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 21 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 94 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Google 963 741 763
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 2.72% 2.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.24% 5.73% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 415 461
10th Percentile £306 £205 £304
25th Percentile £413 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £675
90th Percentile £692 £710 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 65 73
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £24.92 £16.95 £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.96% -64.77% +76.99%
75th Percentile £39.28 £46.30 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £56.60 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.96% -41.98% +7.39%

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 18,371 12,927 15,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.97% 47.44% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 8,163 9,799
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 616 892
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.49 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.38% -30.59%
75th Percentile £67.47 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.93% -3.27% -36.65%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -22 504 £508 +1.40% 443
North of England -20 186 £500 +6.09% 130
Yorkshire -19 95 £520 +15.94% 37
South East -71 91 £537 +19.33% 104
North West -32 75 £500 -13.04% 83
South West -1 69 £550 +48.65% 32
Midlands -16 58 £488 +21.88% 38
West Midlands -35 37 £425 +13.33% 24
East of England -22 25 £510 +5.15% 22
East Midlands +2 21 £550 +37.50% 14
North East -26 20 £440 -29.60% 10
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 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.32%) Apache
3 31 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (2.80%) Apache Spark
6 22 (2.28%) Confluence
7 16 (1.66%) CMS
8 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Drupal
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) nginx
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) JBoss
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Luigi
12 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.25%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.62%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.42%) InDesign
8 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.21%) Maya
11 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) 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
1 572 (59.40%) GCP
2 260 (27.00%) AWS
2 260 (27.00%) Azure
3 165 (17.13%) Google Workspace
4 87 (9.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 86 (8.93%) GitHub
6 77 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (5.30%) Google Sheets
8 50 (5.19%) Google Analytics
8 50 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 50 (5.19%) SaaS
9 42 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (4.36%) Vertex AI
10 36 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 34 (3.53%) Google Drive
12 29 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (2.60%) Slack
14 24 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.49%) Serverless
14 24 (2.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.96%) Firewall
2 64 (6.65%) DNS
3 47 (4.88%) VPN
4 27 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.39%) Network Security
6 18 (1.87%) DHCP
7 11 (1.14%) DKIM
7 11 (1.14%) DMARC
8 10 (1.04%) BGP
9 9 (0.93%) Internet
10 8 (0.83%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.83%) OSPF
10 8 (0.83%) VLAN
11 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.62%) HTTP
12 6 (0.62%) LAN
12 6 (0.62%) SMTP
12 6 (0.62%) VoIP
13 5 (0.52%) SAN
13 5 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (9.87%) BigQuery
2 48 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (4.36%) Power BI
4 29 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.39%) Tableau
6 22 (2.28%) Looker
7 21 (2.18%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 19 (1.97%) Big Data
10 18 (1.87%) Metadata
10 18 (1.87%) MySQL
11 17 (1.77%) SQL Server
12 11 (1.14%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.83%) Mixpanel
13 8 (0.83%) OLTP
13 8 (0.83%) Redis
14 7 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.73%) OLAP
15 6 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 81 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 59 (6.13%) Git
3 55 (5.71%) JIRA
4 44 (4.57%) GitLab
5 16 (1.66%) JUnit
6 9 (0.93%) Gradle
6 9 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.73%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.62%) Android Studio
8 6 (0.62%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.62%) MLflow
9 5 (0.52%) fastlane
9 5 (0.52%) Gatling
10 4 (0.42%) JMeter
10 4 (0.42%) Maven
11 3 (0.31%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.31%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.31%) Selenium
11 3 (0.31%) webpack
11 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 241 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 179 (18.59%) Finance
3 114 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 107 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (7.37%) Marketing
6 57 (5.92%) Banking
7 46 (4.78%) Retail
8 34 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.12%) Legal
10 29 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.28%) Publishing
12 19 (1.97%) Advertising
13 15 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.35%) Military
16 11 (1.14%) Games
