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 2 January 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
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 116 153
Rank change year-on-year +8 +37 -34
Contract jobs citing Google 798 608 620
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 2.18% 1.70%
As % of the Vendors category 5.35% 4.75% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 341 425
10th Percentile £245 £300 £206
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £614 £688 £650
90th Percentile £747 £738 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 34
10th Percentile £18.93 £26.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.38 £30.67 £21.44
Median hourly rate £33.32 £43.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% +26.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.30 £63.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.46 £43.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.19% +30.30% -5.71%

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 14,919 12,802 16,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.08% 45.98% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,749 7,759 10,475
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 692 367 621
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.21 £17.08 £19.76
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -34.61% +69.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.65 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -13.36% -39.17% +73.88%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -3 422 £525 -4.55% 244
North of England +15 156 £450 -10.00% 105
Yorkshire -2 86 £400 -20.00% 42
South East 0 80 £313 -37.40% 131
North West +1 65 £492 -10.55% 61
Midlands +12 60 £520 +46.07% 42
South West +7 43 £525 -17.65% 40
West Midlands -5 39 £519 +9.21% 27
East of England -26 23 £625 +47.06% 21
East Midlands -2 21 £520 +68.83% 13
North East -17 5 £475 +13.77% 3
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 27 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.63%) Confluence
3 19 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.26%) Apache
5 17 (2.13%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.38%) CMS
7 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.75%) Mule
9 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.38%) Drupal
10 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) JBoss
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 34 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.50%) Trello
5 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) InDesign
7 1 (0.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.13%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 489 (61.28%) GCP
2 275 (34.46%) Azure
3 232 (29.07%) AWS
4 106 (13.28%) Google Workspace
5 97 (12.16%) GitHub
6 71 (8.90%) Power Platform
7 68 (8.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 54 (6.77%) Google Analytics
9 37 (4.64%) SaaS
9 37 (4.64%) Serverless
10 36 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (4.14%) Cloud Run
13 30 (3.76%) Google Tag Manager
14 29 (3.63%) Entra ID
15 27 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.38%) Cloud Functions
16 26 (3.26%) Vertex AI
17 25 (3.13%) Google Sheets
18 24 (3.01%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 57 (7.14%) Firewall
2 21 (2.63%) Network Security
3 16 (2.01%) DNS
4 8 (1.00%) HTTP
4 8 (1.00%) Internet
4 8 (1.00%) VoIP
4 8 (1.00%) VPN
5 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.75%) Wireless
7 5 (0.63%) DHCP
8 4 (0.50%) LAN
9 3 (0.38%) Intranet
9 3 (0.38%) SMTP
10 2 (0.25%) BGP
10 2 (0.25%) Broadband
10 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) SSL
10 2 (0.25%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (12.03%) BigQuery
2 65 (8.15%) Power BI
3 40 (5.01%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (4.39%) Tableau
6 27 (3.38%) Looker
7 23 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (2.63%) Big Data
8 21 (2.63%) SQL Server
9 15 (1.88%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.88%) MySQL
10 14 (1.75%) Mixpanel
11 12 (1.50%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.25%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.13%) Metadata
13 9 (1.13%) MongoDB
13 9 (1.13%) Redis
14 8 (1.00%) OLAP
14 8 (1.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 90 (11.28%) Jenkins
2 73 (9.15%) Git
3 53 (6.64%) JIRA
4 45 (5.64%) GitLab
5 15 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.13%) Liquibase
8 8 (1.00%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.00%) Gradle
9 7 (0.88%) Postman
10 6 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
10 6 (0.75%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 5 (0.63%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.63%) JUnit
11 5 (0.63%) Mockito
11 5 (0.63%) Selenium
12 4 (0.50%) Maven
13 3 (0.38%) Xcode
General
1 303 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 156 (19.55%) Finance
3 101 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (11.40%) Banking
5 62 (7.77%) Marketing
6 56 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 25 (3.13%) Retail
8 22 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.13%) Advertising
10 17 (2.13%) Publishing
11 16 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.75%) Legal
