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 15 June 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
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 99 103
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Google 885 653 786
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.64% 2.09%
As % of the Vendors category 5.09% 5.57% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 362 487
10th Percentile £300 £213 £300
25th Percentile £413 £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £699 £716 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 81
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.56 £11.44
25th Percentile £22.67 £16.95 £25.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -16.67% -16.56%
75th Percentile £37.21 £46.30 £70.00
90th Percentile £50.38 £57.05 -
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £25.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +39.22% -22.73% -16.67%

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 17,382 11,719 15,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.58% 47.46% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,150 7,436 9,972
10th Percentile £313 £278 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 519 1,057
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.83 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £24.10
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +12.55% -38.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.21 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.14% +10.00% -44.00%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -20 456 £520 +4.00% 202
North of England -22 177 £500 - 113
Yorkshire -12 91 £514 +10.30% 34
South West +7 66 £550 +46.67% 32
North West -31 66 £538 +7.50% 66
Midlands -18 63 £525 +28.05% 27
South East -85 60 £563 +12.50% 116
East of England -18 34 £540 +11.34% 24
East Midlands +4 33 £550 +39.06% 13
West Midlands -49 30 £431 +2.68% 14
North East -14 23 £450 -28.00% 14
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 44 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 27 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.82%) Apache
5 17 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.69%) Confluence
7 9 (1.02%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
8 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 29 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.24%) Chatbot
5 8 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 8 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.45%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Maya
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.11%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.11%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.11%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.11%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 527 (59.55%) GCP
2 232 (26.21%) Azure
3 230 (25.99%) AWS
4 173 (19.55%) Google Workspace
5 94 (10.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 89 (10.06%) GitHub
7 78 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 54 (6.10%) Google Sheets
10 51 (5.76%) SaaS
11 48 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (4.75%) Vertex AI
13 37 (4.18%) Google Analytics
14 32 (3.62%) Entra ID
14 32 (3.62%) Google Drive
14 32 (3.62%) Slack
15 31 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (3.28%) Cloud Run
17 24 (2.71%) Amazon S3
17 24 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.21%) Firewall
2 47 (5.31%) DNS
3 40 (4.52%) VPN
4 20 (2.26%) Network Security
5 15 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.24%) DHCP
6 11 (1.24%) DKIM
6 11 (1.24%) DMARC
7 10 (1.13%) Internet
8 9 (1.02%) VoIP
9 7 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.68%) BGP
10 6 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.68%) SMTP
11 5 (0.56%) OSPF
11 5 (0.56%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) HTTP
12 4 (0.45%) Wireless
13 3 (0.34%) IPv4
13 3 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (10.51%) BigQuery
2 49 (5.54%) Power BI
3 36 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.62%) Tableau
5 25 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 20 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.15%) Metadata
8 19 (2.15%) MySQL
9 16 (1.81%) Looker
10 15 (1.69%) Big Data
11 14 (1.58%) OLAP
12 12 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.36%) Mixpanel
12 12 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.36%) OLTP
12 12 (1.36%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.90%) Redis
14 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (9.49%) Jenkins
2 54 (6.10%) JIRA
3 53 (5.99%) Git
4 38 (4.29%) GitLab
5 15 (1.69%) JUnit
6 9 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.79%) Gradle
7 7 (0.79%) IntelliJ
8 6 (0.68%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.56%) fastlane
9 5 (0.56%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.56%) Selenium
10 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.45%) Gatling
10 4 (0.45%) Postman
11 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.34%) JMeter
11 3 (0.34%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 241 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 181 (20.45%) Finance
3 100 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.68%) Marketing
6 65 (7.34%) Banking
7 55 (6.21%) Retail
8 30 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (3.28%) Legal
10 25 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (2.15%) Publishing
12 17 (1.92%) Advertising
13 14 (1.58%) Military
14 11 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.02%) Billing
15 9 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.90%) Games
16 8 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (12.77%) GCP Engineer
2 98 (11.07%) Architect
3 89 (10.06%) Senior
