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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 105 103
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 889 648 802
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.60% 2.12%
As % of the Vendors category 5.07% 5.47% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 357 499
10th Percentile £300 £212 £300
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 65 82
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.53 £11.44
25th Percentile £22.83 £16.95 £25.31
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -19.12% -14.09%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £52.75 £56.60 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £25.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +39.22% -22.73% -16.67%

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 17,544 11,837 15,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.57% 47.46% 42.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,225 7,529 10,063
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 530 1,072
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.53 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.87 £27.17 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% +12.33% -38.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.50 £24.14
% change year-on-year +33.29% +5.63% -43.20%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -24 456 £510 +2.00% 189
North of England -11 181 £500 +0.50% 85
Yorkshire -8 94 £515 +11.35% 25
North West -23 68 £528 +5.66% 53
South East -84 67 £550 +10.00% 105
South West +2 63 £550 +46.67% 27
Midlands -23 61 £523 +27.44% 30
East of England -15 33 £540 +11.34% 19
East Midlands +7 31 £550 +39.06% 12
West Midlands -45 30 £425 +1.19% 18
North East -18 22 £450 -28.00% 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 44 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.70%) Apache
5 20 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (1.57%) Confluence
7 9 (1.01%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.24%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.79%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.45%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Maya
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 522 (58.72%) GCP
2 236 (26.55%) Azure
3 235 (26.43%) AWS
4 168 (18.90%) Google Workspace
5 90 (10.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 84 (9.45%) GitHub
7 76 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (6.64%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.74%) Google Sheets
9 51 (5.74%) SaaS
10 44 (4.95%) Vertex AI
11 43 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (4.39%) Google Analytics
13 33 (3.71%) Google Drive
14 31 (3.49%) Entra ID
15 30 (3.37%) Slack
16 28 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (2.70%) Cloud Run
18 22 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.75%) Firewall
2 51 (5.74%) DNS
3 40 (4.50%) VPN
4 22 (2.47%) Network Security
5 18 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.35%) DHCP
7 11 (1.24%) DKIM
7 11 (1.24%) DMARC
8 8 (0.90%) VoIP
9 7 (0.79%) BGP
9 7 (0.79%) Internet
9 7 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.67%) SMTP
11 5 (0.56%) OSPF
11 5 (0.56%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) HTTP
12 4 (0.45%) VLAN
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.67%) BigQuery
2 49 (5.51%) Power BI
3 34 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.71%) Tableau
5 25 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.14%) MySQL
8 18 (2.02%) Metadata
9 16 (1.80%) Looker
10 14 (1.57%) Big Data
11 13 (1.46%) OLAP
11 13 (1.46%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.35%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.24%) Mixpanel
13 11 (1.24%) OLTP
14 9 (1.01%) Redis
15 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 55 (6.19%) Git
2 55 (6.19%) JIRA
3 35 (3.94%) GitLab
4 15 (1.69%) JUnit
5 9 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.79%) IntelliJ
7 6 (0.67%) Gradle
8 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
8 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
8 5 (0.56%) fastlane
8 5 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.45%) Gatling
9 4 (0.45%) Postman
10 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.34%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.34%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 239 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 183 (20.58%) Finance
3 102 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.42%) Marketing
6 63 (7.09%) Banking
7 50 (5.62%) Retail
8 29 (3.26%) Legal
8 29 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.25%) Publishing
11 18 (2.02%) Advertising
12 14 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.57%) Military
13 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.01%) Billing
14 9 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.90%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 107 (12.04%) GCP Engineer
2 103 (11.59%) Architect
3 86 (9.67%) Senior
4 76 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 72 (8.10%) Developer
6 68 (7.65%) Analyst
6 68 (7.65%) Lead
7 56 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 34 (3.82%) Administrator
9 29 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
10 27 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (2.92%) Consultant
