Google Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 18 February 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
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 48 83
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 -28
Contract jobs citing Google 92 35 31
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.49% 3.87% 1.68%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 8.50% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 23 22
10th Percentile £203 £143 £186
25th Percentile £313 £334 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £546 £550 £597
90th Percentile £688 £638 £636
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.75 £46.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -29.57% +78.85% -25.71%

All Vendors
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 991 412 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 48.34% 45.52% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 251 561
10th Percentile £304 £220 £213
25th Percentile £403 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 10 29
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.72 £11.82
25th Percentile £15.00 £22.50 £12.53
Median hourly rate £21.30 £36.91 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -42.28% +152.34% -21.90%
75th Percentile £55.00 £82.86 £15.19
90th Percentile £57.25 £102.00 £22.96
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.35 £27.52
% change year-on-year -23.99% +13.92% -17.25%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Google job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Yorkshire

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
South Yorkshire -32 43 £525 +262.07% 7
West Yorkshire -6 35 £385 -23.00% 12
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 2
North Yorkshire -3 1 - - 1
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) Mule
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (79.35%) GCP
2 38 (41.30%) AWS
3 36 (39.13%) Azure
4 16 (17.39%) Serverless
5 15 (16.30%) GitHub
6 13 (14.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 13 (14.13%) Google Workspace
7 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.35%) Apigee
9 3 (3.26%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Storage
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.17%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.74%) Firewall
2 13 (14.13%) Network Security
3 3 (3.26%) VPN
4 2 (2.17%) DNS
4 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.17%) SAN
5 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Spanner
4 2 (2.17%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.09%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.09%) Redis
5 1 (1.09%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (38.04%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.65%) GitLab
3 8 (8.70%) JIRA
4 7 (7.61%) Liquibase
5 4 (4.35%) Selenium
6 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.26%) Git
6 3 (3.26%) Postman
6 3 (3.26%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.17%) Gatling
7 2 (2.17%) JMeter
7 2 (2.17%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.17%) NeoLoad
7 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.09%) Mockito
8 1 (1.09%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.61%) Banking
3 20 (21.74%) Finance
4 10 (10.87%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Senior
3 18 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Architect
5 12 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) IT Engineer
6 11 (11.96%) IT Support
6 11 (11.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Developer
9 7 (7.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (7.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 6 (6.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (6.52%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) REST
2 21 (22.83%) RESTful
3 14 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (8.70%) OpenID
5 7 (7.61%) SailPoint
6 6 (6.52%) LDAP
7 5 (5.43%) Android Jetpack
7 5 (5.43%) Android SDK
7 5 (5.43%) Jetpack Compose
7 5 (5.43%) Middleware
8 4 (4.35%) Node.js
8 4 (4.35%) OAuth
9 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.26%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.26%) Kafka
9 3 (3.26%) LangChain
9 3 (3.26%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.26%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.26%) React
9 3 (3.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.57%) Public Cloud
3 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.26%) IoT
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.17%) FlexPod
7 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.09%) PDA
8 1 (1.09%) PKI
8 1 (1.09%) Replication
8 1 (1.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.96%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Windows
3 6 (6.52%) Android
4 2 (2.17%) CoreOS
4 2 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.17%) VMS
5 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 43 (46.74%) DevOps
3 33 (35.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 23 (25.00%) Agile
6 21 (22.83%) Microservices
7 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (18.48%) Computer Science
8 17 (18.48%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (18.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (16.30%) Data Security
10 14 (15.22%) Cost Optimisation
11 13 (14.13%) Cryptography
12 12 (13.04%) Cloud Security
12 12 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
13 11 (11.96%) Data Protection
13 11 (11.96%) Non-Functional Testing
13 11 (11.96%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.83%) Python
2 24 (26.09%) Java
3 18 (19.57%) Go
4 13 (14.13%) Bash
5 12 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.78%) SQL
7 5 (5.43%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.26%) Bicep
8 3 (3.26%) Groovy
8 3 (3.26%) Scala
8 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.17%) Cypher
9 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.09%) C#
10 1 (1.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Degree
2 17 (18.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (16.30%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.17%) OCP
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.17%) GRC
3 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (20.65%) Docker
2 8 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 2 (2.17%) NFS
4 2 (2.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (40.22%) Terraform
2 35 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.39%) Ansible
4 15 (16.30%) Prometheus
5 14 (15.22%) Grafana
6 9 (9.78%) Istio
7 6 (6.52%) NetBackup
7 6 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (2.17%) SnapMirror
9 1 (1.09%) SCCM
9 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.30%) Splunk
3 8 (8.70%) VMware
4 7 (7.61%) Oracle
4 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.52%) CyberArk
5 6 (6.52%) Veritas
6 4 (4.35%) Alibaba
6 4 (4.35%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.35%) SAP
7 3 (3.26%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.26%) Okta
7 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.17%) NetApp
8 2 (2.17%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.09%) Apple
9 1 (1.09%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.09%) Salesforce