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 August 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
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 47 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 107 67 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.73% 4.53% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 9.60% 9.37% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 27
10th Percentile £306 £278 £209
25th Percentile £463 £380 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £440 £507
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -13.21% +0.40%
75th Percentile £601 £540 £575
90th Percentile £694 £593 £700
England median daily rate £510 £485 £536
% change year-on-year +5.15% -9.51% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £13.08 - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £26.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £13.61 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.53% -15.38% +44.38%
75th Percentile £14.02 £28.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £14.23 - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £23.61 £70.00
% change year-on-year +50.36% -66.27% +105.88%

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 1,115 715 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.84% 48.38% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 445 414
10th Percentile £331 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £501
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.09% -1.86%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £672 £618 £700
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 43
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.10 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.71 £18.87 £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.69 £21.24 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% +45.23% -29.52%
75th Percentile £41.69 £81.25 £27.88
90th Percentile £68.75 - £41.88
England median hourly rate £35.52 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.21% -10.18% -29.20%

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 August 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 1 August 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 -6 56 £563 +40.63% 25
West Yorkshire -10 46 £433 -7.49% 37
North Yorkshire -9 6 £550 +109.52% 3
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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Actimize
1 1 (0.93%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.93%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 88 (82.24%) GCP
2 30 (28.04%) Azure
3 24 (22.43%) GitHub
4 23 (21.50%) AWS
5 15 (14.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 14 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.35%) Google Analytics
7 10 (9.35%) Vertex AI
8 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) Google Compute Engine
9 7 (6.54%) Google Workspace
10 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (5.61%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.67%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.74%) Apigee
12 4 (3.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) VPN
2 6 (5.61%) DNS
3 5 (4.67%) Firewall
3 5 (4.67%) SAN
4 2 (1.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) BigQuery
1 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.74%) Neo4j
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) Looker
4 2 (1.87%) Tableau
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.93%) Trino
5 1 (0.93%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (28.97%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.48%) JIRA
3 7 (6.54%) Git
3 7 (6.54%) GitLab
4 4 (3.74%) Gatling
4 4 (3.74%) JMeter
4 4 (3.74%) NeoLoad
5 3 (2.80%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.87%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.87%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) Pylint
7 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 34 (31.78%) Finance
2 28 (26.17%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.82%) Banking
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (18.69%) Architect
2 16 (14.95%) Developer
3 13 (12.15%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (10.28%) GCP DevOps
6 10 (9.35%) Lead
7 9 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior
8 7 (6.54%) Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.61%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 5 (4.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) NetApp Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Network Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Performance Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.80%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.95%) REST
2 15 (14.02%) React
3 10 (9.35%) Node.js
4 7 (6.54%) Spring
4 7 (6.54%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.61%) OpenID
5 6 (5.61%) YAML
6 5 (4.67%) Quarkus
7 4 (3.74%) Kafka
8 3 (2.80%) A2A Protocol
8 3 (2.80%) CSS
8 3 (2.80%) HTML
8 3 (2.80%) LangChain
8 3 (2.80%) LDAP
8 3 (2.80%) OAuth
8 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.80%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.80%) pytest
8 3 (2.80%) RESTful
8 3 (2.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.28%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.48%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.61%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.67%) FlexPod
5 5 (4.67%) PKI
6 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.87%) NHS
8 2 (1.87%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.93%) Blog
9 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.93%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Linux
2 7 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.67%) CoreOS
3 5 (4.67%) Data ONTAP
3 5 (4.67%) VMS
3 5 (4.67%) Windows
4 3 (2.80%) Android
4 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 43 (40.19%) DevOps
3 36 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (24.30%) AI
5 25 (23.36%) Observability
6 24 (22.43%) Identity Access Management
7 21 (19.63%) Agile
7 21 (19.63%) Cloud Security
8 18 (16.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (14.02%) Analytics
9 15 (14.02%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (13.08%) Event-Driven
10 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.08%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.15%) Microservices
12 11 (10.28%) Data Protection
12 11 (10.28%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (10.28%) Mentoring
12 11 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.12%) Python
2 20 (18.69%) Java
2 20 (18.69%) SQL
3 18 (16.82%) PowerShell
4 17 (15.89%) Bash
5 10 (9.35%) Go
6 7 (6.54%) Groovy
6 7 (6.54%) Rust
7 5 (4.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.80%) Cypher
8 3 (2.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.93%) Bicep
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) R
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (4.67%) OCP
1 5 (4.67%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.80%) WCAG
2 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Docker
2 9 (8.41%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.67%) NFS
4 5 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (41.12%) Terraform
2 33 (30.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.41%) Grafana
4 8 (7.48%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.54%) Ansible
6 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (4.67%) Istio
7 5 (4.67%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (4.67%) SnapMirror
8 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) Dynatrace
3 6 (5.61%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.67%) NetApp
4 5 (4.67%) VMware
5 3 (2.80%) Databricks
5 3 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.93%) Alibaba
7 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Apple
7 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.93%) FIS
7 1 (0.93%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.93%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.93%) TSYS
7 1 (0.93%) Workday