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 24 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 97 106
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Google 998 748 739
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 2.70% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 5.26% 5.71% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 428 444
10th Percentile £313 £213 £301
25th Percentile £413 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% -10.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £694 £700 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 57 61
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.50
25th Percentile £18.56 £16.95 £33.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £21.28 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.85% -69.60% +87.79%
75th Percentile £39.28 £38.75 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £54.50 -
UK median hourly rate £28.54 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +34.09% -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 18,975 13,093 14,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.19% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,908 8,281 9,130
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £615 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £715 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,033 643 696
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.24%
75th Percentile £65.58 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -10.18% -34.12%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -24 519 £510 +2.00% 287
North of England -17 203 £500 +8.11% 108
South East -53 108 £525 +31.25% 153
Yorkshire -3 103 £538 +26.47% 38
North West -31 80 £475 -17.39% 63
South West -6 68 £550 +33.33% 94
Midlands -34 42 £425 +6.25% 46
West Midlands -40 29 £414 +0.98% 24
East of England -25 23 £510 +3.55% 25
North East -21 22 £445 -28.80% 7
East Midlands -5 13 £625 +64.91% 22
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 48 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (2.81%) Apache
4 28 (2.81%) Confluence
5 22 (2.20%) Apache Spark
5 22 (2.20%) CMS
6 9 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.40%) Drupal
8 4 (0.40%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Luigi
10 1 (0.10%) Mendix
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.40%) InDesign
7 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.10%) Maya
8 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Shopify
2 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.40%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) iTrent
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Actimize
5 1 (0.10%) Maximo
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.10%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 623 (62.42%) GCP
2 296 (29.66%) Azure
3 295 (29.56%) AWS
4 132 (13.23%) Google Workspace
5 96 (9.62%) GitHub
6 79 (7.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 74 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (6.21%) Google Analytics
9 57 (5.71%) SaaS
10 53 (5.31%) Power Platform
11 51 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (4.71%) Google Sheets
13 42 (4.21%) Vertex AI
14 40 (4.01%) Entra ID
15 38 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
16 36 (3.61%) dbt
17 32 (3.21%) Google Drive
18 31 (3.11%) Snowflake
19 25 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
20 23 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.11%) Firewall
2 59 (5.91%) DNS
3 44 (4.41%) VPN
4 26 (2.61%) Network Security
4 26 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.70%) DHCP
6 12 (1.20%) BGP
7 11 (1.10%) DKIM
7 11 (1.10%) DMARC
7 11 (1.10%) Internet
7 11 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.00%) HTTP
9 9 (0.90%) WAN
10 8 (0.80%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.80%) LAN
10 8 (0.80%) OSPF
10 8 (0.80%) VLAN
11 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.60%) SMTP
12 5 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (10.22%) BigQuery
2 60 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.71%) Power BI
4 32 (3.21%) Looker
5 30 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.61%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.40%) Metadata
7 24 (2.40%) Tableau
8 23 (2.30%) Big Data
9 18 (1.80%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.60%) MySQL
11 15 (1.50%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.20%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.80%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.80%) Flink
14 8 (0.80%) Redis
15 7 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
16 6 (0.60%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 65 (6.51%) Git
3 60 (6.01%) JIRA
4 57 (5.71%) GitLab
5 14 (1.40%) JUnit
6 9 (0.90%) Gradle
6 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.90%) Zephyr
7 8 (0.80%) Gatling
8 7 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.70%) JMeter
8 7 (0.70%) NeoLoad
9 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.60%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.60%) MLflow
10 5 (0.50%) fastlane
10 5 (0.50%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 250 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 184 (18.44%) Finance
3 124 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 73 (7.31%) Marketing
6 51 (5.11%) Banking
7 45 (4.51%) Retail
8 33 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.71%) Legal
11 26 (2.61%) Publishing
12 24 (2.40%) Advertising
13 22 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.10%) Games
