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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 104 126
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Google 862 613 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 2.51% 1.86%
As % of the Vendors category 5.12% 5.30% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 364 444
10th Percentile £286 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 59 59
10th Percentile £19.17 £16.95 £11.25
25th Percentile £22.67 £22.72 £20.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -35.00%
75th Percentile £35.75 £51.22 £62.25
90th Percentile £48.73 £62.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year +12.51% +21.36% -43.17%

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 16,833 11,576 15,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.78% 47.48% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,956 7,462 9,877
10th Percentile £313 £288 £262
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £713 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 468 1,003
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -48.70%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -11 437 £525 - 271
North of England -14 154 £500 - 97
Yorkshire -12 81 £500 +8.11% 27
South East -54 80 £505 -0.59% 90
South West -4 65 £550 +10.00% 23
North West -20 63 £550 -8.33% 63
Midlands -32 63 £537 +34.25% 52
East of England -14 41 £570 +40.74% 33
East Midlands -5 36 £550 +40.66% 25
West Midlands -49 27 £475 +13.10% 27
North East -10 13 £475 - 8
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 35 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.90%) Apache
5 21 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.74%) Confluence
7 8 (0.93%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Drupal
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.28%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.46%) Trello
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Sprinklr
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Actimize
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 526 (61.02%) GCP
2 268 (31.09%) Azure
3 228 (26.45%) AWS
4 167 (19.37%) Google Workspace
5 87 (10.09%) GitHub
6 83 (9.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 69 (8.00%) Power Platform
8 63 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
9 49 (5.68%) Google Analytics
9 49 (5.68%) Google Sheets
10 46 (5.34%) SaaS
11 41 (4.76%) Vertex AI
12 37 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
14 28 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.13%) Slack
16 26 (3.02%) Amazon S3
16 26 (3.02%) Google Drive
17 25 (2.90%) Cloud Run
17 25 (2.90%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.80%) Firewall
2 39 (4.52%) DNS
3 32 (3.71%) VPN
4 20 (2.32%) Network Security
5 14 (1.62%) VoIP
6 9 (1.04%) DKIM
6 9 (1.04%) DMARC
6 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.81%) DHCP
7 7 (0.81%) Internet
8 6 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.58%) BGP
9 5 (0.58%) SAN
10 4 (0.46%) OSPF
10 4 (0.46%) Wireless
11 3 (0.35%) HTTP
11 3 (0.35%) IPv4
11 3 (0.35%) IPv6
11 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.65%) BigQuery
2 59 (6.84%) Power BI
3 37 (4.29%) Tableau
4 28 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 21 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 20 (2.32%) Looker
7 19 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.09%) Metadata
8 18 (2.09%) OLAP
9 16 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.86%) Mixpanel
9 16 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.74%) OLTP
11 12 (1.39%) Big Data
12 11 (1.28%) MySQL
13 9 (1.04%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.70%) Redis
14 6 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (8.58%) Jenkins
2 52 (6.03%) Git
3 49 (5.68%) JIRA
4 35 (4.06%) GitLab
5 15 (1.74%) JUnit
6 9 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.81%) IntelliJ
8 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.58%) Selenium
9 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.46%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.46%) Gatling
9 4 (0.46%) Postman
10 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.35%) ERwin
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 259 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 159 (18.45%) Finance
3 113 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 70 (8.12%) Marketing
6 65 (7.54%) Banking
7 46 (5.34%) Retail
8 32 (3.71%) Legal
9 24 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (2.20%) Advertising
11 17 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.97%) Publishing
12 16 (1.86%) Military
13 15 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 108 (12.53%) GCP Engineer
2 92 (10.67%) Architect
3 85 (9.86%) Analyst
3 85 (9.86%) Senior
4 83 (9.63%) Lead
5 71 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (6.61%) Data Engineer
7 52 (6.03%) Developer
8 36 (4.18%) Administrator
9 28 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
10 27 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (3.02%) Consultant
