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 12 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 1,004 748 706
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 2.70% 2.12%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 5.73% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 433 425
10th Percentile £313 £213 £300
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £492 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -10.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £694 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £535
% change year-on-year +4.17% -10.28% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 59 64
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £31.25
Median hourly rate £34.87 £22.56 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.54% -67.77% +112.12%
75th Percentile £38.44 £41.25 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £55.70 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +52.73% -69.60% +87.79%

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 18,885 13,061 14,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.18% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,889 8,265 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £623 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 631 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -28 529 £503 +0.50% 1,748
North of England -13 207 £500 +7.70% 289
Yorkshire -7 107 £538 +21.20% 78
South East -56 104 £525 +23.53% 203
North West -30 80 £500 - 191
South West -4 72 £550 +48.65% 87
Midlands -35 41 £425 +6.25% 93
West Midlands -35 28 £414 +10.40% 62
North East -22 24 £440 -29.60% 20
East of England -19 23 £510 +3.55% 45
East Midlands -1 13 £625 +64.91% 31
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 38 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.09%) Apache
3 31 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (2.49%) Confluence
5 24 (2.39%) Apache Spark
6 21 (2.09%) CMS
7 9 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Drupal
9 4 (0.40%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.100%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.100%) IIS
11 1 (0.100%) JBoss
11 1 (0.100%) Luigi
11 1 (0.100%) Mendix
11 1 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
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 (0.100%) Maya
8 1 (0.100%) 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 (0.100%) Actimize
5 1 (0.100%) Maximo
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.100%) Primavera
5 1 (0.100%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.100%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.100%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.100%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.100%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.100%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 616 (61.35%) GCP
2 281 (27.99%) Azure
3 279 (27.79%) AWS
4 140 (13.94%) Google Workspace
5 98 (9.76%) GitHub
6 86 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 71 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (6.08%) Google Analytics
9 53 (5.28%) SaaS
10 51 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
10 51 (5.08%) Power Platform
11 47 (4.68%) Google Sheets
12 46 (4.58%) Vertex AI
13 37 (3.69%) Entra ID
14 36 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (3.29%) Google Drive
16 30 (2.99%) dbt
17 28 (2.79%) Snowflake
18 25 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
19 23 (2.29%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.97%) Firewall
2 63 (6.27%) DNS
3 45 (4.48%) VPN
4 26 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.39%) Network Security
6 17 (1.69%) DHCP
7 11 (1.10%) DKIM
7 11 (1.10%) DMARC
7 11 (1.10%) Internet
8 10 (1.00%) BGP
8 10 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.90%) HTTP
9 9 (0.90%) WAN
10 8 (0.80%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.80%) OSPF
10 8 (0.80%) VLAN
11 7 (0.70%) LAN
12 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.60%) SMTP
13 5 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (9.96%) BigQuery
2 58 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (4.38%) Power BI
4 32 (3.19%) Looker
5 31 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.29%) Metadata
7 23 (2.29%) Tableau
8 21 (2.09%) Big Data
9 17 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.69%) MySQL
10 13 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.29%) SQL Server
11 9 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.80%) Flink
12 8 (0.80%) Redis
13 7 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
14 6 (0.60%) Data Vault
14 6 (0.60%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 90 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 66 (6.57%) Git
3 56 (5.58%) JIRA
4 53 (5.28%) GitLab
5 14 (1.39%) JUnit
6 9 (0.90%) Gatling
6 9 (0.90%) Gradle
6 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.70%) IntelliJ
7 7 (0.70%) JMeter
7 7 (0.70%) NeoLoad
8 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
8 6 (0.60%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.60%) MLflow
8 6 (0.60%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.50%) fastlane
9 5 (0.50%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 247 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 183 (18.23%) Finance
3 120 (11.95%) Public Sector
4 119 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (7.47%) Marketing
6 54 (5.38%) Banking
7 47 (4.68%) Retail
8 35 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.69%) Legal
