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 1 December 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
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 52 70
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 0
Contract jobs citing Google 94 37 40
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.26% 2.86% 2.16%
As % of the Vendors category 11.51% 6.73% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 21 36
10th Percentile £203 £188 £165
25th Percentile £288 £450 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £519 £700 £516
90th Percentile £569 - £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.21 £60.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -55.21% +87.96% -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 817 550 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.69% 42.57% 49.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 319 571
10th Percentile £275 £234 £225
25th Percentile £370 £378 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £651 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 9
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.68 £15.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.35 £18.50
Median hourly rate £66.25 £21.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +204.60% -1.14% +2.33%
75th Percentile £81.25 £42.25 -
90th Percentile - £98.25 £22.96
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -17 43 £450 -15.57% 1
West Yorkshire +19 38 £445 -10.55% 9
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 -
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 (5.32%) Mule
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) CICS
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Maple
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (73.40%) GCP
2 49 (52.13%) AWS
3 36 (38.30%) Azure
4 18 (19.15%) Serverless
5 12 (12.77%) GitHub
6 11 (11.70%) Google Workspace
7 4 (4.26%) Google Play
7 4 (4.26%) PaaS
7 4 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.13%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (2.13%) dbt
8 2 (2.13%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.06%) Contentsquare
9 1 (1.06%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.34%) Firewall
2 13 (13.83%) Network Security
3 2 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.06%) FCoE
4 1 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.06%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.06%) LAN
4 1 (1.06%) Multicast
4 1 (1.06%) NAS
4 1 (1.06%) SAN
4 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.34%) NoSQL
2 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.38%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.26%) Power BI
5 4 (4.26%) Tableau
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.13%) Looker
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.06%) Power Query
7 1 (1.06%) QlikView
7 1 (1.06%) Redis
7 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.06%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (32.98%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.15%) GitLab
3 17 (18.09%) JIRA
4 11 (11.70%) Git
4 11 (11.70%) Liquibase
5 9 (9.57%) SoapUI
6 8 (8.51%) Postman
7 6 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.06%) Mockito
9 1 (1.06%) Selenium
9 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (58.51%) Social Skills
2 30 (31.91%) Banking
3 20 (21.28%) Finance
4 13 (13.83%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.06%) Police
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (18.09%) Senior
2 14 (14.89%) GCP Engineer
3 13 (13.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) IT Support
4 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) IT Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Analyst
6 10 (10.64%) Architect
6 10 (10.64%) Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Android Developer
7 9 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Test Analyst
9 7 (7.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) NetBackup Engineer
10 6 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 6 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (28.72%) RESTful
2 19 (20.21%) REST
3 18 (19.15%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (9.57%) Android Jetpack
4 9 (9.57%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (5.32%) Android SDK
6 4 (4.26%) .NET
7 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.19%) Dagger
7 3 (3.19%) Kafka
7 3 (3.19%) Middleware
7 3 (3.19%) React
7 3 (3.19%) Retrofit
8 2 (2.13%) CSS3
8 2 (2.13%) LangChain
8 2 (2.13%) LangGraph
8 2 (2.13%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.13%) RxJava
8 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.02%) Public Cloud
3 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.32%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) IoT
6 2 (2.13%) Replication
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) FMCG
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.06%) NHS
7 1 (1.06%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 37 (39.36%) Linux
2 14 (14.89%) Windows
3 9 (9.57%) Android
4 1 (1.06%) MVS
4 1 (1.06%) Solaris
4 1 (1.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) CI/CD
2 32 (34.04%) Agile
3 31 (32.98%) DevOps
4 29 (30.85%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.60%) Microservices
6 24 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (22.34%) Computer Science
8 20 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (19.15%) Cost Optimisation
9 18 (19.15%) Cryptography
10 17 (18.09%) Data Security
10 17 (18.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (17.02%) Change Management
12 15 (15.96%) Continuous Delivery
13 14 (14.89%) High Availability
13 14 (14.89%) Non-Functional Testing
13 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
14 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Python
2 25 (26.60%) Java
3 18 (19.15%) Go
4 12 (12.77%) SQL
5 10 (10.64%) Bash
6 9 (9.57%) Kotlin
7 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (23.40%) Degree
2 21 (22.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (21.28%) Master's Degree
4 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (9.57%) CISSP
5 8 (8.51%) CISM
5 8 (8.51%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.06%) GCIH
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
2 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.38%) NIST
2 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.06%) KVM
4 1 (1.06%) NFS
4 1 (1.06%) SRDF
4 1 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.06%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (32.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (29.79%) Terraform
3 21 (22.34%) Ansible
4 19 (20.21%) Grafana
4 19 (20.21%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.45%) NetBackup
5 7 (7.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.06%) Istio
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.28%) Splunk
3 15 (15.96%) CyberArk
4 9 (9.57%) Oracle
5 8 (8.51%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (8.51%) Thycotic
5 8 (8.51%) VMware
6 7 (7.45%) Veritas
7 4 (4.26%) SAP
8 3 (3.19%) Cisco
8 3 (3.19%) Databricks
9 2 (2.13%) Citrix
9 2 (2.13%) IBM
9 2 (2.13%) McAfee
9 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.06%) Apple
10 1 (1.06%) EMC
10 1 (1.06%) F5
10 1 (1.06%) NetApp
10 1 (1.06%) Salesforce