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 9 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 105
Rank change year-on-year -24 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 1,019 755 712
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 2.71% 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 5.38% 5.75% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 437 426
10th Percentile £313 £213 £302
25th Percentile £413 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% -12.73% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £697 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £535
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.21% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 60 64
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.95 £31.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £21.92 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.95% -68.69% +116.58%
75th Percentile £39.76 £44.39 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £55.48 -
UK median hourly rate £34.23 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +60.86% -69.60% +105.88%

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 18,951 13,133 14,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.42% 47.22% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,904 8,307 9,254
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £737
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 632 758
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.24 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -18.92%
75th Percentile £66.75 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -13.28% -28.47%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -28 543 £508 +1.50% 818
North of England -17 204 £500 +8.11% 203
South East -56 105 £525 +23.53% 157
Yorkshire -8 104 £538 +20.25% 69
North West -30 80 £500 - 117
South West -3 76 £550 +48.65% 53
Midlands -35 43 £440 +10.00% 59
West Midlands -37 30 £425 +13.33% 37
North East -23 24 £440 -29.60% 17
East of England -21 23 £510 +5.15% 30
East Midlands -5 13 £625 +64.91% 22
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 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (3.04%) Apache
3 31 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.45%) Confluence
5 21 (2.06%) CMS
6 9 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.39%) Drupal
8 4 (0.39%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.098%) IIS
10 1 (0.098%) JBoss
10 1 (0.098%) Luigi
10 1 (0.098%) Mendix
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.88%) Chatbot
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
7 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.098%) Maya
8 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
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
1 623 (61.14%) GCP
2 282 (27.67%) Azure
3 281 (27.58%) AWS
4 148 (14.52%) Google Workspace
5 96 (9.42%) GitHub
6 84 (8.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 76 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (5.99%) Google Analytics
9 53 (5.20%) Power Platform
9 53 (5.20%) SaaS
10 49 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (4.71%) Google Sheets
12 47 (4.61%) Vertex AI
13 37 (3.63%) Entra ID
14 36 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
15 33 (3.24%) Google Drive
16 30 (2.94%) dbt
17 29 (2.85%) Snowflake
18 26 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (2.36%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.87%) Firewall
2 63 (6.18%) DNS
3 45 (4.42%) VPN
4 26 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.96%) Network Security
6 17 (1.67%) DHCP
7 11 (1.08%) DKIM
7 11 (1.08%) DMARC
7 11 (1.08%) Internet
8 10 (0.98%) BGP
8 10 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.88%) HTTP
9 9 (0.88%) WAN
10 8 (0.79%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.79%) OSPF
10 8 (0.79%) VLAN
11 7 (0.69%) LAN
12 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.59%) SMTP
13 5 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (9.81%) BigQuery
2 58 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (4.51%) Power BI
4 34 (3.34%) Looker
5 32 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.45%) Tableau
7 22 (2.16%) Metadata
8 20 (1.96%) 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 9 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.79%) Flink
14 8 (0.79%) Redis
15 7 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
16 6 (0.59%) OLTP
16 6 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (8.73%) Jenkins
2 69 (6.77%) Git
3 55 (5.40%) JIRA
4 53 (5.20%) GitLab
5 14 (1.37%) JUnit
6 9 (0.88%) Gatling
6 9 (0.88%) Gradle
6 9 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 7 (0.69%) JMeter
7 7 (0.69%) NeoLoad
8 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
8 6 (0.59%) Crashlytics
8 6 (0.59%) MLflow
9 5 (0.49%) fastlane
9 5 (0.49%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.49%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 252 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 186 (18.25%) Finance
3 121 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (11.87%) Public Sector
4 75 (7.36%) Marketing
5 58 (5.69%) Banking
6 51 (5.00%) Retail
7 36 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.65%) Legal
9 27 (2.65%) Publishing
10 25 (2.45%) Advertising
11 20 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.08%) Games
15 10 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.98%) Military
16 9 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (13.44%) Architect
2 117 (11.48%) GCP Engineer
3 99 (9.72%) Developer
