Google Job Trends in Manchester

Google
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 December 2025, 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 86 68
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 +63
Permanent jobs citing Google 40 77 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.45% 2.80% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 4.93% 7.35% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 32 41 72
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,000 £42,439
25th Percentile £30,313 £48,750 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £52,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +13.02%
75th Percentile £64,688 £73,886 £84,056
90th Percentile £78,161 £93,250 £96,539
North West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -14.29% -11.80% +9.32%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 812 1,048 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 29.47% 38.05% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 526 449 630
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,437 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Google job vacancy trend in Manchester

Google
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Google in Manchester

Google
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Altrincham - 7 £62,500 - 1
Salford +4 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Google
North West

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (12.50%) WordPress
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) CMS
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (7.50%) Elementor
3 1 (2.50%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) GCP
3 12 (30.00%) AWS
4 8 (20.00%) Google Workspace
5 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (10.00%) Google Ads
6 4 (10.00%) Google Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) Serverless
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.50%) Google Sheets
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.50%) PaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.00%) Cloudflare
8 2 (5.00%) dbt
8 2 (5.00%) Google Docs
8 2 (5.00%) IaaS
8 2 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) AMQP
1 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Big Data
1 3 (7.50%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (7.50%) Redis
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.00%) Looker
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Marketing
3 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.50%) Brand Awareness
3 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) AWS Architect
1 5 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Senior
1 5 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
1 5 (12.50%) TOGAF Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Marketing Manager
3 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Developer
3 3 (7.50%) Digital Marketing Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) IT Support
3 3 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Sales Representative
3 3 (7.50%) Senior Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Node.js
1 5 (12.50%) React
2 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.50%) CSS
3 3 (7.50%) Google Maps API
3 3 (7.50%) gRPC
3 3 (7.50%) HTML
3 3 (7.50%) Material-UI
3 3 (7.50%) OpenAPI
3 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (7.50%) REST
3 3 (7.50%) Spring
3 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.50%) Swagger
4 2 (5.00%) Django
5 1 (2.50%) CSS3
5 1 (2.50%) Express.js
5 1 (2.50%) HTML5
5 1 (2.50%) Laravel
5 1 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Social Media
4 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
1 11 (27.50%) Windows Server
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (7.50%) CentOS
3 3 (7.50%) Debian
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Agile
1 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (20.00%) SEO
3 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
3 7 (17.50%) Technical Debt
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Microservices
5 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 4 (10.00%) Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) B2B
6 4 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (10.00%) Marketing Strategy
6 4 (10.00%) Open Source
6 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 3 (7.50%) Kanban
7 3 (7.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
1 3 (7.50%) HIPAA
1 3 (7.50%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Puppet
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Adobe
3 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.50%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.00%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.50%) Ahrefs
5 1 (2.50%) Hootsuite
5 1 (2.50%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.50%) Screaming Frog