VMware
13 13 (1.68%) Amplitude