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 4 May 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
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 51 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -22
Contract jobs citing Google 81 42 23
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.33% 4.11% 1.38%
As % of the Vendors category 7.49% 8.62% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 25 13
10th Percentile £250 £143 £320
25th Percentile £363 £388 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% -
75th Percentile £577 £588 £638
90th Percentile £688 £638 £668
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -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% -35.00%

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 1,082 487 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 44.49% 47.70% 48.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 300 489
10th Percentile £313 £212 £250
25th Percentile £406 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +9.39% -6.93% -7.90%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £588
90th Percentile £647 £646 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 49
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.35 £12.42
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% -33.52%
75th Percentile £57.25 £41.50 £15.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £99.93 £22.00
England median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -30 41 £546 +28.93% 4
West Yorkshire -12 32 £400 -27.27% 22
North Yorkshire -6 7 £550 +109.52% 1
East Yorkshire - 4 £205 - 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 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Actimize
1 1 (1.23%) Cloudability
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 65 (80.25%) GCP
2 34 (41.98%) Azure
3 24 (29.63%) AWS
4 20 (24.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 16 (19.75%) GitHub
6 11 (13.58%) Google Workspace
7 8 (9.88%) Vertex AI
8 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
9 6 (7.41%) Google Analytics
10 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.94%) Apigee
11 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.70%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.70%) Azure Storage
12 3 (3.70%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Firewall
2 6 (7.41%) Network Security
2 6 (7.41%) VPN
3 5 (6.17%) DNS
3 5 (6.17%) SAN
4 3 (3.70%) VoIP
5 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) BigQuery
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
2 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.47%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.47%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.47%) Tableau
4 1 (1.23%) Big Data
4 1 (1.23%) Looker
4 1 (1.23%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.88%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) JIRA
4 6 (7.41%) Git
5 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.70%) Postman
5 3 (3.70%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.70%) Selenium
6 2 (2.47%) Gatling
6 2 (2.47%) JMeter
6 2 (2.47%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.47%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.47%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (23.46%) Banking
2 17 (20.99%) Finance
2 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Legal
5 3 (3.70%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Billing
6 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Architect
2 15 (18.52%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 8 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) GCP DevOps
5 7 (8.64%) Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Developer
5 7 (8.64%) IT Support
6 6 (7.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) NetApp Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Test Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) REST
2 8 (9.88%) OpenID
3 7 (8.64%) React
3 7 (8.64%) SailPoint
4 6 (7.41%) LDAP
5 5 (6.17%) Middleware
5 5 (6.17%) Node.js
5 5 (6.17%) Quarkus
5 5 (6.17%) RESTful
6 4 (4.94%) LangChain
6 4 (4.94%) OAuth
7 3 (3.70%) A2A Protocol
7 3 (3.70%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.70%) JWT
7 3 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.70%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.70%) Playwright
7 3 (3.70%) SAML
7 3 (3.70%) Swagger
8 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.64%) Public Cloud
4 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.17%) FlexPod
5 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.70%) IoT
6 3 (3.70%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.47%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 8 (9.88%) Windows
3 5 (6.17%) CoreOS
3 5 (6.17%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.17%) VMS
4 3 (3.70%) Android
4 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) DevOps
2 36 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 30 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (22.22%) AI
5 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.52%) Agile
7 14 (17.28%) Analytics
8 13 (16.05%) Identity Access Management
9 12 (14.81%) Cloud Security
9 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 11 (13.58%) Event-Driven
10 11 (13.58%) Observability
11 9 (11.11%) Data Protection
11 9 (11.11%) Migration
11 9 (11.11%) Task Automation
12 8 (9.88%) Data Engineering
12 8 (9.88%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (9.88%) Microservices
12 8 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) Python
2 17 (20.99%) Java
3 14 (17.28%) SQL
4 10 (12.35%) Bash
5 7 (8.64%) Go
5 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.70%) Bicep
7 3 (3.70%) Groovy
7 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.70%) Scala
8 2 (2.47%) Cypher
8 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.23%) C#
9 1 (1.23%) R
9 1 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (6.17%) OCP
1 5 (6.17%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.94%) Degree
3 3 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) QA
1 3 (3.70%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
2 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.17%) NFS
2 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.17%) vSphere
3 4 (4.94%) Docker
4 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Terraform
2 24 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.88%) Istio
4 7 (8.64%) Ansible
5 5 (6.17%) SnapMirror
6 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.70%) Grafana
8 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.17%) NetApp
3 5 (6.17%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.17%) VMware
4 4 (4.94%) Alibaba
4 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.70%) Okta
5 3 (3.70%) Splunk
6 2 (2.47%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.23%) Apple
7 1 (1.23%) FIS
7 1 (1.23%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.23%) TSYS