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 29 January 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 114 141
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 -26
Contract jobs citing Google 797 592 641
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.43% 2.23% 1.72%
As % of the Vendors category 5.26% 4.81% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 330 448
10th Percentile £263 £312 £206
25th Percentile £378 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% - -10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £638
90th Percentile £747 £738 £702
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 51
10th Percentile £13.90 £25.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.36 £20.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £44.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +72.26% -25.71%
75th Percentile £40.88 £62.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £59.95 £63.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £44.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% +72.26% -25.71%

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 15,159 12,302 16,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.13% 46.24% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,947 7,395 10,497
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £716 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 356 790
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £16.17
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% -0.55%
75th Percentile £50.26 £64.26 £59.82
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.06
% change year-on-year -13.36% -14.22% +3.41%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -3 401 £535 -2.73% 203
North of England -11 151 £475 -5.00% 119
Yorkshire -7 84 £453 -9.40% 44
Midlands +10 80 £525 +21.25% 72
South East -12 78 £313 -37.40% 202
North West -2 59 £499 -11.38% 65
West Midlands 0 44 £500 -13.04% 35
South West +6 43 £525 -15.15% 51
East Midlands +5 36 £550 +54.49% 36
East of England -13 29 £625 +47.06% 75
North East -21 8 £495 +18.56% 11
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 28 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.38%) Confluence
3 18 (2.26%) Apache
4 16 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.25%) CMS
5 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.38%) Drupal
7 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.38%) Mule
7 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.50%) Trello
6 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.25%) Sketch
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.13%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 506 (63.49%) GCP
2 292 (36.64%) Azure
3 246 (30.87%) AWS
4 115 (14.43%) Google Workspace
5 105 (13.17%) GitHub
6 78 (9.79%) Power Platform
7 74 (9.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 52 (6.52%) Google Analytics
9 43 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (5.02%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (5.02%) Cloud Run
11 39 (4.89%) Serverless
12 36 (4.52%) Entra ID
13 35 (4.39%) Google Sheets
14 33 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (4.02%) Google Tag Manager
15 32 (4.02%) SaaS
16 29 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (3.64%) Cloud Functions
17 26 (3.26%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.52%) Firewall
2 26 (3.26%) Network Security
3 13 (1.63%) DNS
4 10 (1.25%) VoIP
5 9 (1.13%) Internet
6 8 (1.00%) VPN
7 6 (0.75%) DHCP
7 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.75%) Wireless
8 4 (0.50%) HTTP
8 4 (0.50%) LAN
9 3 (0.38%) Intranet
10 2 (0.25%) BGP
10 2 (0.25%) Broadband
10 2 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.25%) SMTP
10 2 (0.25%) SSL
10 2 (0.25%) VLAN
10 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.42%) BigQuery
2 69 (8.66%) Power BI
3 37 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (4.52%) NoSQL
4 36 (4.52%) Tableau
5 27 (3.39%) Looker
5 27 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (2.38%) MySQL
8 18 (2.26%) Mixpanel
9 17 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.76%) Big Data
10 14 (1.76%) OLAP
11 12 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.51%) Metadata
12 11 (1.38%) OLTP
12 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.00%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 89 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 67 (8.41%) Git
3 47 (5.90%) JIRA
4 40 (5.02%) GitLab
5 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.00%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.75%) Liquibase
7 6 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 5 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.63%) Gradle
8 5 (0.63%) JUnit
8 5 (0.63%) Mockito
8 5 (0.63%) Postman
8 5 (0.63%) Selenium
9 4 (0.50%) Android Studio
9 4 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.50%) ERwin
10 3 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
10 3 (0.38%) Fiddler
General
1 296 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 152 (19.07%) Finance
3 109 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.66%) Banking
5 59 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 58 (7.28%) Marketing
7 32 (4.02%) Retail
8 22 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 22 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.88%) Advertising
10 15 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.88%) Publishing
11 14 (1.76%) Legal
12 13 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.88%) Military
