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 5 March 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
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 118 139
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Google 859 585 650
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.31% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 5.29% 4.93% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 339 435
10th Percentile £263 £259 £213
25th Percentile £400 £396 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 47 51
10th Percentile £18.64 £24.47 £11.25
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £33.09 £46.30 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.54% +78.08% -49.51%
75th Percentile £37.91 £61.13 £37.50
90th Percentile £50.38 £63.45 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £44.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.49% +71.73% -49.51%

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 16,224 11,855 16,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.67% 46.74% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,582 7,418 10,312
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 843 379 905
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.72
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +24.14% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.54 £25.18
% change year-on-year -15.35% +17.30% -28.06%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -9 425 £525 -4.55% 237
North of England -3 169 £500 -9.09% 107
Yorkshire -14 96 £500 -9.09% 37
South East -26 83 £322 -35.60% 114
Midlands +1 80 £525 +34.27% 58
North West -12 64 £550 -12.00% 64
South West +3 56 £525 -12.50% 46
West Midlands -21 45 £494 -5.95% 34
East Midlands 0 35 £550 +54.49% 24
East of England -21 34 £625 +47.06% 35
North East -8 12 £475 +43.94% 6
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 33 (3.84%) Apache Spark
2 29 (3.38%) Apache
3 22 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.98%) Confluence
5 16 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.28%) CMS
7 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Drupal
9 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.28%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.58%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.23%) InDesign
8 2 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Maya
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 535 (62.28%) GCP
2 289 (33.64%) Azure
3 258 (30.03%) AWS
4 145 (16.88%) Google Workspace
5 102 (11.87%) GitHub
6 86 (10.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 77 (8.96%) Power Platform
8 48 (5.59%) Google Analytics
9 42 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (4.42%) Cloud Run
10 38 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
10 38 (4.42%) Google Sheets
11 33 (3.84%) Cloud Computing
11 33 (3.84%) Serverless
12 31 (3.61%) SaaS
13 30 (3.49%) Entra ID
13 30 (3.49%) Vertex AI
14 29 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (3.26%) Google Gemini
16 24 (2.79%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.22%) Firewall
2 27 (3.14%) Network Security
3 23 (2.68%) VPN
4 22 (2.56%) DNS
5 11 (1.28%) VoIP
6 10 (1.16%) Internet
7 8 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.81%) DHCP
9 5 (0.58%) BGP
9 5 (0.58%) SAN
9 5 (0.58%) Wireless
10 4 (0.47%) HTTP
11 3 (0.35%) LAN
11 3 (0.35%) OSPF
11 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.23%) Cisco IPT
12 2 (0.23%) Intranet
12 2 (0.23%) SMTP
13 1 (0.12%) Extranet
13 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (12.92%) BigQuery
2 67 (7.80%) Power BI
3 34 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.84%) Tableau
5 31 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.56%) Mixpanel
7 21 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.33%) Looker
9 18 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.10%) OLAP
10 16 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.86%) MySQL
11 15 (1.75%) OLTP
12 14 (1.63%) Metadata
13 13 (1.51%) Big Data
14 9 (1.05%) Redis
15 8 (0.93%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.81%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (10.01%) Jenkins
2 70 (8.15%) Git
3 45 (5.24%) GitLab
4 44 (5.12%) JIRA
5 7 (0.81%) JUnit
6 6 (0.70%) Liquibase
6 6 (0.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.58%) Mockito
7 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.47%) Gradle
8 4 (0.47%) Postman
9 3 (0.35%) Charles Proxy
9 3 (0.35%) Gatling
9 3 (0.35%) JMeter
General
1 313 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 166 (19.32%) Finance
3 113 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.31%) Banking
5 69 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 54 (6.29%) Marketing
7 49 (5.70%) Retail
8 23 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (2.44%) Advertising
11 20 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.98%) Legal
13 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.75%) Publishing
15 13 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.05%) Military
18 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 99 (11.53%) Senior
2 98 (11.41%) GCP Engineer
3 91 (10.59%) Architect
4 79 (9.20%) Analyst
5 73 (8.50%) Lead
6 72 (8.38%) Developer
