Google Job Trends in Durham

Google
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham 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 11 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 37 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Google 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.52% 1.42% 1.71%
As % of the Vendors category 3.95% 5.77% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +38.30%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £39,500 £69,308 £53,750
% change year-on-year -43.01% +28.95% +14.36%

All Vendors
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 76 52 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 38.38% 24.53% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 46 20 45
10th Percentile - £33,275 £29,200
25th Percentile - £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £37,500 £53,904 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £74,144 £64,100
North East median annual salary £33,500 £42,593 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.35% -5.35% +0.75%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Google job vacancy trend in Durham

Google
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Google

Google
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Durham region over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +7 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Google
North East

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot