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 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 97 105
Rank change year-on-year -26 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 905 662 793
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.62% 2.13%
As % of the Vendors category 5.12% 5.53% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 366 490
10th Percentile £302 £211 £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 £691 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +2.46% -6.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 66 81
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.50 £11.44
25th Percentile £23.16 £16.95 £25.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.22% -27.14% -11.56%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £56.38 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -25.27% -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 17,688 11,964 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.69% 47.35% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,588 10,036
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 545 1,055
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%

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 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 27 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 27 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 -20 458 £510 +2.00% 242
North of England -6 188 £500 +3.09% 70
Yorkshire +7 101 £525 +13.51% 18
South East -74 77 £544 +8.70% 121
North West -30 69 £500 - 49
South West -4 63 £550 +46.67% 23
Midlands -28 59 £513 +28.13% 40
East of England -16 32 £510 +5.15% 27
West Midlands -50 30 £425 +6.25% 23
East Midlands +9 29 £550 +39.06% 17
North East -19 21 £450 -28.00% 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 44 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.54%) Apache
5 22 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.66%) Confluence
7 9 (0.99%) CMS
8 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 2 (0.22%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 30 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.22%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.77%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.66%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.44%) 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 (0.55%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) Actimize
4 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Primavera
4 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 540 (59.67%) GCP
2 244 (26.96%) AWS
3 243 (26.85%) Azure
4 166 (18.34%) Google Workspace
5 91 (10.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 84 (9.28%) GitHub
7 75 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
8 57 (6.30%) Power Platform
9 51 (5.64%) SaaS
10 49 (5.41%) Google Sheets
11 46 (5.08%) Vertex AI
12 42 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 39 (4.31%) Google Analytics
14 33 (3.65%) Google Drive
15 32 (3.54%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.09%) Slack
17 26 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 24 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
18 24 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
19 23 (2.54%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.07%) Firewall
2 59 (6.52%) DNS
3 43 (4.75%) VPN
4 25 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.54%) Network Security
6 16 (1.77%) DHCP
7 11 (1.22%) DKIM
7 11 (1.22%) DMARC
8 9 (0.99%) BGP
9 8 (0.88%) DNSSEC
9 8 (0.88%) VoIP
10 7 (0.77%) Internet
10 7 (0.77%) OSPF
10 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.66%) SMTP
11 6 (0.66%) VLAN
12 5 (0.55%) LAN
12 5 (0.55%) SAN
12 5 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.28%) BigQuery
2 47 (5.19%) Power BI
3 37 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (3.43%) Tableau
5 23 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.43%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.10%) MySQL
8 18 (1.99%) Metadata
9 16 (1.77%) Looker
10 14 (1.55%) Big Data
11 13 (1.44%) Relational Database
12 12 (1.33%) OLAP
13 10 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.10%) Mixpanel
13 10 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.10%) OLTP
14 8 (0.88%) Redis
15 6 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
15 6 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 81 (8.95%) Jenkins
2 54 (5.97%) Git
2 54 (5.97%) JIRA
3 39 (4.31%) GitLab
4 15 (1.66%) JUnit
5 9 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.77%) IntelliJ
7 6 (0.66%) Gradle
8 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
8 5 (0.55%) Crashlytics
8 5 (0.55%) fastlane
8 5 (0.55%) Gatling
8 5 (0.55%) MLflow
8 5 (0.55%) Postman
8 5 (0.55%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.55%) Selenium
9 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.44%) JMeter
10 3 (0.33%) ERwin
10 3 (0.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 239 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 184 (20.33%) Finance
3 103 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (11.27%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.40%) Marketing
6 64 (7.07%) Banking
7 50 (5.52%) Retail
8 31 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.20%) Legal
10 25 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (2.21%) Publishing
12 18 (1.99%) Advertising
13 14 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.55%) Military
14 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.88%) Automotive
18 8 (0.88%) Games
Job Titles
1 115 (12.71%) Architect