10 27 (2.69%) Publishing
11 25 (2.49%) Advertising
12 21 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.10%) Games
16 10 (1.00%) Aerospace
16 10 (1.00%) Military
17 9 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 138 (13.75%) Architect
2 117 (11.65%) GCP Engineer
3 96 (9.56%) Developer
4 95 (9.46%) Senior
5 87 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 77 (7.67%) Lead
7 72 (7.17%) Analyst
8 67 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.39%) Administrator
11 29 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (2.59%) Network Engineer
13 25 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
14 24 (2.39%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.39%) Support Engineer
15 23 (2.29%) Consultant
15 23 (2.29%) GCP DevOps
15 23 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (2.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 20 (1.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.97%) REST
2 44 (4.38%) Kafka
3 42 (4.18%) React
4 35 (3.49%) Spring
4 35 (3.49%) Spring Boot
5 33 (3.29%) OAuth
6 30 (2.99%) RESTful
7 29 (2.89%) Node.js
8 27 (2.69%) JSON
9 24 (2.39%) HTML
9 24 (2.39%) LangChain
10 22 (2.19%) Android Jetpack
10 22 (2.19%) SAML
11 20 (1.99%) CSS
12 19 (1.89%) Android SDK
12 19 (1.89%) YAML
13 17 (1.69%) Jetpack Compose
13 17 (1.69%) JWT
13 17 (1.69%) LangGraph
14 15 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 164 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.58%) AI Agents
3 42 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 26 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.49%) Virtual Team
9 23 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.19%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.19%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.10%) Clustering
16 10 (1.00%) PKI
17 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.77%) Windows
2 65 (6.47%) Linux
3 39 (3.88%) Android
4 27 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.90%) Unix
8 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) VMS
10 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.100%) CentOS
14 1 (0.100%) SUSE
14 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.100%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (28.59%) CI/CD
2 229 (22.81%) Agile
3 228 (22.71%) DevOps
4 210 (20.92%) AI
5 192 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (17.73%) Analytics
7 146 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (13.55%) Migration
9 120 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 111 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (9.56%) Observability
11 96 (9.56%) Roadmaps
12 90 (8.96%) Machine Learning
13 89 (8.86%) Decision-Making
13 89 (8.86%) Software Engineering
14 88 (8.76%) Cloud Security
14 88 (8.76%) Data Modelling
15 83 (8.27%) Containerisation
15 83 (8.27%) Microservices
16 71 (7.07%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 286 (28.49%) Python
2 173 (17.23%) SQL
3 141 (14.04%) Java
4 87 (8.67%) PowerShell
5 84 (8.37%) Bash
6 47 (4.68%) JavaScript
7 30 (2.99%) Go
7 30 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 21 (2.09%) C#
10 20 (1.99%) Scala
11 16 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.39%) Groovy
13 11 (1.10%) Bicep
14 10 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
14 10 (1.00%) Rust
15 6 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.60%) SOQL
16 5 (0.50%) Ruby
17 4 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 204 (20.32%) Security Cleared
2 166 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.27%) Degree
4 51 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.09%) CISSP
8 30 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.39%) 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
14 7 (0.70%) CISM
14 7 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.60%) PhD
16 5 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.28%) QA
3 42 (4.18%) GDPR
4 21 (2.09%) NIST
5 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.29%) WCAG
8 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.80%) NCSC
9 8 (0.80%) PMO
10 6 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
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
1 114 (11.35%) Docker
2 53 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.40%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.30%) NFS
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.30%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.100%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.100%) Varnish
10 1 (0.100%) zsh
Systems Management
1 209 (20.82%) Terraform
2 187 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.98%) Ansible
4 35 (3.49%) Grafana
5 31 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.00%) Puppet
11 8 (0.80%) Istio
12 7 (0.70%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.60%) Podman
14 5 (0.50%) SCCM
14 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 4 (0.40%) vMotion
16 3 (0.30%) Argo
16 3 (0.30%) Nagios
16 3 (0.30%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 185 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.39%) Oracle
3 28 (2.79%) Adobe
4 27 (2.69%) Databricks
4 27 (2.69%) OpenAI
5 26 (2.59%) Splunk
6 25 (2.49%) Dynatrace
7 24 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.19%) TikTok
9 19 (1.89%) IBM
10 17 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.59%) Apple
11 16 (1.59%) Okta
12 15 (1.49%) SAP
13 14 (1.39%) VMware
14 12 (1.20%) Cisco
14 12 (1.20%) Informatica
14 12 (1.20%) Tealium
15 11 (1.10%) MuleSoft