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 19 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 54 80
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 -30
Contract jobs citing Google 86 37 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.62% 3.70% 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 7.97% 7.96% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 14
10th Percentile £203 £143 £254
25th Percentile £313 £295 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £555
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -13.29% +0.91%
75th Percentile £567 £597 £634
90th Percentile £688 £638 £664
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 1,079 465 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.45% 46.45% 48.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 294 484
10th Percentile £313 £220 £240
25th Percentile £404 £350 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 47
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.35 £12.32
25th Percentile £15.29 £21.24 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.50 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% +88.03% -29.52%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.50 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £99.93 £16.42
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -41.75%

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 19 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 19 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 -23 39 £548 +277.93% 5
West Yorkshire -13 35 £413 -25.00% 12
East Yorkshire - 8 £205 - 1
North Yorkshire -3 7 £550 +109.52% 1
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 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.16%) Apache
2 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Actimize
1 1 (1.16%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.16%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 66 (76.74%) GCP
2 34 (39.53%) Azure
3 24 (27.91%) AWS
4 19 (22.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 15 (17.44%) Google Workspace
6 14 (16.28%) GitHub
7 7 (8.14%) Vertex AI
8 6 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.98%) Google Analytics
9 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.81%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.65%) Apigee
10 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.49%) Azure Storage
11 3 (3.49%) Google Gemini
11 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) Firewall
2 10 (11.63%) Network Security
3 6 (6.98%) VPN
4 5 (5.81%) DNS
4 5 (5.81%) SAN
5 3 (3.49%) VoIP
6 2 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.49%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.33%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) Big Data
4 1 (1.16%) Looker
4 1 (1.16%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.30%) GitLab
3 6 (6.98%) JIRA
4 5 (5.81%) Git
5 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.49%) Postman
5 3 (3.49%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.49%) Selenium
6 2 (2.33%) Gatling
6 2 (2.33%) JMeter
6 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.33%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 21 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Banking
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.49%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Billing
7 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) GCP Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Architect
3 13 (15.12%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) IT Support
5 10 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) IT Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Support Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) GCP DevOps
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Analyst
9 6 (6.98%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Lead
11 4 (4.65%) NetApp Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Test Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) REST
2 8 (9.30%) OpenID
3 7 (8.14%) SailPoint
4 6 (6.98%) LDAP
4 6 (6.98%) React
4 6 (6.98%) RESTful
5 5 (5.81%) LangChain
5 5 (5.81%) Middleware
6 4 (4.65%) Node.js
6 4 (4.65%) OAuth
6 4 (4.65%) Quarkus
7 3 (3.49%) A2A Protocol
7 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.49%) JWT
7 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.49%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.49%) Playwright
7 3 (3.49%) SAML
7 3 (3.49%) Swagger
8 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.14%) AI Agents
2 7 (8.14%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.81%) FlexPod
5 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.49%) IoT
5 3 (3.49%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.60%) Linux
2 12 (13.95%) Windows
3 5 (5.81%) CoreOS
3 5 (5.81%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.81%) VMS
4 3 (3.49%) Android
4 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.86%) DevOps
2 35 (40.70%) CI/CD
3 29 (33.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.77%) AI
6 15 (17.44%) Analytics
7 14 (16.28%) Agile
8 12 (13.95%) Cloud Security
8 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.79%) Event-Driven
9 11 (12.79%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (11.63%) Observability
11 9 (10.47%) Data Protection
11 9 (10.47%) Migration
11 9 (10.47%) Task Automation
12 8 (9.30%) Containerisation
12 8 (9.30%) Data Engineering
12 8 (9.30%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (9.30%) Microservices
12 8 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) Python
2 17 (19.77%) Java
3 13 (15.12%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) Bash
5 6 (6.98%) Go
5 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.49%) Bicep
7 3 (3.49%) Groovy
7 3 (3.49%) Scala
8 2 (2.33%) Cypher
8 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (5.81%) Degree
1 5 (5.81%) OCP
1 5 (5.81%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.49%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.16%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.81%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) NFS
2 5 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) vSphere
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 35 (40.70%) Terraform
2 24 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.30%) Istio
4 7 (8.14%) Ansible
5 5 (5.81%) SnapMirror
6 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.49%) Grafana
8 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.81%) NetApp
3 5 (5.81%) OpenAI
3 5 (5.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.81%) VMware
4 4 (4.65%) Alibaba
4 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.49%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.49%) Okta
5 3 (3.49%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Databricks
6 2 (2.33%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.16%) Apple
7 1 (1.16%) FIS
7 1 (1.16%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.16%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) TSYS