16 11 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.73%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (12.36%) Architect
2 109 (11.32%) GCP Engineer
3 88 (9.14%) Developer
3 88 (9.14%) Senior
4 83 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 78 (8.10%) Lead
6 75 (7.79%) Analyst
7 61 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 36 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.43%) Administrator
10 31 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (2.80%) Network Engineer
12 26 (2.70%) GCP DevOps
13 24 (2.49%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.28%) Consultant
16 21 (2.18%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 21 (2.18%) Software Engineer
17 20 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 19 (1.97%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.06%) REST
2 41 (4.26%) Kafka
3 40 (4.15%) React
4 39 (4.05%) Spring
4 39 (4.05%) Spring Boot
5 28 (2.91%) OAuth
6 25 (2.60%) Node.js
7 23 (2.39%) Android Jetpack
8 22 (2.28%) RESTful
9 21 (2.18%) Android SDK
9 21 (2.18%) HTML
9 21 (2.18%) LangChain
10 20 (2.08%) JSON
11 19 (1.97%) SAML
12 18 (1.87%) Jetpack Compose
12 18 (1.87%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.87%) YAML
13 17 (1.77%) CSS
14 13 (1.35%) Apache Beam
14 13 (1.35%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 142 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 44 (4.57%) AI Agents
3 37 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 26 (2.70%) Security Posture
9 23 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.45%) Clustering
11 14 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
13 12 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.04%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.85%) Windows
2 61 (6.33%) Linux
3 46 (4.78%) Android
4 27 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.93%) Unix
7 9 (0.93%) VMS
8 6 (0.62%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.52%) CoreOS
9 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.10%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (26.79%) CI/CD
2 206 (21.39%) DevOps
3 203 (21.08%) Agile
4 197 (20.46%) AI
5 168 (17.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 166 (17.24%) Analytics
7 147 (15.26%) Migration
7 147 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
8 110 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 93 (9.66%) Observability
10 92 (9.55%) Roadmaps
11 89 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 86 (8.93%) Machine Learning
13 84 (8.72%) Software Engineering
14 82 (8.52%) Cloud Security
14 82 (8.52%) Decision-Making
15 78 (8.10%) Microservices
16 74 (7.68%) Data Modelling
17 71 (7.37%) Containerisation
18 61 (6.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 262 (27.21%) Python
2 174 (18.07%) SQL
3 141 (14.64%) Java
4 80 (8.31%) PowerShell
5 71 (7.37%) Bash
6 40 (4.15%) JavaScript
7 33 (3.43%) Kotlin
8 29 (3.01%) Go
9 22 (2.28%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.08%) C#
11 14 (1.45%) Scala
12 13 (1.35%) Groovy
13 12 (1.25%) Google Apps Script
13 12 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.14%) Bicep
15 10 (1.04%) Rust
16 6 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.62%) SOQL
17 5 (0.52%) R
17 5 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 180 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 149 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.55%) Degree
4 44 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 30 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.91%) CISSP
8 26 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.04%) CCNP
12 8 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.62%) CISM
15 5 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.52%) OCP
15 5 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.98%) GDPR
2 46 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.15%) QA
4 21 (2.18%) NIST
5 18 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.25%) WCAG
8 11 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.73%) NCSC
10 6 (0.62%) PMO
11 5 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.42%) PERC
13 3 (0.31%) GRC
13 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.31%) SLA
13 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 96 (9.97%) Docker
2 54 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.52%) NFS
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.52%) vSphere
7 4 (0.42%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.42%) 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
1 200 (20.77%) Terraform
2 162 (16.82%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.53%) Grafana
4 31 (3.22%) Ansible
5 27 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.14%) Istio
10 9 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.93%) Puppet
11 7 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.62%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.62%) Podman
13 5 (0.52%) SCCM
13 5 (0.52%) SnapMirror
13 5 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.42%) vMotion
15 3 (0.31%) Argo
15 3 (0.31%) Nagios
Vendors
1 168 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.70%) Oracle
2 26 (2.70%) Splunk
3 25 (2.60%) OpenAI
3 25 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 24 (2.49%) Databricks
5 22 (2.28%) Adobe
6 19 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 19 (1.97%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.87%) TikTok
8 16 (1.66%) Apple
8 16 (1.66%) Okta
8 16 (1.66%) VMware
9 14 (1.45%) IBM
10 12 (1.25%) SAP
11 10 (1.04%) Cisco
12 9 (0.93%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.93%) Informatica
12 9 (0.93%) Palo Alto