Google Job Trends in Cardiff

Google
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Google.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 30 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Google 5 20 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.39% 5.43% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 4.42% 15.27% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 12
10th Percentile £49,125 - £40,750
25th Percentile £68,813 £23,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £27,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +168.37% -57.69% +58.54%
75th Percentile £78,790 £31,250 £72,433
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
South Wales median annual salary £73,801 £27,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +168.37% -57.69% +23.81%

All Vendors
Cardiff

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 113 131 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 31.48% 35.60% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 72 89 125
10th Percentile £31,250 £23,750 £33,426
25th Percentile £41,063 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,969 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.94% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60,625 £66,750 £70,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £74,500
South Wales median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% - +11.11%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Google job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Google
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in Cardiff over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in Cardiff

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) dbt
2 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Anthos
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Google Docs
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Google Sheets
4 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Personal Assistant
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Entry
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Xero