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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 45 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Google 106 76 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.68% 4.93% 3.20%
As % of the Vendors category 9.73% 10.53% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 54 33
10th Percentile £405 £280 £320
25th Percentile £463 £365 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £423 £507
Median % change year-on-year +27.22% -16.67% +1.40%
75th Percentile £589 £482 £600
90th Percentile £673 £554 £700
England median daily rate £510 £480 £536
% change year-on-year +6.25% -10.36% -2.64%
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 £29.07 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.86% -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 1,089 722 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.83% 46.79% 43.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 450 392
10th Percentile £350 £262 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -5.74% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £582
90th Percentile £675 £618 £686
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 27 30
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.86 £14.04
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.17
Median hourly rate £17.12 £21.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% +1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £25.84 £81.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £27.97 - £42.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -11 65 £538 +34.38% 27
West Yorkshire -17 35 £495 +12.50% 75
North Yorkshire -12 3 £550 - 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 8 (7.55%) Confluence
2 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.94%) CMS
5 1 (0.94%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Actimize
1 1 (0.94%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 87 (82.08%) GCP
2 25 (23.58%) Azure
3 19 (17.92%) AWS
4 16 (15.09%) GitHub
5 14 (13.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 12 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.55%) Vertex AI
8 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.60%) Google Analytics
8 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.66%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.66%) Google Workspace
10 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.72%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.77%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.77%) Datadog
11 4 (3.77%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (3.77%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) Firewall
1 3 (2.83%) Network Security
2 2 (1.89%) BGP
2 2 (1.89%) VoIP
3 1 (0.94%) Calico
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
3 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.94%) NaaS
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) BigQuery
2 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.72%) Metadata
4 4 (3.77%) Neo4j
4 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.83%) Power Query
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.89%) Power BI
6 2 (1.89%) Trino
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.94%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.21%) JIRA
3 7 (6.60%) Zephyr
4 6 (5.66%) Git
5 5 (4.72%) Gatling
5 5 (4.72%) JMeter
5 5 (4.72%) NeoLoad
6 4 (3.77%) GitLab
7 3 (2.83%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.89%) Maven
8 2 (1.89%) Postman
8 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.89%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.94%) Pylint
General
1 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.25%) Finance
3 11 (10.38%) Banking
4 8 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Publishing
7 2 (1.89%) Military
7 2 (1.89%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Billing
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Architect
3 14 (13.21%) Lead
3 14 (13.21%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (7.55%) Data Engineer
5 8 (7.55%) GCP Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) GCP DevOps
6 7 (6.60%) Python Developer
6 7 (6.60%) Test Leader
7 6 (5.66%) Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.77%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (3.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Performance Test Leader
10 3 (2.83%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.19%) Terraform
2 15 (14.15%) React
3 13 (12.26%) REST
4 11 (10.38%) Node.js
5 7 (6.60%) Kafka
5 7 (6.60%) OpenID
5 7 (6.60%) Spring
5 7 (6.60%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.60%) YAML
6 5 (4.72%) pytest
6 5 (4.72%) Quarkus
7 4 (3.77%) LDAP
7 4 (3.77%) OAuth
8 3 (2.83%) CSS
8 3 (2.83%) HTML
8 3 (2.83%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.83%) RESTful
8 3 (2.83%) SAML
9 2 (1.89%) Sass
9 2 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.32%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.49%) AI Agents
4 8 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) PKI
8 3 (2.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.89%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) NHS
9 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Linux
2 5 (4.72%) Windows
3 3 (2.83%) Android
3 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (49.06%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.68%) DevOps
3 30 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (26.42%) Agile
4 28 (26.42%) Identity Access Management
5 24 (22.64%) AI
5 24 (22.64%) Cloud Security
5 24 (22.64%) Observability
6 19 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (16.04%) Event-Driven
8 17 (16.04%) Software Engineering
9 16 (15.09%) Analytics
10 15 (14.15%) Data Engineering
11 14 (13.21%) DevSecOps
11 14 (13.21%) Test Automation
12 13 (12.26%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (11.32%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (11.32%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.34%) Python
2 22 (20.75%) Java
3 16 (15.09%) Bash
3 16 (15.09%) SQL
4 15 (14.15%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.38%) Go
6 7 (6.60%) Rust
7 6 (5.66%) Groovy
7 6 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.83%) Cypher
9 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.83%) Scala
10 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) IIBA
4 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CEH
5 1 (0.94%) CISA
5 1 (0.94%) CISM
5 1 (0.94%) CISSP
5 1 (0.94%) CRISC
5 1 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.83%) GRC
2 3 (2.83%) WCAG
3 2 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Docker
2 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.49%) Grafana
3 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.66%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.72%) Ansible
4 5 (4.72%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.94%) Cilium
5 1 (0.94%) Istio
5 1 (0.94%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.94%) Packer
5 1 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.83%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.83%) Mistral
5 2 (1.89%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.94%) Apple
6 1 (0.94%) Arista
6 1 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) Databricks
6 1 (0.94%) FIS
6 1 (0.94%) Juniper
6 1 (0.94%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.94%) Splunk
6 1 (0.94%) TSYS
6 1 (0.94%) Workday