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 29 November 2025, 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
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 109 134
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing Google 835 684 725
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 2.21% 1.86%
As % of the Vendors category 5.70% 4.88% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 368 511
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £360 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £616 £657 £675
90th Percentile £746 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 46 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.38 £16.41
25th Percentile £17.28 £38.31 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £61.75 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -55.94% +91.06% -7.66%
75th Percentile £42.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £61.68 - £67.00
UK median hourly rate £27.27 £60.75 £31.16
% change year-on-year -55.11% +94.96% -10.97%

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 14,648 14,030 17,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.29% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,482 8,433 11,453
10th Percentile £286 £300 £253
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 708 437 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% -27.37% +69.73%
75th Percentile £47.03 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +9 451 £525 -4.55% 255
North of England +15 171 £450 -10.00% 54
South East +21 97 £313 -36.12% 246
Yorkshire +17 95 £400 -20.00% 14
North West +19 73 £509 +1.75% 37
Midlands +3 48 £469 +31.67% 56
South West +4 40 £525 -16.00% 41
West Midlands +4 39 £500 +21.21% 32
East of England -28 18 £625 +47.06% 24
East Midlands -5 9 £358 +0.56% 23
North East -19 3 £570 +36.53% 3
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 23 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.51%) Confluence
4 18 (2.16%) Apache
5 16 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.56%) CMS
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.72%) Mule
9 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.36%) Drupal
11 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) Luigi
13 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 34 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.08%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.48%) Sketch
6 3 (0.36%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Maple
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 491 (58.80%) GCP
2 256 (30.66%) Azure
3 228 (27.31%) AWS
4 111 (13.29%) Google Workspace
5 92 (11.02%) GitHub
6 67 (8.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 66 (7.90%) Power Platform
8 61 (7.31%) Google Analytics
9 59 (7.07%) SaaS
10 39 (4.67%) Serverless
11 30 (3.59%) Cloud Run
12 29 (3.47%) Google Tag Manager
13 28 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (3.23%) Cloud Functions
15 24 (2.87%) Google Sheets
15 24 (2.87%) Vertex AI
16 23 (2.75%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.75%) Google Play
17 22 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.71%) Firewall
2 22 (2.63%) Network Security
3 21 (2.51%) DNS
4 9 (1.08%) HTTP
4 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.08%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) Internet
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.36%) DHCP
6 3 (0.36%) Intranet
6 3 (0.36%) LAN
6 3 (0.36%) SMTP
6 3 (0.36%) SSL
6 3 (0.36%) VLAN
6 3 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.36%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.36%) Wireless
7 2 (0.24%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (12.69%) BigQuery
2 60 (7.19%) Power BI
3 40 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 34 (4.07%) Tableau
6 33 (3.95%) Looker
7 32 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (3.11%) Big Data
9 22 (2.63%) SQL Server
10 16 (1.92%) MySQL
11 15 (1.80%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.68%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.56%) Metadata
14 12 (1.44%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
15 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.08%) Mixpanel
16 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.84%) Redis
17 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (10.18%) Git
2 83 (9.94%) Jenkins
3 56 (6.71%) JIRA
4 43 (5.15%) GitLab
5 15 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.32%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.20%) Postman
9 9 (1.08%) Gradle
9 9 (1.08%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.96%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.84%) Selenium
12 6 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (0.72%) JUnit
12 6 (0.72%) Maven
12 6 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 5 (0.60%) Mockito
14 4 (0.48%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 302 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 168 (20.12%) Finance
3 102 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (11.86%) Banking
5 61 (7.31%) Marketing
6 59 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.63%) Retail
8 21 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 20 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.92%) Advertising
10 16 (1.92%) Legal
10 16 (1.92%) Publishing
