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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 794 671 773
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 2.17% 1.94%
As % of the Vendors category 5.58% 4.81% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 358 540
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £363 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.43%
75th Percentile £623 £652 £680
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 46 30
10th Percentile £15.50 £32.13 £16.70
25th Percentile £16.95 £40.88 £22.13
Median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £32.66
Median % change year-on-year -56.46% +91.37% -6.69%
75th Percentile £38.75 £70.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £62.25 - £66.63
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £32.66
% change year-on-year -56.46% +91.37% -6.69%

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 14,227 13,938 17,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.62% 45.12% 44.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,155 8,371 11,791
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 707 432 626
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.79% +74.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.70 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +76.24%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +2 429 £525 -4.55% 663
North of England +14 166 £450 -10.00% 141
Yorkshire +12 93 £400 -20.00% 44
South East +13 87 £307 -25.70% 202
North West +12 70 £519 +3.88% 92
Midlands +6 46 £469 +31.67% 51
West Midlands +2 39 £500 +21.21% 27
South West -9 34 £506 -11.96% 49
East of England -27 19 £625 +47.06% 39
East Midlands -10 6 £367 +2.95% 22
North East -18 3 £570 +36.53% 5
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 23 (2.90%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.64%) Confluence
4 17 (2.14%) Apache
5 15 (1.89%) CMS
6 14 (1.76%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.76%) Mule
8 5 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.38%) Drupal
10 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) nginx
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 31 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.50%) Sketch
6 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Maple
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.38%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Magento
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.13%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 455 (57.30%) GCP
2 231 (29.09%) Azure
3 211 (26.57%) AWS
4 109 (13.73%) Google Workspace
5 88 (11.08%) GitHub
6 64 (8.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 59 (7.43%) Google Analytics
8 58 (7.30%) SaaS
9 57 (7.18%) Power Platform
10 38 (4.79%) Serverless
11 29 (3.65%) Cloud Run
12 28 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (3.02%) Cloud Functions
14 24 (3.02%) Vertex AI
15 23 (2.90%) Entra ID
15 23 (2.90%) Google Sheets
15 23 (2.90%) Google Tag Manager
16 22 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (2.64%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.30%) Firewall
2 20 (2.52%) DNS
3 19 (2.39%) Network Security
4 11 (1.39%) HTTP
5 9 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.01%) VPN
7 3 (0.38%) BGP
7 3 (0.38%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.38%) DHCP
7 3 (0.38%) Internet
7 3 (0.38%) Intranet
7 3 (0.38%) LAN
7 3 (0.38%) SMTP
7 3 (0.38%) SSL
7 3 (0.38%) VLAN
7 3 (0.38%) VoIP
7 3 (0.38%) WAN
7 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (12.09%) BigQuery
2 50 (6.30%) Power BI
3 39 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.28%) NoSQL
5 31 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.90%) Tableau
6 28 (3.53%) Looker
7 26 (3.27%) Big Data
8 21 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.02%) MySQL
10 15 (1.89%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.76%) Metadata
11 14 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.51%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.51%) Mixpanel
12 12 (1.51%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.76%) Power Query
14 6 (0.76%) Redis
15 5 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 82 (10.33%) Jenkins
2 81 (10.20%) Git
3 53 (6.68%) JIRA
4 44 (5.54%) GitLab
5 15 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.39%) Liquibase
8 10 (1.26%) Postman
9 9 (1.13%) Gradle
9 9 (1.13%) SoapUI
10 8 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.88%) Selenium
12 6 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
12 6 (0.76%) Maven
12 6 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 4 (0.50%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.50%) JUnit
13 4 (0.50%) Mockito
13 4 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 280 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.16%) Finance
3 102 (12.85%) Banking
4 90 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (7.81%) Marketing
6 52 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 24 (3.02%) Retail
8 22 (2.77%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 18 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.27%) Legal
10 17 (2.14%) Advertising
10 17 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (1.76%) Publishing
11 14 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.01%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (12.09%) Senior
2 85 (10.71%) Architect
3 80 (10.08%) Developer
4 73 (9.19%) Analyst
5 64 (8.06%) GCP Engineer
6 58 (7.30%) Lead