14 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 99 (12.41%) Senior
2 86 (10.78%) Developer
3 81 (10.15%) Analyst
4 74 (9.27%) GCP Engineer
5 72 (9.02%) Architect
6 63 (7.89%) Lead
7 46 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (4.14%) Data Engineer
10 30 (3.76%) Consultant
11 28 (3.51%) Software Engineer
12 27 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (3.01%) Android Developer
15 23 (2.88%) GCP DevOps
16 22 (2.76%) Support Engineer
17 21 (2.63%) Data Scientist
17 21 (2.63%) GCP DevOps Engineer
17 21 (2.63%) Senior Developer
18 20 (2.51%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.27%) RESTful
2 42 (5.26%) REST
3 41 (5.14%) React
4 36 (4.51%) HTML
5 34 (4.26%) Node.js
6 31 (3.88%) Spring
7 30 (3.76%) Kafka
8 29 (3.63%) CSS
9 28 (3.51%) PyTorch
10 27 (3.38%) FastAPI
11 26 (3.26%) LangChain
11 26 (3.26%) scikit-learn
12 25 (3.13%) LangGraph
12 25 (3.13%) TensorFlow
13 23 (2.88%) AngularJS
13 23 (2.88%) Spring Boot
14 21 (2.63%) OAuth
15 20 (2.51%) Android Jetpack
15 20 (2.51%) Jetpack Compose
16 18 (2.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.89%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.38%) Life Science
8 18 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.01%) Genomics
10 15 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.63%) Social Media
12 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
15 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.27%) Linux
2 47 (5.89%) Android
3 45 (5.64%) Windows
4 24 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 18 (2.26%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.38%) VMS
7 9 (1.13%) Unix
8 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.63%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) MVS
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (26.82%) CI/CD
2 212 (26.57%) DevOps
3 175 (21.93%) Agile
4 165 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (20.43%) AI
6 160 (20.05%) Analytics
7 122 (15.29%) Containerisation
8 113 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (12.53%) Machine Learning
10 96 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (11.65%) Microservices
12 87 (10.90%) Migration
13 79 (9.90%) User Experience
14 77 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
16 67 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 64 (8.02%) Computer Science
17 64 (8.02%) Software Engineering
18 63 (7.89%) Change Management
19 59 (7.39%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 238 (29.82%) Python
2 136 (17.04%) SQL
3 88 (11.03%) Java
4 56 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 44 (5.51%) PowerShell
6 41 (5.14%) Bash
7 28 (3.51%) Kotlin
8 27 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 24 (3.01%) Go
10 14 (1.75%) C#
11 12 (1.50%) Ruby
12 10 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.88%) VBA
15 6 (0.75%) R
16 5 (0.63%) Bicep
16 5 (0.63%) C++
16 5 (0.63%) Scala
17 3 (0.38%) Groovy
17 3 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 95 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.78%) Degree
4 39 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.51%) CISSP
7 17 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.63%) MCP
10 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.75%) CCSP
13 6 (0.75%) CISM
13 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.75%) GCIH
13 6 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.89%) GDPR
2 39 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.14%) QA
4 25 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.38%) NIST
6 11 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.13%) NCSC
8 8 (1.00%) GRC
9 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.50%) SLA
12 3 (0.38%) WCAG
13 2 (0.25%) DICOM
13 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.25%) PERC
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 147 (18.42%) Docker
2 35 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Squid
5 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.50%) Snort
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) NFS
7 1 (0.13%) SRDF
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 164 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 135 (16.92%) Terraform
3 50 (6.27%) Ansible
4 34 (4.26%) Grafana
5 30 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.13%) Argo
6 17 (2.13%) Istio
7 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (1.50%) SCCM
8 12 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.88%) QRadar
10 6 (0.75%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (0.63%) Nessus
11 5 (0.63%) Puppet
12 4 (0.50%) logstash
12 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.50%) Suricata
13 3 (0.38%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 136 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.14%) Splunk
3 30 (3.76%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.51%) Adobe
5 23 (2.88%) Databricks
6 22 (2.76%) Apple
6 22 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.38%) Oracle
8 17 (2.13%) VMware
9 16 (2.01%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.88%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.88%) SAP
11 14 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.63%) Cisco
12 13 (1.63%) IBM
12 13 (1.63%) Okta
13 12 (1.50%) Foundry
14 11 (1.38%) Amplitude
14 11 (1.38%) Citrix
15 9 (1.13%) Optimizely