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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 115 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 -21
Contract jobs citing Google 857 588 667
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.38% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.34% 5.04% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 343 443
10th Percentile £263 £257 £213
25th Percentile £400 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 54
10th Percentile £18.86 £16.95 £11.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £25.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £33.00 £42.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +63.46% -39.88%
75th Percentile £35.91 £59.44 £33.44
90th Percentile £50.15 £62.50 £64.63
UK median hourly rate £34.34 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% +22.15% -39.88%

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 16,054 11,668 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.36% 47.13% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,476 7,412 10,439
10th Percentile £306 £290 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 388 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.04 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.68 £83.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -11 424 £525 -4.55% 188
North of England -2 167 £500 -9.09% 112
Yorkshire -3 95 £500 -9.09% 50
South East -30 82 £322 -35.60% 154
Midlands -4 80 £525 +34.27% 47
North West -11 63 £538 -14.00% 56
South West +5 57 £525 -8.70% 59
West Midlands -27 45 £481 -8.33% 23
East Midlands -3 35 £550 +54.49% 24
East of England -24 34 £625 +92.31% 51
North East -11 12 £475 +43.94% 6
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 34 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.50%) Apache
3 22 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.98%) Confluence
5 16 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.17%) CMS
6 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.17%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 535 (62.43%) GCP
2 289 (33.72%) Azure
3 262 (30.57%) AWS
4 145 (16.92%) Google Workspace
5 97 (11.32%) GitHub
6 83 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 79 (9.22%) Power Platform
8 47 (5.48%) Google Analytics
9 41 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (4.55%) Google Sheets
11 37 (4.32%) Cloud Run
12 35 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
13 32 (3.73%) SaaS
14 31 (3.62%) Serverless
14 31 (3.62%) Vertex AI
15 30 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.38%) Entra ID
16 29 (3.38%) Google Gemini
17 25 (2.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.23%) Firewall
2 28 (3.27%) Network Security
3 25 (2.92%) VPN
4 22 (2.57%) DNS
5 11 (1.28%) VoIP
6 10 (1.17%) Internet
7 9 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.82%) DHCP
9 6 (0.70%) BGP
10 5 (0.58%) SAN
10 5 (0.58%) Wireless
11 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 4 (0.47%) LAN
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) IPv6
12 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
13 2 (0.23%) Intranet
13 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.84%) BigQuery
2 69 (8.05%) Power BI
3 34 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (3.97%) Tableau
4 27 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.68%) Mixpanel
6 21 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.45%) Looker
6 21 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.22%) OLAP
9 17 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.87%) Big Data
10 16 (1.87%) MySQL
10 16 (1.87%) OLTP
11 13 (1.52%) Metadata
12 8 (0.93%) Redis
12 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 82 (9.57%) Jenkins
2 69 (8.05%) Git
3 45 (5.25%) JIRA
4 43 (5.02%) GitLab
5 7 (0.82%) JUnit
6 6 (0.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.58%) Mockito
7 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.47%) Gradle
8 4 (0.47%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.47%) Postman
9 3 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.35%) Gatling
General
1 308 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.25%) Finance
3 114 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (9.45%) Banking
5 68 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 55 (6.42%) Marketing
7 49 (5.72%) Retail
8 23 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.45%) Advertising
9 21 (2.45%) Legal
10 20 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 20 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.87%) Publishing
12 14 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.05%) Military
16 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 99 (11.55%) GCP Engineer
2 98 (11.44%) Senior
3 91 (10.62%) Architect
4 81 (9.45%) Analyst
5 75 (8.75%) Lead
6 70 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 68 (7.93%) Developer
8 50 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.08%) Consultant
10 29 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
12 27 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 27 (3.15%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.92%) Security Engineer
13 25 (2.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 24 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (2.68%) GCP DevOps
16 22 (2.57%) Android Developer
17 20 (2.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 20 (2.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.30%) REST
2 40 (4.67%) PyTorch
3 38 (4.43%) React
4 36 (4.20%) RESTful
5 35 (4.08%) Kafka
6 32 (3.73%) HTML
7 31 (3.62%) LangChain
7 31 (3.62%) scikit-learn
7 31 (3.62%) Spring
8 30 (3.50%) Node.js
8 30 (3.50%) TensorFlow
9 26 (3.03%) CSS
10 24 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 23 (2.68%) OAuth
12 22 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 21 (2.45%) LangGraph
14 19 (2.22%) Android Jetpack
14 19 (2.22%) Jetpack Compose
15 18 (2.10%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.02%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 43 (5.02%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.57%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.57%) Mobile App
6 19 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.22%) Life Science
7 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.63%) Genomics
8 14 (1.63%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.52%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.17%) Smartphone
12 9 (1.05%) Clustering
12 9 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.05%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.53%) Windows
2 51 (5.95%) Android
3 49 (5.72%) Linux
4 30 (3.50%) Mac OS
5 29 (3.38%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.98%) VMS
7 9 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.58%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (27.19%) CI/CD
2 227 (26.49%) DevOps
3 189 (22.05%) AI
4 168 (19.60%) Analytics
5 163 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (17.50%) Agile
7 147 (17.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 106 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (12.02%) Machine Learning
9 103 (12.02%) Migration
10 99 (11.55%) Containerisation
11 91 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 86 (10.04%) Observability
13 81 (9.45%) Microservices
14 76 (8.87%) User Experience
15 72 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
15 72 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 69 (8.05%) Change Management
17 68 (7.93%) Software Engineering
18 64 (7.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 253 (29.52%) Python
2 159 (18.55%) SQL
3 97 (11.32%) Java
4 44 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 41 (4.78%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.55%) Bash
7 30 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 27 (3.15%) C#
8 27 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.80%) Go
10 11 (1.28%) Ruby
11 10 (1.17%) Google Apps Script
12 8 (0.93%) VBA
13 5 (0.58%) Bicep
13 5 (0.58%) Scala
14 4 (0.47%) C++
14 4 (0.47%) Groovy
14 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.47%) Rust
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 110 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.90%) Degree
4 37 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.28%) CISSP
12 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 8 (0.93%) OCP
13 8 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.70%) CCNP
15 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.82%) GDPR
2 47 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.73%) QA
4 18 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.63%) NIST
6 13 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.05%) NCSC
8 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.70%) GRC
9 5 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.35%) PERC
10 3 (0.35%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (13.65%) Docker
2 32 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) NFS
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.23%) Snort
7 2 (0.23%) Squid
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 177 (20.65%) Terraform
2 163 (19.02%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.37%) Ansible
4 37 (4.32%) Grafana
5 29 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.92%) Istio
7 15 (1.75%) Argo
8 12 (1.40%) SCCM
9 11 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.82%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.70%) QRadar
14 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.58%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.47%) Nessus
16 2 (0.23%) NetBackup
16 2 (0.23%) OpenVAS
16 2 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 123 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.55%) Splunk
3 31 (3.62%) Databricks
4 24 (2.80%) Adobe
5 23 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.57%) Apple
6 22 (2.57%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.98%) VMware
9 16 (1.87%) Oracle
9 16 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.75%) IBM
11 12 (1.40%) Okta
11 12 (1.40%) SAP
12 11 (1.28%) Foundry
13 9 (1.05%) Citrix
13 9 (1.05%) Hotjar
14 8 (0.93%) HubSpot
14 8 (0.93%) Optimizely
14 8 (0.93%) Palo Alto