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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 72
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing Google 84 40 33
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.38% 3.86% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 7.71% 8.05% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 23 22
10th Percentile £261 £165 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £514
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -9.25% -6.64%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £594
90th Percentile £688 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.30%

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 1,089 497 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 43.81% 48.02% 48.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 307 490
10th Percentile £313 £227 £274
25th Percentile £409 £362 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £630 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 17 52
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.35 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.27 £18.51 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +45.23% -30.36%
75th Percentile £57.25 £34.15 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £99.93 £41.69
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -24 43 £540 +18.75% 6
West Yorkshire -2 35 £388 -29.55% 13
North Yorkshire -4 7 £550 +109.52% 1
East Yorkshire - 2 £205 -
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 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Actimize
1 1 (1.19%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.19%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 69 (82.14%) GCP
2 35 (41.67%) Azure
3 25 (29.76%) AWS
4 20 (23.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 19 (22.62%) GitHub
6 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (10.71%) Google Workspace
8 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
8 8 (9.52%) Vertex AI
9 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (7.14%) Google Analytics
10 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.76%) Apigee
13 3 (3.57%) Azure Functions
13 3 (3.57%) Azure Storage
13 3 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
13 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
13 3 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (7.14%) VPN
3 5 (5.95%) DNS
3 5 (5.95%) SAN
4 4 (4.76%) Network Security
5 3 (3.57%) VoIP
6 2 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.57%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.38%) Tableau
4 1 (1.19%) Big Data
4 1 (1.19%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.19%) Looker
4 1 (1.19%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (29.76%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.52%) GitLab
3 7 (8.33%) JIRA
4 6 (7.14%) Git
5 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.57%) Postman
5 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.57%) Selenium
6 2 (2.38%) Gatling
6 2 (2.38%) JMeter
6 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.38%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.38%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (25.00%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Banking
3 17 (20.24%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Billing
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Architect
2 15 (17.86%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (11.90%) Senior
4 9 (10.71%) Developer
5 8 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) GCP DevOps
6 7 (8.33%) Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.95%) IT Support
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) NetApp Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Test Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Test Automation Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Service Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) REST
2 8 (9.52%) OpenID
2 8 (9.52%) React
3 7 (8.33%) Node.js
3 7 (8.33%) SailPoint
4 6 (7.14%) LDAP
5 5 (5.95%) Middleware
5 5 (5.95%) Quarkus
6 4 (4.76%) OAuth
6 4 (4.76%) RESTful
7 3 (3.57%) A2A Protocol
7 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.57%) JWT
7 3 (3.57%) LangChain
7 3 (3.57%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.57%) Playwright
7 3 (3.57%) SAML
7 3 (3.57%) Swagger
7 3 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.52%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 6 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.95%) FlexPod
6 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.57%) IoT
7 3 (3.57%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.38%) NHS
9 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.19%) PKI
9 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.90%) Linux
2 6 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.95%) CoreOS
3 5 (5.95%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.95%) VMS
4 3 (3.57%) Android
4 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) DevOps
2 38 (45.24%) CI/CD
3 31 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (22.62%) AI
5 17 (20.24%) Identity Access Management
6 16 (19.05%) Agile
7 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.67%) Analytics
8 14 (16.67%) Observability
9 13 (15.48%) Cloud Security
10 11 (13.10%) Event-Driven
10 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
11 9 (10.71%) Data Protection
11 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (10.71%) Migration
11 9 (10.71%) Task Automation
12 8 (9.52%) API Development
12 8 (9.52%) Data Engineering
12 8 (9.52%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.05%) Python
2 16 (19.05%) Java
3 14 (16.67%) SQL
4 11 (13.10%) Bash
5 10 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 9 (10.71%) Go
7 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 3 (3.57%) Groovy
8 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.57%) Rust
8 3 (3.57%) Scala
9 2 (2.38%) Cypher
9 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.19%) C#
10 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) OCP
1 5 (5.95%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.76%) Degree
3 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
2 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.95%) NFS
2 5 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.95%) vSphere
3 4 (4.76%) Docker
4 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 40 (47.62%) Terraform
2 24 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.52%) Istio
4 7 (8.33%) Ansible
5 5 (5.95%) SnapMirror
6 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.57%) Grafana
7 3 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.95%) NetApp
3 5 (5.95%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.95%) VMware
4 4 (4.76%) Alibaba
4 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.57%) Okta
5 3 (3.57%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.19%) Apple
7 1 (1.19%) FIS
7 1 (1.19%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.19%) SAP
7 1 (1.19%) TSYS