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 1 February 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
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 119 141
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing Google 787 590 657
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.23% 1.72%
As % of the Vendors category 5.21% 4.81% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 327 459
10th Percentile £263 £310 £206
25th Percentile £375 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £638
90th Percentile £747 £740 £701
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 35 54
10th Percentile £13.80 £25.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.59 £46.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.07% +78.85% -25.71%
75th Percentile £37.93 £62.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £46.98 £63.75 £68.88
UK median hourly rate £32.25 £46.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -30.65% +78.85% -25.71%

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 15,114 12,273 16,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.95% 46.33% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,916 7,381 10,742
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £718 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 725 352 828
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.66
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £57.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £28.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.40% -5.30% -0.83%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -4 393 £530 -3.64% 249
North of England -10 148 £475 -5.00% 102
Yorkshire -6 82 £464 -7.20% 36
Midlands +11 79 £525 +21.25% 50
South East -2 78 £315 -37.00% 126
North West -7 58 £505 -12.17% 62
South West -1 43 £525 -15.15% 36
West Midlands -6 43 £488 -15.22% 32
East Midlands +9 36 £550 +54.49% 18
East of England -17 31 £625 +47.06% 36
North East -21 8 £495 +45.59% 5
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 28 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.29%) Apache
3 17 (2.16%) Confluence
4 16 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.91%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.27%) CMS
6 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.38%) Drupal
8 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.38%) Mule
9 2 (0.25%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.51%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.51%) Trello
6 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.25%) Sketch
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
3 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.13%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 494 (62.77%) GCP
2 282 (35.83%) Azure
3 239 (30.37%) AWS
4 119 (15.12%) Google Workspace
5 102 (12.96%) GitHub
6 75 (9.53%) Power Platform
7 72 (9.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 51 (6.48%) Google Analytics
9 41 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
11 39 (4.96%) Cloud Run
11 39 (4.96%) Serverless
12 35 (4.45%) Google Sheets
13 33 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
14 32 (4.07%) Entra ID
14 32 (4.07%) Google Tag Manager
14 32 (4.07%) SaaS
15 30 (3.81%) Cloud Functions
16 28 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (3.43%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.35%) Firewall
2 25 (3.18%) Network Security
3 13 (1.65%) DNS
4 10 (1.27%) VoIP
4 10 (1.27%) VPN
5 9 (1.14%) Internet
6 7 (0.89%) DHCP
7 6 (0.76%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.76%) Wireless
8 3 (0.38%) HTTP
8 3 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) BGP
9 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.25%) Intranet
9 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) SSL
9 2 (0.25%) VLAN
9 2 (0.25%) VRRP
10 1 (0.13%) Extranet
10 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (12.20%) BigQuery
2 66 (8.39%) Power BI
3 35 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.32%) Tableau
5 26 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.05%) Looker
7 18 (2.29%) Mixpanel
7 18 (2.29%) MySQL
8 17 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 17 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (1.78%) Big Data
9 14 (1.78%) OLAP
10 13 (1.65%) Metadata
11 12 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.40%) OLTP
12 11 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.02%) Redis
14 7 (0.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.93%) Jenkins
2 65 (8.26%) Git
3 45 (5.72%) JIRA
4 41 (5.21%) GitLab
5 7 (0.89%) SonarQube
5 7 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.76%) Liquibase
6 6 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.64%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (0.64%) Gradle
7 5 (0.64%) JUnit
7 5 (0.64%) Mockito
7 5 (0.64%) Postman
7 5 (0.64%) Selenium
8 4 (0.51%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.51%) ERwin
9 3 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.38%) Fiddler
General
1 296 (37.61%) Social Skills
2 153 (19.44%) Finance
3 108 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.80%) Banking
5 60 (7.62%) Public Sector
6 54 (6.86%) Marketing
7 33 (4.19%) Retail
8 22 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (1.91%) Advertising
10 15 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.91%) Legal
