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 7 August 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
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 45 56
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Google 104 68 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.64% 4.54% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 9.41% 9.39% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 49 25
10th Percentile £306 £292 £249
25th Percentile £446 £384 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -11.24% -0.59%
75th Percentile £601 £550 £600
90th Percentile £694 £600 £700
England median daily rate £515 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +8.42% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £12.96 - £32.50
75th Percentile £13.67 - £33.75
90th Percentile £14.09 - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.95% -68.69% +105.88%

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 1,105 724 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.64% 48.30% 43.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 449 407
10th Percentile £340 £267 £320
25th Percentile £413 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -8.28% -0.59%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £588
90th Percentile £669 £618 £700
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 29 37
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.10 £13.72
25th Percentile £17.12 £18.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.54 £21.24 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% +40.01% -26.89%
75th Percentile £37.13 £81.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £42.13
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +39.17% -14.41% -25.80%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -9 55 £550 +30.95% 33
West Yorkshire -13 43 £440 -5.89% 29
North Yorkshire -8 6 £550 +109.52% 4
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 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.96%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Actimize
1 1 (0.96%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 84 (80.77%) GCP
2 26 (25.00%) Azure
3 22 (21.15%) GitHub
4 20 (19.23%) AWS
5 15 (14.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.62%) Google Analytics
7 10 (9.62%) Vertex AI
8 9 (8.65%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.73%) Google Compute Engine
9 7 (6.73%) Google Workspace
10 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.85%) Apigee
12 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) DNS
2 4 (3.85%) VPN
3 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) SAN
4 2 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) BigQuery
1 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.85%) Neo4j
2 4 (3.85%) Power BI
2 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.92%) Looker
4 2 (1.92%) Tableau
4 2 (1.92%) Trino
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.96%) Big Data
5 1 (0.96%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.96%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.73%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) JIRA
3 6 (5.77%) GitLab
4 5 (4.81%) Gatling
4 5 (4.81%) JMeter
4 5 (4.81%) NeoLoad
5 3 (2.88%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.92%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.92%) Postman
7 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.96%) Pylint
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 29 (27.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.38%) Banking
4 10 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Military
7 2 (1.92%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (17.31%) Architect
2 17 (16.35%) Developer
3 12 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (10.58%) Lead
4 11 (10.58%) Senior
5 10 (9.62%) GCP DevOps
6 7 (6.73%) Analyst
6 7 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Apigee Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.42%) React
2 14 (13.46%) REST
3 11 (10.58%) Node.js
4 7 (6.73%) Spring
4 7 (6.73%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.77%) YAML
6 5 (4.81%) OpenID
6 5 (4.81%) Quarkus
7 4 (3.85%) Kafka
7 4 (3.85%) OAuth
8 3 (2.88%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (2.88%) CSS
8 3 (2.88%) HTML
8 3 (2.88%) LangChain
8 3 (2.88%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.88%) pytest
8 3 (2.88%) RESTful
8 3 (2.88%) SAML
9 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.58%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.85%) PKI
6 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.88%) FlexPod
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.92%) NHS
7 2 (1.92%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Android
3 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.88%) CoreOS
3 3 (2.88%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (2.88%) VMS
4 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 39 (37.50%) DevOps
3 32 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (24.04%) AI
4 25 (24.04%) Identity Access Management
5 23 (22.12%) Observability
6 20 (19.23%) Agile
7 18 (17.31%) Cloud Security
7 18 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (15.38%) Analytics
9 15 (14.42%) Performance Optimisation
9 15 (14.42%) Software Engineering
10 13 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 12 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 12 (11.54%) Microservices
11 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.58%) API Development
12 11 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (9.62%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.42%) Python
2 20 (19.23%) Java
3 19 (18.27%) SQL
4 16 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 14 (13.46%) Bash
6 9 (8.65%) Go
7 7 (6.73%) Rust
8 6 (5.77%) Groovy
8 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) Cypher
9 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.92%) Scala
10 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.96%) C#
11 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.88%) OCP
2 3 (2.88%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Degree
4 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.88%) WCAG
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.50%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.88%) NFS
4 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (36.54%) Terraform
2 30 (28.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.65%) Grafana
4 7 (6.73%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.81%) Ansible
6 5 (4.81%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.88%) Istio
7 3 (2.88%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.96%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.81%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.88%) Databricks
4 3 (2.88%) NetApp
4 3 (2.88%) VMware
5 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.92%) Splunk
6 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.96%) Apple
6 1 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.96%) FIS
6 1 (0.96%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.96%) TSYS
6 1 (0.96%) Workday