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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 98 80
Rank change year-on-year -46 -18 +27
Permanent jobs citing Google 39 103 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.75% 2.54% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 2.89% 7.50% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 58 158
10th Percentile £30,938 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,938 £32,688 £42,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £73,125 £76,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £81,875 £82,375 £96,539
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -17.69% +1.24% -7.69%

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 1,348 1,373 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.83% 33.79% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 702 628 1,675
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,925 £29,350
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,473
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -6.09%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +18 11 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Bristol -52 7 £60,000 +23.69% 15
Somerset -19 6 £38,500 -44.00% 11
Dorset -1 5 £70,000 +91.78% 13
Wiltshire - 5 £87,500 - 9
Devon +4 2 £39,375 +12.45% 10
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 2 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
1 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) GCP
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Google Analytics
3 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Google Workspace
4 5 (12.82%) Google Ads
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Slack
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.56%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) AMQP
3 1 (2.56%) Broadband
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) VLAN
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Big Data
2 3 (7.69%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.13%) Looker
4 1 (2.56%) Airbyte
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (2.56%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) Gradle
2 3 (7.69%) JUnit
2 3 (7.69%) Maven
2 3 (7.69%) TestNG
3 2 (5.13%) Checkstyle
3 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.13%) ESLint
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Mockito
3 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Marketing
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Aeronautics
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Aviation
5 3 (7.69%) Avionics
5 3 (7.69%) Electronics
5 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Publishing
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Advertising
6 2 (5.13%) Humanities
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Social Science
7 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 5 (12.82%) Architect
1 5 (12.82%) GCP Architect
1 5 (12.82%) Senior
2 2 (5.13%) Administrator
2 2 (5.13%) Lecturer
2 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (5.13%) Marketing Executive
2 2 (5.13%) Marketing Manager
2 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) Business Development Manager
3 1 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (2.56%) Business Manager
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Marketing Manager
3 1 (2.56%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
3 1 (2.56%) Senior DBA
3 1 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (2.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) Spring
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.69%) OpenAPI
3 3 (7.69%) Spring MVC
3 3 (7.69%) Swagger
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) JWT
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
5 1 (2.56%) CSS
5 1 (2.56%) D3.js
5 1 (2.56%) HTML
5 1 (2.56%) Laravel
5 1 (2.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.56%) NumPy
5 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.56%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Podcast
2 3 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) Blog
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.56%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Social Media
4 1 (2.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) CentOS
2 1 (2.56%) Debian
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Analytics
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) AI
2 9 (23.08%) SEO
3 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.95%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Innovative Thinking
4 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 6 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
6 5 (12.82%) Project Management
7 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.26%) Content Strategy
7 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
7 4 (10.26%) Data Science
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Java
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) C
4 3 (7.69%) C++
4 3 (7.69%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (7.69%) MATLAB
4 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) Tcl
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) Degree
3 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.13%) PhD
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) CCNA
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) NCSC
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) KVM
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Grafana
6 1 (2.56%) Argo
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) Meraki
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.56%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.56%) Talend
4 1 (2.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Zoho