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 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 118 137
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -27
Contract jobs citing Google 849 581 652
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.31% 1.73%
As % of the Vendors category 5.28% 4.94% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 335 437
10th Percentile £263 £258 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 47 51
10th Percentile £18.57 £24.47 £11.25
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £33.17 £46.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% +78.08% -49.51%
75th Percentile £38.58 £61.13 £37.50
90th Percentile £50.45 £63.45 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £44.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.49% +71.73% -49.51%

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 16,088 11,755 16,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.74% 46.70% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,497 7,355 10,370
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £705 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 373 905
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.28
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +24.02% -27.79%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £29.54 £25.25
% change year-on-year -16.88% +16.97% -27.86%

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 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 4 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 4 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 -15 420 £525 -4.55% 210
North of England -4 166 £500 -9.09% 155
Yorkshire -12 95 £500 -9.09% 60
South East -13 82 £322 -35.60% 204
Midlands 0 80 £525 +21.25% 90
North West -16 62 £544 -13.00% 78
South West +2 55 £525 -12.50% 87
West Midlands -21 45 £494 -14.13% 37
East Midlands -1 35 £550 +54.49% 50
East of England -19 34 £625 +47.06% 89
North East -12 11 £475 +43.94% 17
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 33 (3.89%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.42%) Apache
3 22 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.00%) Confluence
5 16 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.30%) CMS
7 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Drupal
9 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
8 2 (0.24%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 531 (62.54%) GCP
2 288 (33.92%) Azure
3 257 (30.27%) AWS
4 143 (16.84%) Google Workspace
5 102 (12.01%) GitHub
6 86 (10.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 77 (9.07%) Power Platform
8 47 (5.54%) Google Analytics
9 41 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (4.48%) Cloud Run
10 38 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (4.24%) Google Sheets
12 33 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
12 33 (3.89%) Serverless
13 31 (3.65%) SaaS
14 30 (3.53%) Entra ID
14 30 (3.53%) Vertex AI
15 29 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.30%) Google Gemini
17 24 (2.83%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.18%) Firewall
2 26 (3.06%) Network Security
3 22 (2.59%) DNS
3 22 (2.59%) VPN
4 11 (1.30%) VoIP
5 10 (1.18%) Internet
6 7 (0.82%) DHCP
6 7 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.59%) SAN
7 5 (0.59%) Wireless
8 4 (0.47%) BGP
8 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 3 (0.35%) LAN
9 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.24%) Intranet
10 2 (0.24%) OSPF
10 2 (0.24%) SMTP
11 1 (0.12%) Extranet
11 1 (0.12%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.96%) BigQuery
2 67 (7.89%) Power BI
3 34 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.89%) Tableau
5 31 (3.65%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.59%) Mixpanel
7 21 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.36%) Looker
9 18 (2.12%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.12%) OLAP
10 16 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.88%) MySQL
11 15 (1.77%) OLTP
12 14 (1.65%) Metadata
13 13 (1.53%) Big Data
14 9 (1.06%) Redis
15 8 (0.94%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.13%) Jenkins
2 70 (8.24%) Git
3 45 (5.30%) GitLab
4 44 (5.18%) JIRA
5 7 (0.82%) JUnit
6 6 (0.71%) Liquibase
6 6 (0.71%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.59%) Mockito
7 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.47%) Gradle
8 4 (0.47%) Postman
9 3 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.35%) Gatling
General
1 308 (36.28%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.43%) Finance
3 111 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.31%) Banking
5 68 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 53 (6.24%) Marketing
7 49 (5.77%) Retail
8 22 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (2.47%) Advertising
10 20 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 17 (2.00%) Legal
12 16 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.77%) Publishing
14 13 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.06%) Military
17 9 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (11.54%) Senior
2 96 (11.31%) GCP Engineer
