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 6 October 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
6 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 102 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Google 1,094 731 725
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.63% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.69% 5.52% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 427 422
10th Percentile £324 £223 £313
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £532
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -9.69% -3.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £691 £705 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 40 62
10th Percentile £13.43 £15.40 £26.65
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.56 £36.56
Median hourly rate £27.54 £21.92 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.62% -68.69% +112.12%
75th Percentile £40.31 £35.97 -
90th Percentile £77.00 £57.98 -
UK median hourly rate £23.07 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.26% -67.77% +105.88%

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 19,213 13,244 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.48% 47.71% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,427 8,570
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,240 639 535
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £25.04 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year -0.45% -20.17% -26.74%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -16 552 £510 +0.94% 2,185
North of England -14 228 £474 +5.29% 331
Yorkshire -9 112 £531 +27.63% 105
South East -23 112 £503 +101.00% 346
North West -21 89 £450 -10.00% 187
South West +20 84 £550 +7.32% 109
Midlands -33 50 £492 +16.86% 136
East of England -9 35 £658 +38.42% 101
West Midlands -49 32 £475 +2.70% 93
North East -13 28 £425 -25.44% 39
East Midlands +5 19 £625 +56.25% 43
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 45 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 40 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (3.11%) Apache
4 33 (3.02%) Confluence
5 29 (2.65%) CMS
6 28 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 19 (1.74%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.82%) WordPress
9 8 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.46%) IIS
11 4 (0.37%) Drupal
12 3 (0.27%) nginx
13 2 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.091%) Camunda
14 1 (0.091%) Luigi
14 1 (0.091%) Mendix
14 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
Applications
1 43 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.55%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.27%) InDesign
10 1 (0.091%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.091%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.55%) Shopify
3 4 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.27%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.27%) iTrent
4 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.091%) Maximo
5 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.091%) Primavera
5 1 (0.091%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.091%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.091%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 697 (63.71%) GCP
2 341 (31.17%) AWS
3 334 (30.53%) Azure
4 154 (14.08%) Google Workspace
5 96 (8.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 91 (8.32%) GitHub
7 85 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (5.76%) Google Analytics
8 63 (5.76%) Power Platform
9 60 (5.48%) Entra ID
10 54 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (4.66%) SaaS
12 49 (4.48%) Google Sheets
13 47 (4.30%) Vertex AI
14 45 (4.11%) dbt
15 42 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
16 35 (3.20%) Cloud Run
16 35 (3.20%) Google Gemini
17 33 (3.02%) Google Drive
18 30 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.39%) Firewall
2 50 (4.57%) DNS
3 31 (2.83%) Network Security
3 31 (2.83%) VPN
4 25 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.65%) DHCP
6 12 (1.10%) HTTP
6 12 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (1.01%) Internet
7 11 (1.01%) WAN
8 10 (0.91%) DKIM
8 10 (0.91%) DMARC
9 9 (0.82%) BGP
10 8 (0.73%) DNSSEC
10 8 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
10 8 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.73%) VoIP
11 7 (0.64%) LAN
11 7 (0.64%) VLAN
12 4 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.61%) BigQuery
2 66 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.94%) Power BI
4 47 (4.30%) Looker
5 41 (3.75%) Metadata
5 41 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 27 (2.47%) MySQL
8 24 (2.19%) Tableau
9 21 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.83%) Big Data
11 18 (1.65%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.55%) SQL Server
13 14 (1.28%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.73%) Flink
15 8 (0.73%) Redis
16 7 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (0.64%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 102 (9.32%) Jenkins
2 85 (7.77%) Git
3 67 (6.12%) GitLab
4 61 (5.58%) JIRA
5 16 (1.46%) JUnit
6 15 (1.37%) Gradle
7 12 (1.10%) Maven
7 12 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.01%) Zephyr
9 10 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.64%) Claude Code
10 7 (0.64%) Gatling
10 7 (0.64%) JMeter
10 7 (0.64%) NeoLoad
11 6 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.55%) MLflow
12 5 (0.46%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.46%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.46%) LoadRunner
General
1 299 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 205 (18.74%) Finance
3 140 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 68 (6.22%) Marketing
6 66 (6.03%) Banking
7 52 (4.75%) Retail
8 41 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (2.01%) Publishing
11 21 (1.92%) Legal
12 20 (1.83%) Advertising
