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 6 April 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
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 55 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -30
Contract jobs citing Google 94 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.09% 3.69% 1.42%
As % of the Vendors category 8.75% 8.18% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 21 14
10th Percentile £203 £143 £198
25th Percentile £306 £256 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £560 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £638
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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% -34.26%

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 1,074 428 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 46.78% 45.15% 48.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 268 495
10th Percentile £306 £222 £213
25th Percentile £400 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.26% -9.62%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £640 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 44
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.53 £12.16
25th Percentile £15.29 £19.76 £13.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +45.23% -29.52%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.50 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £99.24 £15.23
England median hourly rate £26.61 £29.00 £22.79
% change year-on-year -8.26% +27.25% -40.03%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -18 46 £533 +267.24% 9
West Yorkshire -14 34 £413 -25.00% 27
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 1
North Yorkshire -6 6 £550 +109.52% 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 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Actimize
1 1 (1.06%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.06%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 71 (75.53%) GCP
2 34 (36.17%) Azure
3 28 (29.79%) AWS
4 17 (18.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 17 (18.09%) Google Workspace
5 14 (14.89%) GitHub
6 9 (9.57%) Serverless
7 6 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.38%) Google Analytics
8 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.32%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.32%) Vertex AI
9 4 (4.26%) Apigee
9 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.19%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Functions
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.19%) Azure Storage
10 3 (3.19%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.02%) Firewall
2 13 (13.83%) Network Security
3 6 (6.38%) VPN
4 5 (5.32%) DNS
4 5 (5.32%) SAN
5 2 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) BigQuery
1 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.19%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (3.19%) Power BI
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.13%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.13%) Tableau
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Looker
4 1 (1.06%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.06%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (31.91%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.89%) GitLab
3 6 (6.38%) JIRA
4 5 (5.32%) Git
5 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.19%) Postman
5 3 (3.19%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.19%) Selenium
6 2 (2.13%) Gatling
6 2 (2.13%) JMeter
6 2 (2.13%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.13%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.13%) NeoLoad
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.40%) Banking
3 20 (21.28%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
7 2 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Billing
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) GCP Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) Architect
3 16 (17.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) IT Support
5 13 (13.83%) Senior
6 12 (12.77%) IT Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) GCP DevOps
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 6 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Analyst
8 6 (6.38%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) REST
2 12 (12.77%) RESTful
3 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (8.51%) OpenID
4 7 (7.45%) SailPoint
5 6 (6.38%) LDAP
6 5 (5.32%) LangChain
6 5 (5.32%) Middleware
7 4 (4.26%) Node.js
7 4 (4.26%) OAuth
7 4 (4.26%) React
8 3 (3.19%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.19%) JWT
8 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.19%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.19%) Playwright
8 3 (3.19%) SAML
8 3 (3.19%) Swagger
9 2 (2.13%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.83%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.32%) AI Agents
5 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.32%) FlexPod
6 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.19%) IoT
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.13%) NHS
7 2 (2.13%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.06%) PKI
8 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.60%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) CoreOS
3 5 (5.32%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.32%) VMS
4 2 (2.13%) Android
4 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) DevOps
2 41 (43.62%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.28%) Agile
6 15 (15.96%) AI
6 15 (15.96%) Analytics
7 14 (14.89%) Containerisation
8 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
8 12 (12.77%) Microservices
8 12 (12.77%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.70%) Data Security
9 11 (11.70%) Event-Driven
9 11 (11.70%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
10 10 (10.64%) Observability
11 9 (9.57%) Data Protection
11 9 (9.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Python
2 15 (15.96%) Java
3 13 (13.83%) SQL
4 12 (12.77%) Go
5 10 (10.64%) Bash
6 6 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.19%) Bicep
8 3 (3.19%) Groovy
8 3 (3.19%) Scala
9 2 (2.13%) Cypher
9 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.06%) C#
10 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.32%) OCP
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (7.45%) Docker
3 5 (5.32%) NFS
3 5 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.32%) vSphere
4 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 39 (41.49%) Terraform
2 30 (31.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.83%) Ansible
4 10 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (9.57%) Grafana
6 8 (8.51%) Istio
7 5 (5.32%) SnapMirror
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.57%) Splunk
3 7 (7.45%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.32%) NetApp
4 5 (5.32%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.32%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.32%) VMware
5 4 (4.26%) Alibaba
5 4 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.19%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.19%) Okta
7 2 (2.13%) Databricks
7 2 (2.13%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.06%) Apple
8 1 (1.06%) FIS
8 1 (1.06%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.06%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) TSYS