2 107 (11.82%) GCP Engineer
3 83 (9.17%) Senior
4 79 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 76 (8.40%) Developer
6 75 (8.29%) Lead
7 68 (7.51%) Analyst
8 54 (5.97%) Data Engineer
9 34 (3.76%) Administrator
10 30 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
12 27 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (2.76%) GCP DevOps
13 25 (2.76%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.65%) Consultant
14 24 (2.65%) Network Engineer
15 21 (2.32%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (2.32%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.52%) REST
2 40 (4.42%) React
3 35 (3.87%) Kafka
4 34 (3.76%) Spring
4 34 (3.76%) Spring Boot
5 30 (3.31%) OAuth
6 28 (3.09%) Node.js
7 21 (2.32%) PyTorch
8 18 (1.99%) SAML
9 17 (1.88%) Android Jetpack
9 17 (1.88%) Jetpack Compose
9 17 (1.88%) LangChain
9 17 (1.88%) RESTful
10 16 (1.77%) HTML
10 16 (1.77%) OpenID
11 15 (1.66%) .NET
11 15 (1.66%) Android SDK
11 15 (1.66%) YAML
12 14 (1.55%) OAuth2
13 13 (1.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 137 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.09%) Public Cloud
3 36 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 30 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 25 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 24 (2.65%) Security Posture
9 21 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.32%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.55%) Clustering
11 14 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.44%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 10 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
15 9 (0.99%) Marketing Technology
16 8 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.63%) Windows
2 57 (6.30%) Linux
3 46 (5.08%) Android
4 25 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.88%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.99%) VMS
8 8 (0.88%) Unix
9 6 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.55%) CoreOS
10 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.44%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (27.51%) CI/CD
2 211 (23.31%) DevOps
3 181 (20.00%) AI
4 168 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 165 (18.23%) Agile
6 149 (16.46%) Analytics
7 145 (16.02%) Migration
8 136 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
10 95 (10.50%) Observability
11 82 (9.06%) Cloud Security
11 82 (9.06%) Roadmaps
12 78 (8.62%) Machine Learning
13 77 (8.51%) Software Engineering
14 76 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 74 (8.18%) Decision-Making
16 63 (6.96%) Microservices
17 62 (6.85%) Data Modelling
18 61 (6.74%) Platform Engineering
19 59 (6.52%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 253 (27.96%) Python
2 160 (17.68%) SQL
3 128 (14.14%) Java
4 72 (7.96%) PowerShell
5 63 (6.96%) Bash
6 33 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 31 (3.43%) Go
8 27 (2.98%) Kotlin
9 23 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.43%) C#
11 11 (1.22%) Groovy
11 11 (1.22%) Rust
11 11 (1.22%) Scala
12 9 (0.99%) Bicep
12 9 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.66%) SOQL
14 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.55%) R
14 5 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 130 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 89 (9.83%) Degree
4 37 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 27 (2.98%) CISSP
7 26 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.76%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.99%) CCNP
12 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.66%) CISM
16 5 (0.55%) CCSP
16 5 (0.55%) OCP
16 5 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
17 4 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.86%) GDPR
2 41 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.54%) QA
4 20 (2.21%) NIST
5 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.22%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) NCSC
10 7 (0.77%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) PERC
14 3 (0.33%) GRC
14 3 (0.33%) PMO
14 3 (0.33%) SLA
15 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 78 (8.62%) Docker
2 46 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.55%) NFS
5 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.55%) vSphere
6 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (0.44%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.11%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 210 (23.20%) Terraform
2 155 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.76%) Ansible
4 29 (3.20%) Grafana
5 24 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (1.66%) Progress Chef
6 15 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.55%) Istio
8 9 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (0.77%) Puppet
9 7 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.66%) Kubeflow
10 6 (0.66%) Podman
11 5 (0.55%) SCCM
11 5 (0.55%) SnapMirror
11 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.44%) vMotion
13 3 (0.33%) Argo
13 3 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 144 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.87%) Oracle
2 26 (2.87%) ServiceNow
3 23 (2.54%) Databricks
4 22 (2.43%) Apple
4 22 (2.43%) Red Hat
5 20 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.10%) Okta
6 19 (2.10%) Splunk
7 18 (1.99%) Adobe
7 18 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.88%) OpenAI
9 16 (1.77%) TikTok
10 14 (1.55%) VMware
11 12 (1.33%) IBM
12 11 (1.22%) SAP
13 10 (1.10%) Rapid7
14 9 (0.99%) Checkmarx
14 9 (0.99%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.99%) Infoblox