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 18 March 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
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 77
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 -26
Contract jobs citing Google 90 35 27
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.11% 3.84% 1.54%
As % of the Vendors category 8.60% 8.39% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 21 17
10th Percentile £203 £143 £185
25th Percentile £313 £256 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £569 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
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 1,046 417 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.72% 45.77% 49.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 262 522
10th Percentile £304 £223 £201
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £568 £550 £575
90th Percentile £670 £649 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 38
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.11 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £21.24 £12.64
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.16 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +40.94% +106.19% -29.52%
75th Percentile £57.25 £55.29 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £100.28 £15.20
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.76% +21.60% -28.57%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -29 45 £540 +59.29% 11
West Yorkshire -6 33 £388 -29.55% 20
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 1
North Yorkshire -4 4 £375 +42.86% 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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (77.78%) GCP
2 30 (33.33%) Azure
3 29 (32.22%) AWS
4 16 (17.78%) GitHub
4 16 (17.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 14 (15.56%) Google Workspace
6 11 (12.22%) Serverless
7 5 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.44%) Apigee
9 3 (3.33%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.33%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.78%) Firewall
2 13 (14.44%) Network Security
3 6 (6.67%) VPN
4 5 (5.56%) DNS
4 5 (5.56%) SAN
5 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.22%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.22%) Tableau
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) Looker
5 1 (1.11%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.11%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (35.56%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.67%) GitLab
3 5 (5.56%) Git
3 5 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.33%) Liquibase
4 3 (3.33%) Postman
4 3 (3.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.33%) Selenium
5 2 (2.22%) Gatling
5 2 (2.22%) JMeter
5 2 (2.22%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.22%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.11%) Mockito
General
1 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Banking
3 20 (22.22%) Finance
4 5 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) GCP Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (18.89%) Architect
3 17 (18.89%) Senior
4 12 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) IT Support
4 12 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
6 9 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Developer
9 6 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 6 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.00%) REST
2 14 (15.56%) RESTful
3 10 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (8.89%) OpenID
5 7 (7.78%) SailPoint
6 6 (6.67%) LDAP
7 5 (5.56%) Middleware
8 4 (4.44%) LangChain
8 4 (4.44%) OAuth
9 3 (3.33%) Android Jetpack
9 3 (3.33%) Android SDK
9 3 (3.33%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.33%) Jetpack Compose
9 3 (3.33%) JWT
9 3 (3.33%) Node.js
9 3 (3.33%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.33%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.33%) Playwright
9 3 (3.33%) SAML
9 3 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.56%) Public Cloud
3 10 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.56%) Data Centre
6 5 (5.56%) FlexPod
7 3 (3.33%) IoT
8 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.11%) PKI
9 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.11%) Replication
9 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.00%) Linux
2 13 (14.44%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) CoreOS
3 5 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.56%) VMS
4 4 (4.44%) Android
5 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) CI/CD
1 43 (47.78%) DevOps
2 35 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (23.33%) Agile
3 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 13 (14.44%) Microservices
5 13 (14.44%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (13.33%) AI
6 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 12 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 12 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (13.33%) Data Security
7 11 (12.22%) Analytics
7 11 (12.22%) Cost Optimisation
7 11 (12.22%) Identity Access Management
7 11 (12.22%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.11%) Event-Driven
9 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.89%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) Java
3 14 (15.56%) Go
3 14 (15.56%) SQL
4 10 (11.11%) Bash
5 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.33%) Bicep
6 3 (3.33%) Groovy
6 3 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.33%) Scala
6 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.22%) Cypher
8 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.56%) OCP
4 5 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.22%) GRC
3 2 (2.22%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.67%) Docker
3 5 (5.56%) NFS
3 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Terraform
2 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.67%) Ansible
4 11 (12.22%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.11%) Grafana
6 9 (10.00%) Istio
7 5 (5.56%) SnapMirror
8 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.22%) Splunk
3 7 (7.78%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.56%) NetApp
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.56%) VMware
5 4 (4.44%) Alibaba
5 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 4 (4.44%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.33%) Okta
7 2 (2.22%) Databricks
7 2 (2.22%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.11%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.11%) SAP