12 25 (2.81%) GCP DevOps
13 24 (2.70%) Network Engineer
13 24 (2.70%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.47%) Software Engineer
15 21 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.40%) REST
2 40 (4.50%) React
3 34 (3.82%) Kafka
4 32 (3.60%) Spring
4 32 (3.60%) Spring Boot
5 30 (3.37%) OAuth
6 27 (3.04%) Node.js
7 23 (2.59%) PyTorch
8 17 (1.91%) Android Jetpack
8 17 (1.91%) HTML
8 17 (1.91%) Jetpack Compose
8 17 (1.91%) LangChain
8 17 (1.91%) RESTful
8 17 (1.91%) SAML
9 16 (1.80%) .NET
10 15 (1.69%) Android SDK
10 15 (1.69%) OpenID
11 14 (1.57%) CSS
11 14 (1.57%) OAuth2
11 14 (1.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 132 (14.85%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.16%) Public Cloud
3 35 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 28 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.92%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 23 (2.59%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.36%) Mobile App
10 18 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.57%) Clustering
13 13 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (1.46%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.12%) Mobile Payment
16 9 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
17 8 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 8 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.41%) Windows
2 53 (5.96%) Linux
3 47 (5.29%) Android
4 25 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.02%) Apple iOS
6 17 (1.91%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.35%) VMS
8 11 (1.24%) Windows Server
9 7 (0.79%) Unix
10 6 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.11%) SUSE
13 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 210 (23.62%) DevOps
3 174 (19.57%) AI
4 164 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 159 (17.89%) Agile
6 144 (16.20%) Analytics
6 144 (16.20%) Migration
7 129 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
8 97 (10.91%) Observability
9 93 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 78 (8.77%) Roadmaps
11 77 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (8.55%) Machine Learning
13 75 (8.44%) Software Engineering
14 74 (8.32%) Cloud Security
15 70 (7.87%) Decision-Making
16 62 (6.97%) Microservices
17 59 (6.64%) Change Management
17 59 (6.64%) Data Modelling
18 58 (6.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (27.11%) Python
2 162 (18.22%) SQL
3 123 (13.84%) Java
4 64 (7.20%) PowerShell
5 52 (5.85%) Bash
6 33 (3.71%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.26%) Go
8 27 (3.04%) Kotlin
9 24 (2.70%) C#
10 22 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.24%) Rust
12 9 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
12 9 (1.01%) Scala
13 8 (0.90%) Bicep
13 8 (0.90%) Groovy
14 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.56%) R
15 5 (0.56%) Ruby
15 5 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 149 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 121 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.01%) Degree
4 35 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 29 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.92%) CISSP
7 26 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.79%) CCNP
11 7 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.67%) CISM
13 5 (0.56%) OCP
13 5 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.45%) IBM Certification
14 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.96%) GDPR
2 41 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.60%) QA
4 19 (2.14%) NIST
5 17 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.24%) WCAG
9 8 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.67%) NCSC
12 5 (0.56%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.45%) PERC
14 3 (0.34%) GRC
14 3 (0.34%) SLA
15 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.22%) PMO
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 76 (8.55%) Docker
2 46 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.56%) NFS
5 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.56%) vSphere
6 4 (0.45%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.45%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) Varnish
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 206 (23.17%) Terraform
2 148 (16.65%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.16%) Ansible
4 29 (3.26%) Grafana
5 25 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.69%) Istio
6 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 14 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.79%) Puppet
9 7 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.56%) Podman
11 5 (0.56%) SCCM
11 5 (0.56%) SnapMirror
11 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.45%) vMotion
13 3 (0.34%) Argo
13 3 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 142 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.04%) ServiceNow
3 26 (2.92%) Oracle
4 25 (2.81%) Apple
5 22 (2.47%) Databricks
6 21 (2.36%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.14%) Okta
8 18 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 18 (2.02%) Splunk
9 17 (1.91%) Adobe
10 16 (1.80%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.69%) TikTok
12 14 (1.57%) IBM
13 12 (1.35%) VMware
14 11 (1.24%) SAP
15 10 (1.12%) Rapid7
16 9 (1.01%) Checkmarx
16 9 (1.01%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.90%) Citrix