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 18 August 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -24 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Google 1,019 734 714
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 2.66% 2.15%
As % of the Vendors category 5.35% 5.63% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 424 431
10th Percentile £313 £213 £300
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -10.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £694 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £531
% change year-on-year +4.17% -9.60% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 58 63
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £19.88 £16.95 £31.25
Median hourly rate £33.37 £21.92 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.21% -68.69% +105.88%
75th Percentile £38.97 £38.06 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £54.00 -
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +36.61% -69.60% +76.99%

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 19,039 13,034 14,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.21% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,986 8,232 9,238
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £614 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,032 642 732
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.86%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -20 530 £505 +1.00% 243
North of England -19 214 £500 +6.84% 135
Yorkshire -9 108 £538 +21.20% 46
South East -59 108 £525 +27.27% 148
North West -27 86 £500 -13.04% 78
South West -5 71 £550 +47.65% 59
Midlands -36 42 £425 +6.25% 46
West Midlands -35 29 £414 +3.50% 21
North East -19 24 £440 -29.60% 11
East of England -24 23 £510 +3.55% 26
East Midlands -12 13 £625 +64.91% 25
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 48 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.04%) Apache
3 31 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.85%) Confluence
5 24 (2.36%) Apache Spark
6 22 (2.16%) CMS
7 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.39%) Drupal
9 4 (0.39%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.098%) IIS
11 1 (0.098%) JBoss
11 1 (0.098%) Luigi
11 1 (0.098%) Mendix
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.39%) InDesign
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.098%) Maya
8 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.39%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Cloudability
4 2 (0.20%) iTrent
4 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.098%) Actimize
5 1 (0.098%) Maximo
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Primavera
5 1 (0.098%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.098%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.098%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.098%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 630 (61.83%) GCP
2 301 (29.54%) AWS
2 301 (29.54%) Azure
3 135 (13.25%) Google Workspace
4 97 (9.52%) GitHub
5 84 (8.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 74 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
7 62 (6.08%) Google Analytics
8 56 (5.50%) SaaS
9 55 (5.40%) Power Platform
10 50 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (4.61%) Google Sheets
12 45 (4.42%) Vertex AI
13 40 (3.93%) Entra ID
14 38 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
15 32 (3.14%) dbt
15 32 (3.14%) Google Drive
16 30 (2.94%) Snowflake
17 26 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
18 23 (2.26%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.87%) Firewall
2 61 (5.99%) DNS
3 46 (4.51%) VPN
4 26 (2.55%) Network Security
4 26 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.67%) DHCP
6 12 (1.18%) BGP
7 11 (1.08%) DKIM
7 11 (1.08%) DMARC
7 11 (1.08%) Internet
7 11 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.98%) HTTP
9 9 (0.88%) WAN
10 8 (0.79%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.79%) LAN
10 8 (0.79%) OSPF
10 8 (0.79%) VLAN
11 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.59%) SMTP
12 5 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (9.81%) BigQuery
2 59 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.71%) Power BI
4 33 (3.24%) Looker
5 31 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.45%) Tableau
7 24 (2.36%) Metadata
8 21 (2.06%) Big Data
9 18 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.67%) MySQL
11 14 (1.37%) SQL Server
12 13 (1.28%) NoSQL
13 10 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.79%) Flink
14 8 (0.79%) Redis
15 7 (0.69%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
16 6 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 69 (6.77%) Git
3 60 (5.89%) JIRA
4 56 (5.50%) GitLab
5 14 (1.37%) JUnit
6 9 (0.88%) Gatling
6 9 (0.88%) Gradle
6 9 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.79%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.69%) IntelliJ
8 7 (0.69%) JMeter
8 7 (0.69%) NeoLoad
9 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
9 6 (0.59%) Crashlytics
9 6 (0.59%) MLflow
10 5 (0.49%) fastlane
10 5 (0.49%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 252 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 193 (18.94%) Finance
3 121 (11.87%) Public Sector
4 120 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (7.07%) Marketing
6 54 (5.30%) Banking
7 44 (4.32%) Retail
8 33 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.65%) Legal
10 27 (2.65%) Publishing
11 25 (2.45%) Advertising
12 22 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.08%) Games
16 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.98%) Military
17 9 (0.88%) Billing
18 8 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (14.92%) Architect