4 80 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 67 (7.57%) Analyst
5 67 (7.57%) Lead
6 66 (7.46%) Developer
7 58 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 38 (4.29%) Administrator
9 29 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.82%) Consultant
12 25 (2.82%) GCP DevOps
13 24 (2.71%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.60%) Network Engineer
14 23 (2.60%) Software Engineer
15 22 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.08%) REST
2 41 (4.63%) React
3 35 (3.95%) Spring
3 35 (3.95%) Spring Boot
4 34 (3.84%) Kafka
5 31 (3.50%) Node.js
6 30 (3.39%) OAuth
7 21 (2.37%) PyTorch
8 20 (2.26%) LangChain
9 17 (1.92%) Android Jetpack
9 17 (1.92%) HTML
9 17 (1.92%) Jetpack Compose
9 17 (1.92%) RESTful
10 16 (1.81%) SAML
11 15 (1.69%) .NET
11 15 (1.69%) Android SDK
11 15 (1.69%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.58%) CSS
12 14 (1.58%) OpenID
13 13 (1.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 131 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 36 (4.07%) Public Cloud
3 33 (3.73%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.05%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.05%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 23 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 20 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.58%) Clustering
12 13 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
14 9 (1.02%) Mobile Payment
15 8 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
15 8 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.33%) Windows
2 50 (5.65%) Linux
3 48 (5.42%) Android
4 24 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.15%) Apple iOS
6 18 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.47%) Windows Server
8 12 (1.36%) VMS
9 7 (0.79%) Unix
10 6 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.56%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.56%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) SUSE
13 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (27.80%) CI/CD
2 210 (23.73%) DevOps
3 176 (19.89%) AI
4 166 (18.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 150 (16.95%) Agile
6 147 (16.61%) Migration
7 146 (16.50%) Analytics
8 132 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (11.53%) Observability
10 95 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 78 (8.81%) Software Engineering
12 76 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (8.25%) Cloud Security
14 72 (8.14%) Machine Learning
15 71 (8.02%) Roadmaps
16 68 (7.68%) Decision-Making
17 64 (7.23%) Microservices
18 62 (7.01%) Data Modelling
19 61 (6.89%) Change Management
20 59 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 231 (26.10%) Python
2 164 (18.53%) SQL
3 118 (13.33%) Java
4 61 (6.89%) PowerShell
5 46 (5.20%) Bash
6 33 (3.73%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.16%) Go
8 27 (3.05%) Kotlin
9 25 (2.82%) C#
10 21 (2.37%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.13%) Rust
12 9 (1.02%) Scala
13 8 (0.90%) Bicep
13 8 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
13 8 (0.90%) Groovy
14 6 (0.68%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.56%) R
15 5 (0.56%) Ruby
16 4 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 149 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 120 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 85 (9.60%) Degree
4 30 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 30 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 26 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.37%) CISSP
8 20 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.68%) CCNP
11 6 (0.68%) CISM
11 6 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.56%) OCP
12 5 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.45%) IBM Certification
13 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.99%) GDPR
2 41 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.39%) QA
4 18 (2.03%) NIST
5 16 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.58%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.13%) WCAG
9 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.56%) NCSC
12 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.45%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.45%) PERC
13 3 (0.34%) GRC
13 3 (0.34%) SLA
14 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.23%) PMO
14 2 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 78 (8.81%) Docker
2 48 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.56%) NFS
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.56%) vSphere
7 4 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.45%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.11%) Varnish
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 206 (23.28%) Terraform
2 149 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 37 (4.18%) Ansible
4 29 (3.28%) Grafana
5 24 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.26%) Istio
7 15 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.02%) Argo
9 9 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.79%) Puppet
10 7 (0.79%) SCCM
10 7 (0.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.56%) Podman
12 5 (0.56%) SnapMirror
12 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.45%) vMotion
14 3 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 141 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.05%) ServiceNow
3 26 (2.94%) Oracle
4 25 (2.82%) Apple
5 23 (2.60%) Databricks
6 21 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.26%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.15%) Splunk
9 18 (2.03%) Okta
9 18 (2.03%) OpenAI
10 17 (1.92%) Adobe
11 16 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.58%) TikTok
13 13 (1.47%) SAP
14 12 (1.36%) IBM
14 12 (1.36%) VMware
15 10 (1.13%) Rapid7
16 9 (1.02%) Checkmarx
16 9 (1.02%) Citrix
16 9 (1.02%) CyberArk