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 17 February 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
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 121 137
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Google 828 579 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.41% 2.26% 1.77%
As % of the Vendors category 5.36% 4.86% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 324 459
10th Percentile £263 £263 £213
25th Percentile £378 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 38 50
10th Percentile £15.63 £25.25 £15.04
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.06 £18.69
Median hourly rate £32.75 £44.79 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +72.26% -25.71%
75th Percentile £38.94 £62.25 £59.88
90th Percentile £50.53 £63.75 £66.63
UK median hourly rate £33.17 £44.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.94% +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 15,438 11,918 16,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.02% 46.49% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,080 7,250 10,526
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 336 853
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.02 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +15.35% -20.06%
75th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -9 412 £525 -4.55% 228
North of England -5 157 £475 -5.00% 89
Yorkshire +1 92 £475 -4.52% 27
Midlands +12 86 £523 +20.67% 41
South East -5 79 £319 -36.30% 126
North West -8 57 £471 -18.09% 55
West Midlands -9 50 £488 -15.22% 26
South West +2 48 £525 -13.40% 46
East Midlands +8 36 £550 +54.49% 15
East of England -21 33 £625 +47.06% 32
North East -17 8 £495 +45.59% 8
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 30 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.90%) Apache
3 16 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.93%) Confluence
3 16 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.33%) CMS
5 10 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.36%) Drupal
7 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.24%) Mule
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.21%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.60%) Photoshop
5 5 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.48%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.24%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) InDesign
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.24%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 522 (63.04%) GCP
2 290 (35.02%) Azure
3 247 (29.83%) AWS
4 135 (16.30%) Google Workspace
5 100 (12.08%) GitHub
6 76 (9.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 76 (9.18%) Power Platform
7 47 (5.68%) Google Analytics
8 44 (5.31%) Cloud Run
9 42 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (5.07%) Serverless
10 39 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
11 38 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (3.99%) Google Sheets
13 32 (3.86%) Entra ID
13 32 (3.86%) SaaS
14 31 (3.74%) Google Gemini
15 29 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.50%) Cloud Functions
15 29 (3.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.16%) Firewall
2 25 (3.02%) Network Security
3 15 (1.81%) DNS
4 14 (1.69%) VPN
5 11 (1.33%) VoIP
6 9 (1.09%) Internet
7 7 (0.85%) DHCP
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless
9 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.36%) HTTP
10 3 (0.36%) LAN
11 2 (0.24%) BGP
11 2 (0.24%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.24%) Intranet
11 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.24%) SAN
11 2 (0.24%) SSL
11 2 (0.24%) VLAN
11 2 (0.24%) VRRP
12 1 (0.12%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.92%) BigQuery
2 67 (8.09%) Power BI
3 35 (4.23%) Tableau
4 34 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (3.99%) NoSQL
6 25 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.90%) Looker
8 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 20 (2.42%) Mixpanel
9 18 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.17%) MySQL
10 16 (1.93%) OLAP
11 14 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.69%) Big Data
11 14 (1.69%) Metadata
12 13 (1.57%) OLTP
13 10 (1.21%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.97%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.97%) Redis
15 6 (0.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 87 (10.51%) Jenkins
2 66 (7.97%) Git
3 45 (5.43%) JIRA
4 44 (5.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.85%) JUnit
5 7 (0.85%) Liquibase
6 6 (0.72%) Selenium
6 6 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.60%) Mockito
7 5 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.48%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) Gradle
8 4 (0.48%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.36%) ERwin
9 3 (0.36%) Fiddler
General
1 310 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 164 (19.81%) Finance
3 112 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (10.63%) Banking
5 63 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 56 (6.76%) Marketing
7 46 (5.56%) Retail
8 22 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 18 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.05%) Advertising
11 17 (2.05%) Legal
12 16 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.69%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.57%) Publishing
15 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (1.21%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.09%) Military
17 9 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 100 (12.08%) Senior
