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 11 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
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 111 130
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Google 802 681 804
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 2.22% 2.02%
As % of the Vendors category 5.66% 4.93% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 368 566
10th Percentile £232 £306 £219
25th Percentile £363 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £613 £651 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 47 31
10th Percentile £15.50 £31.25 £14.03
25th Percentile £15.91 £39.13 £19.75
Median hourly rate £22.53 £67.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -66.62% +108.85% -7.66%
75th Percentile £35.91 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £52.47 - £66.25
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £62.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -63.90% +93.38% -7.66%

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 14,172 13,804 17,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.70% 45.03% 44.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,110 8,288 11,769
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 699 429 626
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.43 £14.98
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.25 £20.34
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.50 £44.20
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% -21.95% +73.33%
75th Percentile £43.23 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.09 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.84
% change year-on-year -17.90% -30.53% +75.34%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +4 442 £525 -4.55% 597
North of England +11 163 £450 -10.00% 135
Yorkshire -1 94 £400 -21.10% 40
South East +21 85 £306 -25.76% 202
North West +11 66 £509 +1.75% 92
Midlands +9 46 £463 +29.92% 46
West Midlands +1 40 £488 +44.44% 22
South West -20 31 £513 -10.87% 57
East of England -25 21 £625 +47.06% 40
East Midlands -8 5 £367 +2.95% 23
North East -21 3 £570 +36.53% 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 24 (2.99%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.62%) Confluence
4 18 (2.24%) Apache
5 16 (2.00%) CMS
6 13 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.75%) Mule
8 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Drupal
10 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.37%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) SAS
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 32 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.37%) Sketch
7 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.12%) InDesign
8 1 (0.12%) Maple
8 1 (0.12%) Maya
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Magento
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 462 (57.61%) GCP
2 228 (28.43%) Azure
3 212 (26.43%) AWS
4 110 (13.72%) Google Workspace
5 87 (10.85%) GitHub
6 68 (8.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 59 (7.36%) Google Analytics
7 59 (7.36%) Power Platform
8 57 (7.11%) SaaS
9 37 (4.61%) Serverless
10 29 (3.62%) Cloud Run
10 29 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
11 28 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (3.24%) Cloud Functions
13 24 (2.99%) Vertex AI
14 23 (2.87%) Entra ID
14 23 (2.87%) Google Sheets
15 22 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (2.62%) Google Play
17 20 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.23%) Firewall
2 22 (2.74%) DNS
3 19 (2.37%) Network Security
4 12 (1.50%) HTTP
5 10 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.12%) VPN
7 4 (0.50%) DHCP
8 3 (0.37%) BGP
8 3 (0.37%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.37%) Internet
8 3 (0.37%) Intranet
8 3 (0.37%) LAN
8 3 (0.37%) SMTP
8 3 (0.37%) SSL
8 3 (0.37%) VLAN
8 3 (0.37%) WAN
8 3 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.37%) Wireless
9 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.25%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (12.84%) BigQuery
2 53 (6.61%) Power BI
3 37 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.24%) Tableau
5 33 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 31 (3.87%) Looker
7 28 (3.49%) Big Data
8 22 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.87%) Metadata
11 14 (1.75%) MySQL
12 12 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (1.50%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.50%) Mixpanel
12 12 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.50%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.75%) Power Query
13 6 (0.75%) Redis
14 5 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 79 (9.85%) Git
3 53 (6.61%) JIRA
4 44 (5.49%) GitLab
5 15 (1.87%) SonarQube
5 15 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (1.37%) Liquibase
7 10 (1.25%) Gradle
7 10 (1.25%) Postman
8 9 (1.12%) SoapUI
9 8 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.00%) Selenium
10 7 (0.87%) Maven
11 6 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 4 (0.50%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.50%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.50%) Vite
12 4 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 279 (34.79%) Social Skills
2 169 (21.07%) Finance
3 103 (12.84%) Banking
4 93 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (7.86%) Marketing
6 52 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 22 (2.74%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.74%) Retail
8 21 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 16 (2.00%) Advertising
9 16 (2.00%) Legal
9 16 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.75%) Publishing
