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 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 155 85 96
Rank change year-on-year -70 +11 +33
Permanent jobs citing Google 52 74 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.73% 2.81% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 3.26% 8.58% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 28 51 148
10th Percentile £29,025 £29,848 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £45,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -15.09% -2.91%
75th Percentile £49,313 £63,187 £77,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £98,474 £91,934
England median annual salary £48,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.40% +13.64% -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 1,596 862 2,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.50% 32.76% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 719 593 2,271
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,507 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -0.50% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59,037 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -12.28%

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 11 April 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 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
Cornwall - 13 £30,000 - 4
Gloucestershire -14 12 £42,500 +2.41% 2
Bristol -49 10 £45,000 -7.23% 7
Wiltshire -10 8 £53,750 - 3
Dorset -20 4 £75,000 +105.48%
Somerset -29 3 - - 4
Devon -16 1 £31,250 -10.71% 1
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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Apache
2 2 (3.85%) WordPress
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) Drupal
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) GCP
2 14 (26.92%) Google Workspace
3 11 (21.15%) AWS
4 9 (17.31%) Azure
5 6 (11.54%) GitHub
5 6 (11.54%) Google Analytics
5 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.77%) Canva
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Run
7 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.85%) Google Ads
7 2 (3.85%) Google Sheets
7 2 (3.85%) Slack
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
1 5 (9.62%) VPN
2 3 (5.77%) Broadband
3 2 (3.85%) SMS
4 1 (1.92%) AMQP
4 1 (1.92%) VLAN
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) CockroachDB
1 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
1 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Redis
3 1 (1.92%) Airbyte
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.77%) GitLab
4 3 (5.77%) Gradle
4 3 (5.77%) JUnit
4 3 (5.77%) Maven
4 3 (5.77%) TestNG
5 2 (3.85%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.85%) ESLint
5 2 (3.85%) Mockito
5 2 (3.85%) Selenium
5 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.92%) Gatling
6 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Marketing
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Advertising
6 2 (3.85%) Brand Awareness
6 2 (3.85%) Humanities
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Social Science
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Games
7 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (13.46%) Account Manager
2 6 (11.54%) Architect
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support
4 4 (7.69%) Developer
4 4 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 2 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Customer Service Advisor
6 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Lecturer
6 2 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing Assistant
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing Executive
6 2 (3.85%) Security Architect
7 1 (1.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) Node.js
1 4 (7.69%) REST
1 4 (7.69%) Spring
1 4 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
2 3 (5.77%) React
2 3 (5.77%) Spring MVC
2 3 (5.77%) Swagger
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.85%) JWT
3 2 (3.85%) Leaflet
3 2 (3.85%) OAuth
3 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.92%) Laravel
4 1 (1.92%) Memcached
4 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) IoT
1 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 4 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.77%) Private Cloud
2 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) EPoS
3 2 (3.85%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) Podcast
3 2 (3.85%) Social Media
3 2 (3.85%) Video Editing
3 2 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Blog
4 1 (1.92%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.92%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Windows
3 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.92%) CentOS
4 1 (1.92%) Debian
4 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.92%) Unix
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) DevOps
2 8 (15.38%) AI
2 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 7 (13.46%) Agile
3 7 (13.46%) Analytics
3 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
3 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security
3 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
5 5 (9.62%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (9.62%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (9.62%) User Experience
6 4 (7.69%) Creative Thinking
6 4 (7.69%) Email Marketing
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.69%) ITIL
6 4 (7.69%) ITSM
6 4 (7.69%) Password Management
6 4 (7.69%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Bash
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) PhD
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) JSP 440
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.38%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Ansible
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.85%) Grafana
5 2 (3.85%) Packer
5 2 (3.85%) Podman
5 2 (3.85%) Puppet
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) Consul
6 1 (1.92%) Istio
6 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Cisco
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Adobe
4 2 (3.85%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.92%) Marketo
5 1 (1.92%) Meraki
5 1 (1.92%) New Relic
5 1 (1.92%) Pardot
5 1 (1.92%) Pinterest
5 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.92%) TOWER Software