12 23 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 23 (2.67%) Network Engineer
12 23 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.55%) Software Engineer
14 21 (2.44%) GCP DevOps
14 21 (2.44%) Security Engineer
15 19 (2.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 19 (2.20%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.76%) REST
2 38 (4.41%) Kafka
3 35 (4.06%) PyTorch
4 33 (3.83%) React
5 30 (3.48%) LangChain
5 30 (3.48%) Spring
6 29 (3.36%) Spring Boot
7 28 (3.25%) OAuth
8 26 (3.02%) scikit-learn
9 25 (2.90%) TensorFlow
10 22 (2.55%) Node.js
11 20 (2.32%) HTML
12 19 (2.20%) Pandas
13 18 (2.09%) AngularJS
14 17 (1.97%) RESTful
15 16 (1.86%) CSS
15 16 (1.86%) Great Expectations
16 15 (1.74%) NumPy
16 15 (1.74%) OpenID
17 14 (1.62%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.29%) Public Cloud
3 32 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 21 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.51%) Clustering
11 13 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
12 12 (1.39%) Smartphone
13 10 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.16%) Social Media
14 9 (1.04%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.04%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.45%) Windows
2 42 (4.87%) Android
3 31 (3.60%) Linux
4 29 (3.36%) Mac OS
5 26 (3.02%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.86%) VMS
7 9 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.70%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.58%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.58%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Unix
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (25.52%) CI/CD
2 195 (22.62%) DevOps
3 178 (20.65%) AI
4 171 (19.84%) Analytics
5 149 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 137 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 130 (15.08%) Migration
8 126 (14.62%) Agile
9 93 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (10.67%) Observability
11 90 (10.44%) Machine Learning
11 90 (10.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 75 (8.70%) Software Engineering
13 69 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
13 69 (8.00%) Decision-Making
14 64 (7.42%) Change Management
15 63 (7.31%) Containerisation
15 63 (7.31%) Microservices
16 61 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 61 (7.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 220 (25.52%) Python
2 157 (18.21%) SQL
3 95 (11.02%) Java
4 45 (5.22%) PowerShell
5 40 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.52%) Bash
7 28 (3.25%) C#
8 25 (2.90%) Kotlin
9 19 (2.20%) Go
9 19 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.16%) Scala
11 9 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.81%) Groovy
13 6 (0.70%) Rust
14 5 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.46%) Bicep
15 4 (0.46%) C++
15 4 (0.46%) Ruby
16 3 (0.35%) LookML
16 3 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 151 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.70%) Degree
4 23 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.93%) CISSP
11 6 (0.70%) CCNP
12 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.58%) OCP
12 5 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.46%) CSPO
13 4 (0.46%) IBM Certification
13 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.35%) GDPR
2 52 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.41%) QA
4 18 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.62%) NIST
7 11 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.70%) PERC
8 6 (0.70%) WCAG
9 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.46%) GRC
10 4 (0.46%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.35%) SLA
11 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (9.28%) Docker
2 44 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.58%) NFS
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Snort
7 1 (0.12%) Squid
7 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) Varnish
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (20.88%) Terraform
2 143 (16.59%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.94%) Ansible
4 28 (3.25%) Grafana
5 21 (2.44%) Istio
5 21 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.16%) SCCM
8 9 (1.04%) Argo
8 9 (1.04%) Kubeflow
9 8 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.58%) Podman
11 5 (0.58%) SnapMirror
12 3 (0.35%) Nessus
13 2 (0.23%) logstash
13 2 (0.23%) OpenVAS
13 2 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 128 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.48%) Databricks
3 22 (2.55%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.55%) ServiceNow
4 21 (2.44%) Adobe
4 21 (2.44%) Oracle
5 19 (2.20%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.09%) Apple
7 17 (1.97%) Splunk
8 15 (1.74%) IBM
9 14 (1.62%) VMware
10 12 (1.39%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.16%) Citrix
11 10 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.16%) Foundry
12 9 (1.04%) Checkmarx
12 9 (1.04%) Okta
13 8 (0.93%) NetApp
13 8 (0.93%) Tealium
13 8 (0.93%) TikTok