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 14 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
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 97 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 1,018 727 736
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 2.64% 2.24%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 5.60% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 416 442
10th Percentile £321 £213 £309
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £478 £535
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -10.75% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £684
90th Percentile £688 £700 £767
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 44 60
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.60 £35.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £21.92 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.62% -68.69% +100.00%
75th Percentile £40.31 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £56.00 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +18.61% -68.69% +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 19,121 12,976 14,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.57% 47.08% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 8,232 8,889
10th Percentile £311 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £615 £630
90th Percentile £710 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,107 605 607
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -28.38%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -28 522 £500 - 2,465
North of England -22 208 £488 +8.33% 366
South East -18 112 £525 +110.00% 282
Yorkshire -9 104 £538 +27.22% 109
North West -36 81 £464 -7.20% 227
South West 0 72 £550 +22.22% 195
Midlands -32 47 £473 +15.37% 155
West Midlands -39 31 £440 -0.28% 102
North East -19 24 £445 -28.80% 31
East of England -27 21 £540 +8.00% 95
East Midlands -7 16 £625 +66.67% 53
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 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.34%) Confluence
4 32 (3.14%) Apache
5 29 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (2.46%) CMS
7 20 (1.96%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.69%) WordPress
11 4 (0.39%) Drupal
12 3 (0.29%) IIS
13 2 (0.20%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.20%) nginx
14 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.098%) Luigi
14 1 (0.098%) Mendix
14 1 (0.098%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 36 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.29%) InDesign
8 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.098%) Maya
8 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.29%) iTrent
3 3 (0.29%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.098%) Actimize
5 1 (0.098%) Maximo
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.098%) Primavera
5 1 (0.098%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.098%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.098%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 634 (62.28%) GCP
2 303 (29.76%) Azure
3 298 (29.27%) AWS
4 135 (13.26%) Google Workspace
5 92 (9.04%) GitHub
6 87 (8.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 70 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (6.19%) Google Analytics
9 55 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (5.40%) SaaS
10 54 (5.30%) Power Platform
11 47 (4.62%) Vertex AI
12 46 (4.52%) dbt
12 46 (4.52%) Google Sheets
13 43 (4.22%) Entra ID
14 38 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (3.14%) Google Drive
16 30 (2.95%) Snowflake
17 25 (2.46%) Cloud Run
18 24 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.11%) Firewall
2 49 (4.81%) DNS
3 32 (3.14%) VPN
4 26 (2.55%) Network Security
5 23 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.57%) DHCP
7 12 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.08%) DKIM
8 11 (1.08%) DMARC
9 10 (0.98%) HTTP
9 10 (0.98%) Internet
10 9 (0.88%) WAN
11 8 (0.79%) DNSSEC
12 7 (0.69%) BGP
12 7 (0.69%) LAN
12 7 (0.69%) VLAN
12 7 (0.69%) VoIP
13 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.39%) MPLS
14 4 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (11.79%) BigQuery
2 64 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.62%) Power BI
4 38 (3.73%) Looker
5 34 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (3.14%) Metadata
7 26 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.16%) Tableau
9 20 (1.96%) Big Data
10 18 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.77%) MySQL
11 17 (1.67%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.47%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.79%) Flink
14 8 (0.79%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.69%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.69%) Redis
16 6 (0.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 74 (7.27%) Git
3 65 (6.39%) JIRA
4 61 (5.99%) GitLab
5 14 (1.38%) Gradle
5 14 (1.38%) JUnit
6 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.88%) Maven
7 9 (0.88%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.69%) Gatling
8 7 (0.69%) JMeter
8 7 (0.69%) NeoLoad
8 7 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.59%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.59%) IntelliJ
9 6 (0.59%) MLflow
10 5 (0.49%) fastlane
10 5 (0.49%) LoadRunner
General
1 263 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 191 (18.76%) Finance
3 127 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.47%) Marketing
6 54 (5.30%) Banking
7 46 (4.52%) Retail
8 35 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.46%) Publishing
11 24 (2.36%) Legal
12 21 (2.06%) Advertising
13 18 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.28%) Games