10 15 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (1.78%) Publishing
12 13 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.02%) Military
16 7 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (12.58%) Senior
2 85 (10.80%) Architect
3 78 (9.91%) Developer
4 74 (9.40%) Analyst
5 70 (8.89%) GCP Engineer
6 67 (8.51%) Lead
7 52 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (4.32%) Data Engineer
9 29 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (3.56%) Consultant
11 27 (3.43%) Software Engineer
12 25 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 21 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (2.54%) Android Developer
15 20 (2.54%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.54%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.41%) Administrator
16 19 (2.41%) Data Scientist
16 19 (2.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.61%) RESTful
2 44 (5.59%) REST
3 38 (4.83%) React
4 35 (4.45%) Node.js
5 33 (4.19%) HTML
6 32 (4.07%) Spring
7 31 (3.94%) Kafka
7 31 (3.94%) PyTorch
8 27 (3.43%) CSS
8 27 (3.43%) OAuth
8 27 (3.43%) TensorFlow
9 26 (3.30%) LangChain
10 25 (3.18%) scikit-learn
10 25 (3.18%) Spring Boot
11 24 (3.05%) FastAPI
12 22 (2.80%) AngularJS
13 21 (2.67%) LangGraph
14 16 (2.03%) Android Jetpack
14 16 (2.03%) Jetpack Compose
14 16 (2.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 93 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.45%) Public Cloud
4 30 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.05%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.29%) Life Science
8 15 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.91%) Genomics
9 14 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.65%) Social Media
11 12 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.14%) e-Learning
13 9 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.14%) Smartphone
14 8 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.35%) Android
1 50 (6.35%) Linux
1 50 (6.35%) Windows
2 29 (3.68%) Apple iOS
3 26 (3.30%) Mac OS
4 12 (1.52%) VMS
5 6 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.64%) Unix
6 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (27.57%) DevOps
2 211 (26.81%) CI/CD
3 168 (21.35%) AI
4 162 (20.58%) Agile
5 159 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 154 (19.57%) Analytics
7 127 (16.14%) Containerisation
8 122 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 94 (11.94%) Machine Learning
11 93 (11.82%) Migration
12 91 (11.56%) Microservices
13 86 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (10.04%) User Experience
15 73 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 69 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
16 69 (8.77%) Change Management
17 64 (8.13%) Software Engineering
18 62 (7.88%) ITIL
18 62 (7.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 242 (30.75%) Python
2 141 (17.92%) SQL
3 88 (11.18%) Java
4 50 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 41 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 37 (4.70%) Bash
7 28 (3.56%) TypeScript
8 26 (3.30%) Go
9 22 (2.80%) Kotlin
10 18 (2.29%) C#
11 10 (1.27%) Ruby
12 9 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.89%) Scala
14 7 (0.89%) VBA
15 6 (0.76%) Bicep
16 3 (0.38%) C++
16 3 (0.38%) Cypher
16 3 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
17 2 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 114 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 97 (12.33%) Degree
4 38 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.27%) CISSP
9 10 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.51%) CCSP
13 4 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.51%) IBM Certification
13 4 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.62%) GDPR
2 39 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.81%) QA
4 22 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.27%) NIST
8 8 (1.02%) NCSC
9 7 (0.89%) GRC
10 6 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.25%) WCAG
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 140 (17.79%) Docker
2 35 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.64%) Squid
5 4 (0.51%) Snort
6 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 168 (21.35%) Kubernetes
2 145 (18.42%) Terraform
3 47 (5.97%) Ansible
4 30 (3.81%) Grafana
5 27 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.80%) Istio
7 16 (2.03%) Argo
8 13 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.52%) SCCM
10 7 (0.89%) QRadar
11 6 (0.76%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.64%) Nessus
13 4 (0.51%) logstash
13 4 (0.51%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.51%) Suricata
14 3 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.38%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 123 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.08%) Splunk
3 26 (3.30%) Databricks
4 24 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.92%) Apple
5 23 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.80%) Adobe
7 20 (2.54%) Oracle
8 16 (2.03%) VMware
9 15 (1.91%) Okta
9 15 (1.91%) SAP
9 15 (1.91%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.78%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.65%) Foundry
11 13 (1.65%) IBM
12 11 (1.40%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.27%) Amplitude
13 10 (1.27%) Cisco
14 9 (1.14%) Citrix
14 9 (1.14%) CrowdStrike