3 90 (10.60%) Architect
4 78 (9.19%) Analyst
5 73 (8.60%) Lead
6 71 (8.36%) Developer
7 66 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (5.54%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.00%) Consultant
11 29 (3.42%) Software Engineer
12 27 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.06%) GCP DevOps
13 26 (3.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.83%) Security Engineer
15 23 (2.71%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (2.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 22 (2.59%) Android Developer
17 21 (2.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.60%) REST
2 40 (4.71%) PyTorch
2 40 (4.71%) RESTful
3 38 (4.48%) React
4 37 (4.36%) Kafka
5 32 (3.77%) HTML
5 32 (3.77%) Spring
6 31 (3.65%) scikit-learn
7 30 (3.53%) LangChain
7 30 (3.53%) Node.js
7 30 (3.53%) TensorFlow
8 26 (3.06%) CSS
9 25 (2.94%) Spring Boot
10 23 (2.71%) OAuth
11 22 (2.59%) AngularJS
12 21 (2.47%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.47%) LangGraph
13 20 (2.36%) Android Jetpack
13 20 (2.36%) Jetpack Compose
14 18 (2.12%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.18%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.36%) Life Science
8 18 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.00%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.65%) Genomics
10 14 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.18%) Smartphone
14 9 (1.06%) Clustering
14 9 (1.06%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.60%) Windows
2 53 (6.24%) Linux
3 52 (6.12%) Android
4 30 (3.53%) Mac OS
5 29 (3.42%) Apple iOS
6 17 (2.00%) VMS
7 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.59%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (28.03%) CI/CD
2 232 (27.33%) DevOps
3 184 (21.67%) AI
4 164 (19.32%) Analytics
5 159 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (18.37%) Agile
7 145 (17.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (12.60%) Containerisation
9 103 (12.13%) Migration
10 102 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (11.78%) Machine Learning
12 92 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (10.01%) Microservices
14 82 (9.66%) Observability
15 77 (9.07%) User Experience
16 71 (8.36%) Change Management
16 71 (8.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 69 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
18 66 (7.77%) Software Engineering
19 65 (7.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 258 (30.39%) Python
2 154 (18.14%) SQL
3 98 (11.54%) Java
4 44 (5.18%) JavaScript
4 44 (5.18%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.95%) Bash
6 31 (3.65%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.18%) C#
7 27 (3.18%) Go
7 27 (3.18%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.30%) Ruby
9 10 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
10 8 (0.94%) VBA
11 5 (0.59%) Bicep
11 5 (0.59%) Groovy
11 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.59%) Scala
11 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 106 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 101 (11.90%) Degree
4 36 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.41%) CISSP
11 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.94%) OCP
13 8 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.59%) CCNP
15 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.47%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.07%) GDPR
2 45 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.77%) QA
4 18 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.18%) NIST
8 9 (1.06%) NCSC
9 8 (0.94%) GRC
10 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) PERC
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 122 (14.37%) Docker
2 35 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) NFS
5 5 (0.59%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.35%) Snort
6 3 (0.35%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 178 (20.97%) Terraform
2 168 (19.79%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.89%) Ansible
4 37 (4.36%) Grafana
5 29 (3.42%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.06%) Istio
7 15 (1.77%) Argo
8 13 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.41%) SCCM
10 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.82%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.71%) QRadar
14 5 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.59%) Nessus
14 5 (0.59%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.47%) logstash
16 3 (0.35%) Nexpose
16 3 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 126 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.83%) Splunk
3 30 (3.53%) Databricks
4 24 (2.83%) Adobe
4 24 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.47%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.36%) Apple
7 18 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.00%) VMware
9 16 (1.88%) Oracle
9 16 (1.88%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.77%) IBM
11 13 (1.53%) Okta
11 13 (1.53%) SAP
12 11 (1.30%) Foundry
13 9 (1.06%) Amplitude
13 9 (1.06%) Citrix
13 9 (1.06%) Hotjar
13 9 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.94%) Optimizely