Google Job Trends in the South West

Google
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 2 May 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 90 90
Rank change year-on-year -64 0 +33
Permanent jobs citing Google 54 67 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.71% 2.50% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 3.20% 7.55% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 34 47 153
10th Percentile - £29,009 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,625 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -10.00% -6.62%
75th Percentile £53,938 £63,468 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £100,048 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,197 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.94% +9.45% -15.38%

All Vendors
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,686 887 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.32% 33.12% 32.08%
Number of salaries quoted 727 602 2,245
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,544 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,507 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +2.12% +5.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,360 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.50%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Google job vacancy trend in the South West

Google
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in the South West

Google
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Cornwall - 20 £30,000 - 1
Gloucestershire -20 11 £42,500 +2.41% 6
Bristol -52 10 £45,000 -7.23% 8
Wiltshire -8 5 £80,000 - 3
Dorset -17 4 £75,000 +194.12% 1
Somerset -34 4 £70,000 +55.56% 5
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 8 (14.81%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) WordPress
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.85%) Drupal
4 1 (1.85%) IIS
4 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) GCP
2 16 (29.63%) Google Workspace
3 11 (20.37%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure
4 8 (14.81%) Google Analytics
5 6 (11.11%) Canva
5 6 (11.11%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (5.56%) Cloud Run
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.70%) Google Sheets
8 2 (3.70%) Slack
9 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.85%) IaaS
9 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) VPN
2 4 (7.41%) Broadband
2 4 (7.41%) Firewall
3 2 (3.70%) SMS
4 1 (1.85%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.70%) Redis
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.85%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.85%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.85%) Looker
4 1 (1.85%) MySQL
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.56%) GitLab
4 3 (5.56%) Gradle
4 3 (5.56%) JUnit
4 3 (5.56%) Maven
4 3 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.56%) TestNG
5 2 (3.70%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.70%) ESLint
5 2 (3.70%) Mockito
5 2 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Gatling
6 1 (1.85%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.85%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.85%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Marketing
2 7 (12.96%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Advertising
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Brand Awareness
5 3 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Humanities
6 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.70%) Publishing
6 2 (3.70%) Social Science
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.85%) Games
7 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Account Manager
2 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (9.26%) Desktop Support
3 5 (9.26%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Marketing Executive
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Customer Service Advisor
6 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Lecturer
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing Assistant
7 1 (1.85%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) Node.js
2 4 (7.41%) React
2 4 (7.41%) REST
2 4 (7.41%) Spring
2 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.56%) Leaflet
3 3 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 3 (5.56%) Playwright
3 3 (5.56%) Spring MVC
3 3 (5.56%) Swagger
4 2 (3.70%) .NET
4 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.70%) JWT
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.70%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.85%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Podcast
2 4 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.41%) IoT
2 4 (7.41%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.41%) Social Media
2 4 (7.41%) Video Editing
2 4 (7.41%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (7.41%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) EPoS
4 2 (3.70%) NHS
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) CentOS
4 1 (1.85%) Debian
4 1 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.85%) ThreadX
4 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) DevOps
2 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (16.67%) Analytics
3 9 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.81%) Agile
4 8 (14.81%) AI
4 8 (14.81%) Containerisation
4 8 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.96%) Creative Thinking
5 7 (12.96%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.11%) Email Marketing
6 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (11.11%) Project Management
7 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (9.26%) Content Strategy
7 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (9.26%) Marketing Strategy
7 5 (9.26%) SEO
8 4 (7.41%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) Bash
3 5 (9.26%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) C
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) C++
5 1 (1.85%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) PHP
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) PhD
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.56%) JSP 440
2 3 (5.56%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) Terraform
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.56%) Podman
4 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.70%) Grafana
5 2 (3.70%) Packer
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Argo
6 1 (1.85%) Consul
6 1 (1.85%) Istio
6 1 (1.85%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Cisco
3 4 (7.41%) Adobe
3 4 (7.41%) HubSpot
3 4 (7.41%) Marketo
3 4 (7.41%) Pardot
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.70%) Splunk
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) New Relic
6 1 (1.85%) Pinterest
6 1 (1.85%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software