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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 94 105
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 972 754 733
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 2.73% 2.13%
As % of the Vendors category 5.26% 5.78% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 431 442
10th Percentile £307 £208 £304
25th Percentile £413 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £495 £536
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.56% -2.64%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £675
90th Percentile £691 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £533
% change year-on-year +4.17% -9.94% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 64 66
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.50 £20.63
25th Percentile £25.69 £16.95 £30.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.96% -64.77% +87.79%
75th Percentile £39.76 £44.39 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £54.43 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £23.61 £70.00
% change year-on-year +50.36% -66.27% +76.99%

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 18,472 13,055 14,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.04% 47.29% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,697 8,262 9,548
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 624 828
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.44
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.33
90th Percentile £85.04 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +40.04% -6.85% -34.94%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -19 517 £501 +0.10% 420
North of England -23 192 £500 +8.11% 132
Yorkshire -20 95 £520 +17.25% 42
South East -66 95 £530 +14.49% 108
North West -37 79 £500 -9.09% 78
South West -1 71 £550 +48.65% 42
Midlands -34 45 £440 +16.09% 44
West Midlands -36 33 £425 +21.43% 28
East of England -20 24 £510 +5.15% 20
North East -22 22 £440 -29.60% 12
East Midlands -8 12 £625 +64.91% 16
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 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.29%) Apache
2 32 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (2.67%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.37%) Confluence
6 16 (1.65%) CMS
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Drupal
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) JBoss
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
11 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.34%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.62%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.41%) InDesign
8 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.10%) Maya
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Actimize
4 1 (0.10%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.10%) iTrent
4 1 (0.10%) Maximo
4 1 (0.10%) Primavera
4 1 (0.10%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.10%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.10%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 590 (60.70%) GCP
2 267 (27.47%) Azure
3 266 (27.37%) AWS
4 152 (15.64%) Google Workspace
5 87 (8.95%) GitHub
6 85 (8.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 77 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (5.25%) Google Analytics
9 50 (5.14%) SaaS
10 49 (5.04%) Power Platform
11 45 (4.63%) Vertex AI
12 43 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (4.42%) Google Sheets
13 34 (3.50%) Entra ID
13 34 (3.50%) Google Drive
14 30 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (2.78%) dbt
16 26 (2.67%) Snowflake
17 25 (2.57%) Google Gemini
18 23 (2.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.00%) Firewall
2 63 (6.48%) DNS
3 48 (4.94%) VPN
4 28 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.06%) Network Security
6 18 (1.85%) DHCP
7 11 (1.13%) DKIM
7 11 (1.13%) DMARC
8 10 (1.03%) BGP
9 9 (0.93%) Internet
10 8 (0.82%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.82%) OSPF
10 8 (0.82%) VLAN
11 7 (0.72%) HTTP
11 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.62%) LAN
12 6 (0.62%) SMTP
12 6 (0.62%) VoIP
12 6 (0.62%) WAN
13 5 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (10.19%) BigQuery
2 54 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (4.32%) Power BI
4 30 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.67%) Looker
6 22 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.26%) Tableau
7 20 (2.06%) Big Data
8 19 (1.95%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.95%) Metadata
9 18 (1.85%) MySQL
10 15 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 13 (1.34%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.82%) Redis
13 7 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
13 7 (0.72%) OLTP
14 6 (0.62%) OLAP
14 6 (0.62%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 61 (6.28%) Git
3 54 (5.56%) JIRA
4 47 (4.84%) GitLab
5 16 (1.65%) JUnit
6 9 (0.93%) Gradle
6 9 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.62%) Android Studio
8 6 (0.62%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.62%) Gatling
8 6 (0.62%) MLflow
9 5 (0.51%) fastlane
9 5 (0.51%) JMeter
10 4 (0.41%) Maven
10 4 (0.41%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.31%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 235 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 180 (18.52%) Finance
3 119 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 109 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (7.41%) Marketing
6 58 (5.97%) Banking
7 48 (4.94%) Retail
8 33 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (2.98%) Legal
11 24 (2.47%) Publishing
12 21 (2.16%) Advertising
13 19 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.34%) Military
