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 12 May 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
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 105 117
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 846 609 700
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.51% 1.90%
As % of the Vendors category 5.04% 5.28% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 359 456
10th Percentile £300 £212 £263
25th Percentile £413 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.91% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 59 63
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.95 £11.25
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.72 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.34%
75th Percentile £35.75 £50.84 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.15 £62.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.55 £26.00
% change year-on-year +12.51% +21.36% -34.67%

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 16,796 11,543 15,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.38% 47.48% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,880 7,440 9,828
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.30% -2.68%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 461 1,003
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.11 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% +20.00% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.23 £26.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.75% +15.73% -47.98%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -14 430 £525 - 206
North of England -21 157 £505 +1.00% 80
Yorkshire -15 83 £500 +8.11% 18
South East -64 69 £530 +4.33% 78
Midlands -15 67 £537 +34.25% 41
South West -3 63 £550 +46.67% 25
North West -21 62 £554 -7.71% 54
East of England -7 39 £540 +33.33% 32
East Midlands -4 38 £550 +40.66% 19
West Midlands -52 29 £438 +4.17% 22
North East -7 15 £463 - 8
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 37 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 28 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 26 (3.07%) Apache
5 18 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.54%) Confluence
7 9 (1.06%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.24%) Drupal
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.30%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.24%) Maya
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.12%) InDesign
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.71%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Actimize
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 520 (61.47%) GCP
2 254 (30.02%) Azure
3 223 (26.36%) AWS
4 166 (19.62%) Google Workspace
5 89 (10.52%) GitHub
6 84 (9.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 66 (7.80%) Power Platform
8 65 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (6.03%) Google Sheets
10 46 (5.44%) SaaS
11 44 (5.20%) Google Analytics
12 42 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (4.37%) Vertex AI
14 30 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (3.43%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.31%) Slack
17 27 (3.19%) Amazon S3
17 27 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (3.19%) Cloud Run
17 27 (3.19%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.15%) Firewall
2 39 (4.61%) DNS
3 33 (3.90%) VPN
4 21 (2.48%) Network Security
5 15 (1.77%) VoIP
6 9 (1.06%) DKIM
6 9 (1.06%) DMARC
6 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.95%) Internet
8 7 (0.83%) DHCP
9 6 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.59%) BGP
10 5 (0.59%) SAN
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
11 4 (0.47%) Wireless
12 3 (0.35%) HTTP
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) IPv6
12 3 (0.35%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (12.53%) BigQuery
2 58 (6.86%) Power BI
3 36 (4.26%) Tableau
4 28 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.36%) Looker
6 20 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 19 (2.25%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.13%) Metadata
8 18 (2.13%) OLAP
9 16 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.89%) Mixpanel
9 16 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.77%) OLTP
11 12 (1.42%) Big Data
11 12 (1.42%) MySQL
12 10 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.71%) Redis
13 6 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (9.10%) Jenkins
2 50 (5.91%) Git
3 46 (5.44%) JIRA
4 37 (4.37%) GitLab
5 15 (1.77%) JUnit
6 9 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 5 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.59%) Selenium
9 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.47%) Gatling
9 4 (0.47%) Postman
10 3 (0.35%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.35%) ERwin
10 3 (0.35%) Gradle
10 3 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.35%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 249 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 158 (18.68%) Finance
3 98 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 65 (7.68%) Marketing
6 63 (7.45%) Banking
7 44 (5.20%) Retail
8 29 (3.43%) Legal
9 22 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.01%) Advertising
10 17 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.01%) Military
