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 15 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 103 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing Google 1,118 756 725
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.69% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.73% 5.61% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 439 419
10th Percentile £323 £213 £312
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 38 62
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.50 £30.28
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.91 £38.31
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.92 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -68.69% +116.58%
75th Percentile £40.63 £35.65 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £55.43 -
UK median hourly rate £23.12 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.46% -67.77% +116.58%

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 19,526 13,473 14,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.86% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,932 8,580 8,572
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £626
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 1,295 652 502
10th Percentile £13.91 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.04 £35.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -28.83% -20.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.96 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -22 565 £510 -0.24% 1,549
North of England -14 241 £474 +5.29% 199
Yorkshire -15 114 £538 +27.98% 54
South East -33 111 £493 +97.00% 187
North West -18 99 £447 -10.15% 119
South West +15 88 £525 - 61
Midlands -46 50 £475 +2.70% 85
West Midlands -51 33 £475 -2.56% 62
East of England -15 30 £775 +72.22% 52
North East -11 29 £433 -24.12% 26
East Midlands 0 18 £525 +35.48% 23
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 46 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.04%) Apache
4 32 (2.86%) Confluence
5 30 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (2.59%) CMS
7 18 (1.61%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.81%) WordPress
9 8 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.45%) IIS
11 4 (0.36%) Drupal
12 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.18%) nginx
13 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.089%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.089%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.089%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
Applications
1 42 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.72%) 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 (0.089%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.089%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.54%) 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 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.089%) Maximo
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.089%) Primavera
7 1 (0.089%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.089%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.089%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 704 (62.97%) GCP
2 353 (31.57%) AWS
3 342 (30.59%) Azure
4 163 (14.58%) Google Workspace
5 97 (8.68%) GitHub
5 97 (8.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 90 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (5.72%) Power Platform
8 62 (5.55%) Entra ID
8 62 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (5.55%) Google Analytics
9 55 (4.92%) Google Sheets
10 52 (4.65%) SaaS
11 49 (4.38%) Vertex AI
12 47 (4.20%) dbt
13 43 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (3.40%) Google Gemini
15 37 (3.31%) Cloud Run
16 34 (3.04%) Google Drive
16 34 (3.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.64%) Firewall
2 53 (4.74%) DNS
3 33 (2.95%) Network Security
4 31 (2.77%) VPN
5 26 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.61%) DHCP
7 14 (1.25%) Internet
8 13 (1.16%) HTTP
9 12 (1.07%) WAN
9 12 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.98%) BGP
11 10 (0.89%) DKIM
11 10 (0.89%) DMARC
12 9 (0.81%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.81%) VoIP
13 8 (0.72%) DNSSEC
14 7 (0.63%) LAN
14 7 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (0.63%) VLAN
15 5 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.34%) BigQuery
2 69 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.92%) Power BI
4 48 (4.29%) Looker
5 43 (3.85%) Metadata
6 42 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.59%) Tableau
9 28 (2.50%) MySQL
10 21 (1.88%) Big Data
10 21 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.88%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.52%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.34%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.72%) Redis
15 7 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.63%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.63%) Flink
Development Applications
1 114 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 90 (8.05%) Git
3 72 (6.44%) GitLab
4 60 (5.37%) JIRA
5 16 (1.43%) Gradle
6 13 (1.16%) JUnit
6 13 (1.16%) Maven
7 11 (0.98%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.81%) Claude Code
9 9 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.63%) Gatling
11 7 (0.63%) JMeter
11 7 (0.63%) NeoLoad
12 6 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.54%) MLflow
13 5 (0.45%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.45%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.45%) LoadRunner
General
1 302 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 210 (18.78%) Finance
3 141 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.35%) Banking
5 71 (6.35%) Marketing
6 56 (5.01%) Retail
7 44 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.97%) Publishing
10 21 (1.88%) Advertising
10 21 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.79%) Legal
12 18 (1.61%) Local Government
