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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Google 98 62 46
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.45% 4.59% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 8.60% 9.34% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 42 29
10th Percentile £306 £297 £212
25th Percentile £433 £384 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £444 £507
Median % change year-on-year +17.25% -12.52% -0.59%
75th Percentile £610 £545 £550
90th Percentile £694 £611 £700
England median daily rate £515 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +4.04% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +44.38%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £42.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -41.29% +6.19%

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 1,140 664 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.13% 49.15% 45.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 415 470
10th Percentile £331 £263 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £580
90th Percentile £657 £633 £675
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 50
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.10 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £18.60 £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.54 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% +45.23% -29.52%
75th Percentile £46.25 £69.55 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £81.25 £41.94
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -14 51 £550 +34.15% 17
West Yorkshire -7 44 £413 -11.77% 20
North Yorkshire -12 6 £550 +109.52% 4
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 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Actimize
1 1 (1.02%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.02%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 82 (83.67%) GCP
2 30 (30.61%) Azure
3 24 (24.49%) GitHub
4 23 (23.47%) AWS
5 16 (16.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (9.18%) Google Analytics
7 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
7 9 (9.18%) Vertex AI
8 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 7 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
10 6 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.12%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.10%) Google Workspace
11 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (5.10%) Power Automate
11 5 (5.10%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.08%) Apigee
12 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) VPN
2 6 (6.12%) DNS
3 5 (5.10%) Firewall
3 5 (5.10%) SAN
4 2 (2.04%) VoIP
5 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) BigQuery
2 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.08%) Power BI
3 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.06%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) Looker
5 2 (2.04%) Tableau
6 1 (1.02%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.02%) Big Data
6 1 (1.02%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.02%) Trino
6 1 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.14%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) JIRA
3 6 (6.12%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.04%) Gatling
5 2 (2.04%) JMeter
5 2 (2.04%) Liquibase
5 2 (2.04%) NeoLoad
5 2 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.61%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Banking
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Legal
6 2 (2.04%) Military
6 2 (2.04%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Billing
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (18.37%) Architect
2 15 (15.31%) Developer
3 13 (13.27%) GCP Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) GCP DevOps
5 10 (10.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Analyst
7 7 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Lead
7 7 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Senior
8 6 (6.12%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) NetApp Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Performance Analyst
11 3 (3.06%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.06%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) React
1 15 (15.31%) REST
2 9 (9.18%) Node.js
3 7 (7.14%) Spring
3 7 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.12%) YAML
5 5 (5.10%) Quarkus
6 4 (4.08%) Kafka
6 4 (4.08%) OpenID
6 4 (4.08%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) A2A Protocol
7 3 (3.06%) CSS
7 3 (3.06%) HTML
7 3 (3.06%) LangChain
7 3 (3.06%) LDAP
7 3 (3.06%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.06%) pytest
7 3 (3.06%) SailPoint
7 3 (3.06%) Swagger
8 2 (2.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.22%) AI Agents
3 9 (9.18%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.10%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.10%) FlexPod
5 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) NHS
8 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.04%) Smartphone
9 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.02%) PKI
9 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.24%) Linux
2 7 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.10%) CoreOS
3 5 (5.10%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (5.10%) VMS
3 5 (5.10%) Windows
4 3 (3.06%) Android
4 3 (3.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (46.94%) CI/CD
2 42 (42.86%) DevOps
3 35 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (25.51%) AI
5 24 (24.49%) Observability
6 21 (21.43%) Agile
7 20 (20.41%) Cloud Security
8 19 (19.39%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (18.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (15.31%) Analytics
10 15 (15.31%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 13 (13.27%) Microservices
13 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.22%) API Development
14 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
15 10 (10.20%) Containerisation
15 10 (10.20%) Event-Driven
15 10 (10.20%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.88%) Python
2 20 (20.41%) SQL
3 19 (19.39%) Java
3 19 (19.39%) PowerShell
4 18 (18.37%) Bash
5 11 (11.22%) Go
6 7 (7.14%) Groovy
6 7 (7.14%) Rust
7 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.04%) Bicep
8 2 (2.04%) Cypher
8 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) C#
9 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.10%) OCP
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.04%) Degree
3 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.04%) WCAG
2 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.02%) GDPR
2 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.02%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.02%) SLA
2 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Docker
2 10 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.10%) NFS
3 5 (5.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (45.92%) Terraform
2 29 (29.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.18%) Grafana
4 8 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.14%) Ansible
6 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.10%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (5.10%) SnapMirror
8 4 (4.08%) Istio
9 1 (1.02%) Packer
9 1 (1.02%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.10%) NetApp
4 5 (5.10%) VMware
5 4 (4.08%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.06%) Databricks
6 3 (3.06%) Splunk
7 2 (2.04%) Alibaba
7 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.02%) Apple
8 1 (1.02%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.02%) FIS
8 1 (1.02%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.02%) Okta
8 1 (1.02%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.02%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.02%) TSYS