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 25 December 2025, 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 91 69
Rank change year-on-year -48 -22 +32
Permanent jobs citing Google 40 105 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.79% 2.39% 4.20%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 7.11% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 21 63 158
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% -28.60% -2.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £76,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% -

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 1,425 1,477 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 28.15% 33.62% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 785 717 1,381
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £30,000
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 £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +16 9 £50,000 +14.29% 36
Bristol -48 8 £38,750 -26.19% 30
Wiltshire - 7 £36,650 - 17
Somerset -14 6 £38,500 +8.45% 19
Dorset 0 5 £52,500 +41.89% 18
Devon +7 2 £39,375 +12.45% 28
Cornwall - 1 - - 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 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Shopify
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) GCP
2 10 (25.00%) Google Analytics
3 7 (17.50%) Google Ads
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Google Workspace
5 5 (12.50%) Azure
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.50%) MailChimp
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.50%) Slack
7 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Broadband
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) VLAN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Tableau
3 2 (5.00%) CockroachDB
3 2 (5.00%) Looker
4 1 (2.50%) Airbyte
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.50%) Redis
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
1 2 (5.00%) Gradle
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.00%) JUnit
1 2 (5.00%) Maven
1 2 (5.00%) TestNG
2 1 (2.50%) Checkstyle
2 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.50%) ESLint
2 1 (2.50%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Mockito
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (25.00%) Marketing
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (12.50%) Publishing
4 5 (12.50%) Retail
5 4 (10.00%) Finance
6 3 (7.50%) Aeronautics
6 3 (7.50%) Aviation
6 3 (7.50%) Avionics
6 3 (7.50%) Electronics
6 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Advertising
7 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.50%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) GCP Architect
2 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 2 (5.00%) Information Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing Executive
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing Manager
4 2 (5.00%) PPC Specialist
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.00%) Senior Information Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) Business Development Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) Business Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Marketing Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (2.50%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.00%) Spring
2 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) D3.js
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) JWT
3 1 (2.50%) Laravel
3 1 (2.50%) NumPy
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) PrimeNG
3 1 (2.50%) RxJS
3 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Security
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (12.50%) Podcast
3 3 (7.50%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (5.00%) Blog
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.50%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (2.50%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Analytics
2 12 (30.00%) SEO
3 9 (22.50%) AI
4 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Innovative Thinking
4 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Content Strategy
5 6 (15.00%) Data Analytics
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.50%) Data Privacy
6 5 (12.50%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (10.00%) Data Science
7 4 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (10.00%) Pay per click
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) Java
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (7.50%) C
4 3 (7.50%) C++
4 3 (7.50%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (7.50%) MATLAB
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Tcl
5 2 (5.00%) R
6 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.50%) Go
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) Degree
3 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) KVM
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Argo
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Alteryx
3 2 (5.00%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) Meraki
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.50%) Talend
4 1 (2.50%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Zoho