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 20 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
20 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 102 102
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Google 1,051 723 746
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 2.60% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.46% 5.48% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 415 441
10th Percentile £321 £236 £309
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £492 £535
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -8.04% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £688 £700 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 60
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.56 £35.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £22.56 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% -67.77% +112.12%
75th Percentile £43.75 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £62.25 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £24.95 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.22% -64.36% +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 19,246 13,191 14,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.56% 47.49% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,934 8,380 8,902
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £712 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,151 617 593
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.75 £14.30
25th Percentile £16.97 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.79 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -16.17% -32.58%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -27 535 £505 +0.90% 2,163
North of England -22 215 £475 +5.56% 285
South East -17 113 £525 +110.00% 273
Yorkshire -13 110 £531 +27.63% 83
North West -31 81 £453 -9.40% 176
South West +15 77 £550 +22.22% 160
Midlands -35 50 £474 +8.97% 109
West Midlands -41 33 £462 -0.22% 76
North East -22 25 £440 -22.81% 27
East of England -22 23 £570 +14.00% 80
East Midlands -8 17 £625 +66.67% 33
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 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 41 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (3.33%) Confluence
4 31 (2.95%) Apache
5 30 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (2.47%) CMS
7 19 (1.81%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.76%) WordPress
10 4 (0.38%) Drupal
10 4 (0.38%) IIS
11 2 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.095%) Camunda
12 1 (0.095%) Luigi
12 1 (0.095%) Mendix
12 1 (0.095%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 40 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.29%) InDesign
9 1 (0.095%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.095%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Cloudability
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.29%) iTrent
3 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.19%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.095%) Actimize
5 1 (0.095%) Maximo
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.095%) Primavera
5 1 (0.095%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.095%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.095%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.095%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.095%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 664 (63.18%) GCP
2 314 (29.88%) AWS
2 314 (29.88%) Azure
3 141 (13.42%) Google Workspace
4 94 (8.94%) GitHub
5 91 (8.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 74 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
7 65 (6.18%) Google Analytics
8 58 (5.52%) Power Platform
9 55 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (5.23%) SaaS
10 52 (4.95%) Vertex AI
11 51 (4.85%) Entra ID
12 47 (4.47%) Google Sheets
13 46 (4.38%) dbt
14 40 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (3.14%) Google Drive
16 31 (2.95%) Cloud Run
17 28 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (2.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.14%) Firewall
2 50 (4.76%) DNS
3 31 (2.95%) VPN
4 28 (2.66%) Network Security
5 25 (2.38%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.71%) DHCP
7 12 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (1.05%) DKIM
8 11 (1.05%) DMARC
8 11 (1.05%) HTTP
9 10 (0.95%) Internet
10 9 (0.86%) WAN
11 8 (0.76%) DNSSEC
11 8 (0.76%) VoIP
12 7 (0.67%) BGP
12 7 (0.67%) LAN
12 7 (0.67%) VLAN
13 6 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (12.56%) BigQuery
2 65 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.76%) Power BI
4 43 (4.09%) Looker
5 36 (3.43%) Metadata
6 34 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (2.57%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.19%) Tableau
9 20 (1.90%) Big Data
10 18 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.62%) MySQL
11 17 (1.62%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.43%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.76%) Flink
15 7 (0.67%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.67%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.67%) Redis
16 6 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 94 (8.94%) Jenkins
2 78 (7.42%) Git
3 65 (6.18%) GitLab
4 64 (6.09%) JIRA
5 16 (1.52%) JUnit
6 13 (1.24%) Gradle
7 11 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.05%) Zephyr
8 9 (0.86%) Maven
8 9 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.67%) Gatling
9 7 (0.67%) JMeter
9 7 (0.67%) NeoLoad
10 6 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.57%) IntelliJ
10 6 (0.57%) MLflow
11 5 (0.48%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.48%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.48%) LoadRunner
General
1 277 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 204 (19.41%) Finance
3 136 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (11.89%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.95%) Marketing
6 58 (5.52%) Banking
7 49 (4.66%) Retail
8 35 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (2.28%) Publishing
