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 28 November 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +16 +28 -23
Contract jobs citing Google 830 682 722
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 2.19% 1.86%
As % of the Vendors category 5.66% 4.84% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 367 508
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £360 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.33% -5.79%
75th Percentile £616 £651 £675
90th Percentile £739 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 45 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.35 £16.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £40.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -56.46% +93.38% -7.66%
75th Percentile £42.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.53 - £67.00
UK median hourly rate £27.27 £61.00 £31.16
% change year-on-year -55.30% +95.76% -10.97%

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 14,660 14,077 17,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.68% 45.22% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,468 8,469 11,390
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 437 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -27.37% +69.73%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +2 447 £525 -4.55% 256
North of England +17 170 £450 -10.00% 57
South East +19 95 £314 -34.58% 245
Yorkshire +5 95 £400 -20.00% 14
North West +23 72 £505 +1.00% 40
Midlands +12 48 £469 +31.67% 56
South West -1 40 £525 -14.29% 37
West Midlands -8 39 £500 +21.21% 32
East of England -30 18 £625 +47.06% 28
East Midlands -4 9 £358 +0.56% 24
North East -19 3 £570 +36.53% 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 23 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.53%) Confluence
4 18 (2.17%) Apache
5 16 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.57%) CMS
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.72%) Mule
9 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.36%) Drupal
11 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
13 1 (0.12%) Luigi
13 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 34 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.08%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.48%) Sketch
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.24%) Trello
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.12%) InDesign
7 1 (0.12%) Maple
7 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 484 (58.31%) GCP
2 253 (30.48%) Azure
3 224 (26.99%) AWS
4 113 (13.61%) Google Workspace
5 92 (11.08%) GitHub
6 67 (8.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 64 (7.71%) Power Platform
8 60 (7.23%) Google Analytics
9 59 (7.11%) SaaS
10 39 (4.70%) Serverless
11 30 (3.61%) Cloud Run
12 28 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (3.25%) Cloud Functions
13 27 (3.25%) Google Tag Manager
14 23 (2.77%) Entra ID
14 23 (2.77%) Google Play
14 23 (2.77%) Google Sheets
14 23 (2.77%) Vertex AI
15 22 (2.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.75%) Firewall
2 22 (2.65%) Network Security
3 21 (2.53%) DNS
4 9 (1.08%) HTTP
4 9 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.08%) VPN
5 4 (0.48%) Internet
6 3 (0.36%) BGP
6 3 (0.36%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.36%) DHCP
6 3 (0.36%) Intranet
6 3 (0.36%) LAN
6 3 (0.36%) SMTP
6 3 (0.36%) SSL
6 3 (0.36%) VLAN
6 3 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.36%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.36%) Wireless
7 2 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.41%) BigQuery
2 58 (6.99%) Power BI
3 40 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (3.86%) Tableau
6 31 (3.73%) Looker
7 26 (3.13%) Big Data
8 22 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.93%) MySQL
10 15 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.45%) Metadata
12 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.08%) Mixpanel
14 7 (0.84%) Redis
15 6 (0.72%) Power Query
15 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (10.00%) Git
1 83 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 55 (6.63%) JIRA
3 43 (5.18%) GitLab
4 15 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 14 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.33%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.20%) Postman
8 9 (1.08%) Gradle
8 9 (1.08%) SoapUI
9 8 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.84%) Selenium
11 6 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.72%) JUnit
11 6 (0.72%) Maven
11 6 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 5 (0.60%) Mockito
13 4 (0.48%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 300 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 167 (20.12%) Finance
3 100 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (12.05%) Banking
4 61 (7.35%) Marketing
5 58 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.65%) Financial Institution
6 22 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 22 (2.65%) Retail
7 20 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (1.93%) Advertising
8 16 (1.93%) Legal
9 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.69%) Publishing
11 13 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.84%) Automotive
13 7 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (12.41%) Senior
2 85 (10.24%) Architect
2 85 (10.24%) Developer
