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 13 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 51 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 107 65 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.74% 4.32% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 9.73% 9.09% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 45 26
10th Percentile £306 £302 £258
25th Percentile £460 £384 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £447 £509
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -12.09% +1.70%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £604
90th Percentile £694 £595 £700
England median daily rate £510 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +3.03% -10.00% -
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 £34.87 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +54.54% -67.77% +112.12%

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 1,100 715 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.41% 47.57% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 439 401
10th Percentile £331 £263 £338
25th Percentile £412 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £514
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -10.02% +0.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £656 £614 £700
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 39
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.10 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.12 £18.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.02 £25.77 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +69.84% -30.25%
75th Percentile £28.00 £81.25 £36.88
90th Percentile £68.75 - £42.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%

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 13 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 13 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 -6 59 £550 +30.95% 22
West Yorkshire -5 42 £458 +1.67% 33
North Yorkshire -7 6 £550 - 3
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Actimize
1 1 (0.93%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 87 (81.31%) GCP
2 26 (24.30%) Azure
3 20 (18.69%) AWS
3 20 (18.69%) GitHub
4 16 (14.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 12 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (9.35%) Google Analytics
6 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.35%) Vertex AI
7 7 (6.54%) Google Compute Engine
7 7 (6.54%) Google Workspace
8 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.67%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.74%) Cloud Run
10 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) VPN
3 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 3 (2.80%) Network Security
3 3 (2.80%) SAN
4 2 (1.87%) VoIP
5 1 (0.93%) BGP
5 1 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.93%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.15%) BigQuery
2 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.67%) Power BI
4 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Neo4j
4 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.87%) Looker
6 2 (1.87%) Tableau
6 2 (1.87%) Trino
7 1 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.93%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.48%) JIRA
3 7 (6.54%) Git
4 5 (4.67%) Gatling
4 5 (4.67%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) JMeter
4 5 (4.67%) NeoLoad
5 4 (3.74%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.80%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.87%) Postman
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.93%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.93%) Pylint
General
1 34 (31.78%) Finance
2 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Banking
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.82%) Architect
2 17 (15.89%) Developer
3 13 (12.15%) Senior
4 12 (11.21%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) Lead
4 12 (11.21%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.41%) GCP DevOps
6 7 (6.54%) Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Network Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) React
2 13 (12.15%) REST
3 11 (10.28%) Node.js
4 7 (6.54%) Spring
4 7 (6.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.61%) Kafka
5 6 (5.61%) OpenID
5 6 (5.61%) YAML
6 5 (4.67%) Quarkus
7 4 (3.74%) OAuth
7 4 (3.74%) pytest
8 3 (2.80%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (2.80%) CSS
8 3 (2.80%) HTML
8 3 (2.80%) LangChain
8 3 (2.80%) LDAP
8 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.80%) RESTful
8 3 (2.80%) SAML
9 2 (1.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.28%) AI Agents
3 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.74%) PKI
8 3 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.80%) FlexPod
8 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) NHS
9 2 (1.87%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
2 5 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (4.67%) Windows
3 3 (2.80%) Android
3 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.80%) CoreOS
3 3 (2.80%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (2.80%) VMS
4 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (46.73%) CI/CD
2 42 (39.25%) DevOps
3 33 (30.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (24.30%) AI
4 26 (24.30%) Identity Access Management
5 24 (22.43%) Observability
6 21 (19.63%) Agile
6 21 (19.63%) Cloud Security
7 18 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (15.89%) Analytics
9 14 (13.08%) Event-Driven
9 14 (13.08%) Software Engineering
9 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (12.15%) Microservices
10 13 (12.15%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (11.21%) DevSecOps
11 12 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.28%) API Development
12 11 (10.28%) Containerisation
13 10 (9.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.19%) Python
2 20 (18.69%) Java
3 19 (17.76%) SQL
4 15 (14.02%) Bash
5 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.28%) Go
7 7 (6.54%) Rust
8 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.74%) Groovy
10 3 (2.80%) Cypher
10 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.80%) Scala
11 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.93%) C#
12 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.80%) OCP
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.80%) WCAG
2 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.80%) NFS
4 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (35.51%) Terraform
2 31 (28.97%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.48%) Grafana
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.67%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (3.74%) Ansible
7 3 (2.80%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.80%) Databricks
3 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.80%) NetApp
3 3 (2.80%) VMware
4 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.93%) Apple
5 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.93%) FIS
5 1 (0.93%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) Splunk
5 1 (0.93%) TSYS
5 1 (0.93%) Workday