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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 103 113
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Google 728 749 943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.62% 2.27% 2.23%
As % of the Vendors category 5.52% 5.13% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 446 658
10th Percentile £220 £311 £263
25th Percentile £363 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% -1.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £598 £688 £688
90th Percentile £700 £768 £763
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 60 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.56 £35.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.77% +112.12% -5.71%
75th Percentile £36.00 - £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 - £66.25
UK median hourly rate £24.95 £70.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -64.36% +87.67% +6.57%

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 13,182 14,592 18,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.40% 44.29% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 8,896 12,285
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £402 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 622 595 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.62 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% -23.62% +83.44%
75th Percentile £47.09 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Google 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -2 422 £500 -13.98% 557
North of England +17 149 £450 -10.89% 166
Yorkshire +7 76 £416 -17.90% 55
North West +27 68 £500 - 104
South East +11 68 £250 -35.90% 254
Midlands +10 35 £435 -5.95% 66
West Midlands +11 27 £463 +32.14% 34
South West -22 21 £450 -10.00% 64
East of England +2 18 £500 +17.65% 38
East Midlands 0 7 £375 -44.44% 32
North East -5 5 £570 +14.57% 11
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.16%) Confluence
2 17 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.06%) CMS
4 14 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.79%) Apache
6 10 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.82%) Mule
8 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) CICS
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Luigi
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.24%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.69%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.41%) Sketch
6 3 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.27%) Maya
7 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) InDesign
8 1 (0.14%) Maple
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.41%) Magento
2 3 (0.41%) Shopify
3 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.27%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.14%) iTrent
4 1 (0.14%) Maximo
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 407 (55.91%) GCP
2 200 (27.47%) Azure
3 198 (27.20%) AWS
4 109 (14.97%) Google Workspace
5 65 (8.93%) GitHub
6 58 (7.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 55 (7.55%) Google Analytics
8 54 (7.42%) SaaS
9 44 (6.04%) Power Platform
10 35 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
11 32 (4.40%) PaaS
12 31 (4.26%) Serverless
13 27 (3.71%) IaaS
14 26 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (3.30%) Cloud Functions
15 24 (3.30%) Google Sheets
16 23 (3.16%) Apigee
17 21 (2.88%) Cloud Run
17 21 (2.88%) Entra ID
18 20 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.55%) Firewall
2 34 (4.67%) DNS
3 27 (3.71%) VPN
4 18 (2.47%) DHCP
5 17 (2.34%) Network Security
6 13 (1.79%) HTTP
6 13 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.51%) SMTP
8 7 (0.96%) Wireless
9 6 (0.82%) VLAN
10 5 (0.69%) VoIP
11 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.41%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.41%) Intranet
12 3 (0.41%) SSL
13 2 (0.27%) BGP
13 2 (0.27%) DKIM
13 2 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.36%) BigQuery
2 44 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (5.63%) Power BI
4 33 (4.53%) Big Data
5 32 (4.40%) Tableau
6 30 (4.12%) Looker
7 28 (3.85%) NoSQL
8 23 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (3.02%) Data Lake
10 20 (2.75%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.34%) Metadata
12 16 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.79%) MongoDB
15 12 (1.65%) MySQL
16 11 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.51%) Relational Database
17 8 (1.10%) Hadoop
17 8 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
18 7 (0.96%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 76 (10.44%) Jenkins
2 59 (8.10%) JIRA
3 55 (7.55%) Git
4 36 (4.95%) GitLab
5 15 (2.06%) SonarQube
5 15 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.65%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.37%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.37%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.37%) Postman
8 9 (1.24%) SoapUI
9 7 (0.96%) Gradle
9 7 (0.96%) Maven
9 7 (0.96%) Selenium
10 6 (0.82%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.69%) Vite
11 5 (0.69%) webpack
12 4 (0.55%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 229 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 148 (20.33%) Finance
3 92 (12.64%) Banking
4 80 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (9.20%) Marketing
5 67 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.47%) Retail
8 18 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.06%) Legal
10 12 (1.65%) Publishing
11 11 (1.51%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.37%) Military
12 10 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.24%) Advertising
14 6 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (13.87%) Architect
2 85 (11.68%) Senior
3 75 (10.30%) Analyst
4 73 (10.03%) Developer
5 47 (6.46%) GCP Engineer
