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 29 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
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 92 105
Rank change year-on-year -56 +13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Google 76 62 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.95% 2.08% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 4.08% 5.90% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 55 43 132
10th Percentile - £30,378 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,325 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £63,468 £65,472
90th Percentile £81,500 £101,623 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -19.23%

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 1,864 1,050 2,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.29% 35.19% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 932 668 2,130
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £27,050
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 29 June 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 29 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
Cornwall - 26 £30,000 - 1
Bristol -33 20 £75,000 +36.43% 2
Gloucestershire -27 18 £47,500 +11.76% 6
Wiltshire -25 5 £80,000 +118.28% 4
Dorset 0 3 £42,500 +66.67% 1
Somerset -42 2 £70,000 +55.56% 3
Devon -33 1 £32,500 -7.14%
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 (9.21%) Confluence
2 5 (6.58%) WordPress
3 4 (5.26%) Apache
4 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.32%) Drupal
5 1 (1.32%) IIS
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.53%) GCP
2 25 (32.89%) Google Workspace
3 21 (27.63%) Azure
4 14 (18.42%) AWS
5 10 (13.16%) GitHub
6 7 (9.21%) Google Analytics
7 6 (7.89%) Canva
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.26%) Azure AI
9 4 (5.26%) Google Play
9 4 (5.26%) Serverless
10 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.95%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (3.95%) Cloud Run
10 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 4 (5.26%) VPN
3 3 (3.95%) AMQP
3 3 (3.95%) Broadband
4 2 (2.63%) SMS
5 1 (1.32%) Internet
5 1 (1.32%) LAN
5 1 (1.32%) Network Security
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) VLAN
5 1 (1.32%) VoIP
5 1 (1.32%) WAN
5 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) MongoDB
2 10 (13.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.95%) Big Data
4 3 (3.95%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (3.95%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.32%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.32%) Looker
5 1 (1.32%) Power BI
5 1 (1.32%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.95%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) Checkstyle
5 1 (1.32%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.32%) Gatling
5 1 (1.32%) GitLab
5 1 (1.32%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.32%) Gradle
5 1 (1.32%) JMeter
5 1 (1.32%) JUnit
5 1 (1.32%) Maven
5 1 (1.32%) Mockito
5 1 (1.32%) Selenium
5 1 (1.32%) TestNG
5 1 (1.32%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.53%) Finance
2 8 (10.53%) Marketing
2 8 (10.53%) Retail
3 7 (9.21%) Advertising
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Games
4 6 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Brand Awareness
6 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.32%) Electronics
8 1 (1.32%) Humanities
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
8 1 (1.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Account Manager
2 12 (15.79%) Developer
3 10 (13.16%) .NET Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 5 (6.58%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.58%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Marketing Executive
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Technologist
9 2 (2.63%) Backend Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Customer Service Advisor
9 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.79%) Node.js
2 11 (14.47%) .NET
3 10 (13.16%) .NET Core
3 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET
3 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET Core
3 10 (13.16%) React
4 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.89%) Vue
6 4 (5.26%) Blazor
6 4 (5.26%) ML.NET
6 4 (5.26%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.26%) REST
6 4 (5.26%) RESTful
6 4 (5.26%) Spring
6 4 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.26%) Swagger
7 3 (3.95%) gRPC
7 3 (3.95%) Java RMI
7 3 (3.95%) Material-UI
7 3 (3.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.26%) IoT
3 4 (5.26%) iPhone
3 4 (5.26%) Podcast
3 4 (5.26%) Social Media
3 4 (5.26%) Video Editing
3 4 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (5.26%) Web Conferencing
4 2 (2.63%) EPoS
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Android
3 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.95%) CentOS
4 3 (3.95%) Debian
4 3 (3.95%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.32%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.32%) ThreadX
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.74%) AI
1 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
3 13 (17.11%) Agile
3 13 (17.11%) DevOps
4 10 (13.16%) Microservices
5 8 (10.53%) Analytics
5 8 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (9.21%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.21%) Creative Thinking
7 6 (7.89%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (7.89%) Email Marketing
7 6 (7.89%) Kanban
7 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
7 6 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) C#
2 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.21%) Python
4 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.26%) Java
6 2 (2.63%) Bash
6 2 (2.63%) C
7 1 (1.32%) C++
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.32%) PHP
7 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CISM
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) PhD
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (6.58%) NIST
2 3 (3.95%) JSP 440
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) GRC
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.32%) Firmware
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.26%) Puppet
4 3 (3.95%) Podman
5 2 (2.63%) Packer
6 1 (1.32%) Consul
6 1 (1.32%) Grafana
6 1 (1.32%) Istio
6 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.37%) Cisco
3 4 (5.26%) Adobe
3 4 (5.26%) HubSpot
3 4 (5.26%) Marketo
3 4 (5.26%) Pardot
3 4 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.95%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.32%) Apple
5 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.32%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) Pinterest
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk
5 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.32%) Veeam
5 1 (1.32%) VMware