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 8 July 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
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Google 109 55 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.86% 4.16% 2.57%
As % of the Vendors category 9.32% 8.58% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 37 27
10th Percentile £306 £287 £266
25th Percentile £458 £385 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.24% -1.79%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £550
90th Percentile £694 £623 £685
England median daily rate £524 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +5.33% -5.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +44.38%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.08 £36.25
% change year-on-year +41.55% -30.81% -8.34%

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 1,170 641 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.47% 48.52% 46.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 397 490
10th Percentile £331 £263 £264
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -6.80% -3.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £582
90th Percentile £675 £621 £675
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 55
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.10 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.51 £13.97
Median hourly rate £26.37 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +45.23% -31.98%
75th Percentile £54.50 £34.23 £21.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £81.25 £41.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.75% +0.90% -30.56%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -13 59 £543 +21.48% 8
West Yorkshire -1 46 £425 -12.60% 3
North Yorkshire -9 7 £550 +109.52% 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 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Actimize
1 1 (0.92%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.92%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 93 (85.32%) GCP
2 39 (35.78%) Azure
3 29 (26.61%) AWS
4 28 (25.69%) GitHub
5 21 (19.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.17%) Entra ID
8 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.26%) Vertex AI
9 8 (7.34%) Google Analytics
9 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.42%) Google Compute Engine
11 6 (5.50%) Google Workspace
11 6 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.59%) Power Automate
12 5 (4.59%) PowerApps
13 4 (3.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) VPN
2 6 (5.50%) DNS
3 5 (4.59%) Firewall
3 5 (4.59%) SAN
4 3 (2.75%) VoIP
5 2 (1.83%) Network Security
5 2 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) BigQuery
2 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Neo4j
4 4 (3.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.75%) Power BI
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.83%) Tableau
7 1 (0.92%) Big Data
7 1 (0.92%) Looker
7 1 (0.92%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (36.70%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.09%) JIRA
3 10 (9.17%) GitLab
4 7 (6.42%) Git
5 5 (4.59%) Postman
6 4 (3.67%) Gatling
6 4 (3.67%) JMeter
6 4 (3.67%) NeoLoad
7 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.75%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.75%) Selenium
7 3 (2.75%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.83%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
General
1 32 (29.36%) Finance
2 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.43%) Banking
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Legal
6 3 (2.75%) Military
7 2 (1.83%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Billing
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Architect
2 16 (14.68%) Developer
3 15 (13.76%) GCP Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) GCP DevOps
4 11 (10.09%) Senior
5 10 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Test Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.51%) REST
2 15 (13.76%) React
3 11 (10.09%) Node.js
4 10 (9.17%) OpenID
5 7 (6.42%) LDAP
5 7 (6.42%) SailPoint
5 7 (6.42%) Spring
5 7 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.50%) RESTful
6 6 (5.50%) YAML
7 5 (4.59%) Playwright
7 5 (4.59%) Quarkus
8 3 (2.75%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (2.75%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.75%) JWT
8 3 (2.75%) LangChain
8 3 (2.75%) OAuth
8 3 (2.75%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.75%) pytest
8 3 (2.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.01%) Public Cloud
3 11 (10.09%) AI Agents
4 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.59%) FlexPod
6 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.75%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.83%) NHS
9 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Linux
2 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (5.50%) Windows
4 5 (4.59%) CoreOS
4 5 (4.59%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (4.59%) VMS
5 3 (2.75%) Android
5 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.29%) CI/CD
2 54 (49.54%) DevOps
3 40 (36.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (23.85%) AI
4 26 (23.85%) Cloud Security
4 26 (23.85%) Identity Access Management
5 25 (22.94%) Observability
6 23 (21.10%) Agile
7 18 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven
9 16 (14.68%) Test Automation
10 14 (12.84%) Analytics
10 14 (12.84%) Microservices
10 14 (12.84%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.84%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.01%) API Development
11 12 (11.01%) Containerisation
12 11 (10.09%) Data Ingestion
12 11 (10.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.71%) Python
2 26 (23.85%) Java
3 20 (18.35%) PowerShell
3 20 (18.35%) SQL
4 19 (17.43%) Bash
5 13 (11.93%) Go
6 7 (6.42%) Groovy
6 7 (6.42%) Rust
7 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.67%) Cypher
9 3 (2.75%) Bicep
9 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.75%) Scala
10 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.92%) C#
11 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.59%) OCP
1 5 (4.59%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.75%) Degree
2 3 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.83%) QA
1 2 (1.83%) SOC 2
1 2 (1.83%) WCAG
2 1 (0.92%) GDPR
2 1 (0.92%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) Docker
2 11 (10.09%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.59%) NFS
3 5 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.59%) vSphere
4 2 (1.83%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 52 (47.71%) Terraform
2 34 (31.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Grafana
4 8 (7.34%) Istio
4 8 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.42%) Ansible
6 5 (4.59%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.59%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.92%) Packer
7 1 (0.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.42%) Dynatrace
2 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.59%) NetApp
4 5 (4.59%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.59%) VMware
5 4 (3.67%) Alibaba
6 3 (2.75%) Okta
6 3 (2.75%) Splunk
7 2 (1.83%) Databricks
7 2 (1.83%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.92%) Apple
8 1 (0.92%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.92%) FIS
8 1 (0.92%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.92%) TSYS