Google Job Trends in Edinburgh

Google
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 101 81 32
Rank change year-on-year -20 -49 +23
Permanent jobs citing Google 5 19 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.48% 1.68% 8.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 6.81% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 75
10th Percentile - £45,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £68,813 £45,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -7.90% +5.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,072 £91,934
90th Percentile - £83,000 £137,913
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.60% -23.08% +4.00%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 478 279 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 45.52% 24.62% 38.62%
Number of salaries quoted 172 112 332
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,754 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -37.22% -6.34% -0.79%
75th Percentile £55,625 £74,983 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,790 £88,375 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £41,374
% change year-on-year -32.00% +20.85% -24.77%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Google job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Google
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) dbt
2 4 (80.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social 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%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk