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 7 January 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 55 74
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -14
Contract jobs citing Google 81 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.28% 3.03% 1.70%
As % of the Vendors category 9.42% 6.74% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 21 26
10th Percentile £203 £143 £185
25th Percentile £278 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £522 £638 £575
90th Percentile £569 £700 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.48%

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 860 475 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.45% 44.98% 48.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 276 530
10th Percentile £290 £226 £250
25th Percentile £375 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £476 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +0.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £575
90th Percentile £638 £658 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 11
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.58 £12.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £13.10
Median hourly rate £54.50 £21.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.47% +6.25% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75.44 £42.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £100.39 £26.78
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +50.85%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -34 36 £463 -7.50% 17
West Yorkshire +3 32 £440 -12.00% 32
East Yorkshire - 11 £205 - 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 (6.17%) Mule
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Confluence
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) CICS
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (67.90%) GCP
2 37 (45.68%) AWS
3 28 (34.57%) Azure
4 16 (19.75%) Serverless
5 12 (14.81%) GitHub
5 12 (14.81%) Google Workspace
6 4 (4.94%) Google Play
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.47%) PaaS
7 2 (2.47%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.23%) dbt
8 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.23%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.23%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.69%) Firewall
2 13 (16.05%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) FCoE
4 1 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.23%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.23%) LAN
4 1 (1.23%) Multicast
4 1 (1.23%) NAS
4 1 (1.23%) SAN
4 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.46%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.94%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.70%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (2.47%) Power BI
6 2 (2.47%) Tableau
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Power Query
7 1 (1.23%) QlikView
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (35.80%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.75%) GitLab
3 9 (11.11%) Git
3 9 (11.11%) Liquibase
4 8 (9.88%) JIRA
5 6 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.23%) Mockito
8 1 (1.23%) Postman
8 1 (1.23%) Selenium
8 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 47 (58.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.57%) Banking
3 17 (20.99%) Finance
4 11 (13.58%) Financial Institution
5 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Local Government
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.23%) Police
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Senior
2 14 (17.28%) GCP Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) IT Support
4 12 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) IT Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Android Developer
7 9 (11.11%) Architect
8 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) 2nd Line Support
9 7 (8.64%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 6 (7.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) NetBackup Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.86%) RESTful
2 16 (19.75%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (19.75%) REST
3 9 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
3 9 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (6.17%) Android SDK
5 4 (4.94%) .NET
5 4 (4.94%) Middleware
6 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.70%) Dagger
6 3 (3.70%) Kafka
6 3 (3.70%) React
6 3 (3.70%) Retrofit
7 2 (2.47%) CSS3
7 2 (2.47%) LangChain
7 2 (2.47%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.47%) RxJava
7 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (18.52%) Public Cloud
3 11 (13.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.17%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.70%) IoT
7 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.47%) Replication
8 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) FMCG
8 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.23%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (1.23%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.98%) Linux
2 14 (17.28%) Windows
3 9 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (1.23%) MVS
4 1 (1.23%) Solaris
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
2 28 (34.57%) DevOps
3 26 (32.10%) Containerisation
4 23 (28.40%) Microservices
5 22 (27.16%) Agile
5 22 (27.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (19.75%) Cost Optimisation
8 16 (19.75%) Cryptography
8 16 (19.75%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (18.52%) Data Security
9 15 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (17.28%) Change Management
10 14 (17.28%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (16.05%) Non-Functional Testing
12 12 (14.81%) High Availability
12 12 (14.81%) Software Engineering
13 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.04%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) Java
3 16 (19.75%) Go
4 9 (11.11%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.88%) Bash
5 8 (9.88%) SQL
6 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.23%) C#
8 1 (1.23%) C++
8 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Degree
2 18 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.64%) AWS Certification
3 7 (8.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) GDPR
2 2 (2.47%) GRC
2 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (25.93%) Docker
2 7 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.23%) KVM
4 1 (1.23%) NFS
4 1 (1.23%) SRDF
4 1 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.23%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (34.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (29.63%) Terraform
3 19 (23.46%) Ansible
4 17 (20.99%) Grafana
4 17 (20.99%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.41%) NetBackup
5 6 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.23%) Istio
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.23%) SCCM
6 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.99%) Splunk
3 8 (9.88%) Oracle
4 7 (8.64%) CyberArk
4 7 (8.64%) VMware
5 6 (7.41%) Veritas
6 4 (4.94%) SAP
7 3 (3.70%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.47%) Citrix
8 2 (2.47%) McAfee
9 1 (1.23%) Apple
9 1 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.23%) Databricks
9 1 (1.23%) EMC
9 1 (1.23%) F5
9 1 (1.23%) IBM
9 1 (1.23%) NetApp
9 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.23%) Thycotic