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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Google 102 66 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.58% 4.29% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 9.48% 9.10% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 33
10th Percentile £402 £280 £320
25th Percentile £463 £372 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £423 £507
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -16.67% +1.40%
75th Percentile £599 £488 £600
90th Percentile £677 £552 £700
England median daily rate £510 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £12.96 - £32.50
75th Percentile £13.67 - £33.75
90th Percentile £14.09 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £19.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +52.59% -71.91% +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 1,076 725 680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.77% 47.11% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 455 401
10th Percentile £341 £263 £340
25th Percentile £413 £370 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £501
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.59% -1.86%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £671 £613 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 37
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.10 £13.72
25th Percentile £15.54 £18.69 £14.06
Median hourly rate £23.10 £33.11 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +104.51% -26.41%
75th Percentile £27.58 £81.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £42.13
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%

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 September 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 September 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 -5 61 £550 +37.50% 15
West Yorkshire -16 35 £475 +7.95% 48
North Yorkshire -11 4 £550 - 4
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 (4.90%) Confluence
1 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Actimize
1 1 (0.98%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 83 (81.37%) GCP
2 25 (24.51%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) AWS
4 16 (15.69%) GitHub
5 14 (13.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 12 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.82%) Vertex AI
8 8 (7.84%) Google Analytics
9 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.88%) Google Workspace
10 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (4.90%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.90%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.92%) Cloud Run
11 4 (3.92%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (3.92%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (2.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Network Security
2 2 (1.96%) BGP
2 2 (1.96%) VoIP
3 1 (0.98%) Calico
3 1 (0.98%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) NaaS
3 1 (0.98%) VPN
3 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) BigQuery
2 9 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.92%) Neo4j
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
3 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.96%) Looker
5 2 (1.96%) Power Query
5 2 (1.96%) Tableau
5 2 (1.96%) Trino
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.78%) JIRA
3 7 (6.86%) Zephyr
4 5 (4.90%) Gatling
4 5 (4.90%) Git
4 5 (4.90%) JMeter
4 5 (4.90%) NeoLoad
5 4 (3.92%) GitLab
6 3 (2.94%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.96%) Postman
7 2 (1.96%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.98%) Pylint
8 1 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.41%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Banking
4 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Military
7 2 (1.96%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (16.67%) Architect
1 17 (16.67%) Developer
2 14 (13.73%) Lead
2 14 (13.73%) Senior
3 11 (10.78%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (7.84%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) GCP DevOps
5 7 (6.86%) Python Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Test Leader
6 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Automation Test Lead
7 4 (3.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Performance Test Leader
8 3 (2.94%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (30.39%) Terraform
2 15 (14.71%) React
3 13 (12.75%) REST
4 11 (10.78%) Node.js
5 7 (6.86%) Kafka
5 7 (6.86%) OpenID
5 7 (6.86%) Spring
5 7 (6.86%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.88%) YAML
7 5 (4.90%) pytest
7 5 (4.90%) Quarkus
8 4 (3.92%) LDAP
8 4 (3.92%) OAuth
9 3 (2.94%) CSS
9 3 (2.94%) HTML
9 3 (2.94%) OAuth2
9 3 (2.94%) RESTful
9 3 (2.94%) SAML
10 2 (1.96%) Pandas
10 2 (1.96%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.80%) AI Agents
2 10 (9.80%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.90%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.92%) PKI
7 3 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.94%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Android
3 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 39 (38.24%) DevOps
3 29 (28.43%) Identity Access Management
3 29 (28.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (23.53%) Cloud Security
4 24 (23.53%) Observability
5 23 (22.55%) Agile
5 23 (22.55%) AI
6 18 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 17 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (13.73%) Analytics
9 13 (12.75%) DevSecOps
9 13 (12.75%) Microservices
9 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
9 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
10 12 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
11 11 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.18%) Python
2 21 (20.59%) Java
3 15 (14.71%) Bash
4 14 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.75%) SQL
6 11 (10.78%) Go
7 7 (6.86%) Rust
8 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.90%) Groovy
10 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.94%) Cypher
11 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.94%) Scala
12 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.98%) C#
13 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (1.96%) Degree
2 2 (1.96%) IIBA
2 2 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.98%) CEH
3 1 (0.98%) CISA
3 1 (0.98%) CISM
3 1 (0.98%) CISSP
3 1 (0.98%) CRISC
3 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.94%) WCAG
2 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) GRC
2 2 (1.96%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (28.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.84%) Grafana
3 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.90%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (0.98%) Cilium
6 1 (0.98%) Istio
6 1 (0.98%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.98%) Packer
6 1 (0.98%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.94%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.94%) Mistral
2 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.96%) Databricks
3 2 (1.96%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.98%) Apple
4 1 (0.98%) Arista
4 1 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.98%) Checkmarx
4 1 (0.98%) Cisco
4 1 (0.98%) FIS
4 1 (0.98%) Juniper
4 1 (0.98%) OneLogin
4 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.98%) Splunk
4 1 (0.98%) TSYS
4 1 (0.98%) Workday