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 21 September 2025, 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 53 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Google 76 49 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.91% 3.28% 2.02%
As % of the Vendors category 10.38% 7.42% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 33 37
10th Percentile £280 £320 £165
25th Percentile £362 £488 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +1.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £482 £600 £550
90th Percentile £554 £700 £625
England median daily rate £495 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -7.48% -2.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year - +44.38% -
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -67.77% +112.12% -5.71%

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 732 660 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.29% 44.12% 47.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 392 601
10th Percentile £263 £300 £213
25th Percentile £375 £430 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £543 £582 £600
90th Percentile £621 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 11
10th Percentile £16.86 £14.04 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.17 £19.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £21.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +17.65%
75th Percentile £81.25 £40.00 £22.38
90th Percentile - £42.50 £26.78
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.00% +82.98%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Google 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 21 September 2025.

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 21 September 2025. 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 37 £400 -21.10% 14
West Yorkshire +15 31 £440 -11.56% 24
North Yorkshire - 6 - - 5
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.58%) Mule
2 3 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) CICS
4 1 (1.32%) CMS
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Maple
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
1 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (73.68%) GCP
2 41 (53.95%) AWS
3 31 (40.79%) Azure
4 11 (14.47%) GitHub
5 10 (13.16%) Serverless
6 8 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.89%) Google Workspace
8 4 (5.26%) Google Play
9 3 (3.95%) dbt
9 3 (3.95%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.95%) PaaS
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.63%) CloudBees
10 2 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.63%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (1.32%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.16%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) Wireless
3 2 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (2.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.32%) FCoE
4 1 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) Multicast
4 1 (1.32%) NAS
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.21%) BigQuery
3 7 (9.21%) Power BI
4 5 (6.58%) Tableau
5 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.95%) Looker
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Power Query
7 1 (1.32%) QlikView
7 1 (1.32%) Redis
7 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (23.68%) JIRA
3 13 (17.11%) Git
4 10 (13.16%) GitLab
4 10 (13.16%) Liquibase
5 9 (11.84%) SoapUI
6 8 (10.53%) Postman
7 6 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (5.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.32%) Selenium
9 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (51.32%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.89%) Banking
3 14 (18.42%) Finance
4 9 (11.84%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Police
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (15.79%) Analyst
2 9 (11.84%) Architect
2 9 (11.84%) Developer
2 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (11.84%) Senior
3 8 (10.53%) Test Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Android Developer
4 7 (9.21%) NetBackup Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Support Technician
6 5 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Service Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Engineering Specialist
9 2 (2.63%) Performance Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) RESTful
2 11 (14.47%) REST
3 10 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (9.21%) Android Jetpack
4 7 (9.21%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (5.26%) .NET
5 4 (5.26%) Kafka
6 3 (3.95%) Android SDK
7 2 (2.63%) Middleware
7 2 (2.63%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.63%) React
7 2 (2.63%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.32%) CSS3
8 1 (1.32%) Dagger
8 1 (1.32%) HTML5
8 1 (1.32%) JSON
8 1 (1.32%) Node.js
8 1 (1.32%) Retrofit
8 1 (1.32%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 5 (6.58%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) FMCG
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) NHS
7 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Linux
2 9 (11.84%) Windows
3 7 (9.21%) Android
4 6 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.32%) MVS
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 26 (34.21%) Agile
3 24 (31.58%) DevOps
4 20 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 18 (23.68%) Microservices
6 17 (22.37%) Change Management
7 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
8 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 12 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
10 12 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (14.47%) Scrum
12 10 (13.16%) Analytics
12 10 (13.16%) Cloud Security
12 10 (13.16%) Cryptography
12 10 (13.16%) High Availability
13 9 (11.84%) DevSecOps
13 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) Python
2 23 (30.26%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) Go
5 10 (13.16%) Bash
5 10 (13.16%) Kotlin
6 8 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (17.11%) Degree
2 12 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (14.47%) Master's Degree
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Certification
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.84%) CISSP
5 8 (10.53%) CISM
5 8 (10.53%) ISTQB
6 7 (9.21%) DBS Check
7 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.32%) GCIH
9 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) GDPR
2 8 (10.53%) QA
3 6 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.89%) NIST
3 6 (7.89%) PCI DSS
3 6 (7.89%) SLA
4 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.32%) KVM
4 1 (1.32%) NFS
4 1 (1.32%) SRDF
4 1 (1.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.37%) Terraform
3 13 (17.11%) Ansible
3 13 (17.11%) Grafana
3 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.21%) NetBackup
4 7 (9.21%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (7.89%) SmoothWall
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
6 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.74%) CyberArk
3 12 (15.79%) Splunk
4 9 (11.84%) Oracle
5 8 (10.53%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (10.53%) Thycotic
5 8 (10.53%) VMware
6 7 (9.21%) Veritas
7 4 (5.26%) SAP
8 3 (3.95%) Cisco
8 3 (3.95%) Databricks
9 2 (2.63%) Citrix
9 2 (2.63%) IBM
9 2 (2.63%) McAfee
9 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.32%) Adobe
10 1 (1.32%) Apple
10 1 (1.32%) F5
10 1 (1.32%) NetApp
10 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow