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 4 December 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
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 113 145
Rank change year-on-year +17 +32 -30
Contract jobs citing Google 830 681 685
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 2.23% 1.81%
As % of the Vendors category 5.61% 4.89% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 374 479
10th Percentile £213 £274 £209
25th Percentile £359 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -5.60%
75th Percentile £615 £652 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 43 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.30 £16.41
25th Percentile £18.82 £36.88 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.86 £60.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.31% +87.19% -7.66%
75th Percentile £43.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £62.35 - £67.00
UK median hourly rate £28.92 £60.50 £31.16
% change year-on-year -52.21% +94.16% -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 14,806 13,925 16,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.53% 45.54% 44.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,605 8,419 11,105
10th Percentile £288 £300 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 711 427 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +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 4 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +2 448 £525 -4.55% 231
North of England +19 169 £450 -10.00% 90
South East +10 94 £314 -37.20% 149
Yorkshire +18 93 £400 -20.00% 25
North West +22 74 £505 +1.00% 59
Midlands +7 49 £469 +31.67% 60
South West -6 42 £525 -15.15% 35
West Midlands -1 39 £500 +21.21% 34
East of England -27 18 £625 +47.06% 26
East Midlands -5 10 £358 +0.56% 23
North East -22 2 £515 +23.35% 10
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 25 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.53%) Confluence
3 20 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.29%) Apache
5 17 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.57%) 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%) JBoss
13 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.08%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.36%) Sketch
7 3 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
9 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
1 484 (58.31%) GCP
2 260 (31.33%) Azure
3 231 (27.83%) AWS
4 109 (13.13%) Google Workspace
5 90 (10.84%) GitHub
6 67 (8.07%) Power Platform
7 65 (7.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 61 (7.35%) Google Analytics
9 58 (6.99%) SaaS
10 40 (4.82%) Serverless
11 29 (3.49%) Cloud Run
11 29 (3.49%) Google Tag Manager
12 28 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (3.25%) Cloud Functions
14 26 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.01%) Google Sheets
15 25 (3.01%) Vertex AI
16 23 (2.77%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.77%) Google Play
17 22 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.75%) Firewall
2 22 (2.65%) Network Security
3 21 (2.53%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.29%) BigQuery
2 61 (7.35%) Power BI
3 39 (4.70%) NoSQL
3 39 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.98%) Tableau
5 30 (3.61%) Looker
6 28 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (3.13%) Big Data
8 22 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.93%) MySQL
10 15 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.45%) Metadata
12 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.33%) Mixpanel
14 10 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.96%) Pinecone
15 8 (0.96%) Redis
16 6 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 81 (9.76%) Git
1 81 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.75%) JIRA
3 42 (5.06%) GitLab
4 15 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.33%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.20%) Postman
8 9 (1.08%) SoapUI
9 8 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.96%) Gradle
10 7 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.72%) JUnit
11 6 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.60%) Maven
12 5 (0.60%) Mockito
13 4 (0.48%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 297 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 168 (20.24%) Finance
3 101 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (12.05%) Banking
5 63 (7.59%) Marketing
6 59 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.65%) Retail
8 21 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 20 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.93%) Advertising
10 16 (1.93%) Legal
10 16 (1.93%) Publishing
11 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.84%) Automotive
15 6 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 105 (12.65%) Senior
2 86 (10.36%) Developer
3 82 (9.88%) Architect
4 81 (9.76%) Analyst
5 68 (8.19%) GCP Engineer
6 66 (7.95%) Lead
7 39 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (3.73%) Data Engineer
9 31 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 26 (3.13%) Consultant
10 26 (3.13%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.01%) Android Developer
12 24 (2.89%) GCP DevOps
13 22 (2.65%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.65%) Security Engineer
14 21 (2.53%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.41%) IT Engineer
15 20 (2.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.95%) RESTful
2 42 (5.06%) REST
3 41 (4.94%) React
4 40 (4.82%) HTML
5 37 (4.46%) Node.js
6 33 (3.98%) CSS
7 29 (3.49%) Kafka
8 28 (3.37%) Spring
9 26 (3.13%) FastAPI
10 24 (2.89%) LangGraph
11 23 (2.77%) PyTorch
12 22 (2.65%) scikit-learn
12 22 (2.65%) TensorFlow
13 21 (2.53%) Android Jetpack
13 21 (2.53%) LangChain
14 20 (2.41%) AngularJS
14 20 (2.41%) Jetpack Compose
14 20 (2.41%) Spring Boot
15 19 (2.29%) OAuth
16 18 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 36 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.86%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.29%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.29%) Life Science
10 18 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.93%) Genomics
13 15 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.81%) Social Media
14 13 (1.57%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
16 9 (1.08%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.71%) Linux
2 48 (5.78%) Android
3 44 (5.30%) Windows
4 31 (3.73%) 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
1 215 (25.90%) CI/CD
2 206 (24.82%) DevOps
3 197 (23.73%) Agile
4 179 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (19.52%) Analytics
6 154 (18.55%) AI
7 128 (15.42%) Containerisation
8 104 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 97 (11.69%) Machine Learning
10 91 (10.96%) Microservices
11 82 (9.88%) User Experience
12 79 (9.52%) Migration
13 77 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 66 (7.95%) Computer Science
16 63 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 62 (7.47%) Actionable Insight
17 62 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
18 58 (6.99%) Software Engineering
19 56 (6.75%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 243 (29.28%) Python
2 136 (16.39%) SQL
3 97 (11.69%) Java
4 60 (7.23%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.18%) PowerShell
6 42 (5.06%) Bash
7 32 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 30 (3.61%) Kotlin
9 28 (3.37%) Go
10 12 (1.45%) Ruby
11 11 (1.33%) C#
11 11 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.84%) Bicep
13 7 (0.84%) R
13 7 (0.84%) Scala
13 7 (0.84%) VBA
14 5 (0.60%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.72%) Degree
4 43 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.89%) CISSP
7 16 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.45%) MCP
10 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.08%) CISM
11 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.72%) CCSP
13 6 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.72%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.63%) GDPR
2 42 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.98%) QA
4 24 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.81%) NIST
6 12 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.20%) GRC
8 9 (1.08%) SLA
9 8 (0.96%) NCSC
10 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.60%) WCAG
13 3 (0.36%) ECSS
13 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.24%) HL7
14 2 (0.24%) PERC
14 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (17.83%) Docker
2 27 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.81%) 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 (18.19%) Kubernetes
2 126 (15.18%) Terraform
3 41 (4.94%) Ansible
4 32 (3.86%) Grafana
5 29 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.69%) Argo
7 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.20%) Istio
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
12 5 (0.60%) Nexpose
12 5 (0.60%) Puppet
12 5 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.60%) Suricata
13 4 (0.48%) logstash
14 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 139 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.27%) Splunk
3 25 (3.01%) Adobe
3 25 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.77%) Databricks
5 22 (2.65%) Oracle
6 21 (2.53%) CyberArk
6 21 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 17 (2.05%) Apple
9 16 (1.93%) VMware
10 15 (1.81%) Cisco
10 15 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (1.81%) Okta
10 15 (1.81%) SAP
11 14 (1.69%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.45%) Amplitude
13 11 (1.33%) IBM
13 11 (1.33%) Optimizely
14 10 (1.20%) Veritas