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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 99 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Google 1,100 758 739
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.70% 2.28%
As % of the Vendors category 5.72% 5.65% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 440 429
10th Percentile £323 £213 £313
25th Percentile £413 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -7.13% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 62
10th Percentile £13.47 £15.50 £26.65
25th Percentile £14.31 £15.56 £36.56
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.28 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -69.60% +116.58%
75th Percentile £39.52 £35.96 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £56.40 -
UK median hourly rate £23.07 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.25% -68.69% +114.33%

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 19,239 13,411 14,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.63% 47.73% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,527 8,642
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 647 523
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.16%
75th Percentile £61.16 £43.23 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -22 551 £508 +1.45% 2,478
North of England -10 235 £474 +5.29% 286
Yorkshire -7 114 £538 +25.00% 83
South East -26 111 £500 +100.00% 284
North West -23 94 £452 -9.70% 176
South West +27 89 £550 +4.76% 105
Midlands -39 50 £484 +4.54% 135
East of England -15 32 £750 +57.89% 88
West Midlands -52 32 £475 - 91
North East -16 28 £425 -25.44% 27
East Midlands -5 19 £625 +56.25% 44
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 45 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.09%) Apache
4 33 (3.00%) Confluence
5 29 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (2.55%) CMS
7 18 (1.64%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.82%) WordPress
9 8 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.45%) IIS
11 4 (0.36%) Drupal
12 3 (0.27%) nginx
13 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.091%) Camunda
14 1 (0.091%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.091%) Luigi
14 1 (0.091%) Mendix
14 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
Applications
1 41 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.091%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.55%) Shopify
3 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.27%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.27%) iTrent
6 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.091%) Maximo
6 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.091%) Primavera
6 1 (0.091%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.091%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.091%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 697 (63.36%) GCP
2 345 (31.36%) AWS
3 338 (30.73%) Azure
4 155 (14.09%) Google Workspace
5 94 (8.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 93 (8.45%) GitHub
7 85 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (5.82%) Power Platform
9 62 (5.64%) Google Analytics
10 61 (5.55%) Entra ID
11 58 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
12 53 (4.82%) Google Sheets
13 51 (4.64%) SaaS
14 48 (4.36%) dbt
15 46 (4.18%) Vertex AI
16 42 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
17 38 (3.45%) Google Gemini
18 36 (3.27%) Cloud Run
19 33 (3.00%) Google Drive
20 32 (2.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.36%) Firewall
2 49 (4.45%) DNS
3 31 (2.82%) Network Security
4 30 (2.73%) VPN
5 25 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.64%) DHCP
7 13 (1.18%) HTTP
8 12 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.00%) Internet
9 11 (1.00%) WAN
10 10 (0.91%) DKIM
10 10 (0.91%) DMARC
11 9 (0.82%) BGP
12 8 (0.73%) DNSSEC
12 8 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
12 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.73%) VoIP
13 7 (0.64%) LAN
13 7 (0.64%) VLAN
14 4 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.55%) BigQuery
2 68 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (5.00%) Power BI
4 48 (4.36%) Looker
5 43 (3.91%) Metadata
6 41 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.64%) Tableau
8 27 (2.45%) MySQL
9 21 (1.91%) Big Data
9 21 (1.91%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.73%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.55%) SQL Server
12 14 (1.27%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.73%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.73%) Redis
15 7 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
15 7 (0.64%) Flink
Development Applications
1 108 (9.82%) Jenkins
2 86 (7.82%) Git
3 68 (6.18%) GitLab
4 61 (5.55%) JIRA
5 15 (1.36%) Gradle
6 13 (1.18%) JUnit
7 12 (1.09%) Maven
8 11 (1.00%) Zephyr
9 10 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.64%) Claude Code
11 7 (0.64%) Gatling
11 7 (0.64%) JMeter
11 7 (0.64%) NeoLoad
12 6 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.55%) MLflow
13 5 (0.45%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.45%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.45%) LoadRunner
General
1 297 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.55%) Finance
3 142 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.36%) Marketing
6 65 (5.91%) Banking
7 55 (5.00%) Retail
8 42 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.00%) Publishing
11 21 (1.91%) Legal
12 20 (1.82%) Advertising
12 20 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.64%) Local Government
14 16 (1.45%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.45%) Games