4 97 (9.52%) Senior
5 85 (8.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 77 (7.56%) Lead
7 73 (7.16%) Analyst
8 67 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.34%) Administrator
11 30 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (2.55%) Network Engineer
13 25 (2.45%) GCP DevOps
13 25 (2.45%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 24 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
14 24 (2.36%) Security Engineer
15 23 (2.26%) Consultant
15 23 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 21 (2.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.36%) REST
2 42 (4.12%) Kafka
2 42 (4.12%) React
3 40 (3.93%) Spring
3 40 (3.93%) Spring Boot
4 35 (3.43%) OAuth
5 30 (2.94%) RESTful
6 29 (2.85%) Node.js
7 27 (2.65%) JSON
8 24 (2.36%) Android Jetpack
8 24 (2.36%) HTML
8 24 (2.36%) LangChain
8 24 (2.36%) SAML
9 21 (2.06%) Android SDK
10 20 (1.96%) CSS
11 19 (1.86%) Jetpack Compose
11 19 (1.86%) YAML
12 17 (1.67%) JWT
12 17 (1.67%) LangGraph
13 16 (1.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 166 (16.29%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.50%) AI Agents
3 42 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.65%) Security Posture
8 25 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 23 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 23 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
13 13 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.08%) Clustering
16 10 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (6.67%) Windows
2 63 (6.18%) Linux
3 41 (4.02%) Android
4 27 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.88%) Unix
8 7 (0.69%) VMS
9 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.29%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.098%) CentOS
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE
13 1 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (28.46%) CI/CD
2 232 (22.77%) DevOps
3 227 (22.28%) Agile
4 216 (21.20%) AI
5 192 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (17.47%) Analytics
7 151 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (13.64%) Migration
9 117 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 109 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (9.72%) Roadmaps
12 97 (9.52%) Observability
13 95 (9.32%) Software Engineering
14 93 (9.13%) Machine Learning
15 91 (8.93%) Decision-Making
16 89 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 85 (8.34%) Cloud Security
18 84 (8.24%) Containerisation
19 83 (8.15%) Microservices
20 73 (7.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 285 (27.97%) Python
2 176 (17.27%) SQL
3 148 (14.52%) Java
4 88 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 80 (7.85%) Bash
6 47 (4.61%) JavaScript
7 34 (3.34%) Kotlin
8 30 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 27 (2.65%) Go
10 22 (2.16%) C#
11 20 (1.96%) Scala
12 16 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.37%) Groovy
14 12 (1.18%) Google Apps Script
15 11 (1.08%) Bicep
16 10 (0.98%) Rust
17 6 (0.59%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.59%) SOQL
18 5 (0.49%) Ruby
19 4 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 202 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 164 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.15%) Degree
4 52 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 44 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.34%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.04%) CISSP
8 29 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.98%) CCNP
12 9 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.69%) CISM
15 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.59%) PhD
16 5 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 47 (4.61%) QA
3 43 (4.22%) GDPR
4 21 (2.06%) NIST
5 20 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.28%) WCAG
8 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.79%) NCSC
9 8 (0.79%) PMO
10 6 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.39%) GRC
11 4 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.39%) PERC
11 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.29%) SLA
12 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 113 (11.09%) Docker
2 53 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.59%) 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
8 3 (0.29%) NFS
8 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) Firmware
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.098%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.098%) Varnish
10 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 209 (20.51%) Terraform
2 185 (18.16%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.93%) Ansible
4 39 (3.83%) Grafana
5 30 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.98%) Puppet
11 8 (0.79%) Istio
12 7 (0.69%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.59%) Podman
14 5 (0.49%) SCCM
14 5 (0.49%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 4 (0.39%) vMotion
16 3 (0.29%) Argo
16 3 (0.29%) Nagios
16 3 (0.29%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 187 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.24%) Oracle
3 31 (3.04%) Splunk
4 29 (2.85%) Databricks
5 28 (2.75%) Adobe
5 28 (2.75%) OpenAI
6 25 (2.45%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 22 (2.16%) TikTok
9 19 (1.86%) IBM
10 17 (1.67%) Apple
10 17 (1.67%) Okta
10 17 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.47%) SAP
12 14 (1.37%) VMware
13 12 (1.18%) Cisco
13 12 (1.18%) Informatica
13 12 (1.18%) Tealium
14 11 (1.08%) MuleSoft