16 12 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.13%) Games
18 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.72%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 126 (12.96%) Architect
2 113 (11.63%) GCP Engineer
3 93 (9.57%) Developer
4 90 (9.26%) Senior
5 82 (8.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 79 (8.13%) Lead
7 74 (7.61%) Analyst
8 65 (6.69%) Data Engineer
9 39 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
10 32 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (3.19%) Administrator
12 27 (2.78%) Network Engineer
13 26 (2.67%) GCP DevOps
14 23 (2.37%) Security Engineer
15 22 (2.26%) Consultant
16 21 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 21 (2.16%) Cloud Architect
16 21 (2.16%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 21 (2.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (2.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.72%) REST
2 44 (4.53%) Kafka
3 40 (4.12%) React
3 40 (4.12%) Spring
3 40 (4.12%) Spring Boot
4 27 (2.78%) OAuth
5 26 (2.67%) Node.js
6 25 (2.57%) JSON
6 25 (2.57%) RESTful
7 24 (2.47%) Android Jetpack
8 22 (2.26%) LangChain
9 21 (2.16%) Android SDK
9 21 (2.16%) HTML
10 19 (1.95%) Jetpack Compose
10 19 (1.95%) YAML
11 18 (1.85%) SAML
12 17 (1.75%) CSS
12 17 (1.75%) PyTorch
13 15 (1.54%) LangGraph
14 14 (1.44%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 148 (15.23%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.04%) AI Agents
3 40 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 32 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.88%) Mobile App
6 28 (2.88%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.78%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 25 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.44%) Clustering
12 14 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 67 (6.89%) Windows
2 62 (6.38%) Linux
3 45 (4.63%) Android
4 28 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.34%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.93%) Unix
8 9 (0.93%) VMS
9 6 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.51%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.10%) CentOS
12 1 (0.10%) SUSE
12 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (27.37%) CI/CD
2 215 (22.12%) DevOps
3 209 (21.50%) Agile
4 203 (20.88%) AI
5 175 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 172 (17.70%) Analytics
7 148 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (14.20%) Migration
9 108 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 98 (10.08%) Roadmaps
11 94 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 94 (9.67%) Observability
12 88 (9.05%) Decision-Making
12 88 (9.05%) Machine Learning
13 86 (8.85%) Software Engineering
14 83 (8.54%) Data Modelling
15 82 (8.44%) Microservices
16 80 (8.23%) Cloud Security
17 70 (7.20%) Containerisation
18 63 (6.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 266 (27.37%) Python
2 170 (17.49%) SQL
3 147 (15.12%) Java
4 82 (8.44%) PowerShell
5 74 (7.61%) Bash
6 43 (4.42%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 27 (2.78%) Go
9 25 (2.57%) TypeScript
10 21 (2.16%) C#
11 16 (1.65%) Scala
12 14 (1.44%) Groovy
13 13 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
15 11 (1.13%) Bicep
16 10 (1.03%) Rust
17 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.62%) SOQL
18 5 (0.51%) Ruby
19 4 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 186 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 152 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.85%) Degree
4 46 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 40 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.88%) CISSP
8 27 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.03%) CCNP
12 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.62%) CISM
14 6 (0.62%) PhD
15 5 (0.51%) OCP
15 5 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.63%) GDPR
3 42 (4.32%) QA
4 20 (2.06%) NIST
5 19 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.23%) WCAG
8 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.72%) NCSC
10 6 (0.62%) PMO
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) GRC
11 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.41%) PERC
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.31%) SLA
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 98 (10.08%) Docker
2 53 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.51%) NFS
6 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.51%) vSphere
7 4 (0.41%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.21%) Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.10%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 198 (20.37%) Terraform
2 165 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.70%) Grafana
4 33 (3.40%) Ansible
5 30 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.93%) Istio
9 9 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.93%) Puppet
10 7 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.62%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.62%) Podman
12 5 (0.51%) SCCM
12 5 (0.51%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.41%) vMotion
14 3 (0.31%) Argo
14 3 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 164 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (2.98%) OpenAI
2 29 (2.98%) Oracle
3 26 (2.67%) Splunk
4 25 (2.57%) Databricks
4 25 (2.57%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.26%) Adobe
5 22 (2.26%) Dynatrace
6 19 (1.95%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.95%) TikTok
7 17 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.65%) IBM
8 16 (1.65%) VMware
9 15 (1.54%) Apple
10 14 (1.44%) Okta
10 14 (1.44%) SAP
11 10 (1.03%) Cisco
11 10 (1.03%) Informatica
12 9 (0.93%) Checkmarx
12 9 (0.93%) Infoblox