2 90 (10.87%) Architect
3 80 (9.66%) Developer
4 79 (9.54%) GCP Engineer
5 75 (9.06%) Analyst
6 73 (8.82%) Lead
7 57 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (4.59%) Data Engineer
9 30 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 30 (3.62%) Software Engineer
10 29 (3.50%) Consultant
11 26 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 25 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
13 23 (2.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 22 (2.66%) Android Developer
14 22 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.54%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.42%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.42%) GCP DevOps
17 19 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.88%) REST
2 48 (5.80%) RESTful
3 39 (4.71%) React
4 36 (4.35%) Spring
5 35 (4.23%) Kafka
6 34 (4.11%) HTML
6 34 (4.11%) Node.js
7 33 (3.99%) PyTorch
8 29 (3.50%) Spring Boot
9 28 (3.38%) CSS
9 28 (3.38%) LangChain
9 28 (3.38%) TensorFlow
10 26 (3.14%) OAuth
11 25 (3.02%) scikit-learn
12 23 (2.78%) AngularJS
12 23 (2.78%) FastAPI
13 21 (2.54%) LangGraph
14 19 (2.29%) Android Jetpack
14 19 (2.29%) Jetpack Compose
15 17 (2.05%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.95%) Public Cloud
4 32 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 22 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.17%) Life Science
8 15 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.69%) Genomics
10 13 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.45%) Social Media
12 11 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.21%) Smartphone
14 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.09%) e-Learning
14 9 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.52%) Android
2 52 (6.28%) Linux
3 51 (6.16%) Windows
4 31 (3.74%) Apple iOS
5 29 (3.50%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.69%) VMS
7 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.48%) Unix
10 2 (0.24%) CoreOS
10 2 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (27.42%) DevOps
2 226 (27.29%) CI/CD
3 179 (21.62%) AI
4 163 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (19.44%) Analytics
6 157 (18.96%) Agile
7 131 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 119 (14.37%) Containerisation
9 104 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 96 (11.59%) Machine Learning
11 94 (11.35%) Migration
12 89 (10.75%) Microservices
13 87 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 84 (10.14%) User Experience
15 74 (8.94%) Observability
16 72 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 70 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
18 69 (8.33%) Change Management
19 66 (7.97%) Software Engineering
20 63 (7.61%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 253 (30.56%) Python
2 148 (17.87%) SQL
3 94 (11.35%) Java
4 49 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 44 (5.31%) PowerShell
6 38 (4.59%) Bash
7 31 (3.74%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.38%) Go
8 28 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.54%) C#
10 9 (1.09%) Ruby
10 9 (1.09%) VBA
11 8 (0.97%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.85%) Bicep
12 7 (0.85%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 5 (0.60%) Scala
15 3 (0.36%) C++
16 2 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 101 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 99 (11.96%) Degree
4 38 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.97%) CISSP
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.60%) OCP
13 5 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.48%) CCSP
14 4 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.48%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.61%) GDPR
2 44 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.23%) QA
4 22 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.33%) NIST
6 11 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.97%) NCSC
8 7 (0.85%) GRC
9 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.24%) PERC
11 2 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) WCAG
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 129 (15.58%) Docker
2 35 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.48%) Squid
6 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) Snort
7 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.24%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 171 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 158 (19.08%) Terraform
3 48 (5.80%) Ansible
4 37 (4.47%) Grafana
5 29 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.14%) Istio
7 15 (1.81%) Argo
8 13 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (1.45%) SCCM
10 7 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.72%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.72%) QRadar
12 5 (0.60%) Nessus
13 4 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.48%) logstash
14 3 (0.36%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.36%) Nexpose
14 3 (0.36%) Suricata
Vendors
1 127 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.19%) Splunk
3 30 (3.62%) Databricks
4 24 (2.90%) OpenAI
4 24 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 23 (2.78%) Adobe
5 23 (2.78%) Apple
6 21 (2.54%) Oracle
7 18 (2.17%) VMware
8 17 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.81%) Okta
9 15 (1.81%) SAP
10 13 (1.57%) Foundry
10 13 (1.57%) IBM
10 13 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.33%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.21%) Amplitude
13 9 (1.09%) Cisco
13 9 (1.09%) Hotjar
13 9 (1.09%) Optimizely