6 45 (6.18%) Lead
7 38 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 25 (3.43%) Data Engineer
10 25 (3.43%) IT Support
11 23 (3.16%) Software Engineer
12 22 (3.02%) Data Architect
12 22 (3.02%) GCP Architect
13 20 (2.75%) GCP DevOps
13 20 (2.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 19 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (2.61%) Senior Architect
15 18 (2.47%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.01%) RESTful
2 36 (4.95%) Node.js
3 33 (4.53%) React
4 25 (3.43%) HTML
4 25 (3.43%) Kafka
5 23 (3.16%) REST
6 22 (3.02%) CSS
7 20 (2.75%) OAuth
8 17 (2.34%) React Native
9 16 (2.20%) Redux
10 15 (2.06%) Jest
11 14 (1.92%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.92%) Next.js
12 13 (1.79%) Android Jetpack
12 13 (1.79%) FastAPI
12 13 (1.79%) HTML5
12 13 (1.79%) LangChain
13 12 (1.65%) Jetpack Compose
14 11 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (1.51%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 35 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 22 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 19 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.61%) iPad
8 19 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 17 (2.34%) iPhone
9 17 (2.34%) Management Information System
10 16 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.20%) Social Media
11 15 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.79%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.65%) PKI
14 10 (1.37%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (10.03%) Windows
2 56 (7.69%) Linux
3 36 (4.95%) Apple iOS
4 35 (4.81%) Android
5 15 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.65%) Unix
7 9 (1.24%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.27%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.27%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.14%) MVS
11 1 (0.14%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (25.27%) CI/CD
2 161 (22.12%) DevOps
3 160 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (21.70%) Agile
5 133 (18.27%) Analytics
6 100 (13.74%) Artificial Intelligence
7 90 (12.36%) Containerisation
8 82 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 80 (10.99%) Migration
10 78 (10.71%) User Experience
11 70 (9.62%) Data Modelling
12 69 (9.48%) Machine Learning
13 66 (9.07%) ETL
13 66 (9.07%) Microservices
14 58 (7.97%) Cloud Security
15 57 (7.83%) Data Integration
15 57 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 51 (7.01%) Business Intelligence
16 51 (7.01%) Project Management
16 51 (7.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 197 (27.06%) Python
2 132 (18.13%) SQL
3 79 (10.85%) Java
4 49 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 48 (6.59%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.63%) Bash
7 32 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.88%) Go
9 20 (2.75%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.37%) Bicep
11 10 (1.37%) R
12 8 (1.10%) C++
13 7 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.96%) Scala
14 6 (0.82%) C#
14 6 (0.82%) Groovy
15 5 (0.69%) Perl
15 5 (0.69%) Ruby
15 5 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 79 (10.85%) Degree
3 72 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.43%) CISSP
6 17 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.51%) CISM
11 11 (1.51%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (1.24%) ISTQB
13 8 (1.10%) MCP
14 6 (0.82%) CEH
14 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.69%) GCIH
15 5 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.49%) GDPR
2 39 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 30 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 25 (3.43%) SLA
5 24 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (3.16%) QA
7 14 (1.92%) NIST
8 8 (1.10%) GRC
8 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 7 (0.96%) WCAG
10 4 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.55%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) ECSS
11 3 (0.41%) HL7
12 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.27%) DICOM
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.27%) Section 508
13 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 116 (15.93%) Docker
2 37 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.51%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.37%) BitLocker
6 9 (1.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (1.24%) Terminal Services
6 9 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.55%) Squid
9 3 (0.41%) Snort
10 2 (0.27%) Firmware
10 2 (0.27%) KVM
10 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.27%) XenApp
11 1 (0.14%) NFS
11 1 (0.14%) SRDF
11 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (18.13%) Kubernetes
2 111 (15.25%) Terraform
3 43 (5.91%) Ansible
4 23 (3.16%) Grafana
5 22 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.34%) Puppet
7 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.37%) NetBackup
10 9 (1.24%) Argo
10 9 (1.24%) Nagios
10 9 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
10 9 (1.24%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.24%) vMotion
11 7 (0.96%) Istio
12 6 (0.82%) SmoothWall
13 5 (0.69%) Nessus
14 3 (0.41%) Nexpose
14 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.41%) Suricata
Vendors
1 156 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.26%) Adobe
2 31 (4.26%) Splunk
3 30 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.57%) VMware
5 24 (3.30%) Oracle
5 24 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.16%) CyberArk
7 20 (2.75%) Cisco
8 19 (2.61%) Apple
8 19 (2.61%) OpenAI
8 19 (2.61%) SAP
9 17 (2.34%) MobileIron
9 17 (2.34%) Nexthink
10 15 (2.06%) Databricks
11 14 (1.92%) Citrix
11 14 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.79%) Okta
13 12 (1.65%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.51%) Hotjar