16 11 (1.10%) Military
17 10 (1.00%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.00%) Billing
18 8 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 156 (15.63%) Architect
2 109 (10.92%) GCP Engineer
3 94 (9.42%) Developer
4 93 (9.32%) Senior
5 83 (8.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 74 (7.41%) Analyst
7 72 (7.21%) Lead
8 63 (6.31%) Data Engineer
9 50 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.41%) Administrator
11 29 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (2.81%) Network Engineer
13 25 (2.51%) Support Engineer
14 22 (2.20%) Consultant
14 22 (2.20%) GCP DevOps
14 22 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.10%) Security Architect
16 19 (1.90%) Java Developer
16 19 (1.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.14%) Terraform
2 70 (7.01%) REST
3 45 (4.51%) Kafka
4 42 (4.21%) React
5 36 (3.61%) OAuth
6 34 (3.41%) Spring
6 34 (3.41%) Spring Boot
7 30 (3.01%) JSON
7 30 (3.01%) RESTful
8 29 (2.91%) Node.js
9 25 (2.51%) SAML
10 24 (2.40%) HTML
11 20 (2.00%) Android Jetpack
11 20 (2.00%) CSS
11 20 (2.00%) JWT
11 20 (2.00%) LangChain
12 19 (1.90%) YAML
13 18 (1.80%) LangGraph
13 18 (1.80%) Middleware
14 17 (1.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 163 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.61%) AI Agents
3 42 (4.21%) Onboarding
3 42 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 24 (2.40%) Security Posture
7 23 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.30%) CMDB
11 13 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
12 12 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 12 (1.20%) PKI
13 11 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (7.31%) Windows
2 66 (6.61%) Linux
3 37 (3.71%) Android
4 26 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.90%) Unix
8 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.50%) VMS
11 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.30%) CentOS
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.10%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (28.76%) CI/CD
2 228 (22.85%) DevOps
3 226 (22.65%) Agile
4 208 (20.84%) AI
5 194 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 180 (18.04%) Analytics
7 140 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (13.63%) Migration
9 131 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 108 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (9.82%) Roadmaps
12 92 (9.22%) Machine Learning
12 92 (9.22%) Software Engineering
13 91 (9.12%) Containerisation
13 91 (9.12%) Observability
14 90 (9.02%) Cloud Security
15 88 (8.82%) Data Modelling
16 87 (8.72%) Decision-Making
17 85 (8.52%) Microservices
18 76 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 287 (28.76%) Python
2 172 (17.23%) SQL
3 138 (13.83%) Java
4 86 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 84 (8.42%) Bash
6 47 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.21%) Go
8 29 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.10%) Scala
11 20 (2.00%) C#
12 19 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.20%) Bicep
13 12 (1.20%) Groovy
14 9 (0.90%) Rust
15 8 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.60%) R
16 6 (0.60%) SOQL
17 4 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 216 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 170 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.62%) Degree
4 52 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.91%) CISSP
9 26 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.00%) CCNP
13 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.70%) CISM
16 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.51%) QA
3 41 (4.11%) GDPR
4 21 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.10%) NIST
5 19 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.30%) WCAG
7 8 (0.80%) NCSC
7 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.80%) PMO
8 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.60%) GRC
10 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.40%) PERC
10 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.40%) SLA
11 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 117 (11.72%) Docker
2 57 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
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%) Firmware
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.10%) Varnish
10 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 190 (19.04%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.41%) Ansible
3 35 (3.51%) Grafana
4 31 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 20 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.10%) Puppet
8 10 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.80%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.50%) Podman
11 5 (0.50%) SCCM
11 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.40%) Argo
12 4 (0.40%) Cilium
12 4 (0.40%) vMotion
13 3 (0.30%) CASB
13 3 (0.30%) Nagios
14 2 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 199 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.21%) Oracle
3 31 (3.11%) Adobe
4 30 (3.01%) Databricks
5 28 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.61%) Splunk
7 25 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 24 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.20%) TikTok
10 20 (2.00%) IBM
10 20 (2.00%) Red Hat
10 20 (2.00%) SAP
11 17 (1.70%) VMware
12 16 (1.60%) Apple
12 16 (1.60%) Okta
13 14 (1.40%) Cisco
13 14 (1.40%) Informatica
14 12 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.20%) Tealium