14 16 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.00%) Billing
16 11 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 183 (16.64%) Architect
2 117 (10.64%) Developer
3 107 (9.73%) GCP Engineer
4 103 (9.36%) Senior
5 86 (7.82%) Data Engineer
6 83 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 81 (7.36%) Analyst
8 58 (5.27%) Lead
9 55 (5.00%) Administrator
10 52 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (2.64%) GCP Architect
12 29 (2.64%) GCP Data Engineer
13 28 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
14 27 (2.45%) GCP DevOps
14 27 (2.45%) Security Architect
15 25 (2.27%) Consultant
16 24 (2.18%) Security Engineer
17 22 (2.00%) Data Architect
17 22 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (21.73%) Terraform
2 88 (8.00%) REST
3 51 (4.64%) Kafka
4 49 (4.45%) React
5 46 (4.18%) OAuth
6 40 (3.64%) RESTful
7 37 (3.36%) Node.js
8 35 (3.18%) JSON
8 35 (3.18%) Spring
9 34 (3.09%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.91%) SAML
11 29 (2.64%) JWT
12 28 (2.55%) XML
13 27 (2.45%) Middleware
14 26 (2.36%) LangGraph
15 25 (2.27%) SOAP
16 24 (2.18%) HTML
17 23 (2.09%) OAuth2
18 21 (1.91%) GraphQL
18 21 (1.91%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 205 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 60 (5.45%) AI Agents
3 58 (5.27%) Onboarding
4 57 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 45 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 39 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 33 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.82%) Security Posture
9 29 (2.64%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (2.36%) Mobile App
11 23 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
14 18 (1.64%) CMDB
15 15 (1.36%) Clustering
16 14 (1.27%) Replication
17 13 (1.18%) Data Structures
17 13 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.91%) Linux
2 85 (7.73%) Windows
3 39 (3.55%) Android
4 28 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.64%) Unix
7 13 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.64%) VMS
10 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.27%) CentOS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.091%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (32.27%) CI/CD
2 272 (24.73%) DevOps
3 254 (23.09%) AI
4 246 (22.36%) Agile
5 233 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 192 (17.45%) Analytics
7 174 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 154 (14.00%) Migration
9 149 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (11.36%) Containerisation
11 119 (10.82%) Cloud Security
12 115 (10.45%) Roadmaps
13 114 (10.36%) Observability
14 109 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (9.91%) Data Modelling
15 108 (9.82%) Software Engineering
16 105 (9.55%) Microservices
17 99 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
18 95 (8.64%) Machine Learning
19 93 (8.45%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 339 (30.82%) Python
2 219 (19.91%) SQL
3 143 (13.00%) Java
4 99 (9.00%) Bash
5 96 (8.73%) PowerShell
6 52 (4.73%) JavaScript
7 49 (4.45%) Go
8 30 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 28 (2.55%) Kotlin
10 24 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.09%) C#
12 18 (1.64%) Scala
13 15 (1.36%) Bicep
13 15 (1.36%) Groovy
14 10 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
15 8 (0.73%) R
16 7 (0.64%) Perl
16 7 (0.64%) Rust
17 6 (0.55%) SOQL
18 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 257 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 203 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.82%) Degree
4 66 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 50 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 43 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.91%) CISSP
7 38 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (1.55%) CISM
11 13 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.91%) CCSP
14 8 (0.73%) CISA
14 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.18%) QA
3 34 (3.09%) GDPR
4 29 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.55%) NIST
6 21 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.00%) NCSC
9 10 (0.91%) GRC
10 9 (0.82%) WCAG
11 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.73%) PMO
12 7 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.55%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.55%) SLA
14 5 (0.45%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.45%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (13.45%) Docker
2 60 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.091%) vSphere
9 1 (0.091%) zsh
Systems Management
1 243 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.18%) Ansible
3 38 (3.45%) Grafana
4 30 (2.73%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (1.00%) Puppet
10 8 (0.73%) CASB
11 7 (0.64%) Argo
12 6 (0.55%) Istio
13 5 (0.45%) Cilium
14 4 (0.36%) Podman
14 4 (0.36%) SCCM
14 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.27%) Kibana
15 3 (0.27%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.27%) Nagios
15 3 (0.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 250 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.18%) Oracle
3 41 (3.73%) Splunk
4 38 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 36 (3.27%) Adobe
6 33 (3.00%) Databricks
6 33 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.73%) Dynatrace
8 30 (2.73%) IBM
9 23 (2.09%) Okta
10 22 (2.00%) SAP
10 22 (2.00%) TikTok
11 20 (1.82%) Red Hat
12 19 (1.73%) Cisco
13 17 (1.55%) Apple
14 16 (1.45%) Informatica
14 16 (1.45%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.36%) VMware
16 14 (1.27%) CrowdStrike