3 80 (9.64%) Analyst
4 68 (8.19%) GCP Engineer
5 65 (7.83%) Lead
6 37 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (3.49%) Data Engineer
9 26 (3.13%) Consultant
9 26 (3.13%) Software Engineer
10 24 (2.89%) Android Developer
10 24 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (2.89%) GCP DevOps
11 22 (2.65%) GCP Architect
11 22 (2.65%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 21 (2.53%) Security Engineer
13 20 (2.41%) IT Support
13 20 (2.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.19%) RESTful
2 43 (5.18%) REST
3 40 (4.82%) React
4 39 (4.70%) HTML
5 38 (4.58%) Node.js
6 32 (3.86%) CSS
7 29 (3.49%) Kafka
8 28 (3.37%) Spring
9 25 (3.01%) FastAPI
10 23 (2.77%) LangGraph
11 22 (2.65%) Android Jetpack
12 21 (2.53%) Jetpack Compose
12 21 (2.53%) TensorFlow
13 20 (2.41%) PyTorch
13 20 (2.41%) scikit-learn
13 20 (2.41%) Spring Boot
14 19 (2.29%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.29%) OAuth
15 18 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (2.17%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.86%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.89%) Public Cloud
7 22 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.17%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.17%) Life Science
11 17 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.93%) Genomics
12 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.81%) Social Media
14 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.45%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.20%) iPad
16 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 10 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.59%) Linux
2 49 (5.90%) Android
3 46 (5.54%) Windows
4 33 (3.98%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.20%) Unix
6 9 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (26.14%) CI/CD
2 206 (24.82%) DevOps
3 198 (23.86%) Agile
4 184 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (19.52%) Analytics
6 149 (17.95%) AI
7 127 (15.30%) Containerisation
8 104 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 93 (11.20%) Machine Learning
10 91 (10.96%) Microservices
11 82 (9.88%) User Experience
12 79 (9.52%) Migration
13 74 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (7.83%) Computer Science
16 61 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
17 60 (7.23%) Actionable Insight
18 59 (7.11%) Data Modelling
18 59 (7.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 57 (6.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 242 (29.16%) Python
2 135 (16.27%) SQL
3 98 (11.81%) Java
4 59 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.06%) Bash
5 42 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.86%) TypeScript
7 31 (3.73%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.37%) Go
9 12 (1.45%) Ruby
10 11 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.08%) C#
11 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.84%) Bicep
12 7 (0.84%) R
12 7 (0.84%) VBA
13 6 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (13.13%) Security Cleared
2 97 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.72%) Degree
4 43 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.89%) CISSP
7 16 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.33%) MCP
10 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.08%) CISM
11 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.72%) CCSP
12 6 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.72%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.39%) GDPR
2 44 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 31 (3.73%) QA
5 24 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.81%) NIST
7 12 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.20%) GRC
8 10 (1.20%) SLA
9 8 (0.96%) NCSC
10 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.72%) WCAG
12 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.48%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.36%) ECSS
14 3 (0.36%) HL7
15 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.24%) PMO
15 2 (0.24%) Section 508
System Software
1 146 (17.59%) Docker
2 27 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Squid
5 5 (0.60%) Snort
6 2 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
7 1 (0.12%) SRDF
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 150 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 127 (15.30%) Terraform
3 42 (5.06%) Ansible
4 32 (3.86%) Grafana
5 29 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.81%) Argo
7 11 (1.33%) Istio
7 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.84%) QRadar
11 6 (0.72%) Nessus
11 6 (0.72%) Puppet
12 5 (0.60%) Nexpose
12 5 (0.60%) SCCM
12 5 (0.60%) Suricata
13 4 (0.48%) logstash
14 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 141 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.39%) Splunk
3 25 (3.01%) Adobe
4 24 (2.89%) Oracle
4 24 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.53%) CyberArk
6 20 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.29%) Databricks
8 18 (2.17%) Palo Alto
9 17 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.93%) Apple
10 16 (1.93%) VMware
11 15 (1.81%) Cisco
11 15 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
11 15 (1.81%) Okta
11 15 (1.81%) SAP
12 12 (1.45%) Amplitude
12 12 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.33%) Optimizely
14 10 (1.20%) Hotjar