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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 95 109
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 1,007 747 732
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.71% 2.19%
As % of the Vendors category 5.38% 5.75% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 431 440
10th Percentile £313 £213 £303
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £599 £600 £678
90th Percentile £694 £700 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £535
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.28% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 63
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £31.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £22.56 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.36% -67.77% +105.88%
75th Percentile £40.31 £46.30 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +65.65% -69.60% +76.99%

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 18,731 12,992 14,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.24% 47.06% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,236 9,318
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.20% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 626 772
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £34.97 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.05% -10.18% -33.85%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -20 532 £505 +1.00% 773
North of England -14 202 £500 +8.11% 192
South East -55 105 £530 +21.03% 165
Yorkshire -11 103 £538 +20.25% 64
North West -34 80 £488 -2.50% 110
South West -2 74 £550 +48.65% 53
Midlands -37 45 £450 +12.50% 62
West Midlands -41 33 £425 +13.33% 37
East of England -17 23 £510 +5.15% 29
North East -20 23 £433 -30.80% 18
East Midlands -5 12 £625 +64.91% 25
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.38%) Apache
4 30 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (2.48%) Apache Spark
5 25 (2.48%) Confluence
6 21 (2.09%) CMS
7 9 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Drupal
9 4 (0.40%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.099%) IIS
11 1 (0.099%) JBoss
11 1 (0.099%) Luigi
11 1 (0.099%) Mendix
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.09%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.40%) InDesign
7 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.099%) Maya
8 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.20%) iTrent
4 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.099%) Actimize
5 1 (0.099%) Maximo
5 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.099%) Primavera
5 1 (0.099%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.099%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.099%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.099%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.099%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 617 (61.27%) GCP
2 282 (28.00%) Azure
3 281 (27.90%) AWS
4 145 (14.40%) Google Workspace
5 91 (9.04%) GitHub
6 85 (8.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 74 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
8 58 (5.76%) Google Analytics
9 53 (5.26%) SaaS
10 52 (5.16%) Power Platform
11 48 (4.77%) Vertex AI
12 47 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (4.47%) Google Sheets
14 36 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (3.38%) Entra ID
16 33 (3.28%) Google Drive
17 30 (2.98%) dbt
18 29 (2.88%) Snowflake
19 26 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
20 24 (2.38%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.65%) Firewall
2 62 (6.16%) DNS
3 41 (4.07%) VPN
4 26 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.89%) Network Security
6 16 (1.59%) DHCP
7 11 (1.09%) DKIM
7 11 (1.09%) DMARC
8 10 (0.99%) BGP
8 10 (0.99%) Internet
9 8 (0.79%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.79%) HTTP
9 8 (0.79%) OSPF
9 8 (0.79%) VLAN
10 7 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.60%) LAN
11 6 (0.60%) SMTP
11 6 (0.60%) VoIP
11 6 (0.60%) WAN
12 5 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (10.03%) BigQuery
2 57 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (4.47%) Power BI
4 32 (3.18%) Looker
5 31 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 24 (2.38%) Tableau
7 21 (2.09%) Metadata
8 20 (1.99%) Big Data
9 18 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.69%) MySQL
11 14 (1.39%) SQL Server
12 13 (1.29%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.79%) Flink
13 8 (0.79%) Redis
14 7 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
15 6 (0.60%) OLTP
15 6 (0.60%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (8.74%) Jenkins
2 66 (6.55%) Git
3 56 (5.56%) JIRA
4 53 (5.26%) GitLab
5 15 (1.49%) JUnit
6 9 (0.89%) Gatling
6 9 (0.89%) Gradle
6 9 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.79%) JMeter
8 7 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.70%) NeoLoad
9 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.60%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.60%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.60%) MLflow
10 5 (0.50%) fastlane
10 5 (0.50%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 247 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.87%) Finance
3 121 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 119 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.45%) Marketing
6 58 (5.76%) Banking
7 50 (4.97%) Retail
8 34 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.68%) Legal
10 27 (2.68%) Publishing
11 25 (2.48%) Advertising
12 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.09%) Games
15 11 (1.09%) Military
16 10 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (13.31%) Architect
