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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 98 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Google 1,081 728 730
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.32% 2.62% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 5.59% 5.51% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 422 432
10th Percentile £325 £214 £304
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -9.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £691 £700 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 37 59
10th Percentile £13.32 £15.10 £29.60
25th Percentile £13.66 £15.56 £39.13
Median hourly rate £27.54 £22.56 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% -67.77% +105.88%
75th Percentile £40.94 £38.75 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £62.65 -
UK median hourly rate £23.07 £24.89 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.29% -64.45% +100.00%

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 19,337 13,221 14,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.65% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,933 8,428 8,568
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £623 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 629 541
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.82 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.13 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.65 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% -22.62% -24.42%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -20 544 £510 -0.24% 1,792
North of England -17 227 £474 +5.33% 288
Yorkshire -12 115 £538 +29.13% 96
South East -22 111 £505 +83.64% 260
North West -29 86 £450 -10.00% 168
South West +20 83 £550 +10.00% 147
Midlands -27 48 £475 +12.83% 108
East of England -12 32 £600 +33.33% 78
West Midlands -44 30 £473 +2.27% 74
North East -17 27 £425 -25.44% 25
East Midlands -6 18 £625 +56.25% 34
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 47 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.15%) Confluence
4 33 (3.05%) Apache
5 30 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (2.59%) CMS
7 18 (1.67%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.83%) WordPress
9 8 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.46%) IIS
11 4 (0.37%) Drupal
12 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.19%) nginx
13 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.093%) Camunda
13 1 (0.093%) Luigi
13 1 (0.093%) Mendix
13 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
Applications
1 40 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.28%) InDesign
9 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.093%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.56%) Shopify
3 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.28%) iTrent
5 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.093%) Maximo
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.093%) Primavera
6 1 (0.093%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.093%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.093%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 688 (63.64%) GCP
2 329 (30.43%) AWS
3 327 (30.25%) Azure
4 154 (14.25%) Google Workspace
5 97 (8.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 90 (8.33%) GitHub
7 87 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (5.83%) Google Analytics
9 62 (5.74%) Power Platform
10 57 (5.27%) Entra ID
11 54 (5.00%) SaaS
12 53 (4.90%) Vertex AI
13 52 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (4.44%) Google Sheets
15 46 (4.26%) dbt
16 41 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
17 35 (3.24%) Cloud Run
18 34 (3.15%) Google Drive
19 31 (2.87%) Google Gemini
20 28 (2.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.18%) Firewall
2 50 (4.63%) DNS
3 30 (2.78%) VPN
4 28 (2.59%) Network Security
5 24 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.67%) DHCP
7 12 (1.11%) HTTP
7 12 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.02%) DKIM
8 11 (1.02%) DMARC
9 10 (0.93%) Internet
9 10 (0.93%) WAN
10 8 (0.74%) BGP
10 8 (0.74%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.74%) VoIP
11 7 (0.65%) LAN
11 7 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
11 7 (0.65%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.65%) VLAN
12 4 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 67 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.90%) Power BI
4 47 (4.35%) Looker
5 40 (3.70%) Metadata
6 37 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.22%) Tableau
9 22 (2.04%) MySQL
10 20 (1.85%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.76%) Big Data
12 16 (1.48%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.39%) SQL Server
14 12 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (0.93%) MongoDB
16 8 (0.74%) Flink
16 8 (0.74%) Redis
17 7 (0.65%) Apache Iceberg
17 7 (0.65%) Data Vault
17 7 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 98 (9.07%) Jenkins
2 84 (7.77%) Git
3 66 (6.11%) GitLab
4 63 (5.83%) JIRA
5 16 (1.48%) JUnit
6 14 (1.30%) Gradle
7 12 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.02%) Maven
8 11 (1.02%) Zephyr
9 10 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.65%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.65%) Gatling
10 7 (0.65%) JMeter
10 7 (0.65%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.56%) MLflow
12 5 (0.46%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.46%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.46%) IntelliJ
12 5 (0.46%) LoadRunner
General
1 291 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.87%) Finance
3 139 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.20%) Marketing
6 64 (5.92%) Banking
7 50 (4.63%) Retail
8 36 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.04%) Legal
10 22 (2.04%) Publishing
11 20 (1.85%) Advertising
11 20 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.57%) Local Government
13 16 (1.48%) Games
