Google Job Trends in Scotland

Google
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 82 111
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 -9
Permanent jobs citing Google 27 43 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.84% 2.23% 3.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 7.62% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 85
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,118 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% +15.51% -10.16%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,920 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,743 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.69% +10.44% -15.38%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,024 564 2,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 31.91% 29.21% 33.92%
Number of salaries quoted 321 320 802
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,598 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% - -11.50%
75th Percentile £74,674 £75,360 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Google job vacancy trend in Scotland

Google
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in Scotland

Google
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Edinburgh -13 21 £55,000 -26.54% 3
Clackmannanshire -1 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Glasgow -13 1 £55,000 - 2
Stirling - 1 - -
Google
UK

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) GCP
2 9 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Azure AI
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Run
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (11.11%) Apigee
4 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (11.11%) Dataform
4 3 (11.11%) dbt
4 3 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 3 (11.11%) Vertex AI
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Broadband
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (11.11%) Metadata
2 3 (11.11%) Redis
3 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Android Studio
2 1 (3.70%) Crashlytics
2 1 (3.70%) fastlane
2 1 (3.70%) Gradle
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (70.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (48.15%) Public Sector
3 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Process Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Product Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Project Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Django
1 3 (11.11%) LangChain
1 3 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (7.41%) Great Expectations
2 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (3.70%) Android SDK
3 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) Blazor
3 1 (3.70%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (3.70%) ML.NET
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) BBC
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Agile
2 17 (62.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 15 (55.56%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 11 (40.74%) Observability
5 10 (37.04%) Knowledge Transfer
5 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
6 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (25.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) AI
8 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
8 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
8 5 (18.52%) Prototyping
8 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.81%) LLM
10 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
10 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
1 3 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Pega
2 3 (11.11%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Apple
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Facebook
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Sony
3 1 (3.70%) Yahoo!