12 11 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 99 (12.34%) Senior
2 85 (10.60%) Architect
3 79 (9.85%) Developer
4 72 (8.98%) Analyst
5 67 (8.35%) GCP Engineer
6 53 (6.61%) Lead
7 37 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 35 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.87%) Data Engineer
10 26 (3.24%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.12%) GCP Architect
11 25 (3.12%) IT Support
12 24 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 24 (2.99%) Consultant
13 23 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
14 22 (2.74%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 22 (2.74%) IT Engineer
15 21 (2.62%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.49%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (7.86%) RESTful
2 39 (4.86%) Node.js
3 38 (4.74%) React
4 37 (4.61%) REST
5 35 (4.36%) HTML
6 28 (3.49%) CSS
6 28 (3.49%) Kafka
7 24 (2.99%) FastAPI
8 22 (2.74%) Spring
9 21 (2.62%) LangGraph
10 19 (2.37%) Android Jetpack
11 18 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (2.24%) Jetpack Compose
11 18 (2.24%) TensorFlow
12 17 (2.12%) LangChain
12 17 (2.12%) pytest
12 17 (2.12%) scikit-learn
13 16 (2.00%) AngularJS
13 16 (2.00%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.47%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 30 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (2.12%) Life Science
10 17 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.00%) Genomics
11 16 (2.00%) iPad
12 15 (1.87%) iPhone
12 15 (1.87%) Social Media
13 14 (1.75%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.50%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.73%) Linux
2 51 (6.36%) Windows
3 41 (5.11%) Android
4 34 (4.24%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.37%) Unix
6 7 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) MVS
9 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (26.43%) CI/CD
2 198 (24.69%) DevOps
3 191 (23.82%) Agile
4 182 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
5 154 (19.20%) Analytics
6 137 (17.08%) AI
7 122 (15.21%) Containerisation
8 99 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 86 (10.72%) Machine Learning
10 84 (10.47%) Microservices
11 82 (10.22%) User Experience
12 77 (9.60%) Migration
13 66 (8.23%) Computer Science
13 66 (8.23%) Data Modelling
14 62 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 60 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 58 (7.23%) ETL
17 57 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
18 54 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
18 54 (6.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 240 (29.93%) Python
2 140 (17.46%) SQL
3 89 (11.10%) Java
4 51 (6.36%) JavaScript
5 39 (4.86%) Bash
5 39 (4.86%) PowerShell
6 33 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.74%) Go
8 26 (3.24%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.50%) Ruby
9 12 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.87%) Bicep
11 7 (0.87%) C#
11 7 (0.87%) R
11 7 (0.87%) VBA
12 6 (0.75%) C++
12 6 (0.75%) Scala
13 4 (0.50%) Swift
14 3 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 95 (11.85%) Security Cleared
2 92 (11.47%) Degree
3 82 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 45 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 24 (2.99%) CISSP
7 16 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.25%) MCP
11 9 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.12%) CISM
11 9 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.75%) CEH
13 6 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.75%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.75%) GCIH
14 5 (0.62%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.86%) GDPR
2 39 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.11%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.49%) QA
5 24 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.87%) NIST
7 14 (1.75%) SLA
8 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.12%) GRC
10 6 (0.75%) NCSC
10 6 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.75%) WCAG
11 5 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.37%) ECSS
13 3 (0.37%) HL7
14 2 (0.25%) DICOM
14 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.25%) Section 508
System Software
1 140 (17.46%) Docker
2 27 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.62%) Squid
5 4 (0.50%) Snort
6 2 (0.25%) Firmware
6 2 (0.25%) KVM
7 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) NFS
7 1 (0.12%) SRDF
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 144 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 121 (15.09%) Terraform
3 39 (4.86%) Ansible
4 31 (3.87%) Grafana
5 29 (3.62%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.00%) Argo
7 11 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.25%) Istio
8 10 (1.25%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
10 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.87%) Puppet
12 5 (0.62%) Nessus
12 5 (0.62%) QRadar
13 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.50%) SCCM
13 4 (0.50%) Suricata
14 3 (0.37%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 140 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.23%) Splunk
3 26 (3.24%) Adobe
3 26 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 24 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.62%) CyberArk
6 20 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.49%) Oracle
7 16 (2.00%) Apple
7 16 (2.00%) Databricks
7 16 (2.00%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.87%) Cisco
8 15 (1.87%) MobileIron
8 15 (1.87%) Nexthink
8 15 (1.87%) Okta
8 15 (1.87%) SAP
9 14 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
9 14 (1.75%) Hotjar
9 14 (1.75%) VMware
10 13 (1.62%) Amplitude