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 2 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
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 1,005 757 732
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 2.73% 2.18%
As % of the Vendors category 5.36% 5.79% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 439 439
10th Percentile £313 £207 £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 £593 £600 £675
90th Percentile £691 £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 62 63
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £31.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £23.61 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.36% -66.27% +105.88%
75th Percentile £39.28 £45.66 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.28 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.95% -68.69% +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 18,741 13,069 14,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.16% 47.06% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,275 9,333
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £622 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 629 775
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.72%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £62.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.72 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -10.18% -33.01%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -23 528 £505 +0.90% 621
North of England -20 206 £500 +8.11% 178
Yorkshire -11 107 £538 +22.16% 70
South East -63 101 £530 +17.67% 146
North West -37 80 £488 -2.50% 87
South West +5 74 £550 +48.65% 50
Midlands -31 47 £440 +10.00% 55
West Midlands -42 35 £425 +13.33% 32
East of England -16 23 £510 +5.15% 27
North East -20 23 £433 -30.80% 21
East Midlands -9 12 £625 +64.91% 23
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 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.48%) Apache
4 30 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (2.49%) Apache Spark
6 24 (2.39%) Confluence
7 19 (1.89%) CMS
8 7 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.40%) Drupal
11 3 (0.30%) WordPress
12 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.20%) nginx
13 1 (0.100%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.100%) IIS
13 1 (0.100%) JBoss
13 1 (0.100%) Luigi
13 1 (0.100%) Mendix
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.60%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.40%) InDesign
8 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.100%) Maya
10 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.30%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) iTrent
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.100%) Actimize
4 1 (0.100%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.100%) Maximo
4 1 (0.100%) Primavera
4 1 (0.100%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.100%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.100%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.100%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.100%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 616 (61.29%) GCP
2 278 (27.66%) Azure
3 275 (27.36%) AWS
4 149 (14.83%) Google Workspace
5 91 (9.05%) GitHub
6 85 (8.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 74 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (5.57%) Google Analytics
9 54 (5.37%) SaaS
10 51 (5.07%) Power Platform
11 49 (4.88%) Vertex AI
12 47 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
13 45 (4.48%) Google Sheets
14 36 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (3.28%) Entra ID
15 33 (3.28%) Google Drive
16 30 (2.99%) dbt
17 28 (2.79%) Snowflake
18 26 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (2.49%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.97%) Firewall
2 63 (6.27%) DNS
3 45 (4.48%) VPN
4 26 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.99%) Network Security
6 16 (1.59%) DHCP
7 11 (1.09%) DKIM
7 11 (1.09%) DMARC
8 10 (1.00%) BGP
8 10 (1.00%) Internet
9 8 (0.80%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.80%) OSPF
9 8 (0.80%) VLAN
10 7 (0.70%) HTTP
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
1 102 (10.15%) BigQuery
2 57 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (4.38%) Power BI
4 32 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (3.08%) Looker
6 24 (2.39%) Tableau
7 22 (2.19%) Relational Database
8 20 (1.99%) Big Data
8 20 (1.99%) Metadata
9 19 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.79%) MySQL
11 15 (1.49%) SQL Server
12 13 (1.29%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.80%) Flink
13 8 (0.80%) Redis
14 7 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.70%) OLTP
15 6 (0.60%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 63 (6.27%) Git
3 56 (5.57%) JIRA
4 54 (5.37%) GitLab
5 16 (1.59%) JUnit
6 9 (0.90%) Gradle
6 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.80%) Gatling
8 7 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.70%) JMeter
9 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.60%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.60%) MLflow
9 6 (0.60%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.50%) fastlane
10 5 (0.50%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.50%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.40%) Maven
11 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 244 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 180 (17.91%) Finance
3 120 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 115 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (7.36%) Marketing