2 115 (11.42%) GCP Engineer
3 97 (9.63%) Developer
4 92 (9.14%) Senior
5 83 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 81 (8.04%) Lead
7 73 (7.25%) Analyst
8 70 (6.95%) Data Engineer
9 46 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.28%) Administrator
11 31 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (2.58%) Network Engineer
13 25 (2.48%) GCP DevOps
14 24 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (2.38%) Security Engineer
15 23 (2.28%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (2.28%) Consultant
15 23 (2.28%) Support Engineer
16 20 (1.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.35%) REST
2 44 (4.37%) Kafka
3 41 (4.07%) React
4 40 (3.97%) Spring
4 40 (3.97%) Spring Boot
5 33 (3.28%) OAuth
6 28 (2.78%) Node.js
6 28 (2.78%) RESTful
7 26 (2.58%) JSON
8 24 (2.38%) Android Jetpack
8 24 (2.38%) HTML
9 23 (2.28%) LangChain
9 23 (2.28%) SAML
10 21 (2.09%) Android SDK
11 20 (1.99%) CSS
12 19 (1.89%) Jetpack Compose
12 19 (1.89%) YAML
13 16 (1.59%) Apache Beam
13 16 (1.59%) LangGraph
13 16 (1.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 42 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 33 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.88%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 27 (2.68%) Virtual Team
8 26 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 24 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.39%) Clustering
12 14 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
12 14 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (0.99%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.55%) Windows
2 65 (6.45%) Linux
3 42 (4.17%) Android
4 29 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.89%) Unix
8 9 (0.89%) VMS
9 6 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.50%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.099%) CentOS
13 1 (0.099%) SUSE
13 1 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.099%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (28.60%) CI/CD
2 226 (22.44%) DevOps
3 223 (22.14%) Agile
4 214 (21.25%) AI
5 186 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 177 (17.58%) Analytics
7 151 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (13.70%) Migration
9 114 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 105 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (10.03%) Roadmaps
12 97 (9.63%) Observability
13 90 (8.94%) Machine Learning
13 90 (8.94%) Software Engineering
14 89 (8.84%) Decision-Making
15 88 (8.74%) Data Modelling
16 84 (8.34%) Cloud Security
17 82 (8.14%) Microservices
18 77 (7.65%) Containerisation
19 70 (6.95%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (27.71%) Python
2 177 (17.58%) SQL
3 149 (14.80%) Java
4 87 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 79 (7.85%) Bash
6 46 (4.57%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.38%) Kotlin
8 28 (2.78%) TypeScript
9 27 (2.68%) Go
10 21 (2.09%) C#
11 20 (1.99%) Scala
12 15 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.39%) Groovy
14 12 (1.19%) Bicep
15 11 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
16 10 (0.99%) Rust
17 6 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.60%) SOQL
18 5 (0.50%) Ruby
19 4 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 199 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 162 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.44%) Degree
4 49 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.37%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.98%) CISSP
8 29 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.99%) CCNP
13 8 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.70%) CISM
15 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.60%) PhD
16 5 (0.50%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.77%) QA
3 42 (4.17%) GDPR
4 21 (2.09%) NIST
5 20 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.29%) WCAG
8 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.79%) NCSC
10 6 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.60%) PMO
11 4 (0.40%) GRC
11 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.40%) PERC
11 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.30%) SLA
12 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 109 (10.82%) Docker
2 52 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.50%) NFS
6 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.50%) vSphere
7 4 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.40%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.099%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.099%) Varnish
10 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 207 (20.56%) Terraform
2 182 (18.07%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.07%) Ansible
4 39 (3.87%) Grafana
5 30 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.99%) Puppet
9 9 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.79%) Istio
11 7 (0.70%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.60%) Podman
12 6 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 5 (0.50%) SCCM
13 5 (0.50%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.40%) vMotion
15 3 (0.30%) Argo
15 3 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 179 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.08%) Oracle
2 31 (3.08%) Splunk
3 29 (2.88%) Databricks
4 28 (2.78%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.68%) Adobe
6 25 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.09%) TikTok
9 18 (1.79%) IBM
9 18 (1.79%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.59%) Okta
10 16 (1.59%) VMware
11 15 (1.49%) Apple
12 14 (1.39%) SAP
13 12 (1.19%) Cisco
13 12 (1.19%) Tealium
14 11 (1.09%) Informatica
15 10 (0.99%) MuleSoft