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 5 September 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
5 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 97 105
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 1,000 725 729
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 2.65% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 5.24% 5.61% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 409 439
10th Percentile £321 £227 £304
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £688
90th Percentile £688 £689 £764
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 49 60
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.45 £25.91
25th Percentile £16.68 £16.95 £34.50
Median hourly rate £33.37 £21.28 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.79% -69.60% +105.88%
75th Percentile £40.31 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.74 -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £20.89 £70.00
% change year-on-year +34.04% -70.16% +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 19,086 12,919 14,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.16% 44.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,939 8,193 8,886
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 £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £712 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 611 627
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.67 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -23.79% -21.05%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.31 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -32 521 £503 +0.50% 1,688
North of England -29 200 £500 +11.11% 163
South East -42 105 £525 +61.54% 180
Yorkshire -11 102 £538 +27.98% 41
North West -44 77 £475 -5.00% 110
South West +6 70 £550 +22.22% 200
Midlands -38 46 £445 +11.25% 78
West Midlands -38 31 £425 +1.19% 43
East of England -19 23 £510 +2.00% 48
North East -21 22 £445 -28.80% 13
East Midlands -10 15 £625 +66.67% 35
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 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (3.20%) Apache
4 31 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (3.00%) Confluence
6 23 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 23 (2.30%) CMS
7 9 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (0.50%) WordPress
10 4 (0.40%) Drupal
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) nginx
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) Mendix
12 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.30%) InDesign
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
3 3 (0.30%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.30%) iTrent
3 3 (0.30%) Sprinklr
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 624 (62.40%) GCP
2 304 (30.40%) Azure
3 299 (29.90%) AWS
4 131 (13.10%) Google Workspace
5 94 (9.40%) GitHub
6 81 (8.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 70 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (6.00%) Google Analytics
9 55 (5.50%) SaaS
10 52 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (5.20%) Power Platform
11 45 (4.50%) Google Sheets
12 43 (4.30%) Vertex AI
13 41 (4.10%) dbt
13 41 (4.10%) Entra ID
14 39 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (3.20%) Google Drive
16 31 (3.10%) Snowflake
17 25 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.50%) Firewall
2 54 (5.40%) DNS
3 35 (3.50%) VPN
4 25 (2.50%) Network Security
5 22 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.70%) DHCP
7 12 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.10%) DKIM
8 11 (1.10%) DMARC
9 10 (1.00%) Internet
10 9 (0.90%) HTTP
10 9 (0.90%) WAN
11 8 (0.80%) DNSSEC
11 8 (0.80%) LAN
11 8 (0.80%) VLAN
12 7 (0.70%) BGP
12 7 (0.70%) VoIP
13 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.50%) SMTP
15 4 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (10.80%) BigQuery
2 62 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (4.50%) Power BI
4 33 (3.30%) Looker
4 33 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (2.90%) Metadata
6 26 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.40%) Big Data
7 24 (2.40%) Tableau
8 17 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.70%) MySQL
8 17 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.80%) Flink
12 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.70%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.70%) InterSystems Cache
12 7 (0.70%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (8.80%) Jenkins
2 70 (7.00%) Git
3 62 (6.20%) JIRA
4 58 (5.80%) GitLab
5 16 (1.60%) JUnit
6 13 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.10%) Gradle
8 9 (0.90%) Zephyr
9 8 (0.80%) Gatling
10 7 (0.70%) IntelliJ
10 7 (0.70%) JMeter
10 7 (0.70%) NeoLoad
10 7 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.60%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.60%) Maven
11 6 (0.60%) MLflow
12 5 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.50%) fastlane
12 5 (0.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 255 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 184 (18.40%) Finance
3 126 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.50%) Marketing
6 52 (5.20%) Banking
7 44 (4.40%) Retail
8 33 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.80%) Legal
11 26 (2.60%) Publishing
12 22 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.00%) Advertising
14 15 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.20%) Games
16 12 (1.20%) Military
17 11 (1.10%) Billing
18 10 (1.00%) Aerospace
18 10 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 159 (15.90%) Architect