16 13 (1.28%) Military
17 12 (1.18%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.18%) Local Government
18 11 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 162 (15.91%) Architect
2 106 (10.41%) GCP Engineer
3 99 (9.72%) Developer
4 97 (9.53%) Senior
5 80 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 78 (7.66%) Analyst
7 74 (7.27%) Data Engineer
8 70 (6.88%) Lead
9 48 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (4.13%) Administrator
11 30 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.46%) GCP DevOps
13 25 (2.46%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.36%) Security Architect
15 21 (2.06%) Consultant
15 21 (2.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (1.96%) GCP Architect
16 20 (1.96%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (1.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (19.84%) Terraform
2 75 (7.37%) REST
3 45 (4.42%) Kafka
4 44 (4.32%) React
5 37 (3.63%) OAuth
6 36 (3.54%) Spring
6 36 (3.54%) Spring Boot
7 32 (3.14%) JSON
7 32 (3.14%) Node.js
8 31 (3.05%) RESTful
9 26 (2.55%) SAML
10 25 (2.46%) HTML
11 22 (2.16%) JWT
11 22 (2.16%) XML
12 21 (2.06%) CSS
13 20 (1.96%) Android Jetpack
13 20 (1.96%) LangGraph
13 20 (1.96%) SOAP
14 19 (1.87%) LangChain
14 19 (1.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 178 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.50%) AI Agents
3 48 (4.72%) Management Information System
4 44 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 41 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.65%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 25 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.96%) Data Centre
10 20 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.28%) CMDB
12 13 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 13 (1.28%) PKI
12 13 (1.28%) Replication
13 11 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 11 (1.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.56%) Windows
2 74 (7.27%) Linux
3 38 (3.73%) Android
4 25 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.28%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.28%) Unix
7 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.59%) VMS
10 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.29%) CentOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.098%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (30.55%) CI/CD
2 243 (23.87%) Agile
3 235 (23.08%) DevOps
4 221 (21.71%) AI
5 198 (19.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (17.98%) Analytics
7 142 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 139 (13.65%) Migration
9 138 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 106 (10.41%) Containerisation
12 103 (10.12%) Roadmaps
13 98 (9.63%) Observability
13 98 (9.63%) Software Engineering
14 95 (9.33%) Cloud Security
14 95 (9.33%) Data Modelling
15 92 (9.04%) Microservices
16 89 (8.74%) Machine Learning
17 81 (7.96%) Data Pipeline
18 79 (7.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 303 (29.76%) Python
2 190 (18.66%) SQL
3 134 (13.16%) Java
4 87 (8.55%) Bash
5 86 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 49 (4.81%) JavaScript
7 37 (3.63%) Go
8 28 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 25 (2.46%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.96%) Scala
12 19 (1.87%) C#
13 12 (1.18%) Bicep
13 12 (1.18%) Groovy
14 7 (0.69%) Rust
15 6 (0.59%) LookML
15 6 (0.59%) SOQL
16 5 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 230 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 181 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 91 (8.94%) Degree
4 58 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 39 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.44%) CISSP
8 31 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.18%) CISM
13 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.69%) CCSP
14 7 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.42%) QA
3 38 (3.73%) GDPR
4 23 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.06%) NIST
6 19 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.18%) WCAG
8 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.88%) GRC
10 8 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.79%) NCSC
10 8 (0.79%) PMO
11 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (12.77%) Docker
2 56 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.29%) ISA Server
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.29%) Terminal Services
5 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.098%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.098%) vSphere
7 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 208 (20.43%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.11%) Ansible
3 35 (3.44%) Grafana
4 28 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.98%) Puppet
10 6 (0.59%) CASB
10 6 (0.59%) Cilium
11 5 (0.49%) Argo
11 5 (0.49%) Istio
11 5 (0.49%) SCCM
12 4 (0.39%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.39%) Podman
12 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.29%) Nagios
13 3 (0.29%) vMotion
14 2 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 209 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (4.22%) Oracle
3 33 (3.24%) Databricks
4 32 (3.14%) Splunk
5 31 (3.05%) Adobe
6 29 (2.85%) OpenAI
7 26 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 26 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 24 (2.36%) IBM
9 23 (2.26%) TikTok
10 20 (1.96%) SAP
11 18 (1.77%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.67%) Cisco
12 17 (1.67%) Okta
13 16 (1.57%) Informatica
14 15 (1.47%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.47%) VMware
15 13 (1.28%) Apple
16 12 (1.18%) CrowdStrike