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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 94 107
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing Google 957 739 783
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 2.71% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 5.19% 5.72% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 416 473
10th Percentile £306 £205 £304
25th Percentile £413 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £613 £675
90th Percentile £691 £703 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 65 78
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £11.44
25th Percentile £24.92 £16.95 £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.96% -41.29% +6.19%
75th Percentile £39.28 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £56.60 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £38.75
% change year-on-year +43.96% -36.36% -2.15%

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 18,448 12,925 15,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.00% 47.48% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,179 9,924
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 611 946
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.78
25th Percentile £19.93 £17.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -30.67%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.86 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.61% -3.27% -36.65%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -20 502 £510 +1.44% 287
North of England -25 188 £500 +6.84% 81
Yorkshire -13 98 £520 +17.25% 15
South East -65 86 £537 +22.74% 89
North West -41 73 £500 -13.04% 59
South West -2 69 £550 +48.65% 20
Midlands -25 58 £492 +23.00% 30
West Midlands -44 35 £438 +9.38% 18
East of England -18 26 £510 +5.15% 17
East Midlands +3 23 £550 +39.06% 12
North East -16 21 £445 -28.80% 7
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 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.45%) Apache
3 31 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (2.93%) Apache Spark
6 20 (2.09%) Confluence
7 14 (1.46%) CMS
8 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.31%) Drupal
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Luigi
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.63%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.42%) InDesign
8 4 (0.42%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.21%) Maya
11 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Actimize
4 1 (0.10%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.10%) iTrent
4 1 (0.10%) Maximo
4 1 (0.10%) Primavera
4 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.10%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 569 (59.46%) GCP
2 262 (27.38%) Azure
3 261 (27.27%) AWS
4 168 (17.55%) Google Workspace
5 87 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 85 (8.88%) GitHub
7 76 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (5.64%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.33%) Google Sheets
9 51 (5.33%) SaaS
10 46 (4.81%) Google Analytics
11 44 (4.60%) Vertex AI
12 41 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
13 36 (3.76%) Entra ID
14 34 (3.55%) Google Drive
15 28 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (2.61%) Slack
18 24 (2.51%) Serverless
18 24 (2.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 65 (6.79%) Firewall
2 64 (6.69%) DNS
3 46 (4.81%) VPN
4 27 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 21 (2.19%) Network Security
6 18 (1.88%) DHCP
7 11 (1.15%) DKIM
7 11 (1.15%) DMARC
8 9 (0.94%) BGP
9 8 (0.84%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.84%) Internet
9 8 (0.84%) VLAN
10 7 (0.73%) OSPF
10 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.63%) LAN
11 6 (0.63%) SMTP
11 6 (0.63%) VoIP
12 5 (0.52%) HTTP
12 5 (0.52%) SAN
12 5 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.93%) BigQuery
2 48 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (4.70%) Power BI
4 30 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.61%) Tableau
6 22 (2.30%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.30%) Looker
7 20 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.99%) Metadata
8 19 (1.99%) MySQL
9 18 (1.88%) Big Data
9 18 (1.88%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.15%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (0.94%) Mixpanel
11 9 (0.94%) OLAP
11 9 (0.94%) OLTP
12 8 (0.84%) Redis
13 7 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
14 6 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 80 (8.36%) Jenkins
2 59 (6.17%) Git
3 53 (5.54%) JIRA
4 44 (4.60%) GitLab
5 16 (1.67%) JUnit
6 9 (0.94%) Gradle
6 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.63%) Android Studio
8 6 (0.63%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.63%) MLflow
9 5 (0.52%) fastlane
9 5 (0.52%) Gatling
10 4 (0.42%) JMeter
10 4 (0.42%) Maven
11 3 (0.31%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.31%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.31%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) webpack
11 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 244 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 181 (18.91%) Finance
3 115 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 107 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (7.31%) Marketing
6 58 (6.06%) Banking
7 45 (4.70%) Retail
8 34 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.24%) Legal
10 27 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.09%) Publishing
12 19 (1.99%) Advertising
13 14 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.36%) Military
15 12 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.94%) Games
