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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 112 108
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 -38
Permanent jobs citing Google 87 54 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.85% 1.55% 1.99%
As % of the Vendors category 4.15% 4.43% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 60 29 79
10th Percentile - £29,678 £27,700
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £36,650 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -2.27% -25.00%
75th Percentile £56,563 £45,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,250 £54,500 £82,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -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 2,095 1,219 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.45% 35.09% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 719 1,056
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,270
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £66,000 £58,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,220 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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
Bristol -36 23 £75,000 +102.70% 26
Cornwall - 21 £30,000 -
Gloucestershire -56 16 £52,500 +16.67% 13
Dorset +4 11 £42,500 +40.50% 16
Devon -20 6 £36,070 +3.06% 7
Wiltshire -25 5 £80,000 +118.28% 9
Somerset -35 3 £70,000 +64.71% 13
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 6 (6.90%) WordPress
2 5 (5.75%) Apache
2 5 (5.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.18%) Azure
2 24 (27.59%) GCP
3 23 (26.44%) Google Workspace
4 18 (20.69%) AWS
5 11 (12.64%) GitHub
6 10 (11.49%) Google Ads
7 7 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (8.05%) Google Analytics
8 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.90%) ChatGPT
8 6 (6.90%) SaaS
9 5 (5.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (5.75%) Azure AI
9 5 (5.75%) Google Play
9 5 (5.75%) Serverless
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.60%) Canva
10 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Advertising
10 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) AMQP
1 4 (4.60%) Internet
2 2 (2.30%) Broadband
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.15%) LAN
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) VoIP
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.75%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.60%) Big Data
5 4 (4.60%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (4.60%) Looker
5 4 (4.60%) Power BI
6 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.15%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Marketing
3 15 (17.24%) Retail
3 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.09%) Advertising
5 11 (12.64%) Finance
6 6 (6.90%) Games
6 6 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.60%) Brand Awareness
8 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.30%) Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Electronics
10 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (16.09%) Account Manager
2 13 (14.94%) Developer
3 11 (12.64%) .NET Developer
4 7 (8.05%) Marketing Manager
4 7 (8.05%) Senior
5 6 (6.90%) Performance Manager
5 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Marketing Executive
8 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Technologist
8 3 (3.45%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) Node.js
2 12 (13.79%) .NET
2 12 (13.79%) ASP.NET
3 11 (12.64%) .NET Core
3 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.64%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (12.64%) React
4 6 (6.90%) REST
4 6 (6.90%) RESTful
4 6 (6.90%) Terraform
4 6 (6.90%) Vue
5 5 (5.75%) Blazor
5 5 (5.75%) ML.NET
6 4 (4.60%) gRPC
6 4 (4.60%) Material-UI
6 4 (4.60%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.60%) Spring
6 4 (4.60%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.75%) iPhone
3 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) Social Media
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Podcast
4 4 (4.60%) Video Editing
4 4 (4.60%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Windows
3 5 (5.75%) Android
3 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.60%) CentOS
4 4 (4.60%) Debian
4 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.15%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.48%) AI
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.09%) Microservices
6 13 (14.94%) Analytical Thinking
6 13 (14.94%) Analytics
6 13 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (14.94%) SEO
6 13 (14.94%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (12.64%) DevOps
9 10 (11.49%) Containerisation
9 10 (11.49%) Digital Marketing
10 9 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.34%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (10.34%) Machine Learning
10 9 (10.34%) Marketing Automation
10 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) SQL
2 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.94%) C#
4 12 (13.79%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) Java
7 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.30%) C
8 2 (2.30%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) City & Guilds
5 3 (3.45%) HNC
6 1 (1.15%) CISM
6 1 (1.15%) CISSP
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.15%) GRC
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Ansible
2 4 (4.60%) Puppet
3 2 (2.30%) Podman
4 1 (1.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 51 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.24%) Cisco
3 9 (10.34%) HubSpot
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.60%) Adobe
5 4 (4.60%) Marketo
5 4 (4.60%) Pardot
5 4 (4.60%) SaltStack
5 4 (4.60%) TikTok
6 3 (3.45%) Facebook
6 3 (3.45%) SAP
7 2 (2.30%) Instagram
8 1 (1.15%) Apple
8 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Pinterest
8 1 (1.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) Veeam
8 1 (1.15%) VMware