Google Job Trends in the South East

Google
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 45 138
Rank change year-on-year -122 +93 +19
Permanent jobs citing Google 139 397 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.95% 5.04% 1.91%
As % of the Vendors category 3.73% 12.31% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 90 79 197
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £23,300
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,754 £33,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -26.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,125 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% -17.69%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,729 3,225 6,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.60% 40.94% 37.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,256 1,751 4,453
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +10.00% -13.04%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Google job vacancy trend in the South East

Google
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in the South East

Google
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Thames Valley -61 64 £39,000 +30.00% 24
Surrey -10 31 £38,000 +16.92% 9
Hampshire -41 25 £55,250 +47.33% 20
Berkshire -4 23 £39,000 -43.27% 13
Buckinghamshire -56 21 £40,000 +23.08% 3
Oxfordshire -6 20 £38,508 +40.03% 8
Kent -25 9 £37,500 -14.29% 6
West Sussex -23 5 £30,000 - 4
East Sussex -53 5 £60,000 +50.00% 4
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (10.79%) CMS
2 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.88%) nginx
4 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.16%) WordPress
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.94%) GCP
2 42 (30.22%) Azure
3 41 (29.50%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (27.34%) Google Workspace
5 32 (23.02%) AWS
6 27 (19.42%) Google Analytics
7 14 (10.07%) Google Tag Manager
8 10 (7.19%) Google Data Studio
9 6 (4.32%) Google Ads
9 6 (4.32%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.16%) dbt
10 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.16%) GitHub
10 3 (2.16%) MailChimp
10 3 (2.16%) OCI
10 3 (2.16%) SaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.55%) Firewall
2 21 (15.11%) VPN
3 19 (13.67%) LAN
3 19 (13.67%) WAN
4 8 (5.76%) DHCP
4 8 (5.76%) DNS
4 8 (5.76%) Network Security
5 7 (5.04%) VoIP
6 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.16%) SSL
7 3 (2.16%) VLAN
7 3 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.44%) Broadband
8 2 (1.44%) HTTP
8 2 (1.44%) MQTT
9 1 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.51%) Looker
2 13 (9.35%) Metadata
2 13 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.63%) MySQL
3 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.91%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (4.32%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.88%) Power BI
8 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.88%) Redis
8 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.16%) Flink
10 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.72%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.32%) Git
2 4 (2.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.44%) GitLab
3 2 (1.44%) PHPUnit
3 2 (1.44%) Selenium
4 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
General
1 50 (35.97%) Analytical Skills
1 50 (35.97%) Social Skills
2 40 (28.78%) Marketing
3 14 (10.07%) Finance
4 12 (8.63%) Retail
5 9 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.76%) Automotive
6 8 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.32%) Electronics
8 6 (4.32%) Law
8 6 (4.32%) Local Government
9 5 (3.60%) Games
9 5 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.16%) Advertising
11 3 (2.16%) Aviation
11 3 (2.16%) Legal
12 2 (1.44%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 19 (13.67%) Analyst
2 18 (12.95%) IT Support
3 17 (12.23%) IT Engineer
3 17 (12.23%) Senior
4 16 (11.51%) Support Engineer
5 13 (9.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (8.63%) Developer
6 12 (8.63%) Support Analyst
7 9 (6.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Lead
9 7 (5.04%) Backend Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Senior Backend Developer
11 5 (3.60%) IT Analyst
11 5 (3.60%) IT Support Analyst
11 5 (3.60%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.60%) Senior PHP Developer
11 5 (3.60%) SEO Specialist
12 4 (2.88%) Performance Analyst
12 4 (2.88%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) .NET
2 5 (3.60%) HTML
2 5 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.88%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET
3 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (2.88%) CSS
3 4 (2.88%) Kafka
4 3 (2.16%) LAMP
4 3 (2.16%) Node.js
4 3 (2.16%) REST
5 2 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.44%) jQuery
5 2 (1.44%) SOAP
5 2 (1.44%) Spring
5 2 (1.44%) Vue
5 2 (1.44%) XHTML
5 2 (1.44%) Yocto
6 1 (0.72%) Flask
6 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.63%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.91%) Marketing Technology
3 10 (7.19%) Smartphone
4 9 (6.47%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.47%) Social Media
5 7 (5.04%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.32%) Blog
7 5 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (2.88%) Replication
8 4 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.16%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.44%) Smart Home
10 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.22%) Windows
2 13 (9.35%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.47%) Mac OS
3 9 (6.47%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.32%) Linux
5 4 (2.88%) Android
6 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.25%) Analytics
2 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (24.46%) AI
4 27 (19.42%) Digital Marketing
5 24 (17.27%) Agile
6 22 (15.83%) CRM
6 22 (15.83%) SEO
7 21 (15.11%) Customer Experience
8 19 (13.67%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.95%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (12.23%) Actionable Insight
10 17 (12.23%) B2B
11 16 (11.51%) Customer Service
12 15 (10.79%) Coaching
13 14 (10.07%) Data Protection
13 14 (10.07%) ITIL
13 14 (10.07%) Mentoring
13 14 (10.07%) Performance Metrics
14 13 (9.35%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.99%) SQL
2 16 (11.51%) Python
3 7 (5.04%) PHP
4 6 (4.32%) C#
5 5 (3.60%) Java
5 5 (3.60%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.16%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (21.58%) Degree
2 19 (13.67%) DBS Check
3 13 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.32%) CCNA
6 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.72%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CCSP
8 1 (0.72%) CEH
8 1 (0.72%) CISA
8 1 (0.72%) CISM
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.51%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.19%) GDPR
3 4 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.16%) PERC
4 3 (2.16%) QA
5 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.44%) JTAG
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.35%) Docker
3 12 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.04%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.88%) SmoothWall
4 3 (2.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (36.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.63%) VMware
3 10 (7.19%) Braze
4 8 (5.76%) Oracle
5 7 (5.04%) Cisco
6 6 (4.32%) Citrix
6 6 (4.32%) HubSpot
6 6 (4.32%) YouTube
7 5 (3.60%) Ahrefs
7 5 (3.60%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (2.88%) Apple
8 4 (2.88%) Meraki
8 4 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.16%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.16%) Confluent
9 3 (2.16%) Datto
9 3 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.16%) SonicWALL
9 3 (2.16%) Veeam
10 2 (1.44%) NVIDIA