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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +29
Contract jobs citing Google 114 80 49
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.91% 5.09% 3.32%
As % of the Vendors category 10.34% 10.67% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 55 32
10th Percentile £410 £280 £310
25th Percentile £460 £362 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £420 £507
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -17.16% +1.40%
75th Percentile £594 £492 £562
90th Percentile £671 £564 £700
England median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £12.96 - £32.50
75th Percentile £13.31 - £33.75
90th Percentile £13.95 - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.62% -68.69% +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 1,102 750 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.77% 47.68% 43.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 477 378
10th Percentile £350 £277 £294
25th Percentile £413 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £675 £638 £683
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 26
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.05 £13.97
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.87 £14.67
Median hourly rate £17.00 £53.90 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.46% +150.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £25.00 £81.25 £41.41
90th Percentile £27.86 - £42.50
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.18%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 76 £538 +31.10% 24
West Yorkshire -22 33 £525 +19.32% 72
North Yorkshire -11 2 - - 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 8 (7.02%) Confluence
2 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.63%) Apache
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.88%) CMS
6 1 (0.88%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 97 (85.09%) GCP
2 26 (22.81%) Azure
3 22 (19.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 20 (17.54%) AWS
5 15 (13.16%) GitHub
6 11 (9.65%) Cloud Run
6 11 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.77%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.14%) Vertex AI
9 5 (4.39%) Google Analytics
9 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.39%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.51%) Google Compute Engine
10 4 (3.51%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (3.51%) Google Workspace
11 3 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (3.51%) Firewall
2 4 (3.51%) Network Security
3 2 (1.75%) BGP
3 2 (1.75%) VoIP
4 1 (0.88%) Calico
4 1 (0.88%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.88%) NaaS
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.42%) BigQuery
2 9 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.14%) Metadata
4 5 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.51%) Neo4j
5 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.63%) Power Query
7 2 (1.75%) Power BI
7 2 (1.75%) Trino
8 1 (0.88%) Apache Arrow
8 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.88%) Big Data
8 1 (0.88%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.88%) Looker
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.28%) JIRA
3 7 (6.14%) Zephyr
4 5 (4.39%) Gatling
4 5 (4.39%) Git
4 5 (4.39%) JMeter
4 5 (4.39%) NeoLoad
5 3 (2.63%) GitLab
5 3 (2.63%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.75%) Maven
6 2 (1.75%) Postman
6 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.75%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.88%) Pylint
General
1 44 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.70%) Finance
3 10 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.77%) Banking
4 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.63%) Publishing
6 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Military
6 2 (1.75%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (19.30%) Developer
2 15 (13.16%) Architect
2 15 (13.16%) Senior
3 14 (12.28%) Lead
4 12 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) GCP DevOps
7 7 (6.14%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Test Leader
8 6 (5.26%) Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Applications Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (35.09%) Terraform
2 20 (17.54%) React
3 15 (13.16%) Node.js
4 14 (12.28%) REST
5 12 (10.53%) OpenID
6 9 (7.89%) OAuth
7 8 (7.02%) OAuth2
7 8 (7.02%) SAML
7 8 (7.02%) YAML
8 7 (6.14%) Kafka
8 7 (6.14%) RESTful
8 7 (6.14%) Spring
8 7 (6.14%) Spring Boot
9 6 (5.26%) JWT
10 5 (4.39%) Middleware
10 5 (4.39%) pytest
10 5 (4.39%) Quarkus
11 4 (3.51%) LDAP
12 3 (2.63%) CSS
12 3 (2.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.70%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.89%) AI Agents
4 8 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.51%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.51%) PKI
6 4 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.63%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.75%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Linux
2 5 (4.39%) Windows
3 4 (3.51%) Android
3 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.63%) Unix
5 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (51.75%) CI/CD
2 48 (42.11%) DevOps
3 37 (32.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (28.95%) Agile
5 30 (26.32%) Cloud Security
6 29 (25.44%) Identity Access Management
7 28 (24.56%) AI
7 28 (24.56%) Observability
8 23 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (19.30%) Event-Driven
10 21 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (17.54%) Software Engineering
12 18 (15.79%) Analytics
12 18 (15.79%) Test Automation
13 17 (14.91%) Data Engineering
13 17 (14.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (14.91%) Microservices
14 15 (13.16%) Containerisation
15 14 (12.28%) API Development
15 14 (12.28%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.00%) Python
2 23 (20.18%) Java
3 18 (15.79%) SQL
4 17 (14.91%) Bash
4 17 (14.91%) Go
5 16 (14.04%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.14%) Rust
7 6 (5.26%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) Cypher
9 3 (2.63%) Scala
10 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (5.26%) Degree
2 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) IIBA
5 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CEH
6 1 (0.88%) CISA
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) CRISC
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.51%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.51%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) GRC
3 3 (2.63%) WCAG
4 2 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 13 (11.40%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (32.46%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.02%) Grafana
3 6 (5.26%) Ansible
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.39%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.88%) Cilium
5 1 (0.88%) Istio
5 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.88%) Packer
5 1 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.77%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.39%) Okta
4 4 (3.51%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.63%) Mistral
6 2 (1.75%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Arista
7 1 (0.88%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) Juniper
7 1 (0.88%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk
7 1 (0.88%) Workday