13 16 (1.48%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.30%) Military
15 13 (1.20%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.02%) Billing
Job Titles
1 179 (16.56%) Architect
2 114 (10.55%) Developer
3 104 (9.62%) GCP Engineer
4 103 (9.53%) Senior
5 80 (7.40%) Data Engineer
6 79 (7.31%) Analyst
7 77 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 66 (6.11%) Lead
9 52 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (4.72%) Administrator
11 33 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
12 27 (2.50%) Security Architect
13 26 (2.41%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.22%) GCP Architect
14 24 (2.22%) GCP Data Engineer
14 24 (2.22%) GCP DevOps
14 24 (2.22%) Support Engineer
15 23 (2.13%) Consultant
16 22 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (21.46%) Terraform
2 85 (7.86%) REST
3 50 (4.63%) React
4 46 (4.26%) OAuth
5 45 (4.16%) Kafka
6 38 (3.52%) RESTful
7 37 (3.42%) Node.js
8 36 (3.33%) Spring
9 35 (3.24%) Spring Boot
10 33 (3.05%) JSON
11 32 (2.96%) SAML
12 29 (2.68%) JWT
13 27 (2.50%) Middleware
14 24 (2.22%) LangGraph
14 24 (2.22%) SOAP
14 24 (2.22%) XML
15 23 (2.13%) HTML
15 23 (2.13%) OAuth2
16 22 (2.04%) LangChain
17 21 (1.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 197 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.83%) AI Agents
3 55 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 52 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 40 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.52%) Public Cloud
7 37 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.87%) Security Posture
9 27 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.41%) Mobile App
11 24 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.67%) CMDB
14 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 14 (1.30%) Clustering
17 13 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.59%) Linux
1 82 (7.59%) Windows
2 38 (3.52%) Android
3 28 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.57%) Unix
6 13 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.65%) VMS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.28%) CentOS
11 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.19%) SUSE
11 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (31.36%) CI/CD
2 258 (23.87%) DevOps
3 247 (22.85%) Agile
4 243 (22.48%) AI
5 226 (20.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 190 (17.58%) Analytics
7 170 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 156 (14.43%) Migration
9 149 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (11.01%) Containerisation
11 115 (10.64%) Roadmaps
12 112 (10.36%) Cloud Security
13 109 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (9.99%) Observability
15 107 (9.90%) Software Engineering
16 106 (9.81%) Data Modelling
17 103 (9.53%) Microservices
18 96 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
19 90 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
19 90 (8.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 332 (30.71%) Python
2 208 (19.24%) SQL
3 144 (13.32%) Java
4 94 (8.70%) Bash
4 94 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 53 (4.90%) JavaScript
6 49 (4.53%) Go
7 29 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.22%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 20 (1.85%) C#
10 19 (1.76%) Scala
11 15 (1.39%) Groovy
12 13 (1.20%) Bicep
13 10 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
14 9 (0.83%) R
15 7 (0.65%) Perl
15 7 (0.65%) Rust
16 6 (0.56%) SOQL
17 5 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 250 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 198 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.62%) Degree
4 61 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.53%) AWS Certification
6 43 (3.98%) Azure Certification
7 42 (3.89%) CISSP
8 36 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 17 (1.57%) CISM
12 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.93%) CCSP
16 8 (0.74%) CISA
17 7 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.53%) QA
3 37 (3.42%) GDPR
4 29 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.50%) NIST
6 21 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.02%) GRC
7 11 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.83%) NCSC
8 9 (0.83%) WCAG
9 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.74%) PMO
10 7 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.65%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.56%) EU AI Act
11 6 (0.56%) SLA
12 5 (0.46%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 141 (13.04%) Docker
2 60 (5.55%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.46%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.28%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.28%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.093%) vSphere
8 1 (0.093%) zsh
Systems Management
1 235 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.83%) Ansible
3 36 (3.33%) Grafana
4 29 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 18 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.93%) Puppet
9 8 (0.74%) CASB
10 7 (0.65%) Argo
11 6 (0.56%) Cilium
11 6 (0.56%) Istio
12 4 (0.37%) Podman
12 4 (0.37%) SCCM
12 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.28%) Nagios
13 3 (0.28%) QRadar
13 3 (0.28%) vMotion
14 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 238 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.98%) Oracle
3 41 (3.79%) Splunk
4 36 (3.33%) Adobe
4 36 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 36 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 32 (2.96%) Databricks
6 30 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 28 (2.59%) IBM
8 26 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.22%) TikTok
10 23 (2.13%) Okta
11 20 (1.85%) Cisco
11 20 (1.85%) SAP
12 19 (1.76%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.48%) Apple
13 16 (1.48%) Informatica
13 16 (1.48%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.39%) VMware
15 14 (1.30%) CrowdStrike