16 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.73%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 115 (12.02%) Architect
2 108 (11.29%) GCP Engineer
3 89 (9.30%) Developer
4 86 (8.99%) Senior
5 80 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 79 (8.25%) Lead
7 75 (7.84%) Analyst
8 62 (6.48%) Data Engineer
9 34 (3.55%) Administrator
10 33 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (2.72%) GCP DevOps
12 26 (2.72%) Network Engineer
13 23 (2.40%) Cloud Architect
13 23 (2.40%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.30%) Consultant
15 21 (2.19%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.19%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (2.19%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.90%) REST
2 41 (4.28%) Kafka
3 40 (4.18%) React
4 39 (4.08%) Spring
4 39 (4.08%) Spring Boot
5 27 (2.82%) Node.js
5 27 (2.82%) OAuth
6 23 (2.40%) Android Jetpack
7 22 (2.30%) RESTful
8 21 (2.19%) Android SDK
9 20 (2.09%) HTML
10 19 (1.99%) PyTorch
11 18 (1.88%) Jetpack Compose
11 18 (1.88%) LangChain
11 18 (1.88%) SAML
11 18 (1.88%) YAML
12 16 (1.67%) CSS
13 15 (1.57%) JSON
14 13 (1.36%) Apache Beam
15 12 (1.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 140 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.18%) AI Agents
3 37 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 28 (2.93%) Virtual Team
9 27 (2.82%) Mobile App
10 25 (2.61%) Security Posture
11 23 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.46%) Clustering
14 14 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
16 12 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 12 (1.25%) Private Cloud
17 10 (1.04%) Data Structures
18 8 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 64 (6.69%) Windows
2 60 (6.27%) Linux
3 46 (4.81%) Android
4 26 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.25%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.94%) Unix
8 9 (0.94%) VMS
9 6 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.10%) CentOS
12 1 (0.10%) SUSE
12 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (26.96%) CI/CD
2 209 (21.84%) DevOps
3 199 (20.79%) Agile
4 195 (20.38%) AI
5 168 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 162 (16.93%) Analytics
7 147 (15.36%) Migration
7 147 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (9.82%) Observability
10 88 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (9.20%) Roadmaps
11 87 (9.09%) Machine Learning
12 84 (8.78%) Software Engineering
13 82 (8.57%) Cloud Security
13 82 (8.57%) Decision-Making
14 75 (7.84%) Data Modelling
15 74 (7.73%) Microservices
16 68 (7.11%) Containerisation
17 62 (6.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 261 (27.27%) Python
2 178 (18.60%) SQL
3 142 (14.84%) Java
4 79 (8.25%) PowerShell
5 71 (7.42%) Bash
6 38 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 33 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 30 (3.13%) Go
9 23 (2.40%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.30%) C#
11 14 (1.46%) Scala
12 13 (1.36%) Groovy
13 12 (1.25%) Google Apps Script
13 12 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.04%) Bicep
14 10 (1.04%) Rust
15 6 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.63%) SOQL
16 5 (0.52%) R
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 180 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 149 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 90 (9.40%) Degree
4 44 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 29 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.82%) CISSP
10 16 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.94%) CCNP
13 8 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.63%) CISM
15 6 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.52%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.22%) GDPR
2 47 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.97%) QA
4 21 (2.19%) NIST
5 18 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.25%) WCAG
8 11 (1.15%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.73%) NCSC
10 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.63%) PMO
11 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.42%) PERC
11 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.31%) GRC
12 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) SLA
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 92 (9.61%) Docker
2 52 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.52%) NFS
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.52%) vSphere
7 4 (0.42%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.10%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 202 (21.11%) Terraform
2 160 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.55%) Grafana
4 32 (3.34%) Ansible
5 27 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.15%) Istio
10 9 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.94%) Puppet
11 7 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.63%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.63%) Podman
13 5 (0.52%) SCCM
13 5 (0.52%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.42%) vMotion
15 3 (0.31%) Argo
15 3 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 167 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.72%) Oracle
3 25 (2.61%) Databricks
3 25 (2.61%) Splunk
4 24 (2.51%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.30%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.09%) Adobe
6 20 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 19 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.78%) Okta
9 17 (1.78%) TikTok
10 16 (1.67%) Apple
10 16 (1.67%) VMware
11 14 (1.46%) IBM
12 12 (1.25%) SAP
13 10 (1.04%) Cisco
14 9 (0.94%) Checkmarx
14 9 (0.94%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.94%) Infoblox