13 17 (1.52%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.43%) Games
14 16 (1.43%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.07%) Military
17 11 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 185 (16.55%) Architect
2 121 (10.82%) Developer
3 110 (9.84%) GCP Engineer
4 108 (9.66%) Senior
5 87 (7.78%) Data Engineer
6 85 (7.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 83 (7.42%) Analyst
8 59 (5.28%) Lead
9 57 (5.10%) Administrator
10 51 (4.56%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (2.77%) GCP Architect
13 30 (2.68%) GCP Data Engineer
13 30 (2.68%) GCP DevOps
14 28 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
14 28 (2.50%) Security Architect
15 25 (2.24%) Consultant
16 24 (2.15%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 24 (2.15%) Security Engineer
17 22 (1.97%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (22.45%) Terraform
2 90 (8.05%) REST
3 52 (4.65%) Kafka
4 46 (4.11%) OAuth
5 45 (4.03%) React
6 41 (3.67%) RESTful
7 35 (3.13%) JSON
7 35 (3.13%) Spring
8 34 (3.04%) Node.js
8 34 (3.04%) Spring Boot
9 32 (2.86%) SAML
10 29 (2.59%) JWT
10 29 (2.59%) XML
11 27 (2.42%) Middleware
12 26 (2.33%) SOAP
13 25 (2.24%) LangGraph
14 24 (2.15%) HTML
15 23 (2.06%) OAuth2
16 22 (1.97%) LangChain
17 21 (1.88%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 209 (18.69%) Cloud Native
2 62 (5.55%) AI Agents
3 58 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 58 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 48 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 45 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.86%) Security Posture
9 31 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.42%) Mobile App
11 26 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.79%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.70%) CMDB
14 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Clustering
16 14 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 14 (1.25%) Replication
17 13 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 89 (7.96%) Linux
2 87 (7.78%) Windows
3 41 (3.67%) Android
4 29 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.70%) Unix
7 18 (1.61%) macOS
8 12 (1.07%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.63%) VMS
11 5 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.27%) CentOS
14 2 (0.18%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (33.36%) CI/CD
2 283 (25.31%) DevOps
3 259 (23.17%) AI
4 244 (21.82%) Agile
5 242 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 196 (17.53%) Analytics
7 179 (16.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 158 (14.13%) Migration
9 151 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
10 126 (11.27%) Containerisation
11 122 (10.91%) Observability
12 121 (10.82%) Cloud Security
13 120 (10.73%) Roadmaps
14 112 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (10.02%) Software Engineering
15 108 (9.66%) Data Modelling
15 108 (9.66%) Microservices
16 101 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
17 97 (8.68%) Machine Learning
18 95 (8.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 347 (31.04%) Python
2 225 (20.13%) SQL
3 143 (12.79%) Java
4 98 (8.77%) Bash
5 95 (8.50%) PowerShell
6 51 (4.56%) Go
7 47 (4.20%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.68%) Kotlin
9 28 (2.50%) TypeScript
10 25 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 24 (2.15%) C#
12 20 (1.79%) Scala
13 17 (1.52%) Bicep
14 16 (1.43%) Groovy
15 12 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
16 8 (0.72%) R
17 7 (0.63%) Perl
17 7 (0.63%) Rust
18 6 (0.54%) SOQL
19 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 257 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 201 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.75%) Degree
4 65 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 51 (4.56%) AWS Certification
6 44 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.94%) CISSP
7 40 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.61%) CISM
11 17 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.89%) CCSP
16 8 (0.72%) CISA
16 8 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.20%) QA
3 34 (3.04%) GDPR
4 30 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.59%) NIST
6 20 (1.79%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.98%) NCSC
9 10 (0.89%) GRC
10 9 (0.81%) WCAG
11 8 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.72%) PMO
11 8 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.54%) EU AI Act
12 6 (0.54%) SLA
13 5 (0.45%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.45%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 148 (13.24%) Docker
2 60 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.63%) 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 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.089%) vSphere
9 1 (0.089%) zsh
Systems Management
1 249 (22.27%) Kubernetes
2 72 (6.44%) Ansible
3 38 (3.40%) Grafana
4 30 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.88%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (1.07%) Puppet
10 8 (0.72%) CASB
11 7 (0.63%) Argo
11 7 (0.63%) Istio
12 4 (0.36%) Cilium
12 4 (0.36%) SCCM
12 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.27%) Kibana
13 3 (0.27%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.27%) Nagios
13 3 (0.27%) QRadar
13 3 (0.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 261 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.11%) Oracle
3 42 (3.76%) Splunk
4 39 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 36 (3.22%) Adobe
6 33 (2.95%) Databricks
6 33 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 31 (2.77%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.68%) IBM
10 24 (2.15%) Okta
11 22 (1.97%) SAP
11 22 (1.97%) TikTok
12 20 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.70%) Apple
13 19 (1.70%) Cisco
14 16 (1.43%) Informatica
14 16 (1.43%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.34%) VMware