15 6 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (12.67%) Senior
2 85 (10.66%) Architect
3 81 (10.16%) Developer
4 76 (9.54%) Analyst
5 73 (9.16%) GCP Engineer
6 63 (7.90%) Lead
7 55 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 31 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (3.51%) Consultant
11 27 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 26 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 21 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
15 20 (2.51%) Android Developer
15 20 (2.51%) GCP DevOps
15 20 (2.51%) IT Engineer
15 20 (2.51%) Security Engineer
15 20 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.52%) RESTful
2 44 (5.52%) REST
3 40 (5.02%) React
4 36 (4.52%) Node.js
5 34 (4.27%) HTML
6 33 (4.14%) Spring
7 31 (3.89%) Kafka
8 30 (3.76%) PyTorch
9 28 (3.51%) CSS
10 27 (3.39%) OAuth
11 26 (3.26%) LangChain
11 26 (3.26%) TensorFlow
12 25 (3.14%) FastAPI
12 25 (3.14%) scikit-learn
12 25 (3.14%) Spring Boot
13 23 (2.89%) AngularJS
14 22 (2.76%) LangGraph
15 16 (2.01%) Android Jetpack
15 16 (2.01%) Jetpack Compose
15 16 (2.01%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 98 (12.30%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 30 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.51%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.38%) Life Science
8 16 (2.01%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.01%) Genomics
9 15 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.63%) Social Media
11 12 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.13%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.13%) e-Learning
13 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.13%) Smartphone
14 8 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.27%) Android
1 50 (6.27%) Linux
2 49 (6.15%) Windows
3 29 (3.64%) Apple iOS
4 24 (3.01%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.51%) VMS
6 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.63%) Unix
7 5 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (27.73%) DevOps
2 216 (27.10%) CI/CD
3 168 (21.08%) AI
4 167 (20.95%) Agile
5 160 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (19.57%) Analytics
7 129 (16.19%) Containerisation
8 126 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (11.92%) Machine Learning
10 95 (11.92%) Migration
11 92 (11.54%) Microservices
12 89 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 80 (10.04%) User Experience
14 73 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 72 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
16 67 (8.41%) Change Management
17 65 (8.16%) Software Engineering
18 62 (7.78%) Observability
19 61 (7.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 250 (31.37%) Python
2 146 (18.32%) SQL
3 92 (11.54%) Java
4 53 (6.65%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.40%) PowerShell
6 38 (4.77%) Bash
7 29 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 26 (3.26%) Go
9 24 (3.01%) Kotlin
10 18 (2.26%) C#
11 12 (1.51%) Ruby
12 9 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.00%) Scala
13 8 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.88%) VBA
15 6 (0.75%) Bicep
16 4 (0.50%) C++
16 4 (0.50%) R
17 3 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 113 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.42%) Degree
3 98 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 39 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.38%) CISSP
10 10 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.25%) MCP
11 7 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.88%) CCSP
12 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (0.63%) OSCP
13 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.53%) GDPR
2 40 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.76%) QA
4 21 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.38%) NIST
8 8 (1.00%) NCSC
9 7 (0.88%) GRC
10 6 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) PERC
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 2 (0.25%) WCAG
13 1 (0.13%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (18.19%) Docker
2 37 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Squid
5 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.50%) Snort
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.25%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.13%) SRDF
8 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 173 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 149 (18.70%) Terraform
3 49 (6.15%) Ansible
4 30 (3.76%) Grafana
5 27 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.76%) Istio
7 16 (2.01%) Argo
8 13 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.51%) SCCM
10 7 (0.88%) QRadar
11 6 (0.75%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.63%) Nessus
13 4 (0.50%) logstash
13 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.50%) Suricata
14 3 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.38%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.02%) Splunk
3 28 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 26 (3.26%) Databricks
5 25 (3.14%) Adobe
6 23 (2.89%) Apple
7 22 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 22 (2.76%) Oracle
8 17 (2.13%) Okta
8 17 (2.13%) VMware
9 15 (1.88%) SAP
10 14 (1.76%) IBM
10 14 (1.76%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.63%) Foundry
11 13 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.51%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.38%) Cisco
14 10 (1.25%) Amplitude
14 10 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
15 9 (1.13%) Optimizely