6 59 (5.87%) Banking
7 49 (4.88%) Retail
8 35 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.79%) Legal
11 26 (2.59%) Publishing
12 22 (2.19%) Advertising
13 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.09%) Games
16 11 (1.09%) Military
17 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 130 (12.94%) Architect
2 117 (11.64%) GCP Engineer
3 96 (9.55%) Developer
4 90 (8.96%) Senior
5 84 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 81 (8.06%) Lead
7 76 (7.56%) Analyst
8 67 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 41 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.28%) Administrator
11 32 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (2.69%) Network Engineer
13 26 (2.59%) GCP DevOps
14 24 (2.39%) Security Engineer
15 23 (2.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (2.29%) Support Engineer
16 22 (2.19%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.19%) Consultant
17 21 (2.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.56%) REST
2 44 (4.38%) Kafka
3 40 (3.98%) React
3 40 (3.98%) Spring
3 40 (3.98%) Spring Boot
4 30 (2.99%) OAuth
5 28 (2.79%) Node.js
6 25 (2.49%) JSON
6 25 (2.49%) RESTful
7 24 (2.39%) Android Jetpack
7 24 (2.39%) LangChain
8 23 (2.29%) HTML
9 21 (2.09%) Android SDK
9 21 (2.09%) SAML
10 19 (1.89%) CSS
10 19 (1.89%) Jetpack Compose
10 19 (1.89%) YAML
11 17 (1.69%) LangGraph
11 17 (1.69%) PyTorch
12 16 (1.59%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 159 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.57%) AI Agents
3 43 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.79%) Mobile App
6 27 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 25 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.39%) Clustering
11 14 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
13 12 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (1.09%) PKI
15 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.57%) Windows
2 65 (6.47%) Linux
3 42 (4.18%) Android
4 29 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.90%) Unix
7 9 (0.90%) VMS
8 6 (0.60%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.50%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.100%) CentOS
12 1 (0.100%) SUSE
12 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.100%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (28.66%) CI/CD
2 229 (22.79%) DevOps
3 221 (21.99%) Agile
4 215 (21.39%) AI
5 188 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 175 (17.41%) Analytics
7 150 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (13.73%) Migration
9 116 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 102 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (10.05%) Observability
12 99 (9.85%) Roadmaps
13 92 (9.15%) Machine Learning
14 89 (8.86%) Decision-Making
15 87 (8.66%) Data Modelling
15 87 (8.66%) Software Engineering
16 86 (8.56%) Cloud Security
17 83 (8.26%) Microservices
18 75 (7.46%) Containerisation
19 70 (6.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (27.76%) Python
2 175 (17.41%) SQL
3 151 (15.02%) Java
4 86 (8.56%) PowerShell
5 78 (7.76%) Bash
6 44 (4.38%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.38%) Kotlin
8 28 (2.79%) Go
9 27 (2.69%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.19%) C#
11 19 (1.89%) Scala
12 15 (1.49%) Groovy
13 14 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.19%) Bicep
14 12 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
15 10 (1.00%) Rust
16 6 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.60%) SOQL
17 5 (0.50%) Ruby
18 4 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 195 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 159 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.46%) Degree
4 49 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 32 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.99%) CISSP
8 28 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.00%) CCNP
13 8 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.70%) CISM
15 6 (0.60%) PhD
16 5 (0.50%) OCP
16 5 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.58%) QA
3 44 (4.38%) 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 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.80%) NCSC
10 6 (0.60%) PMO
11 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.40%) GRC
12 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.40%) PERC
12 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.30%) SLA
13 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 106 (10.55%) Docker
2 52 (5.17%) 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 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.100%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.100%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 210 (20.90%) Terraform
2 180 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.98%) Ansible
4 39 (3.88%) Grafana
5 31 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.00%) Istio
10 9 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.90%) Puppet
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
1 176 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.08%) Splunk
3 30 (2.99%) Oracle
4 28 (2.79%) OpenAI
5 27 (2.69%) Databricks
5 27 (2.69%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.49%) Adobe
6 25 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 23 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.89%) TikTok
9 17 (1.69%) IBM
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
14 11 (1.09%) Informatica
15 10 (1.00%) Tealium
16 9 (0.90%) Checkmarx