12 20 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.65%) Local Government
14 17 (1.55%) Games
15 16 (1.46%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.37%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.01%) Billing
18 11 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 182 (16.64%) Architect
2 115 (10.51%) Developer
3 109 (9.96%) GCP Engineer
4 102 (9.32%) Senior
5 84 (7.68%) Data Engineer
6 82 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 78 (7.13%) Analyst
8 61 (5.58%) Lead
9 53 (4.84%) Administrator
10 51 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
13 28 (2.56%) GCP Architect
13 28 (2.56%) Security Architect
14 27 (2.47%) GCP Data Engineer
14 27 (2.47%) GCP DevOps
15 26 (2.38%) Security Engineer
16 25 (2.29%) Consultant
17 23 (2.10%) Support Engineer
18 21 (1.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (21.76%) Terraform
2 86 (7.86%) REST
3 50 (4.57%) React
4 49 (4.48%) Kafka
5 46 (4.20%) OAuth
6 40 (3.66%) RESTful
7 37 (3.38%) Node.js
8 36 (3.29%) Spring
9 35 (3.20%) JSON
9 35 (3.20%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.93%) SAML
11 29 (2.65%) JWT
12 27 (2.47%) Middleware
12 27 (2.47%) XML
13 26 (2.38%) LangGraph
14 25 (2.29%) HTML
14 25 (2.29%) SOAP
15 23 (2.10%) LangChain
15 23 (2.10%) OAuth2
16 21 (1.92%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 204 (18.65%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.76%) AI Agents
3 57 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 45 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 38 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 37 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
8 32 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.83%) Security Posture
10 28 (2.56%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (2.38%) Mobile App
12 22 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
15 18 (1.65%) CMDB
16 14 (1.28%) Clustering
16 14 (1.28%) Replication
17 13 (1.19%) Data Structures
17 13 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.86%) Linux
2 84 (7.68%) Windows
3 39 (3.56%) Android
4 28 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.65%) Unix
7 13 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.64%) VMS
10 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.37%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.27%) CentOS
11 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.091%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (32.08%) CI/CD
2 266 (24.31%) DevOps
3 248 (22.67%) Agile
3 248 (22.67%) AI
4 231 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 194 (17.73%) Analytics
6 168 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 153 (13.99%) Migration
8 149 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
9 123 (11.24%) Containerisation
10 122 (11.15%) Cloud Security
11 115 (10.51%) Roadmaps
12 113 (10.33%) Observability
13 110 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 109 (9.96%) Software Engineering
15 103 (9.41%) Data Modelling
16 102 (9.32%) Microservices
17 96 (8.78%) Machine Learning
17 96 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 334 (30.53%) Python
2 213 (19.47%) SQL
3 145 (13.25%) Java
4 98 (8.96%) Bash
5 95 (8.68%) PowerShell
6 52 (4.75%) JavaScript
7 49 (4.48%) Go
8 30 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 27 (2.47%) Kotlin
10 24 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.01%) C#
12 19 (1.74%) Scala
13 15 (1.37%) Groovy
14 14 (1.28%) Bicep
15 10 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
16 9 (0.82%) R
17 7 (0.64%) Perl
17 7 (0.64%) Rust
18 6 (0.55%) SOQL
19 5 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 202 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.87%) Degree
4 65 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 43 (3.93%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.93%) CISSP
7 38 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (1.55%) CISM
11 13 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.91%) CCSP
15 8 (0.73%) CISA
16 7 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.13%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.39%) QA
3 36 (3.29%) GDPR
4 29 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.56%) NIST
6 21 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.01%) GRC
8 11 (1.01%) NCSC
9 9 (0.82%) WCAG
10 8 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.73%) PMO
11 7 (0.64%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.64%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.55%) EU AI Act
12 6 (0.55%) SLA
13 5 (0.46%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 143 (13.07%) Docker
2 59 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.46%) ISA Server
6 3 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) Firmware
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.091%) vSphere
8 1 (0.091%) zsh
Systems Management
1 239 (21.85%) Kubernetes
2 67 (6.12%) Ansible
3 38 (3.47%) Grafana
4 30 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
9 10 (0.91%) Puppet
10 8 (0.73%) Argo
10 8 (0.73%) CASB
11 6 (0.55%) Cilium
11 6 (0.55%) Istio
12 4 (0.37%) Podman
12 4 (0.37%) SCCM
12 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.27%) Kibana
13 3 (0.27%) Nagios
13 3 (0.27%) QRadar
13 3 (0.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 247 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.11%) Oracle
3 41 (3.75%) Splunk
4 38 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 37 (3.38%) Adobe
6 34 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 33 (3.02%) Databricks
8 30 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 30 (2.74%) IBM
9 27 (2.47%) Salesforce
10 23 (2.10%) Okta
11 22 (2.01%) SAP
11 22 (2.01%) TikTok
12 20 (1.83%) Cisco
12 20 (1.83%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.55%) Apple
14 16 (1.46%) Informatica
14 16 (1.46%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.37%) VMware
16 14 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
3,184 Google jobs in England