10 16 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Automotive
15 6 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 105 (12.57%) Senior
2 86 (10.30%) Architect
2 86 (10.30%) Developer
3 80 (9.58%) Analyst
4 68 (8.14%) GCP Engineer
4 68 (8.14%) Lead
5 37 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (3.47%) Data Engineer
9 26 (3.11%) Consultant
9 26 (3.11%) Software Engineer
10 25 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 24 (2.87%) Android Developer
11 24 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
12 23 (2.75%) GCP Architect
13 22 (2.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 21 (2.51%) Security Engineer
14 21 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.40%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.14%) RESTful
2 43 (5.15%) REST
3 41 (4.91%) React
4 40 (4.79%) HTML
5 38 (4.55%) Node.js
6 33 (3.95%) CSS
7 29 (3.47%) Kafka
8 28 (3.35%) Spring
9 25 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 23 (2.75%) LangGraph
11 22 (2.63%) Android Jetpack
12 21 (2.51%) Jetpack Compose
12 21 (2.51%) PyTorch
12 21 (2.51%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.40%) AngularJS
13 20 (2.40%) scikit-learn
13 20 (2.40%) Spring Boot
14 19 (2.28%) LangChain
14 19 (2.28%) OAuth
15 18 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.83%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.28%) Life Science
9 18 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.92%) Genomics
11 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.80%) Social Media
13 13 (1.56%) Data Centre
14 12 (1.44%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.20%) iPad
15 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.54%) Linux
2 49 (5.87%) Android
3 46 (5.51%) Windows
4 33 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.20%) Unix
6 9 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (26.11%) CI/CD
2 206 (24.67%) DevOps
3 202 (24.19%) Agile
4 184 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (19.52%) Analytics
6 150 (17.96%) AI
7 129 (15.45%) Containerisation
8 103 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 94 (11.26%) Machine Learning
10 92 (11.02%) Microservices
11 82 (9.82%) User Experience
12 79 (9.46%) Migration
13 76 (9.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (7.78%) Computer Science
16 63 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
17 62 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 60 (7.19%) Actionable Insight
19 59 (7.07%) Data Modelling
19 59 (7.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 243 (29.10%) Python
2 137 (16.41%) SQL
3 99 (11.86%) Java
4 60 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.03%) Bash
5 42 (5.03%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 31 (3.71%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.35%) Go
9 12 (1.44%) Ruby
10 11 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.08%) C#
11 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.84%) Bicep
12 7 (0.84%) R
12 7 (0.84%) VBA
13 6 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.62%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.66%) Degree
4 43 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.87%) CISSP
7 16 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.32%) MCP
10 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.08%) CISM
11 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.72%) CCSP
12 6 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.72%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.59%) GDPR
2 44 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.95%) QA
4 24 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.80%) NIST
6 12 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.20%) GRC
7 10 (1.20%) SLA
8 8 (0.96%) NCSC
9 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.72%) WCAG
11 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.36%) ECSS
13 3 (0.36%) HL7
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) PERC
14 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (17.72%) Docker
2 27 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) Snort
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
7 1 (0.12%) SRDF
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 151 (18.08%) Kubernetes
2 126 (15.09%) Terraform
3 42 (5.03%) Ansible
4 32 (3.83%) Grafana
5 29 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.68%) Argo
7 11 (1.32%) Istio
7 11 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.84%) QRadar
11 6 (0.72%) Nessus
11 6 (0.72%) Puppet
12 5 (0.60%) Nexpose
12 5 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.60%) Suricata
13 4 (0.48%) logstash
14 3 (0.36%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 140 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.35%) Splunk
3 25 (2.99%) Adobe
4 24 (2.87%) Oracle
4 24 (2.87%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.51%) CyberArk
6 20 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.28%) Databricks
8 18 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.92%) Apple
9 16 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.92%) VMware
10 15 (1.80%) Cisco
10 15 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (1.80%) Okta
10 15 (1.80%) SAP
11 12 (1.44%) Amplitude
11 12 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.32%) Optimizely
13 10 (1.20%) Hotjar