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 12 October 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
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 106
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 1,099 750 731
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.69% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 5.70% 5.62% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 436 421
10th Percentile £324 £213 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -7.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £675
90th Percentile £688 £719 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 37 62
10th Percentile £13.49 £15.50 £30.28
25th Percentile £14.41 £15.56 £38.31
Median hourly rate £25.64 £21.28 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.47% -69.60% +116.58%
75th Percentile £39.28 £35.75 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £56.40 -
UK median hourly rate £23.07 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.25% -68.69% +114.33%

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 19,274 13,354 14,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.67% 47.85% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,773 8,502 8,597
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £627
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,273 647 513
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -21.35%
75th Percentile £60.81 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £69.79 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.87%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -23 550 £510 +2.00% 2,008
North of England -14 237 £474 +5.29% 279
Yorkshire -8 114 £538 +27.98% 85
South East -27 113 £500 +122.22% 265
North West -16 96 £449 -9.85% 165
South West +22 87 £525 - 79
Midlands -34 50 £484 +3.15% 127
West Midlands -52 32 £475 -2.56% 86
East of England -11 30 £775 +72.22% 73
North East -15 28 £425 -25.44% 29
East Midlands +1 19 £625 +56.25% 41
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 45 (4.09%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.09%) Apache
4 33 (3.00%) Confluence
5 30 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (2.64%) CMS
7 18 (1.64%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.82%) WordPress
9 8 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.45%) IIS
11 4 (0.36%) Drupal
12 3 (0.27%) nginx
13 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.091%) Camunda
14 1 (0.091%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.091%) Luigi
14 1 (0.091%) Mendix
14 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
Applications
1 41 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.27%) InDesign
9 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.091%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.55%) Shopify
3 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.27%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.27%) iTrent
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.091%) Maximo
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.091%) Primavera
7 1 (0.091%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.091%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 694 (63.15%) GCP
2 345 (31.39%) AWS
3 337 (30.66%) Azure
4 155 (14.10%) Google Workspace
5 94 (8.55%) GitHub
5 94 (8.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 86 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (5.82%) Power Platform
8 63 (5.73%) Google Analytics
9 61 (5.55%) Entra ID
10 59 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (4.91%) Google Sheets
12 52 (4.73%) SaaS
13 48 (4.37%) dbt
14 47 (4.28%) Vertex AI
15 43 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
16 38 (3.46%) Google Gemini
17 37 (3.37%) Cloud Run
18 33 (3.00%) Google Drive
19 32 (2.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.37%) Firewall
2 50 (4.55%) DNS
3 32 (2.91%) Network Security
4 30 (2.73%) VPN
5 25 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.64%) DHCP
7 13 (1.18%) HTTP
8 12 (1.09%) Internet
8 12 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.00%) WAN
10 10 (0.91%) BGP
10 10 (0.91%) DKIM
10 10 (0.91%) DMARC
11 8 (0.73%) DNSSEC
11 8 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.73%) VoIP
12 7 (0.64%) LAN
12 7 (0.64%) VLAN
13 5 (0.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (12.47%) BigQuery
2 67 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (5.00%) Power BI
4 48 (4.37%) Looker
5 42 (3.82%) Metadata
5 42 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 29 (2.64%) Tableau
8 28 (2.55%) MySQL
9 21 (1.91%) Big Data
10 20 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.82%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.55%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.36%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.73%) Data Vault
14 8 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.73%) Redis
15 7 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.64%) Flink
Development Applications
1 110 (10.01%) Jenkins
2 88 (8.01%) Git
3 67 (6.10%) GitLab
4 61 (5.55%) JIRA
5 16 (1.46%) Gradle
6 13 (1.18%) JUnit
6 13 (1.18%) Maven
7 11 (1.00%) Zephyr
8 10 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (0.82%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.64%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.64%) Gatling
10 7 (0.64%) JMeter
10 7 (0.64%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.55%) MLflow
12 5 (0.45%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.45%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.45%) LoadRunner
General
1 297 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 204 (18.56%) Finance
3 140 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.46%) Marketing
6 69 (6.28%) Banking
7 56 (5.10%) Retail
8 43 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.00%) Publishing
11 21 (1.91%) Advertising
11 21 (1.91%) Legal
12 20 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.64%) Local Government