2 104 (10.40%) GCP Engineer
3 97 (9.70%) Developer
4 95 (9.50%) Senior
5 83 (8.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (7.30%) Analyst
6 73 (7.30%) Lead
7 69 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 48 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.70%) Administrator
10 27 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.50%) Support Engineer
13 23 (2.30%) Security Architect
14 22 (2.20%) GCP DevOps
14 22 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (1.90%) Data Architect
15 19 (1.90%) GCP Architect
15 19 (1.90%) Network Engineer
15 19 (1.90%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (20.10%) Terraform
2 71 (7.10%) REST
3 46 (4.60%) Kafka
4 42 (4.20%) React
5 36 (3.60%) OAuth
6 35 (3.50%) Spring
6 35 (3.50%) Spring Boot
7 32 (3.20%) JSON
8 31 (3.10%) Node.js
9 30 (3.00%) RESTful
10 25 (2.50%) HTML
10 25 (2.50%) SAML
11 21 (2.10%) CSS
11 21 (2.10%) JWT
12 20 (2.00%) Android Jetpack
12 20 (2.00%) LangChain
12 20 (2.00%) Middleware
13 19 (1.90%) YAML
14 18 (1.80%) LangGraph
14 18 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (17.10%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.60%) AI Agents
3 45 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 40 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.60%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.40%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 22 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 22 (2.20%) Virtual Team
10 20 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.30%) CMDB
12 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 13 (1.30%) PKI
13 12 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 12 (1.20%) Replication
14 11 (1.10%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.70%) Windows
2 69 (6.90%) Linux
3 37 (3.70%) Android
4 25 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.20%) Unix
7 11 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.60%) VMS
11 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.40%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.30%) CentOS
13 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (29.90%) CI/CD
2 234 (23.40%) Agile
3 231 (23.10%) DevOps
4 212 (21.20%) AI
5 192 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (17.80%) Analytics
7 134 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 133 (13.30%) Migration
9 109 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 100 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 98 (9.80%) Roadmaps
12 94 (9.40%) Software Engineering
13 92 (9.20%) Cloud Security
13 92 (9.20%) Observability
14 91 (9.10%) Data Modelling
15 89 (8.90%) Machine Learning
16 86 (8.60%) Microservices
17 81 (8.10%) Decision-Making
18 77 (7.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 300 (30.00%) Python
2 179 (17.90%) SQL
3 136 (13.60%) Java
4 87 (8.70%) Bash
5 86 (8.60%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.40%) Go
8 28 (2.80%) TypeScript
9 25 (2.50%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 21 (2.10%) Scala
12 19 (1.90%) C#
13 14 (1.40%) Groovy
14 12 (1.20%) Bicep
15 8 (0.80%) Rust
16 6 (0.60%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (0.60%) R
16 6 (0.60%) SOQL
17 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 223 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 175 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 91 (9.10%) Degree
4 57 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 42 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 34 (3.40%) CISSP
8 30 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (1.10%) CISM
12 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.60%) CCNP
14 6 (0.60%) CCSP
14 6 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.30%) QA
3 42 (4.20%) GDPR
4 23 (2.30%) NIST
5 22 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 21 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.30%) WCAG
8 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.80%) GRC
9 8 (0.80%) NCSC
9 8 (0.80%) PMO
10 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.30%) PERC
11 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 124 (12.40%) Docker
2 58 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.40%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.40%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.30%) Firmware
7 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.20%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.10%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 199 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.80%) Ansible
3 38 (3.80%) Grafana
4 31 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.80%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (1.00%) Puppet
10 6 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.50%) CASB
11 5 (0.50%) Cilium
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%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.40%) vMotion
13 3 (0.30%) Nagios
14 2 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 207 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.10%) Oracle
3 34 (3.40%) Databricks
4 30 (3.00%) Adobe
5 28 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 28 (2.80%) Splunk
6 26 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 25 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.20%) IBM
9 21 (2.10%) TikTok
10 19 (1.90%) Red Hat
10 19 (1.90%) SAP
11 16 (1.60%) Cisco
11 16 (1.60%) Informatica
11 16 (1.60%) Okta
11 16 (1.60%) VMware
12 15 (1.50%) Apple
13 13 (1.30%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
2,163 Google jobs in England