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 27 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 833 682 722
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.71% 2.18% 1.88%
As % of the Vendors category 5.69% 4.83% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 365 508
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.33% -5.39%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 47 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.40 £16.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £36.88 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £61.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -55.39% +88.74% -7.66%
75th Percentile £42.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.53 - £67.00
UK median hourly rate £27.27 £60.50 £31.16
% change year-on-year -54.93% +94.16% -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 14,652 14,113 17,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.64% 45.22% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,441 8,487 11,335
10th Percentile £285 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
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 719 442 617
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.02 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -27.78% +66.67%
75th Percentile £46.50 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +6 448 £525 -4.55% 282
North of England +23 173 £450 -10.00% 62
South East +13 94 £313 -34.79% 259
Yorkshire +10 94 £400 -20.00% 15
North West +22 76 £505 +1.00% 44
Midlands +10 48 £469 +31.67% 59
South West -6 40 £525 -14.29% 44
West Midlands 0 39 £500 +21.21% 35
East of England -27 18 £625 +47.06% 24
East Midlands -4 9 £358 +0.56% 23
North East -20 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 (2.76%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.52%) Confluence
4 18 (2.16%) Apache
5 16 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.56%) 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%) JBoss
13 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 33 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (3.84%) 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
1 486 (58.34%) GCP
2 251 (30.13%) Azure
3 224 (26.89%) AWS
4 112 (13.45%) Google Workspace
5 92 (11.04%) GitHub
6 69 (8.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 65 (7.80%) Power Platform
8 64 (7.68%) Google Analytics
9 60 (7.20%) SaaS
10 40 (4.80%) Serverless
11 30 (3.60%) Cloud Run
12 28 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (3.24%) Cloud Functions
13 27 (3.24%) Google Tag Manager
14 23 (2.76%) Entra ID
14 23 (2.76%) Google Play
14 23 (2.76%) Google Sheets
14 23 (2.76%) Vertex AI
15 22 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (6.72%) Firewall
2 22 (2.64%) Network Security
3 21 (2.52%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.36%) BigQuery
2 58 (6.96%) Power BI
3 40 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 32 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (3.84%) Tableau
6 31 (3.72%) Looker
7 26 (3.12%) Big Data
8 22 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.92%) MySQL
10 15 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.56%) Mixpanel
13 12 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.44%) Metadata
13 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.84%) Redis
16 6 (0.72%) Power Query
16 6 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 83 (9.96%) Git
3 54 (6.48%) JIRA
4 43 (5.16%) GitLab
5 15 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.32%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.20%) Postman
9 9 (1.08%) Gradle
9 9 (1.08%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.96%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.96%) 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 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 168 (20.17%) Finance
3 100 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (12.00%) Banking
4 62 (7.44%) Marketing
5 57 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.76%) Retail
7 22 (2.64%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 20 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.04%) Advertising
10 16 (1.92%) Legal
11 15 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.68%) Publishing
13 13 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 102 (12.24%) Senior
2 85 (10.20%) Architect
3 84 (10.08%) Developer
4 80 (9.60%) Analyst
5 70 (8.40%) GCP Engineer
6 66 (7.92%) Lead
7 39 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 37 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
10 29 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 26 (3.12%) Consultant
11 26 (3.12%) GCP DevOps
11 26 (3.12%) Software Engineer
12 24 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (2.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 23 (2.76%) Android Developer
14 22 (2.64%) GCP Architect
15 21 (2.52%) Security Engineer
16 20 (2.40%) IT Engineer
16 20 (2.40%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.16%) RESTful
2 43 (5.16%) REST
3 40 (4.80%) React
4 39 (4.68%) HTML
5 38 (4.56%) Node.js
6 32 (3.84%) CSS
7 29 (3.48%) Kafka
8 28 (3.36%) Spring
9 25 (3.00%) FastAPI
10 22 (2.64%) Android Jetpack
10 22 (2.64%) LangGraph
11 21 (2.52%) Jetpack Compose
12 20 (2.40%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.40%) TensorFlow
13 19 (2.28%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.28%) OAuth
13 19 (2.28%) PyTorch
13 19 (2.28%) scikit-learn
14 18 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (2.04%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.84%) Mobile App
5 26 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.76%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (2.16%) AI Agents
10 18 (2.16%) Life Science
11 17 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.92%) Genomics
12 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.80%) Social Media
14 13 (1.56%) Data Centre
15 12 (1.44%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.20%) iPad
16 10 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 10 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.56%) Linux
2 48 (5.76%) Android
3 46 (5.52%) Windows
4 32 (3.84%) 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
1 218 (26.17%) CI/CD
2 208 (24.97%) DevOps
3 197 (23.65%) Agile
4 184 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
5 163 (19.57%) Analytics
6 148 (17.77%) AI
7 128 (15.37%) Containerisation
8 105 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (11.04%) Machine Learning
9 92 (11.04%) Microservices
10 86 (10.32%) User Experience
11 79 (9.48%) Migration
12 74 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 64 (7.68%) Actionable Insight
14 64 (7.68%) Computer Science
15 61 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
16 59 (7.08%) Data Modelling
16 59 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 57 (6.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (28.93%) Python
2 135 (16.21%) SQL
3 98 (11.76%) Java
4 59 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.04%) Bash
5 42 (5.04%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.84%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.60%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.36%) Go
9 12 (1.44%) Ruby
10 11 (1.32%) 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
1 108 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 96 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 93 (11.16%) Degree
4 43 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.88%) CISSP
7 16 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.20%) MCP
10 9 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.08%) CISM
10 9 (1.08%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.08%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.72%) CCSP
11 6 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.72%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.36%) GDPR
2 44 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 31 (3.72%) QA
5 24 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.80%) NIST
7 12 (1.44%) 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%) DICOM
15 2 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (17.53%) Docker
2 27 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.80%) 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
1 152 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 129 (15.49%) Terraform
3 42 (5.04%) Ansible
4 32 (3.84%) Grafana
5 29 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.04%) Argo
7 11 (1.32%) Istio
7 11 (1.32%) 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%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 142 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.36%) Splunk
3 25 (3.00%) Adobe
4 24 (2.88%) Oracle
4 24 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.52%) CyberArk
6 20 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.16%) Databricks
7 18 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 17 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.92%) Apple
9 16 (1.92%) VMware
10 15 (1.80%) Cisco
10 15 (1.80%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (1.80%) Okta
10 15 (1.80%) SAP
11 14 (1.68%) Hotjar
12 12 (1.44%) Amplitude
13 11 (1.32%) IBM
13 11 (1.32%) Optimizely