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 October 2025, 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 49 74
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing Google 87 52 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.16% 3.69% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 10.86% 8.52% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 33 35
10th Percentile £271 £320 £165
25th Percentile £322 £488 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +1.40% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £515
90th Percentile £559 £700 £595
England median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year - +44.38% -
England median hourly rate £24.89 £70.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -64.45% +116.58% -7.66%

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 801 610 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.51% 43.32% 47.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 344 593
10th Percentile £290 £250 £213
25th Percentile £379 £408 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £652 £665
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 12
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.23 £16.48
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.62 £19.63
Median hourly rate £30.29 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% +25.00% +17.49%
75th Percentile £81.25 £41.88 £22.32
90th Percentile - £42.50 £26.35
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.36% -20.16% +75.34%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 42 £435 -14.20% 9
West Yorkshire +18 37 £413 -17.09% 39
East Yorkshire - 4 £205 - 6
North Yorkshire - 2 - - 9
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 (5.75%) Mule
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) CICS
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.15%) Maple
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (75.86%) GCP
2 47 (54.02%) AWS
3 33 (37.93%) Azure
4 18 (20.69%) Serverless
5 12 (13.79%) GitHub
6 6 (6.90%) Google Workspace
6 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.60%) Google Play
8 3 (3.45%) dbt
8 3 (3.45%) PaaS
9 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.30%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.15%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.15%) Contentsquare
10 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.15%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (1.15%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) Firewall
2 6 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.30%) Wireless
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.15%) FCoE
4 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.15%) LAN
4 1 (1.15%) Multicast
4 1 (1.15%) NAS
4 1 (1.15%) SAN
4 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.14%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.90%) BigQuery
5 5 (5.75%) Power BI
5 5 (5.75%) Tableau
6 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.45%) Looker
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.15%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.15%) Power Query
7 1 (1.15%) QlikView
7 1 (1.15%) Redis
7 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.69%) GitLab
3 17 (19.54%) JIRA
4 12 (13.79%) Git
5 11 (12.64%) Liquibase
6 9 (10.34%) SoapUI
7 8 (9.20%) Postman
8 6 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.15%) Mockito
10 1 (1.15%) Selenium
10 1 (1.15%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (57.47%) Social Skills
2 31 (35.63%) Banking
3 21 (24.14%) Finance
4 13 (14.94%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Marketing
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Police
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.09%) Senior
2 11 (12.64%) Architect
2 11 (12.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Analyst
3 10 (11.49%) Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Android Developer
4 9 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Test Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) NetBackup Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) IT Support
8 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.60%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.89%) RESTful
2 19 (21.84%) REST
3 18 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (10.34%) Android Jetpack
4 9 (10.34%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (5.75%) Android SDK
6 4 (4.60%) .NET
6 4 (4.60%) Kafka
7 3 (3.45%) Dagger
7 3 (3.45%) Retrofit
8 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.30%) CSS
8 2 (2.30%) CSS3
8 2 (2.30%) HTML
8 2 (2.30%) Middleware
8 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.30%) React
8 2 (2.30%) RxJava
8 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
8 2 (2.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (18.39%) Public Cloud
3 14 (16.09%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Clustering
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) FMCG
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) PDA
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.48%) Linux
2 9 (10.34%) Android
2 9 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.15%) MVS
4 1 (1.15%) Solaris
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) CI/CD
2 32 (36.78%) Agile
2 32 (36.78%) DevOps
3 28 (32.18%) Containerisation
4 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (27.59%) Microservices
5 20 (22.99%) Computer Science
5 20 (22.99%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (20.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 18 (20.69%) Cryptography
7 17 (19.54%) Data Security
7 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (19.54%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (18.39%) Change Management
9 15 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (16.09%) High Availability
10 14 (16.09%) Non-Functional Testing
10 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.53%) Python
2 23 (26.44%) Java
3 18 (20.69%) Go
4 13 (14.94%) SQL
5 10 (11.49%) Bash
6 9 (10.34%) Kotlin
7 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.15%) C#
9 1 (1.15%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (22.99%) Degree
2 19 (21.84%) Master's Degree
3 9 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 9 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (10.34%) CISSP
4 8 (9.20%) CISM
4 8 (9.20%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.15%) GCIH
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 8 (9.20%) GDPR
3 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.90%) NIST
3 6 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.30%) GRC
5 2 (2.30%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 8 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.15%) KVM
4 1 (1.15%) NFS
4 1 (1.15%) SRDF
4 1 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 28 (32.18%) Terraform
3 21 (24.14%) Ansible
4 19 (21.84%) Grafana
4 19 (21.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.05%) NetBackup
5 7 (8.05%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.30%) SmoothWall
7 1 (1.15%) Istio
7 1 (1.15%) Puppet
7 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.99%) Splunk
3 15 (17.24%) CyberArk
4 9 (10.34%) Oracle
5 8 (9.20%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (9.20%) Thycotic
5 8 (9.20%) VMware
6 7 (8.05%) Veritas
7 4 (4.60%) SAP
8 3 (3.45%) Cisco
8 3 (3.45%) Databricks
9 2 (2.30%) Citrix
9 2 (2.30%) IBM
9 2 (2.30%) McAfee
9 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.15%) Adobe
10 1 (1.15%) Apple
10 1 (1.15%) EMC
10 1 (1.15%) NetApp
10 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow