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 25 March 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 109 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Google 875 592 661
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.33% 2.44% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 5.15% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 347 441
10th Percentile £263 £248 £219
25th Percentile £411 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -7.08%
75th Percentile £600 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 58 47
10th Percentile £19.88 £16.95 £11.11
25th Percentile £25.88 £24.66 £17.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -25.71%
75th Percentile £35.87 £57.95 £33.13
90th Percentile £48.25 £62.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -30.25%

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 16,450 11,495 16,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.85% 47.35% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,734 7,433 10,247
10th Percentile £311 £291 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -4.73%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 406 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +24.48% -31.20%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £76.28 £81.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £29.00 £23.56
% change year-on-year -12.48% +23.12% -38.82%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -8 441 £525 - 227
North of England -9 162 £505 -8.18% 93
Yorkshire -9 90 £500 -7.66% 41
South East -42 80 £400 -20.00% 109
Midlands -10 78 £525 +40.56% 37
North West -13 63 £544 -13.00% 44
South West +9 61 £531 +6.25% 21
West Midlands -23 42 £481 +1.32% 16
East of England -22 37 £568 +74.62% 23
East Midlands -4 36 £550 +54.49% 21
North East -9 12 £475 +43.94% 9
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 36 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.66%) Apache
3 26 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.83%) Confluence
5 15 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (1.14%) CMS
8 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.34%) Drupal
8 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.26%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.46%) Trello
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.69%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 545 (62.29%) GCP
2 287 (32.80%) Azure
3 259 (29.60%) AWS
4 150 (17.14%) Google Workspace
5 98 (11.20%) GitHub
6 81 (9.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 80 (9.14%) Power Platform
8 50 (5.71%) Google Analytics
9 41 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (4.57%) Google Sheets
11 36 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (3.66%) SaaS
13 31 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.54%) Cloud Run
13 31 (3.54%) Vertex AI
14 30 (3.43%) Amazon S3
14 30 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (3.31%) Entra ID
16 27 (3.09%) Google Gemini
17 26 (2.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.31%) Firewall
2 31 (3.54%) VPN
3 30 (3.43%) DNS
4 28 (3.20%) Network Security
5 12 (1.37%) VoIP
6 11 (1.26%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.14%) Internet
8 9 (1.03%) DHCP
9 6 (0.69%) BGP
9 6 (0.69%) Wireless
10 5 (0.57%) SAN
11 4 (0.46%) HTTP
11 4 (0.46%) LAN
11 4 (0.46%) OSPF
11 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 3 (0.34%) IPv6
12 3 (0.34%) SMTP
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.46%) BigQuery
2 70 (8.00%) Power BI
3 37 (4.23%) Tableau
4 30 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (3.20%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.51%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.51%) Looker
8 21 (2.40%) Mixpanel
9 20 (2.29%) OLAP
10 19 (2.17%) Big Data
11 18 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (2.06%) SQL Server
12 17 (1.94%) OLTP
13 16 (1.83%) Metadata
14 13 (1.49%) MySQL
15 7 (0.80%) Redis
15 7 (0.80%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.69%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (9.83%) Jenkins
2 66 (7.54%) Git
3 46 (5.26%) GitLab
4 45 (5.14%) JIRA
5 11 (1.26%) JUnit
6 6 (0.69%) Selenium
7 5 (0.57%) Charles Proxy
7 5 (0.57%) Mockito
7 5 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.46%) Gatling
8 4 (0.46%) Postman
8 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
9 3 (0.34%) ERwin
9 3 (0.34%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.34%) Gradle
9 3 (0.34%) Liquibase
General
1 301 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 164 (18.74%) Finance
3 115 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.80%) Banking
5 72 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 69 (7.89%) Marketing
7 49 (5.60%) Retail
8 25 (2.86%) Legal
9 24 (2.74%) Advertising
10 23 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.17%) Publishing
13 18 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 10 (1.14%) Military
18 8 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 114 (13.03%) GCP Engineer
2 97 (11.09%) Senior
3 89 (10.17%) Architect
4 85 (9.71%) Analyst