7 67 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 35 (4.07%) Consultant
9 35 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (3.38%) Software Engineer
11 27 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 27 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
12 26 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
12 26 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.79%) Security Engineer
14 23 (2.68%) Android Developer
14 23 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
14 23 (2.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (6.52%) REST
2 40 (4.66%) PyTorch
2 40 (4.66%) RESTful
3 38 (4.42%) React
4 37 (4.31%) Kafka
5 32 (3.73%) HTML
5 32 (3.73%) Spring
6 31 (3.61%) scikit-learn
7 30 (3.49%) LangChain
7 30 (3.49%) Node.js
7 30 (3.49%) TensorFlow
8 26 (3.03%) CSS
9 25 (2.91%) Spring Boot
10 24 (2.79%) OAuth
11 22 (2.56%) AngularJS
12 21 (2.44%) Android Jetpack
12 21 (2.44%) FastAPI
12 21 (2.44%) Jetpack Compose
12 21 (2.44%) LangGraph
13 19 (2.21%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 108 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 45 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 44 (5.12%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 20 (2.33%) Life Science
8 18 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.63%) AI Agents
9 14 (1.63%) Genomics
9 14 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.16%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.05%) Clustering
13 9 (1.05%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.52%) Windows
2 53 (6.17%) Android
2 53 (6.17%) Linux
3 30 (3.49%) Mac OS
4 29 (3.38%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.98%) VMS
6 9 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.58%) CoreOS
8 5 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Solaris
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (27.82%) CI/CD
2 233 (27.12%) DevOps
3 185 (21.54%) AI
4 167 (19.44%) Analytics
5 165 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (18.28%) Agile
7 147 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (12.46%) Containerisation
9 104 (12.11%) Migration
10 103 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (11.76%) Machine Learning
12 94 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 85 (9.90%) Microservices
14 83 (9.66%) Observability
15 77 (8.96%) User Experience
16 71 (8.27%) Change Management
16 71 (8.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 70 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
18 67 (7.80%) Software Engineering
19 65 (7.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 259 (30.15%) Python
2 158 (18.39%) SQL
3 100 (11.64%) Java
4 44 (5.12%) JavaScript
4 44 (5.12%) PowerShell
5 42 (4.89%) Bash
6 32 (3.73%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.14%) C#
7 27 (3.14%) Go
7 27 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.28%) Ruby
9 10 (1.16%) Google Apps Script
10 8 (0.93%) VBA
11 5 (0.58%) Bicep
11 5 (0.58%) Groovy
11 5 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.58%) Scala
11 5 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.47%) C++
12 4 (0.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 130 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 102 (11.87%) Degree
4 37 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.40%) CISSP
11 10 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.93%) OCP
12 8 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (0.70%) CCNP
13 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (6.98%) GDPR
2 46 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.73%) QA
4 18 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.16%) NIST
8 9 (1.05%) NCSC
9 8 (0.93%) GRC
10 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.35%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.23%) PERC
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 122 (14.20%) Docker
2 35 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.58%) NFS
5 5 (0.58%) vSphere
6 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.35%) Snort
6 3 (0.35%) Squid
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 179 (20.84%) Terraform
2 168 (19.56%) Kubernetes
3 50 (5.82%) Ansible
4 37 (4.31%) Grafana
5 29 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.03%) Istio
7 15 (1.75%) Argo
8 13 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.40%) SCCM
10 10 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 7 (0.81%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.70%) QRadar
14 5 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.58%) Nessus
14 5 (0.58%) SnapMirror
15 4 (0.47%) logstash
16 3 (0.35%) Nexpose
16 3 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 126 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.77%) Splunk
3 30 (3.49%) Databricks
4 24 (2.79%) Adobe
4 24 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.44%) Apple
5 21 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 18 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 17 (1.98%) VMware
8 16 (1.86%) Oracle
8 16 (1.86%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.75%) IBM
10 13 (1.51%) Okta
10 13 (1.51%) SAP
11 11 (1.28%) Foundry
12 9 (1.05%) Amplitude
12 9 (1.05%) Citrix
12 9 (1.05%) Hotjar
12 9 (1.05%) Palo Alto
13 8 (0.93%) Optimizely