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 26 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
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 111 136
Rank change year-on-year +15 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Google 829 676 729
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 2.18% 1.88%
As % of the Vendors category 5.67% 4.82% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 364 513
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £362 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £623 £651 £675
90th Percentile £744 £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 £31.95 £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 14,619 14,016 17,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.66% 45.17% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 8,426 11,432
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 439 617
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -26.67% +70.68%
75th Percentile £45.55 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +10 444 £525 -4.55% 285
North of England +15 172 £450 -10.00% 79
South East +13 95 £313 -30.83% 280
Yorkshire +12 94 £400 -20.00% 23
North West +22 75 £509 +1.75% 49
Midlands +5 48 £469 +31.67% 73
South West -8 40 £525 -14.29% 54
West Midlands +8 39 £500 +21.21% 45
East of England -27 18 £625 +47.06% 37
East Midlands -5 9 £358 +0.56% 27
North East -20 3 £570 +36.53% 7
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 22 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
1 22 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.53%) Confluence
3 17 (2.05%) Apache
4 16 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 13 (1.57%) CMS
6 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.72%) Mule
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.36%) Drupal
9 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) SAS
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 32 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.48%) Sketch
5 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.24%) Trello
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) Maple
6 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.24%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 483 (58.26%) GCP
2 249 (30.04%) Azure
3 223 (26.90%) AWS
4 112 (13.51%) Google Workspace
5 92 (11.10%) GitHub
6 68 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 64 (7.72%) Power Platform
8 63 (7.60%) Google Analytics
9 60 (7.24%) SaaS
10 40 (4.83%) Serverless
11 30 (3.62%) Cloud Run
12 28 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (3.26%) Cloud Functions
14 26 (3.14%) Google Tag Manager
15 23 (2.77%) Entra ID
15 23 (2.77%) Google Play
15 23 (2.77%) Google Sheets
15 23 (2.77%) Vertex AI
16 22 (2.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.76%) Firewall
2 22 (2.65%) Network Security
3 21 (2.53%) DNS
4 9 (1.09%) HTTP
4 9 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.09%) VPN
5 3 (0.36%) BGP
5 3 (0.36%) Bluetooth
5 3 (0.36%) DHCP
5 3 (0.36%) Internet
5 3 (0.36%) Intranet
5 3 (0.36%) LAN
5 3 (0.36%) SMTP
5 3 (0.36%) SSL
5 3 (0.36%) VLAN
5 3 (0.36%) VoIP
5 3 (0.36%) WAN
5 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.36%) Wireless
6 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.30%) BigQuery
2 56 (6.76%) Power BI
3 40 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (4.46%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (3.86%) Tableau
6 31 (3.74%) Looker
7 26 (3.14%) Big Data
8 22 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.93%) MySQL
10 14 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.69%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.45%) Metadata
11 12 (1.45%) Mixpanel
11 12 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.84%) Redis
14 6 (0.72%) Power Query
14 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 83 (10.01%) Git
3 54 (6.51%) JIRA
4 43 (5.19%) GitLab
5 15 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.33%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.21%) Postman
9 9 (1.09%) Gradle
9 9 (1.09%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.84%) Selenium
12 6 (0.72%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (0.72%) JUnit
12 6 (0.72%) Maven
12 6 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 5 (0.60%) Mockito
14 4 (0.48%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 298 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 169 (20.39%) Finance
3 100 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (12.06%) Banking
4 62 (7.48%) Marketing
5 57 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 24 (2.90%) Retail
7 22 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.05%) Advertising
10 16 (1.93%) Legal
11 15 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.69%) Publishing
13 13 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 102 (12.30%) Senior
2 85 (10.25%) Architect
3 84 (10.13%) Developer
4 79 (9.53%) Analyst
5 70 (8.44%) GCP Engineer
6 65 (7.84%) Lead
7 39 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 37 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 26 (3.14%) GCP DevOps
12 25 (3.02%) Consultant
12 25 (3.02%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 24 (2.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 23 (2.77%) Android Developer
15 21 (2.53%) GCP Architect
15 21 (2.53%) Security Engineer
16 20 (2.41%) IT Engineer
16 20 (2.41%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.20%) RESTful
2 43 (5.19%) REST
3 40 (4.83%) React
4 39 (4.70%) HTML
5 38 (4.58%) Node.js
6 32 (3.86%) CSS
7 28 (3.38%) Kafka
7 28 (3.38%) Spring
8 25 (3.02%) FastAPI
9 22 (2.65%) Android Jetpack
9 22 (2.65%) LangGraph
10 21 (2.53%) Jetpack Compose
11 20 (2.41%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.41%) TensorFlow
12 19 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 19 (2.29%) PyTorch
12 19 (2.29%) scikit-learn
13 18 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (2.17%) OAuth
14 17 (2.05%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.79%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.86%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.17%) Life Science
9 17 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.93%) Genomics
10 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.81%) Social Media
12 12 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.21%) iPad
13 10 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.60%) Linux
2 48 (5.79%) Android
3 46 (5.55%) Windows
4 32 (3.86%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.21%) Unix
6 9 (1.09%) 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
1 216 (26.06%) CI/CD
2 206 (24.85%) DevOps
3 197 (23.76%) Agile
4 184 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (19.30%) Analytics
6 146 (17.61%) AI
7 127 (15.32%) Containerisation
8 103 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (11.10%) Microservices
10 91 (10.98%) Machine Learning
11 85 (10.25%) User Experience
12 78 (9.41%) Migration
13 74 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 69 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 64 (7.72%) Computer Science
16 63 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
17 59 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
17 59 (7.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 58 (7.00%) Data Modelling
19 56 (6.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 240 (28.95%) Python
2 134 (16.16%) SQL
3 97 (11.70%) Java
4 58 (7.00%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.07%) Bash
5 42 (5.07%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.86%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.62%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.38%) Go
9 12 (1.45%) Ruby
10 11 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.97%) C#
13 7 (0.84%) Bicep
13 7 (0.84%) R
13 7 (0.84%) VBA
14 6 (0.72%) Scala
15 4 (0.48%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 93 (11.22%) Degree
4 43 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.50%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.90%) CISSP
7 16 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.21%) MCP
10 9 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.09%) CISM
10 9 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.97%) DV Cleared
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 52 (6.27%) GDPR
2 42 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.62%) QA
5 24 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.81%) NIST
7 12 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.33%) SLA
9 10 (1.21%) GRC
10 7 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.84%) NCSC
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%) DICOM
15 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (17.61%) Docker
2 27 (3.26%) 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 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 127 (15.32%) Terraform
3 42 (5.07%) Ansible
4 32 (3.86%) Grafana
5 29 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.05%) Argo
7 11 (1.33%) Istio
7 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.21%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.09%) 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%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 142 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.39%) Splunk
3 24 (2.90%) Adobe
3 24 (2.90%) Oracle
3 24 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.53%) CyberArk
5 20 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 17 (2.05%) Databricks
7 17 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.93%) Apple
8 16 (1.93%) VMware
9 15 (1.81%) Cisco
9 15 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
9 15 (1.81%) Okta
10 14 (1.69%) Hotjar
10 14 (1.69%) SAP
11 12 (1.45%) Amplitude
12 11 (1.33%) IBM
13 10 (1.21%) Veritas