Google Job Trends in the North West

Google
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 13 September 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 108 93
Rank change year-on-year -22 -15 -4
Permanent jobs citing Google 131 166 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.04% 3.22% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 4.76% 7.90% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 102 57 93
10th Percentile £30,750 £25,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% -10.77%

All Vendors
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,750 2,100 2,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.91% 40.69% 29.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 952 1,292
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £29,775
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Google job vacancy trend in the North West

Google
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in the North West

Google
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -21 95 £55,000 -1.60% 91
Cheshire +1 14 £30,000 -14.29% 14
Merseyside -52 11 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Lancashire - 10 £43,750 - 22
Cumbria -15 1 - -
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.29%) Apache
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.29%) WordPress
3 2 (1.53%) CMS
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (45.04%) GCP
2 43 (32.82%) AWS
3 32 (24.43%) Google Analytics
4 28 (21.37%) Azure
5 13 (9.92%) Google Ads
5 13 (9.92%) Google Workspace
5 13 (9.92%) SaaS
6 11 (8.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 10 (7.63%) Google Sheets
8 9 (6.87%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (6.11%) dbt
9 8 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.58%) Cloud Functions
10 6 (4.58%) GitHub
10 6 (4.58%) Serverless
11 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.82%) Google Tag Manager
11 5 (3.82%) Meta Ads
11 5 (3.82%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) Firewall
2 8 (6.11%) DNS
2 8 (6.11%) VPN
3 7 (5.34%) DHCP
4 6 (4.58%) Network Security
5 5 (3.82%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (3.82%) LAN
5 5 (3.82%) VLAN
6 4 (3.05%) SMS
7 3 (2.29%) AMQP
8 2 (1.53%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.21%) Looker
2 12 (9.16%) BigQuery
3 9 (6.87%) Power BI
4 7 (5.34%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.58%) Tableau
6 5 (3.82%) Big Data
6 5 (3.82%) MariaDB
6 5 (3.82%) MySQL
7 3 (2.29%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.29%) Redis
7 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.53%) Metadata
8 2 (1.53%) Mixpanel
8 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (6.87%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.05%) GitLab
4 2 (1.53%) JIRA
General
1 36 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.19%) Marketing
3 31 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Finance
4 11 (8.40%) Retail
5 7 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.82%) Advertising
7 5 (3.82%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Billing
8 4 (3.05%) Legal
9 3 (2.29%) Law
9 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.53%) Banking
10 2 (1.53%) French Language
10 2 (1.53%) Games
10 2 (1.53%) Publishing
10 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (20.61%) Senior
2 19 (14.50%) Analyst
3 17 (12.98%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) Developer
7 8 (6.11%) CloudOps Engineer
7 8 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.34%) Digital Analyst
8 7 (5.34%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 7 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) IT Support
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) SQL Analyst
9 6 (4.58%) Tableau Analyst
10 5 (3.82%) IT Support Manager
10 5 (3.82%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.37%) Terraform
2 6 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.82%) Laravel
3 5 (3.82%) REST
4 4 (3.05%) .NET
4 4 (3.05%) React
5 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.29%) gRPC
5 3 (2.29%) Material-UI
5 3 (2.29%) Node.js
5 3 (2.29%) OpenAPI
5 3 (2.29%) Spring
5 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.29%) Swagger
5 3 (2.29%) Vue
6 2 (1.53%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.53%) CSS
6 2 (1.53%) HTML
6 2 (1.53%) OAuth
6 2 (1.53%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.87%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (5.34%) Driving Licence
6 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.29%) Educational Technology
8 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.53%) CSOC
9 2 (1.53%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Life Science
9 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.92%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Mac OS
3 6 (4.58%) Windows
4 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.29%) CentOS
5 3 (2.29%) Debian
5 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.53%) Android
6 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.53%) Unix
6 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.95%) Analytics
2 29 (22.14%) CI/CD
2 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (20.61%) Decision-Making
4 24 (18.32%) Agile
4 24 (18.32%) AI
4 24 (18.32%) DevOps
4 24 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (16.79%) Digital Marketing
6 21 (16.03%) E-Commerce
7 20 (15.27%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (11.45%) Customer Experience
9 15 (11.45%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (11.45%) Software Engineering
10 14 (10.69%) Coaching
10 14 (10.69%) Dashboard Development
10 14 (10.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.48%) SQL
2 32 (24.43%) Python
3 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.34%) Bash
4 7 (5.34%) Go
5 5 (3.82%) Java
6 3 (2.29%) PHP
7 2 (1.53%) C#
7 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.53%) MCSE
7 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.29%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.29%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) UAG
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.34%) Grafana
2 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
3 6 (4.58%) Puppet
4 5 (3.82%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (3.05%) Istio
6 3 (2.29%) Ansible
6 3 (2.29%) linkerd
6 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.53%) AirWatch
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.53%) SCCM
7 2 (1.53%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Apple
3 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.58%) HubSpot
4 6 (4.58%) TikTok
5 5 (3.82%) Cisco
5 5 (3.82%) Okta
5 5 (3.82%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.82%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.05%) Adobe
7 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.29%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.53%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.53%) Amplitude
8 2 (1.53%) F5
8 2 (1.53%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.53%) Thales
8 2 (1.53%) VMware
9 1 (0.76%) Facebook