2 114 (11.19%) GCP Engineer
3 100 (9.81%) Senior
4 96 (9.42%) Developer
5 88 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (7.36%) Lead
7 74 (7.26%) Analyst
8 68 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 50 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.34%) Administrator
11 29 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (2.85%) Network Engineer
12 27 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
13 25 (2.45%) Security Engineer
13 25 (2.45%) Support Engineer
14 23 (2.26%) GCP DevOps
15 22 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 22 (2.16%) Consultant
15 22 (2.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.06%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.87%) REST
2 46 (4.51%) Kafka
3 42 (4.12%) React
4 36 (3.53%) OAuth
5 34 (3.34%) Spring
5 34 (3.34%) Spring Boot
6 30 (2.94%) JSON
6 30 (2.94%) RESTful
7 29 (2.85%) Node.js
8 25 (2.45%) SAML
9 24 (2.36%) HTML
10 23 (2.26%) LangChain
11 21 (2.06%) Android Jetpack
12 20 (1.96%) CSS
12 20 (1.96%) JWT
13 19 (1.86%) YAML
14 18 (1.77%) Android SDK
15 17 (1.67%) LangGraph
15 17 (1.67%) Middleware
15 17 (1.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 173 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.40%) AI Agents
3 44 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.93%) Onboarding
5 38 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (2.75%) Security Posture
8 25 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 24 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 23 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.08%) Clustering
15 11 (1.08%) CMDB
15 11 (1.08%) PKI
15 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (7.36%) Windows
2 70 (6.87%) Linux
3 38 (3.73%) Android
4 30 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.98%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.88%) Unix
8 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.69%) VMS
10 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.29%) CentOS
11 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (28.66%) CI/CD
2 232 (22.77%) DevOps
3 231 (22.67%) Agile
4 212 (20.80%) AI
5 200 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 181 (17.76%) Analytics
7 146 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
8 138 (13.54%) Migration
9 127 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 111 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (10.21%) Roadmaps
12 95 (9.32%) Observability
13 94 (9.22%) Machine Learning
14 91 (8.93%) Cloud Security
14 91 (8.93%) Software Engineering
15 90 (8.83%) Decision-Making
16 89 (8.73%) Containerisation
17 88 (8.64%) Data Modelling
18 86 (8.44%) Microservices
19 75 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 293 (28.75%) Python
2 174 (17.08%) SQL
3 141 (13.84%) Java
4 88 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 87 (8.54%) Bash
6 47 (4.61%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.14%) Go
8 29 (2.85%) TypeScript
9 25 (2.45%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.16%) C#
11 21 (2.06%) Scala
12 19 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.18%) Bicep
13 12 (1.18%) Groovy
14 10 (0.98%) Rust
15 8 (0.79%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.59%) SOQL
17 5 (0.49%) Ruby
18 4 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 214 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 172 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 87 (8.54%) Degree
4 52 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 45 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.14%) CISSP
8 31 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.98%) CCNP
13 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.69%) CISM
16 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.59%) PhD
17 5 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.42%) QA
3 42 (4.12%) GDPR
4 21 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.06%) NIST
5 19 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.28%) WCAG
7 8 (0.79%) NCSC
7 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.79%) PMO
8 7 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.59%) GRC
10 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 4 (0.39%) PERC
10 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) SLA
11 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 118 (11.58%) Docker
2 57 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.39%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.39%) vSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Firmware
8 3 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.098%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.098%) Varnish
9 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 213 (20.90%) Terraform
2 193 (18.94%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.42%) Ansible
4 35 (3.43%) Grafana
5 32 (3.14%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.08%) Puppet
10 10 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.79%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.59%) Istio
12 6 (0.59%) Podman
13 5 (0.49%) SCCM
13 5 (0.49%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.39%) Argo
14 4 (0.39%) vMotion
15 3 (0.29%) CASB
15 3 (0.29%) Cilium
15 3 (0.29%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 200 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.02%) Oracle
3 32 (3.14%) Adobe
4 27 (2.65%) Databricks
4 27 (2.65%) OpenAI
4 27 (2.65%) Splunk
5 26 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 23 (2.26%) IBM
8 23 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 22 (2.16%) TikTok
10 19 (1.86%) SAP
11 18 (1.77%) VMware
12 16 (1.57%) Apple
12 16 (1.57%) Okta
13 14 (1.37%) Cisco
14 13 (1.28%) Informatica
15 12 (1.18%) MuleSoft
15 12 (1.18%) Tealium