7 37 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 35 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (4.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 28 (3.53%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.15%) Consultant
11 25 (3.15%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (3.02%) GCP DevOps
13 22 (2.77%) GCP Architect
13 22 (2.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 21 (2.64%) Android Developer
15 20 (2.52%) IT Support
16 19 (2.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.39%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (8.31%) RESTful
2 40 (5.04%) React
2 40 (5.04%) REST
3 38 (4.79%) Node.js
4 37 (4.66%) HTML
5 30 (3.78%) CSS
6 28 (3.53%) Kafka
7 27 (3.40%) Spring
8 24 (3.02%) FastAPI
9 22 (2.77%) LangGraph
10 20 (2.52%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.39%) Android Jetpack
11 19 (2.39%) AngularJS
12 18 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (2.27%) Jetpack Compose
12 18 (2.27%) LangChain
12 18 (2.27%) TensorFlow
13 17 (2.14%) OAuth
13 17 (2.14%) pytest
13 17 (2.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.34%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 27 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.27%) Life Science
10 17 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.02%) Genomics
11 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.02%) Social Media
12 13 (1.64%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.64%) iPad
13 12 (1.51%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.51%) iPhone
14 10 (1.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.56%) Linux
2 49 (6.17%) Windows
3 45 (5.67%) Android
4 34 (4.28%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.26%) Unix
6 9 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) MVS
9 1 (0.13%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.13%) Solaris
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (26.20%) CI/CD
2 199 (25.06%) DevOps
3 185 (23.30%) Agile
4 177 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
5 152 (19.14%) Analytics
6 139 (17.51%) AI
7 125 (15.74%) Containerisation
8 99 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 87 (10.96%) Machine Learning
10 86 (10.83%) Microservices
11 83 (10.45%) User Experience
12 74 (9.32%) Migration
13 66 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 64 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 63 (7.93%) Computer Science
16 56 (7.05%) Data Modelling
17 55 (6.93%) Actionable Insight
18 54 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
18 54 (6.80%) ETL
18 54 (6.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 234 (29.47%) Python
2 130 (16.37%) SQL
3 92 (11.59%) Java
4 55 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.04%) Bash
5 40 (5.04%) PowerShell
6 32 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.53%) Go
8 27 (3.40%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.51%) Ruby
10 10 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.88%) Bicep
12 7 (0.88%) C#
12 7 (0.88%) R
12 7 (0.88%) VBA
13 6 (0.76%) Scala
14 4 (0.50%) C++
14 4 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 89 (11.21%) Degree
3 85 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 43 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.90%) CISSP
7 16 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.26%) MCP
10 9 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.13%) CISM
10 9 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 8 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.76%) GCIH
14 5 (0.63%) CEH
14 5 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.30%) GDPR
2 40 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.65%) QA
5 24 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.89%) NIST
7 12 (1.51%) SLA
8 11 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.13%) GRC
10 7 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.76%) NCSC
11 6 (0.76%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.76%) WCAG
12 5 (0.63%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.50%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.38%) ECSS
14 3 (0.38%) HL7
15 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.25%) DICOM
15 2 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 140 (17.63%) Docker
2 27 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.63%) Squid
5 4 (0.50%) Snort
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) NFS
7 1 (0.13%) SRDF
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 122 (15.37%) Terraform
3 39 (4.91%) Ansible
4 32 (4.03%) Grafana
5 29 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 17 (2.14%) Argo
7 11 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.26%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.13%) Istio
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (0.76%) Puppet
10 6 (0.76%) QRadar
11 5 (0.63%) Nessus
11 5 (0.63%) SCCM
12 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.50%) Suricata
13 3 (0.38%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.38%) logstash
13 3 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 135 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.42%) Splunk
3 27 (3.40%) Adobe
4 23 (2.90%) Oracle
4 23 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.64%) CyberArk
5 21 (2.64%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.52%) OpenAI
7 16 (2.02%) Apple
7 16 (2.02%) Databricks
7 16 (2.02%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.89%) Okta
8 15 (1.89%) SAP
9 14 (1.76%) CrowdStrike
9 14 (1.76%) Hotjar
9 14 (1.76%) VMware
10 13 (1.64%) Cisco
11 12 (1.51%) Amplitude
11 12 (1.51%) MobileIron
11 12 (1.51%) Nexthink