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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 90 91
Rank change year-on-year -57 +1 +22
Permanent jobs citing Google 41 95 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.72% 2.63% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.90% 7.49% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18 52 161
10th Percentile £30,138 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,375 £32,500 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £46,754 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -22.08% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,875 £84,625 £96,539
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.00% -8.42%

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 1,412 1,269 2,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.86% 35.07% 35.82%
Number of salaries quoted 693 576 1,973
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,738
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.97%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,875 £72,433
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +11.65% -10.43%

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 February 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 February 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
Gloucestershire +10 13 £42,500 -2.86% 9
Bristol -49 9 £61,250 +26.27% 16
Wiltshire +10 6 £83,750 - 2
Dorset -5 4 £75,000 +105.48% 1
Somerset -21 4 £38,500 -9.41% 5
Devon - 2 £39,375 - 3
Cornwall - 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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) GCP
2 9 (21.95%) Google Workspace
3 7 (17.07%) AWS
4 6 (14.63%) Azure
5 5 (12.20%) Google Ads
6 4 (9.76%) Google Analytics
6 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.32%) GitHub
8 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.88%) Slack
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.44%) Cloud Run
9 1 (2.44%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (2.44%) MailChimp
9 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.44%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.44%) Serverless
9 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Firewall
2 3 (7.32%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) AMQP
3 1 (2.44%) Broadband
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) VLAN
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
3 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Big Data
2 3 (7.32%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.44%) Airbyte
3 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.44%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (2.44%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) Looker
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.44%) Redis
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) Gradle
2 3 (7.32%) JUnit
2 3 (7.32%) Maven
2 3 (7.32%) TestNG
3 2 (4.88%) Checkstyle
3 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.88%) ESLint
3 2 (4.88%) Mockito
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) Marketing
3 4 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Aeronautics
4 3 (7.32%) Aviation
4 3 (7.32%) Avionics
4 3 (7.32%) Electronics
4 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Advertising
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Humanities
5 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Social Science
6 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.44%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (2.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Architect
2 5 (12.20%) GCP Architect
2 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 3 (7.32%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (7.32%) Desktop Support
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Customer Service Advisor
4 2 (4.88%) Lecturer
4 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing Executive
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Lead
5 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) REST
2 4 (9.76%) Spring
2 4 (9.76%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.32%) OpenAPI
3 3 (7.32%) Spring MVC
3 3 (7.32%) Swagger
4 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.88%) JWT
4 2 (4.88%) OAuth
4 2 (4.88%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.88%) Spring Security
5 1 (2.44%) gRPC
5 1 (2.44%) Laravel
5 1 (2.44%) Material-UI
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) PrimeNG
5 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.44%) React
5 1 (2.44%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.32%) Private Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (4.88%) Blog
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
4 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.88%) NHS
4 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (4.88%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.44%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Podcast
5 1 (2.44%) Social Media
5 1 (2.44%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) CentOS
2 1 (2.44%) Debian
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Analytics
2 10 (24.39%) AI
2 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.95%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.07%) DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) Innovative Thinking
5 6 (14.63%) Cloud Security
5 6 (14.63%) Data Analytics
5 6 (14.63%) SEO
6 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
6 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.20%) Project Management
6 5 (12.20%) User Experience
7 4 (9.76%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.76%) Data Science
7 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) Java
3 5 (12.20%) Bash
3 5 (12.20%) SQL
4 3 (7.32%) C
4 3 (7.32%) C++
4 3 (7.32%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (7.32%) MATLAB
4 3 (7.32%) Tcl
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) Degree
3 7 (17.07%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.88%) PhD
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.07%) Terraform
3 4 (9.76%) Ansible
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) Argo
6 1 (2.44%) Istio
6 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Splunk
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe
3 1 (2.44%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.44%) Meraki
3 1 (2.44%) New Relic
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.44%) SaltStack