5 79 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 78 (8.91%) Lead
7 61 (6.97%) Developer
8 58 (6.63%) Data Engineer
9 37 (4.23%) Consultant
10 30 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.74%) GCP DevOps
13 24 (2.74%) Software Engineer
14 23 (2.63%) Security Engineer
15 21 (2.40%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.40%) Network Engineer
16 19 (2.17%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.40%) REST
2 42 (4.80%) Kafka
3 38 (4.34%) PyTorch
4 35 (4.00%) Spring
5 33 (3.77%) React
6 32 (3.66%) RESTful
7 31 (3.54%) scikit-learn
8 30 (3.43%) LangChain
9 29 (3.31%) Spring Boot
10 28 (3.20%) HTML
10 28 (3.20%) TensorFlow
11 26 (2.97%) Node.js
12 23 (2.63%) CSS
13 21 (2.40%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.40%) OAuth
14 19 (2.17%) Pandas
15 18 (2.06%) Great Expectations
15 18 (2.06%) LangGraph
16 17 (1.94%) Android SDK
17 16 (1.83%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.91%) Public Cloud
3 41 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.71%) Life Science
11 13 (1.49%) Clustering
11 13 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (1.26%) Social Media
14 10 (1.14%) Smartphone
15 9 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.40%) Windows
2 49 (5.60%) Linux
3 46 (5.26%) Android
4 29 (3.31%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.09%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.94%) VMS
7 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (0.69%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.57%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (26.97%) CI/CD
2 223 (25.49%) DevOps
3 193 (22.06%) AI
4 180 (20.57%) Analytics
5 158 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 145 (16.57%) Agile
8 105 (12.00%) Machine Learning
8 105 (12.00%) Migration
9 98 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (10.51%) Containerisation
11 88 (10.06%) Observability
11 88 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 80 (9.14%) Microservices
13 78 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
14 70 (8.00%) Software Engineering
14 70 (8.00%) User Experience
15 67 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 64 (7.31%) LLM
17 62 (7.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 254 (29.03%) Python
2 167 (19.09%) SQL
3 103 (11.77%) Java
4 42 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.57%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.46%) Bash
7 30 (3.43%) C#
8 28 (3.20%) Kotlin
9 26 (2.97%) Go
10 25 (2.86%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.26%) Google Apps Script
11 11 (1.26%) Ruby
12 7 (0.80%) Scala
13 5 (0.57%) Bicep
13 5 (0.57%) Groovy
13 5 (0.57%) Rust
14 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.46%) VBA
15 3 (0.34%) C++
15 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 141 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 114 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 104 (11.89%) Degree
4 39 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.14%) CISSP
12 7 (0.80%) CCNP
13 5 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.57%) OCP
13 5 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.46%) CCSP
14 4 (0.46%) CSPO
14 4 (0.46%) IBM Certification
14 4 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.57%) GDPR
2 52 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.89%) QA
4 21 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.71%) NIST
7 13 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.03%) NCSC
9 7 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.69%) GRC
11 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.57%) PERC
11 5 (0.57%) WCAG
12 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (12.34%) Docker
2 35 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.57%) NFS
5 5 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.23%) Snort
6 2 (0.23%) Squid
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Varnish
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 185 (21.14%) Terraform
2 161 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.26%) Ansible
4 40 (4.57%) Grafana
5 32 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.74%) Istio
7 14 (1.60%) Argo
8 13 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.14%) SCCM
11 8 (0.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.80%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.69%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.69%) QRadar
14 5 (0.57%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.46%) Nessus
16 3 (0.34%) vCenter Server
17 2 (0.23%) Knative
17 2 (0.23%) Suricata
Vendors
1 131 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.23%) Splunk
3 34 (3.89%) Databricks
4 25 (2.86%) Adobe
5 22 (2.51%) Salesforce
6 21 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.29%) Apple
8 19 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.83%) IBM
10 16 (1.83%) Oracle
11 15 (1.71%) VMware
12 13 (1.49%) Okta
13 12 (1.37%) Foundry
14 11 (1.26%) Citrix
15 10 (1.14%) SAP
16 9 (1.03%) Dynatrace
17 8 (0.91%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.91%) NetApp
17 8 (0.91%) Tealium