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 13 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
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 95 94
Rank change year-on-year -56 -1 +18
Permanent jobs citing Google 56 65 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.73% 2.44% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 3.28% 7.14% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 36 45 153
10th Percentile - £29,848 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,750 £36,919
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £48,507 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% +2.12% -9.52%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,749 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,835 £90,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -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 1,709 910 2,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.40% 34.11% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 745 601 2,199
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,507 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +2.12% +1.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,200 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.36% +10.00% -12.40%

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 13 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 13 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 - 3
Gloucestershire -22 12 £42,500 +1.19% 5
Bristol -46 11 £60,000 +9.15% 10
Wiltshire -5 5 £80,000 -
Dorset -13 4 £75,000 +194.12%
Somerset -31 3 £70,000 +55.56% 6
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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 5 (8.93%) WordPress
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
4 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.79%) Drupal
5 1 (1.79%) IIS
5 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) GCP
2 17 (30.36%) Google Workspace
3 11 (19.64%) AWS
4 10 (17.86%) Azure
5 7 (12.50%) GitHub
5 7 (12.50%) Google Analytics
6 6 (10.71%) Canva
6 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Run
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.57%) Google Sheets
8 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.57%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Broadband
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
1 4 (7.14%) VPN
2 2 (3.57%) AMQP
2 2 (3.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.36%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.57%) Big Data
4 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.57%) Redis
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.79%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.79%) Looker
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) JIRA
2 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.93%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.36%) CircleCI
4 3 (5.36%) GitLab
4 3 (5.36%) Gradle
4 3 (5.36%) JUnit
4 3 (5.36%) Maven
4 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.36%) TestNG
5 2 (3.57%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.57%) ESLint
5 2 (3.57%) Mockito
5 2 (3.57%) Selenium
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) Gatling
6 1 (1.79%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.79%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.79%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Marketing
2 7 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Advertising
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 4 (7.14%) Brand Awareness
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Games
6 2 (3.57%) Humanities
6 2 (3.57%) Social Science
6 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Electronics
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Account Manager
2 6 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Developer
2 6 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (8.93%) Desktop Support
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
4 4 (7.14%) Marketing Executive
4 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Customer Service Advisor
6 2 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Lecturer
6 2 (3.57%) Marketing Assistant
7 1 (1.79%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.50%) Node.js
2 6 (10.71%) React
3 5 (8.93%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) Spring
3 5 (8.93%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.14%) .NET
4 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.14%) OpenAPI
4 4 (7.14%) Swagger
5 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (5.36%) Leaflet
5 3 (5.36%) Playwright
5 3 (5.36%) Spring MVC
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.57%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) IoT
2 4 (7.14%) Podcast
2 4 (7.14%) Social Media
2 4 (7.14%) Video Editing
2 4 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) EPoS
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.79%) iPhone
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
3 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.57%) CentOS
4 2 (3.57%) Debian
4 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.79%) Android
5 1 (1.79%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.79%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) DevOps
2 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.86%) Agile
3 10 (17.86%) AI
4 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
5 8 (14.29%) Analytics
5 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
6 7 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (10.71%) Email Marketing
7 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.71%) Project Management
8 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Kanban
8 5 (8.93%) Marketing Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Scrum
8 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Python
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) Bash
6 3 (5.36%) C#
7 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.79%) C
8 1 (1.79%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) PhD
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.14%) NIST
3 3 (5.36%) JSP 440
4 2 (3.57%) GDPR
5 1 (1.79%) GRC
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (7.14%) Ansible
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.36%) Podman
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.36%) Puppet
5 2 (3.57%) Grafana
5 2 (3.57%) Packer
6 1 (1.79%) Argo
6 1 (1.79%) Consul
6 1 (1.79%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (44.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) Cisco
3 4 (7.14%) Adobe
3 4 (7.14%) HubSpot
3 4 (7.14%) Marketo
3 4 (7.14%) Pardot
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.57%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) New Relic
6 1 (1.79%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.79%) Pinterest
6 1 (1.79%) TOWER Software