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 28 February 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 117 138
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Google 845 589 649
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.29% 1.72%
As % of the Vendors category 5.30% 4.91% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 337 440
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £400 £390 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £701
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.62% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 46 50
10th Percentile £18.50 £24.42 £15.04
25th Percentile £26.85 £26.25 £18.63
Median hourly rate £33.09 £44.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.90% +71.73% -25.71%
75th Percentile £38.94 £61.31 £40.00
90th Percentile £50.53 £63.50 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £44.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.49% +71.73% -25.71%

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 15,932 11,984 16,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.84% 46.66% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,408 7,437 10,457
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 367 889
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +11.81% -25.27%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -13 418 £525 -4.55% 152
North of England -4 166 £500 -9.09% 73
Yorkshire -11 94 £500 -9.09% 23
Midlands +7 81 £525 +21.25% 31
South East -23 78 £322 -35.60% 112
North West -15 63 £538 -14.00% 46
South West +2 55 £525 -12.50% 34
West Midlands -15 45 £494 -14.13% 23
East Midlands +9 36 £550 +54.49% 8
East of England -19 34 £625 +47.06% 19
North East -12 11 £475 +43.94% 4
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 32 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.31%) Apache
3 20 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.01%) Confluence
5 16 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.30%) CMS
7 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.36%) Drupal
9 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.24%) InDesign
8 2 (0.24%) 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 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.24%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 525 (62.13%) GCP
2 286 (33.85%) Azure
3 254 (30.06%) AWS
4 143 (16.92%) Google Workspace
5 101 (11.95%) GitHub
6 86 (10.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 75 (8.88%) Power Platform
8 48 (5.68%) Google Analytics
9 40 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (4.50%) Cloud Run
10 38 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (4.26%) Google Sheets
12 35 (4.14%) Serverless
13 33 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (3.67%) SaaS
14 31 (3.67%) Vertex AI
15 29 (3.43%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.31%) Google Gemini
17 27 (3.20%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.22%) Firewall
2 26 (3.08%) Network Security
3 21 (2.49%) VPN
4 20 (2.37%) DNS
5 11 (1.30%) VoIP
6 9 (1.07%) Internet
7 7 (0.83%) DHCP
7 7 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.59%) Wireless
9 4 (0.47%) BGP
9 4 (0.47%) HTTP
9 4 (0.47%) SAN
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
10 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.24%) Intranet
11 2 (0.24%) OSPF
11 2 (0.24%) SMTP
12 1 (0.12%) Extranet
12 1 (0.12%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 65 (7.69%) Power BI
3 34 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.91%) Tableau
5 32 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.49%) Looker
6 21 (2.49%) Mixpanel
6 21 (2.49%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.01%) OLAP
8 16 (1.89%) MySQL
9 15 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.66%) Metadata
10 14 (1.66%) OLTP
11 13 (1.54%) Big Data
12 9 (1.07%) Redis
13 8 (0.95%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.18%) Jenkins
2 69 (8.17%) Git
3 46 (5.44%) GitLab
4 44 (5.21%) JIRA
5 7 (0.83%) JUnit
5 7 (0.83%) Liquibase
6 6 (0.71%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.59%) Mockito
7 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.59%) 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%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.36%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.36%) Gatling
General
1 306 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.53%) Finance
3 110 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.35%) Banking
5 67 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 52 (6.15%) Marketing
7 50 (5.92%) Retail
8 22 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.37%) Advertising
9 20 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 16 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (1.89%) Legal
11 15 (1.78%) Publishing
12 13 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.07%) Military
15 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (11.72%) Senior
2 94 (11.12%) GCP Engineer
3 89 (10.53%) Architect
4 79 (9.35%) Analyst
5 72 (8.52%) Developer
6 70 (8.28%) Lead
7 66 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 34 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (3.79%) Consultant