11 23 (2.19%) Legal
12 21 (2.00%) Advertising
13 19 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.43%) Local Government
15 14 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.33%) Games
15 14 (1.33%) Military
16 12 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.14%) Billing
Job Titles
1 173 (16.46%) Architect
2 109 (10.37%) GCP Engineer
3 104 (9.90%) Developer
4 98 (9.32%) Senior
5 81 (7.71%) Analyst
6 78 (7.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 75 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 70 (6.66%) Lead
9 51 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (4.09%) Administrator
11 30 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.38%) Security Architect
13 25 (2.38%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.28%) GCP DevOps
15 23 (2.19%) GCP Data Engineer
16 22 (2.09%) GCP Architect
16 22 (2.09%) Security Engineer
17 20 (1.90%) Consultant
17 20 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (20.84%) Terraform
2 83 (7.90%) REST
3 45 (4.28%) React
4 43 (4.09%) Kafka
5 42 (4.00%) OAuth
6 37 (3.52%) Spring
7 36 (3.43%) Spring Boot
8 35 (3.33%) Node.js
9 33 (3.14%) RESTful
10 32 (3.04%) JSON
11 30 (2.85%) SAML
12 26 (2.47%) JWT
13 25 (2.38%) HTML
14 24 (2.28%) Middleware
15 23 (2.19%) SOAP
16 22 (2.09%) LangGraph
16 22 (2.09%) XML
17 20 (1.90%) CSS
17 20 (1.90%) GraphQL
17 20 (1.90%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 190 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 61 (5.80%) AI Agents
3 53 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 46 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 40 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (2.95%) Security Posture
9 29 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.28%) Data Centre
10 24 (2.28%) Mobile App
11 23 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 21 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.43%) CMDB
14 15 (1.43%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.24%) PKI
16 12 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.52%) Windows
2 77 (7.33%) Linux
3 37 (3.52%) Android
4 28 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.33%) Unix
7 13 (1.24%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.57%) VMS
11 4 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.29%) CentOS
13 2 (0.19%) SUSE
13 2 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (30.73%) CI/CD
2 245 (23.31%) Agile
2 245 (23.31%) DevOps
3 231 (21.98%) AI
4 214 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (17.79%) Analytics
6 157 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 147 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (13.61%) Migration
9 115 (10.94%) Containerisation
10 109 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 108 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (10.09%) Cloud Security
13 104 (9.90%) Observability
14 103 (9.80%) Software Engineering
15 101 (9.61%) Data Modelling
16 99 (9.42%) Microservices
17 90 (8.56%) Machine Learning
18 89 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
19 87 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 319 (30.35%) Python
2 201 (19.12%) SQL
3 142 (13.51%) Java
4 90 (8.56%) Bash
5 86 (8.18%) PowerShell
6 52 (4.95%) JavaScript
7 46 (4.38%) Go
8 30 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.28%) Kotlin
10 23 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.90%) C#
11 20 (1.90%) Scala
12 14 (1.33%) Groovy
13 12 (1.14%) Bicep
14 7 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
14 7 (0.67%) Rust
15 6 (0.57%) LookML
15 6 (0.57%) Perl
15 6 (0.57%) R
15 6 (0.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 233 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 184 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 98 (9.32%) Degree
4 59 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 41 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.90%) CISSP
7 31 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 16 (1.52%) CISM
10 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.86%) CCSP
13 7 (0.67%) CISA
13 7 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.47%) QA
3 39 (3.71%) GDPR
4 26 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.38%) NIST
6 21 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) GRC
9 9 (0.86%) NCSC
9 9 (0.86%) WCAG
10 8 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.76%) PMO
11 5 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.38%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 138 (13.13%) Docker
2 57 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.38%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.29%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.29%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.095%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.095%) vSphere
8 1 (0.095%) zsh
Systems Management
1 220 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 58 (5.52%) Ansible
3 35 (3.33%) Grafana
4 28 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (1.71%) Progress Chef
6 18 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.95%) Puppet
9 7 (0.67%) CASB
10 6 (0.57%) Cilium
11 5 (0.48%) Argo
11 5 (0.48%) SCCM
12 4 (0.38%) Istio
12 4 (0.38%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.38%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.29%) Nagios
13 3 (0.29%) vMotion
14 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 218 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.19%) Oracle
3 36 (3.43%) Splunk
4 34 (3.24%) Adobe
5 33 (3.14%) Databricks
5 33 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 30 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.66%) IBM
8 26 (2.47%) Dynatrace
8 26 (2.47%) Salesforce
9 23 (2.19%) TikTok
10 20 (1.90%) Okta
10 20 (1.90%) SAP
11 19 (1.81%) Red Hat
12 18 (1.71%) Cisco
13 16 (1.52%) Informatica
13 16 (1.52%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.43%) VMware
15 13 (1.24%) Apple
15 13 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
2,971 Google jobs in England