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 3 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
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 115 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 -26
Contract jobs citing Google 842 579 656
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.31% 1.73%
As % of the Vendors category 5.29% 4.96% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 333 439
10th Percentile £263 £261 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 47 51
10th Percentile £18.50 £24.47 £11.25
25th Percentile £26.85 £26.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £33.09 £46.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.54% +78.08% -49.51%
75th Percentile £38.94 £61.13 £37.50
90th Percentile £50.53 £63.45 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £44.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.49% +71.73% -49.51%

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 15,931 11,677 16,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.76% 46.67% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,393 7,296 10,445
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 368 911
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.15 £53.81
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -9 416 £525 -4.55% 209
North of England -4 165 £500 -9.09% 136
Yorkshire -11 94 £500 -9.09% 52
Midlands +5 80 £525 +21.25% 83
South East -12 80 £322 -35.60% 184
North West -16 62 £544 -13.00% 71
South West +13 55 £525 -12.50% 77
West Midlands -17 45 £494 -14.13% 38
East Midlands -1 35 £550 +54.49% 44
East of England -21 34 £625 +47.06% 71
North East -11 11 £475 +43.94% 13
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 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.33%) Apache
3 20 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.02%) Confluence
5 16 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.31%) CMS
7 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) 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 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.31%) 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
1 526 (62.47%) GCP
2 283 (33.61%) Azure
3 252 (29.93%) AWS
4 143 (16.98%) Google Workspace
5 102 (12.11%) GitHub
6 86 (10.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 74 (8.79%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.46%) Google Analytics
9 40 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (4.51%) Cloud Run
10 38 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (4.28%) Google Sheets
12 33 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
12 33 (3.92%) Serverless
13 31 (3.68%) SaaS
14 30 (3.56%) Vertex AI
15 29 (3.44%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (3.33%) Google Gemini
17 24 (2.85%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.24%) Firewall
2 26 (3.09%) Network Security
3 22 (2.61%) VPN
4 21 (2.49%) DNS
5 11 (1.31%) VoIP
6 9 (1.07%) Internet
7 7 (0.83%) DHCP
7 7 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.59%) Wireless
9 4 (0.48%) BGP
9 4 (0.48%) HTTP
9 4 (0.48%) 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 (12.95%) BigQuery
2 64 (7.60%) Power BI
3 34 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.80%) Tableau
5 31 (3.68%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.49%) Mixpanel
6 21 (2.49%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.26%) Looker
8 17 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 17 (2.02%) OLAP
9 16 (1.90%) MySQL
10 15 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.66%) Metadata
11 14 (1.66%) OLTP
12 13 (1.54%) Big Data
13 9 (1.07%) Redis
14 8 (0.95%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.21%) Jenkins
2 70 (8.31%) Git
3 45 (5.34%) GitLab
4 44 (5.23%) JIRA
5 7 (0.83%) JUnit
6 6 (0.71%) 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 (0.48%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) Gradle
8 4 (0.48%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.36%) Fiddler
9 3 (0.36%) Gatling
General
1 306 (36.34%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.60%) Finance
3 109 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.26%) Banking
5 66 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 51 (6.06%) Marketing
7 49 (5.82%) Retail
8 22 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.38%) Advertising
9 20 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (2.02%) Legal
11 16 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.78%) Publishing
13 13 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.07%) Military
16 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (11.64%) Senior
2 96 (11.40%) GCP Engineer
3 89 (10.57%) Architect
4 77 (9.14%) Analyst
5 71 (8.43%) Developer
5 71 (8.43%) Lead
6 66 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (5.46%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (3.92%) Consultant
10 29 (3.44%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 26 (3.09%) GCP DevOps
12 26 (3.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 26 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.85%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
14 23 (2.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.61%) Android Developer
16 21 (2.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.65%) REST
2 40 (4.75%) RESTful
3 38 (4.51%) PyTorch
3 38 (4.51%) React
4 36 (4.28%) Kafka
5 32 (3.80%) HTML
5 32 (3.80%) Spring
6 30 (3.56%) LangChain
6 30 (3.56%) Node.js
7 29 (3.44%) scikit-learn
8 28 (3.33%) TensorFlow
9 26 (3.09%) CSS
10 25 (2.97%) Spring Boot
11 23 (2.73%) OAuth
12 22 (2.61%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.49%) FastAPI
13 21 (2.49%) LangGraph
14 20 (2.38%) Android Jetpack
14 20 (2.38%) Jetpack Compose
15 18 (2.14%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.71%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.23%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.38%) Life Science
8 17 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.66%) AI Agents
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%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.19%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.07%) Clustering
13 9 (1.07%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.65%) Windows
2 52 (6.18%) Android
2 52 (6.18%) Linux
3 30 (3.56%) Mac OS
4 29 (3.44%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.90%) VMS
6 8 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.48%) CoreOS
9 4 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
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
1 236 (28.03%) CI/CD
2 231 (27.43%) DevOps
3 180 (21.38%) AI
4 162 (19.24%) Analytics
5 157 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (18.53%) Agile
7 143 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (12.71%) Containerisation
9 102 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (12.11%) Migration
10 97 (11.52%) Machine Learning
11 91 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 84 (9.98%) Microservices
13 81 (9.62%) Observability
14 77 (9.14%) User Experience
15 71 (8.43%) Change Management
16 70 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 66 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
18 65 (7.72%) Roadmaps
18 65 (7.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 255 (30.29%) Python
2 151 (17.93%) SQL
3 96 (11.40%) Java
4 44 (5.23%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.11%) PowerShell
6 42 (4.99%) Bash
7 31 (3.68%) Kotlin
8 27 (3.21%) Go
8 27 (3.21%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.85%) C#
10 11 (1.31%) Ruby
11 10 (1.19%) Google Apps Script
12 8 (0.95%) VBA
13 5 (0.59%) Bicep
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
13 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.59%) Scala
13 5 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.48%) C++
14 4 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 104 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.00%) Degree
4 36 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.43%) CISSP
11 11 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.19%) 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 (0.48%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.01%) GDPR
2 44 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.80%) QA
4 18 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.19%) 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
1 122 (14.49%) Docker
2 34 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.48%) NFS
5 4 (0.48%) 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
1 176 (20.90%) Terraform
2 167 (19.83%) Kubernetes
3 49 (5.82%) Ansible
4 37 (4.39%) Grafana
5 29 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.09%) Istio
7 15 (1.78%) Argo
8 13 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.43%) SCCM
10 10 (1.19%) 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 (0.48%) logstash
14 4 (0.48%) SnapMirror
15 3 (0.36%) Nexpose
15 3 (0.36%) Suricata
Vendors
1 125 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.87%) Splunk
3 29 (3.44%) Databricks
4 24 (2.85%) Adobe
4 24 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.38%) Apple
7 18 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.90%) Oracle
8 16 (1.90%) VMware
9 15 (1.78%) IBM
9 15 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.54%) Okta
10 13 (1.54%) SAP
11 11 (1.31%) Foundry
12 9 (1.07%) Amplitude
12 9 (1.07%) Citrix
12 9 (1.07%) Hotjar
12 9 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.95%) Optimizely