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 25 October 2025, 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 102 74
Rank change year-on-year -19 -28 -12
Permanent jobs citing Google 45 116 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.22% 1.85% 3.97%
As % of the Vendors category 3.41% 6.54% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23 77 167
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,404 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £42,500 £50,985
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -16.64% -16.66%
75th Percentile £47,500 £76,250 £79,375
90th Percentile £71,500 £85,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 1,321 1,775 1,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.75% 28.27% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 756 879 1,415
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,458 £29,464
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.30% - +1.94%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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
Wiltshire +36 13 £36,650 -30.19% 16
Bristol -19 10 £36,000 -40.00% 23
Gloucestershire +30 8 £50,000 +14.29% 17
Somerset 0 5 £38,500 +73.03% 7
Devon +12 4 £39,375 +12.45% 2
Dorset 0 3 £35,000 -5.41% 4
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 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Shopify
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) GCP
2 10 (22.22%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Google Analytics
4 7 (15.56%) AWS
4 7 (15.56%) Google Ads
4 7 (15.56%) Google Workspace
4 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.22%) dbt
6 1 (2.22%) Figma
6 1 (2.22%) Fivetran
6 1 (2.22%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) WAN
2 5 (11.11%) LAN
2 5 (11.11%) VoIP
3 4 (8.89%) VPN
4 2 (4.44%) Firewall
5 1 (2.22%) Broadband
5 1 (2.22%) NAS
5 1 (2.22%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) SAN
5 1 (2.22%) VLAN
5 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 5 (11.11%) Tableau
3 3 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) Looker
4 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) Redis
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Crashlytics
2 1 (2.22%) fastlane
2 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JUnit
2 1 (2.22%) Mockito
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Marketing
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.78%) Retail
5 7 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (13.33%) Advertising
7 5 (11.11%) Finance
7 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
7 5 (11.11%) Publishing
8 3 (6.67%) Aeronautics
8 3 (6.67%) Aviation
8 3 (6.67%) Avionics
8 3 (6.67%) Electronics
8 3 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.22%) Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Law
9 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.22%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) IT Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) IT Support
2 5 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) Senior
2 5 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Architect
3 4 (8.89%) GCP Architect
3 4 (8.89%) Information Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Senior Information Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) PPC Specialist
5 2 (4.44%) E-Commerce Specialist
5 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Coordinator
6 1 (2.22%) Developer
6 1 (2.22%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.22%) CSS
1 1 (2.22%) D3.js
1 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.22%) gRPC
1 1 (2.22%) HTML
1 1 (2.22%) Kafka
1 1 (2.22%) Laravel
1 1 (2.22%) NumPy
1 1 (2.22%) Pandas
1 1 (2.22%) PrimeNG
1 1 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (2.22%) React
1 1 (2.22%) REST
1 1 (2.22%) RxJS
1 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.22%) Spring
1 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (11.11%) Smartphone
4 4 (8.89%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (8.89%) Podcast
5 3 (6.67%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.44%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
1 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 4 (8.89%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Analytics
2 10 (22.22%) AI
2 10 (22.22%) SEO
3 7 (15.56%) Agile
3 7 (15.56%) Innovative Thinking
3 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 6 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.33%) Time Management
4 6 (13.33%) Visualisation
5 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (11.11%) Case Management
5 5 (11.11%) Content Strategy
5 5 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 5 (11.11%) Data Science
5 5 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 5 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
5 5 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) Java
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) C++
3 4 (8.89%) R
4 3 (6.67%) C
4 3 (6.67%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) Tcl
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Go
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.22%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) Rust
6 1 (2.22%) Swift
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CCNA
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NCSC
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Hyper-V
1 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.67%) Docker
4 2 (4.44%) vSphere
5 1 (2.22%) KVM
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) Argo
5 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) VMware
3 5 (11.11%) Alteryx
3 5 (11.11%) Apple
3 5 (11.11%) LexisNexis
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco
4 1 (2.22%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.22%) Meraki
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Talend
4 1 (2.22%) Veeam
4 1 (2.22%) Zoho