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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Google 91 47 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.36% 4.07% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 8.02% 8.22% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 27 26
10th Percentile £306 £268 £258
25th Percentile £451 £406 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £466 £507
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% -8.09% -7.82%
75th Percentile £592 £594 £550
90th Percentile £688 £643 £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 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +33.96% -19.70% -16.56%

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 1,135 572 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.87% 49.57% 46.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 348 475
10th Percentile £325 £260 £241
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -7.20% -2.91%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £588
90th Percentile £658 £621 £675
England median daily rate £505 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 56
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.43 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.13 £18.69 £13.50
Median hourly rate £27.36 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +45.23% -32.76%
75th Percentile £57.44 £29.52 £15.96
90th Percentile £68.75 £43.82 £41.88
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.89% +12.50% -39.32%

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 June 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 June 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 -15 45 £538 +18.20% 39
West Yorkshire -12 42 £413 -25.00% 36
North Yorkshire -8 7 £550 +109.52% 18
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 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Actimize
1 1 (1.10%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.10%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 78 (85.71%) GCP
2 34 (37.36%) Azure
3 26 (28.57%) GitHub
4 25 (27.47%) AWS
5 21 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 16 (17.58%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.89%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
8 8 (8.79%) Vertex AI
9 7 (7.69%) Google Analytics
10 6 (6.59%) Google Compute Engine
10 6 (6.59%) Google Workspace
10 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
11 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.40%) Apigee
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) VPN
2 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 5 (5.49%) Firewall
2 5 (5.49%) SAN
3 3 (3.30%) VoIP
4 2 (2.20%) Network Security
4 2 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.30%) Neo4j
2 3 (3.30%) Power BI
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.10%) Big Data
4 1 (1.10%) Looker
4 1 (1.10%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (35.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) GitLab
4 7 (7.69%) Git
5 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.30%) Postman
5 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.30%) Selenium
6 2 (2.20%) Gatling
6 2 (2.20%) JMeter
6 2 (2.20%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.20%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.20%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (29.67%) Finance
2 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Legal
6 3 (3.30%) Military
7 1 (1.10%) Billing
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Architect
2 15 (16.48%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Developer
4 11 (12.09%) GCP DevOps
5 10 (10.99%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 6 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Test Architect
10 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) React
1 11 (12.09%) REST
2 9 (9.89%) Node.js
3 8 (8.79%) OpenID
4 7 (7.69%) SailPoint
5 5 (5.49%) LDAP
5 5 (5.49%) Quarkus
5 5 (5.49%) RESTful
5 5 (5.49%) YAML
6 3 (3.30%) A2A Protocol
6 3 (3.30%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.30%) JWT
6 3 (3.30%) LangChain
6 3 (3.30%) OAuth
6 3 (3.30%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.30%) Playwright
6 3 (3.30%) SAML
6 3 (3.30%) Spring
6 3 (3.30%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.89%) AI Agents
2 9 (9.89%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.49%) FlexPod
5 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) NHS
8 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.10%) PKI
8 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.59%) Windows
4 5 (5.49%) CoreOS
4 5 (5.49%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (5.49%) VMS
5 3 (3.30%) Android
5 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.65%) DevOps
3 38 (41.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (24.18%) Identity Access Management
5 21 (23.08%) AI
5 21 (23.08%) Observability
6 19 (20.88%) Agile
7 18 (19.78%) Cloud Security
8 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.19%) Analytics
10 12 (13.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (10.99%) API Development
13 9 (9.89%) Data Ingestion
13 9 (9.89%) Microservices
13 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (9.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.55%) Python
2 19 (20.88%) Java
3 18 (19.78%) PowerShell
4 17 (18.68%) Bash
5 16 (17.58%) SQL
6 11 (12.09%) Go
7 5 (5.49%) Rust
8 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.30%) Bicep
9 3 (3.30%) Groovy
9 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.30%) Scala
10 2 (2.20%) Cypher
10 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.10%) C#
11 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.49%) OCP
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) HIPAA
1 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.20%) QA
1 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
2 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.59%) Docker
3 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.49%) NFS
3 5 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) vSphere
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 49 (53.85%) Terraform
2 26 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.79%) Istio
4 7 (7.69%) Ansible
5 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.49%) Grafana
6 5 (5.49%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.49%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.49%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.49%) NetApp
3 5 (5.49%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.49%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.49%) VMware
4 4 (4.40%) Alibaba
5 3 (3.30%) Okta
5 3 (3.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.10%) Apple
7 1 (1.10%) FIS
7 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.10%) TSYS