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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Google 103 63 46
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.61% 4.12% 2.98%
As % of the Vendors category 9.47% 8.67% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 30
10th Percentile £378 £286 £292
25th Percentile £463 £375 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £420 £507
Median % change year-on-year +29.46% -17.16% +1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £484 £604
90th Percentile £674 £554 £700
England median daily rate £513 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £12.96 - £32.50
75th Percentile £13.67 - £33.75
90th Percentile £14.09 - -
England median hourly rate £31.25 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +46.85% -69.60% +87.79%

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 1,088 727 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.10% 47.58% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 450 403
10th Percentile £331 £263 £338
25th Percentile £413 £371 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £507
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -10.01% -0.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £654 £618 £700
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 29 39
10th Percentile £13.92 £18.10 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.25 £30.29 £15.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% +99.67% -30.25%
75th Percentile £27.90 £81.25 £36.88
90th Percentile £68.75 - £42.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -3 58 £550 +38.71% 13
West Yorkshire -6 37 £475 +7.95% 34
North Yorkshire -7 6 £550 - 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 5 (4.85%) Confluence
1 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Actimize
1 1 (0.97%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 83 (80.58%) GCP
2 25 (24.27%) Azure
3 19 (18.45%) AWS
4 17 (16.50%) GitHub
5 12 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (11.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 10 (9.71%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.74%) Vertex AI
8 8 (7.77%) Google Analytics
9 7 (6.80%) Google Workspace
10 6 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.85%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.85%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.88%) Cloud Run
12 4 (3.88%) Google Compute Engine
12 4 (3.88%) Google Data Studio
13 3 (2.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Network Security
2 2 (1.94%) BGP
2 2 (1.94%) DNS
2 2 (1.94%) VoIP
2 2 (1.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.97%) Calico
3 1 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.97%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) NaaS
3 1 (0.97%) SAN
3 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.62%) BigQuery
2 9 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.85%) Power BI
4 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.88%) Neo4j
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.94%) Looker
6 2 (1.94%) Power Query
6 2 (1.94%) Tableau
6 2 (1.94%) Trino
7 1 (0.97%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.97%) Big Data
7 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.97%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.68%) JIRA
3 7 (6.80%) Zephyr
4 5 (4.85%) Gatling
4 5 (4.85%) Git
4 5 (4.85%) JMeter
4 5 (4.85%) NeoLoad
5 4 (3.88%) GitLab
6 3 (2.91%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 2 (1.94%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.97%) Pylint
General
1 32 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 31 (30.10%) Finance
3 11 (10.68%) Banking
4 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Military
7 2 (1.94%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Billing
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Marketing
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (17.48%) Architect
2 17 (16.50%) Developer
3 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 13 (12.62%) Lead
5 12 (11.65%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.77%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Analyst
7 7 (6.80%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.83%) GCP DevOps
8 6 (5.83%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (4.85%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Automation Test Lead
11 3 (2.91%) IAM Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.07%) Terraform
2 15 (14.56%) React
3 13 (12.62%) REST
4 11 (10.68%) Node.js
5 7 (6.80%) Kafka
5 7 (6.80%) OpenID
5 7 (6.80%) Spring
5 7 (6.80%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.83%) YAML
7 5 (4.85%) pytest
7 5 (4.85%) Quarkus
8 4 (3.88%) LDAP
8 4 (3.88%) OAuth
9 3 (2.91%) CSS
9 3 (2.91%) HTML
9 3 (2.91%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.91%) RESTful
9 3 (2.91%) SAML
10 2 (1.94%) HTML5
10 2 (1.94%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.71%) AI Agents
3 9 (8.74%) Public Cloud
4 8 (7.77%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.83%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.88%) PKI
8 3 (2.91%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.94%) NHS
9 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.94%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Windows
3 3 (2.91%) Android
3 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.97%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.66%) CI/CD
2 40 (38.83%) DevOps
3 30 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (27.18%) Identity Access Management
5 24 (23.30%) Observability
6 23 (22.33%) Agile
6 23 (22.33%) AI
6 23 (22.33%) Cloud Security
7 18 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (16.50%) Event-Driven
8 17 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (14.56%) Analytics
10 13 (12.62%) Microservices
10 13 (12.62%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (12.62%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (11.65%) DevSecOps
11 12 (11.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
12 10 (9.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.81%) Python
2 20 (19.42%) Java
3 14 (13.59%) Bash
3 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.62%) SQL
5 11 (10.68%) Go
6 7 (6.80%) Rust
7 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.88%) Groovy
9 3 (2.91%) Cypher
9 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.91%) Scala
10 2 (1.94%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.85%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.94%) IIBA
2 2 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.97%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.97%) OCP
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.91%) WCAG
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) GRC
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (10.68%) Docker
2 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) NFS
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (27.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.80%) Grafana
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.85%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.94%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) Cilium
6 1 (0.97%) Istio
6 1 (0.97%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.97%) Packer
6 1 (0.97%) Podman
6 1 (0.97%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.91%) Databricks
2 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.97%) Apple
4 1 (0.97%) Arista
4 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco
4 1 (0.97%) FIS
4 1 (0.97%) Juniper
4 1 (0.97%) NetApp
4 1 (0.97%) OneLogin
4 1 (0.97%) Splunk
4 1 (0.97%) TSYS
4 1 (0.97%) VMware
4 1 (0.97%) Workday