10 17 (2.01%) Publishing
11 14 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 111 (13.12%) GCP Engineer
2 94 (11.11%) Architect
3 89 (10.52%) Senior
4 83 (9.81%) Lead
5 81 (9.57%) Analyst
6 73 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 57 (6.74%) Data Engineer
8 53 (6.26%) Developer
9 36 (4.26%) Administrator
10 30 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
11 29 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (2.96%) Consultant
13 23 (2.72%) GCP DevOps
13 23 (2.72%) Network Engineer
13 23 (2.72%) Software Engineer
14 22 (2.60%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 20 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.36%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.61%) Kafka
1 39 (4.61%) REST
2 34 (4.02%) React
3 31 (3.66%) PyTorch
4 29 (3.43%) OAuth
4 29 (3.43%) Spring
5 28 (3.31%) LangChain
5 28 (3.31%) Spring Boot
6 23 (2.72%) Node.js
7 20 (2.36%) scikit-learn
7 20 (2.36%) TensorFlow
8 18 (2.13%) AngularJS
9 17 (2.01%) HTML
9 17 (2.01%) RESTful
10 16 (1.89%) Great Expectations
11 15 (1.77%) OpenID
11 15 (1.77%) SAML
12 14 (1.65%) .NET
12 14 (1.65%) CSS
12 14 (1.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 107 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.14%) Public Cloud
3 32 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 20 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.54%) Clustering
11 13 (1.54%) Smartphone
12 12 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
15 9 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.06%) e-Learning
15 9 (1.06%) Life Science
16 8 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.20%) Android
1 44 (5.20%) Windows
2 29 (3.43%) Linux
3 28 (3.31%) Mac OS
4 26 (3.07%) Apple iOS
5 16 (1.89%) VMS
6 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.59%) CoreOS
8 5 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (26.24%) CI/CD
2 197 (23.29%) DevOps
3 166 (19.62%) AI
4 161 (19.03%) Analytics
5 151 (17.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (15.96%) Migration
7 128 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (14.42%) Agile
9 92 (10.87%) Observability
10 88 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 85 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (9.57%) Machine Learning
13 74 (8.75%) Software Engineering
14 68 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
15 67 (7.92%) Decision-Making
16 60 (7.09%) Change Management
16 60 (7.09%) Containerisation
16 60 (7.09%) Data Engineering
16 60 (7.09%) Microservices
17 59 (6.97%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 211 (24.94%) Python
2 156 (18.44%) SQL
3 96 (11.35%) Java
4 46 (5.44%) PowerShell
5 38 (4.49%) Bash
6 35 (4.14%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.43%) C#
8 26 (3.07%) Kotlin
9 20 (2.36%) Go
10 18 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.18%) Scala
12 9 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
13 7 (0.83%) Groovy
13 7 (0.83%) Rust
14 5 (0.59%) R
15 4 (0.47%) Bicep
15 4 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) Ruby
16 3 (0.35%) LookML
16 3 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 126 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.51%) Degree
4 21 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.18%) CISSP
11 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.71%) CCNP
12 5 (0.59%) OCP
12 5 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CCSP
13 4 (0.47%) CSPO
13 4 (0.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.80%) GDPR
2 50 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.26%) QA
4 18 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.89%) NIST
6 11 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.71%) PERC
7 6 (0.71%) WCAG
8 5 (0.59%) GRC
8 5 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 4 (0.47%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.35%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 75 (8.87%) Docker
2 47 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.59%) NFS
5 5 (0.59%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Snort
8 1 (0.12%) Squid
8 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) Varnish
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 183 (21.63%) Terraform
2 139 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.02%) Ansible
4 28 (3.31%) Grafana
5 21 (2.48%) Istio
5 21 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (1.18%) Argo
9 8 (0.95%) SCCM
10 7 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.83%) Kubeflow
10 7 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.59%) Podman
12 5 (0.59%) SnapMirror
13 3 (0.35%) Nessus
14 2 (0.24%) logstash
14 2 (0.24%) OpenVAS
14 2 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 127 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.55%) Databricks
3 23 (2.72%) ServiceNow
4 22 (2.60%) Oracle
5 20 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.25%) Apple
7 18 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 17 (2.01%) Splunk
9 16 (1.89%) Adobe
10 15 (1.77%) VMware
11 13 (1.54%) IBM
12 12 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.30%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.30%) Okta
14 10 (1.18%) Citrix
15 9 (1.06%) Checkmarx
15 9 (1.06%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.95%) Foundry
16 8 (0.95%) NetApp
16 8 (0.95%) TikTok