11 30 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 28 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 26 (3.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 26 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (2.96%) GCP DevOps
15 24 (2.84%) Security Engineer
16 23 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
17 22 (2.60%) Android Developer
17 22 (2.60%) GCP DevOps Engineer
18 21 (2.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.86%) REST
2 41 (4.85%) RESTful
3 38 (4.50%) PyTorch
3 38 (4.50%) React
4 36 (4.26%) Kafka
5 32 (3.79%) HTML
5 32 (3.79%) Spring
6 31 (3.67%) Node.js
7 30 (3.55%) LangChain
8 29 (3.43%) scikit-learn
9 28 (3.31%) TensorFlow
10 26 (3.08%) CSS
11 25 (2.96%) Spring Boot
12 23 (2.72%) OAuth
13 22 (2.60%) AngularJS
13 22 (2.60%) FastAPI
14 21 (2.49%) LangGraph
15 20 (2.37%) Android Jetpack
15 20 (2.37%) Jetpack Compose
16 18 (2.13%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.33%) Onboarding
2 45 (5.33%) Public Cloud
3 32 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.37%) Life Science
7 17 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.66%) Genomics
9 14 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.54%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.18%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.07%) Clustering
13 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.07%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.63%) Windows
2 53 (6.27%) Linux
3 52 (6.15%) Android
4 30 (3.55%) Mac OS
5 29 (3.43%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.89%) VMS
7 8 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.47%) CoreOS
10 4 (0.47%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (28.05%) CI/CD
2 231 (27.34%) DevOps
3 182 (21.54%) AI
4 165 (19.53%) Analytics
5 158 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (18.46%) Agile
7 142 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 102 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 100 (11.83%) Migration
11 97 (11.48%) Machine Learning
12 92 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (10.06%) Microservices
14 81 (9.59%) Observability
15 80 (9.47%) User Experience
16 72 (8.52%) Change Management
17 70 (8.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 67 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
19 66 (7.81%) Roadmaps
19 66 (7.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 259 (30.65%) Python
2 151 (17.87%) SQL
3 97 (11.48%) Java
4 44 (5.21%) JavaScript
4 44 (5.21%) PowerShell
5 43 (5.09%) Bash
6 31 (3.67%) Kotlin
7 28 (3.31%) Go
8 27 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.84%) C#
10 11 (1.30%) Ruby
11 10 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
12 8 (0.95%) VBA
13 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.59%) Bicep
14 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
14 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 125 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 103 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 102 (12.07%) Degree
4 37 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.42%) CISSP
11 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 7 (0.83%) OCP
13 7 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.59%) CCNP
15 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.47%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.86%) GDPR
2 44 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.67%) QA
4 19 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.18%) NIST
8 8 (0.95%) GRC
8 8 (0.95%) NCSC
9 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.36%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) PERC
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 124 (14.67%) Docker
2 34 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.47%) NFS
5 4 (0.47%) vSphere
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Snort
6 3 (0.36%) Squid
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 175 (20.71%) Terraform
2 169 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.92%) Ansible
4 38 (4.50%) Grafana
5 30 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.08%) Istio
7 15 (1.78%) Argo
8 13 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.42%) SCCM
10 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.95%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.71%) QRadar
13 5 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.59%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.59%) Nessus
14 4 (0.47%) logstash
14 4 (0.47%) SnapMirror
15 3 (0.36%) Nexpose
15 3 (0.36%) Suricata
Vendors
1 126 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.09%) Splunk
3 29 (3.43%) Databricks
4 25 (2.96%) Adobe
4 25 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.37%) Apple
7 18 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.89%) Oracle
8 16 (1.89%) VMware
9 15 (1.78%) IBM
9 15 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.54%) Okta
10 13 (1.54%) SAP
11 11 (1.30%) Foundry
12 10 (1.18%) Amplitude
13 9 (1.07%) Citrix
13 9 (1.07%) Hotjar
13 9 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.95%) Optimizely