14 17 (1.55%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.46%) Games
15 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.00%) Billing
17 11 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 181 (16.47%) Architect
2 119 (10.83%) Developer
3 105 (9.55%) GCP Engineer
4 104 (9.46%) Senior
5 86 (7.83%) Data Engineer
6 81 (7.37%) Analyst
6 81 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 59 (5.37%) Lead
8 56 (5.10%) Administrator
9 51 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (2.64%) GCP Data Engineer
12 28 (2.55%) GCP Architect
12 28 (2.55%) GCP DevOps
13 27 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
13 27 (2.46%) Security Architect
14 25 (2.27%) Consultant
15 24 (2.18%) Security Engineer
16 22 (2.00%) Java Developer
16 22 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (22.02%) Terraform
2 88 (8.01%) REST
3 52 (4.73%) Kafka
4 49 (4.46%) React
5 46 (4.19%) OAuth
6 41 (3.73%) RESTful
7 37 (3.37%) Node.js
8 35 (3.18%) JSON
8 35 (3.18%) Spring
9 34 (3.09%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.91%) SAML
11 29 (2.64%) JWT
11 29 (2.64%) XML
12 27 (2.46%) LangGraph
12 27 (2.46%) Middleware
13 26 (2.37%) SOAP
14 24 (2.18%) HTML
15 23 (2.09%) OAuth2
16 22 (2.00%) LangChain
17 21 (1.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 204 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.55%) AI Agents
3 58 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 57 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 45 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 40 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.46%) Product Ownership
8 33 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.82%) Security Posture
10 30 (2.73%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (2.37%) Mobile App
12 25 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.82%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
15 18 (1.64%) CMDB
16 15 (1.36%) Clustering
17 14 (1.27%) Replication
18 13 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 13 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 88 (8.01%) Linux
2 85 (7.73%) Windows
3 39 (3.55%) Android
4 28 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.73%) Unix
7 17 (1.55%) macOS
8 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.64%) VMS
10 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.27%) CentOS
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.091%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (32.67%) CI/CD
2 274 (24.93%) DevOps
3 255 (23.20%) AI
4 244 (22.20%) Agile
5 233 (21.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 193 (17.56%) Analytics
7 174 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 154 (14.01%) Migration
9 150 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
10 125 (11.37%) Containerisation
11 118 (10.74%) Cloud Security
12 117 (10.65%) Observability
12 117 (10.65%) Roadmaps
13 110 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (9.83%) Software Engineering
15 107 (9.74%) Data Modelling
16 105 (9.55%) Microservices
17 99 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
18 96 (8.74%) Machine Learning
19 94 (8.55%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 339 (30.85%) Python
2 221 (20.11%) SQL
3 142 (12.92%) Java
4 100 (9.10%) Bash
5 97 (8.83%) PowerShell
6 50 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 49 (4.46%) Go
8 31 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.64%) Kotlin
10 24 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 23 (2.09%) C#
12 18 (1.64%) Scala
13 16 (1.46%) Bicep
13 16 (1.46%) Groovy
14 10 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
15 8 (0.73%) R
16 7 (0.64%) Perl
16 7 (0.64%) Rust
17 6 (0.55%) SOQL
18 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 200 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 110 (10.01%) Degree
4 67 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 50 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 43 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.91%) CISSP
7 40 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (1.55%) CISM
11 14 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.91%) CCSP
14 8 (0.73%) CISA
14 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.19%) QA
3 34 (3.09%) GDPR
4 29 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.55%) NIST
6 21 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.00%) NCSC
9 10 (0.91%) GRC
10 9 (0.82%) WCAG
11 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.73%) PMO
12 7 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.55%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.55%) SLA
14 5 (0.45%) ISO 31000
14 5 (0.45%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 150 (13.65%) Docker
2 60 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.45%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.091%) vSphere
9 1 (0.091%) zsh
Systems Management
1 246 (22.38%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.28%) Ansible
3 37 (3.37%) Grafana
4 29 (2.64%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (1.00%) Puppet
10 8 (0.73%) CASB
11 7 (0.64%) Argo
11 7 (0.64%) Istio
12 4 (0.36%) Cilium
12 4 (0.36%) Podman
12 4 (0.36%) SCCM
12 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.27%) Kibana
13 3 (0.27%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.27%) Nagios
13 3 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 253 (23.02%) Microsoft
2 47 (4.28%) Oracle
3 41 (3.73%) Splunk
4 39 (3.55%) OpenAI
5 36 (3.28%) Adobe
6 33 (3.00%) Databricks
6 33 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.91%) Dynatrace
7 32 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.73%) IBM
9 23 (2.09%) Okta
10 22 (2.00%) SAP
10 22 (2.00%) TikTok
11 20 (1.82%) Red Hat
12 19 (1.73%) Cisco
13 17 (1.55%) Apple
14 16 (1.46%) Informatica
14 16 (1.46%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.36%) VMware
16 14 (1.27%) CrowdStrike