Google Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 24 December 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 84 120
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 -23
Contract jobs citing Google 171 80 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.59% 2.25% 1.37%
As % of the Vendors category 7.69% 4.85% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 41 56
10th Percentile £237 £303 £165
25th Percentile £325 £413 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £640 £520
90th Percentile £644 £700 £581
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £15.85 £42.20 £33.20
25th Percentile £17.88 £58.63 £33.50
Median hourly rate £22.75 £86.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.55% +152.94% -57.50%
75th Percentile £30.44 - £34.50
90th Percentile £36.18 - £34.80
England median hourly rate £33.09 £43.08 £32.66
% change year-on-year -23.19% +31.89% -6.69%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,224 1,648 2,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 46.71% 46.32% 47.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,443 928 1,399
10th Percentile £250 £250 £230
25th Percentile £363 £398 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -1.70% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £587
90th Percentile £677 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 67 99
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.83 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -7.14% +62.79%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.05 £82.66 £60.00
England median hourly rate £23.69 £30.52 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.38% -33.48% +74.02%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Google job vacancy trend in the North of England

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the North of England

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the North of England

Google
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Yorkshire +12 93 £400 -20.00% 120
North West +15 76 £513 -6.82% 160
North East -21 2 £483 +15.57% 18
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (2.92%) Mule
2 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.17%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.58%) CICS
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (12.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.92%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (63.16%) GCP
2 68 (39.77%) Azure
3 65 (38.01%) AWS
4 37 (21.64%) Google Workspace
5 20 (11.70%) SaaS
6 18 (10.53%) Serverless
7 17 (9.94%) Google Analytics
7 17 (9.94%) Power Platform
8 15 (8.77%) Google Tag Manager
9 14 (8.19%) GitHub
10 8 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (4.09%) Vertex AI
12 6 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (3.51%) Azure AI
13 4 (2.34%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.34%) Google Play
14 2 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (1.17%) Cloud Functions
14 2 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.28%) Firewall
2 13 (7.60%) Network Security
3 3 (1.75%) Internet
4 2 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.58%) FCoE
5 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.58%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) Multicast
5 1 (0.58%) NAS
5 1 (0.58%) SAN
5 1 (0.58%) VoIP
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
5 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) BigQuery
2 21 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 17 (9.94%) Power BI
4 16 (9.36%) Looker
5 14 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.09%) Tableau
8 4 (2.34%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.75%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.17%) Redis
10 2 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.58%) MySQL
11 1 (0.58%) Power Query
11 1 (0.58%) QlikView
11 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (18.71%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.11%) GitLab
3 18 (10.53%) JIRA
4 11 (6.43%) Git
4 11 (6.43%) Liquibase
5 9 (5.26%) SoapUI
6 8 (4.68%) Postman
7 6 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.34%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.58%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.58%) Mockito
10 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (49.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.98%) Banking
3 29 (16.96%) Finance
4 25 (14.62%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.60%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.75%) Marketing
7 3 (1.75%) Retail
7 3 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.17%) Automotive
8 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.17%) Military
9 1 (0.58%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Local Government
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (18.13%) Senior
2 30 (17.54%) Architect
3 25 (14.62%) Analyst
4 16 (9.36%) GCP Engineer
5 15 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.60%) Developer
7 13 (7.60%) IT Support
7 13 (7.60%) Support Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) IT Engineer
8 12 (7.02%) IT Support Engineer
9 11 (6.43%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Performance Analyst
10 10 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.26%) Android Developer
11 9 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Test Analyst
13 7 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support
13 7 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.79%) RESTful
2 20 (11.70%) REST
3 18 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
4 9 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
5 7 (4.09%) Spring
5 7 (4.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.51%) LangChain
7 5 (2.92%) Android SDK
7 5 (2.92%) CrewAI
7 5 (2.92%) Kafka
8 4 (2.34%) .NET
8 4 (2.34%) HTML
8 4 (2.34%) LangGraph
8 4 (2.34%) Middleware
8 4 (2.34%) React
9 3 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.75%) CSS
9 3 (1.75%) Dagger
9 3 (1.75%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (9.36%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.68%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.92%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.34%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.75%) Clustering
10 3 (1.75%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.75%) IoT
10 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.17%) Replication
12 1 (0.58%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.64%) Linux
2 20 (11.70%) Windows
3 10 (5.85%) Android
4 4 (2.34%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) MVS
6 1 (0.58%) Solaris
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.49%) Agile
1 47 (27.49%) CI/CD
2 37 (21.64%) Containerisation
3 34 (19.88%) DevOps
3 34 (19.88%) Microservices
4 33 (19.30%) Analytics
5 30 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (16.37%) User Experience
7 23 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (13.45%) Data Protection
8 22 (12.87%) Computer Science
9 18 (10.53%) Benchmarking
9 18 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
9 18 (10.53%) Cryptography
9 18 (10.53%) Data Security
10 17 (9.94%) Change Management
10 17 (9.94%) Mobile Device Management
10 17 (9.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (25.15%) Python
2 31 (18.13%) Java
3 19 (11.11%) SQL
4 18 (10.53%) Go
5 14 (8.19%) Bash
6 11 (6.43%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.58%) C#
10 1 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.58%) LookML
10 1 (0.58%) PHP
10 1 (0.58%) R
10 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.04%) Degree
3 22 (12.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.70%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.26%) CISSP
6 8 (4.68%) CISM
6 8 (4.68%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.75%) MCP
8 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) GCIH
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.28%) QA
2 16 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 12 (7.02%) GDPR
4 11 (6.43%) PCI DSS
5 9 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (4.68%) Accessibility
7 6 (3.51%) NIST
8 5 (2.92%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.75%) GRC
10 1 (0.58%) PERC
10 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (18.71%) Docker
2 11 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) KVM
4 1 (0.58%) NFS
4 1 (0.58%) SRDF
4 1 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.58%) Xen
Systems Management
1 35 (20.47%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.54%) Terraform
3 22 (12.87%) Ansible
4 20 (11.70%) Grafana
4 20 (11.70%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.09%) NetBackup
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.58%) Istio
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.70%) Splunk
3 15 (8.77%) CyberArk
4 11 (6.43%) VMware
5 9 (5.26%) Oracle
6 8 (4.68%) BeyondTrust
6 8 (4.68%) Thycotic
7 7 (4.09%) Veritas
8 5 (2.92%) Citrix
9 4 (2.34%) SAP
10 3 (1.75%) Cisco
10 3 (1.75%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.75%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.17%) Foundry
11 2 (1.17%) IBM
11 2 (1.17%) McAfee
11 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.58%) F5
12 1 (0.58%) NetApp