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 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 118 104
Rank change year-on-year -35 -14 -32
Permanent jobs citing Google 91 49 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.88% 1.39% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 4.32% 3.92% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 59 26 79
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £27,700
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,825 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% -1.80% -25.00%
75th Percentile £56,875 £47,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £55,625 £85,000
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 2,108 1,249 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.32% 35.37% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 723 1,052
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,290
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 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,720 £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 25 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 25 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 -33 24 £75,000 +102.70% 26
Cornwall - 20 £30,000 -
Gloucestershire -51 17 £52,500 +16.67% 13
Dorset +2 11 £42,500 +40.50% 20
Devon -19 7 £36,070 -12.56% 5
Wiltshire -21 7 £80,000 +118.28% 8
Somerset -35 3 £70,000 +64.71% 12
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 (6.59%) WordPress
2 5 (5.49%) Apache
2 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 25 (27.47%) GCP
3 22 (24.18%) Google Workspace
4 19 (20.88%) AWS
5 13 (14.29%) Google Ads
6 11 (12.09%) GitHub
7 8 (8.79%) Google Analytics
8 7 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.59%) ChatGPT
9 6 (6.59%) SaaS
10 5 (5.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (5.49%) Azure AI
10 5 (5.49%) Google Play
10 5 (5.49%) Google Tag Manager
10 5 (5.49%) Serverless
11 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Advertising
11 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Internet
2 4 (4.40%) AMQP
3 2 (2.20%) Broadband
4 1 (1.10%) Firewall
4 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.10%) LAN
4 1 (1.10%) Network Security
4 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.10%) VLAN
4 1 (1.10%) VoIP
4 1 (1.10%) WAN
4 1 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.69%) Looker
4 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.49%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.40%) Big Data
6 4 (4.40%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.40%) Power BI
7 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.10%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.10%) GitLab
4 1 (1.10%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Marketing
3 16 (17.58%) Social Skills
4 15 (16.48%) Advertising
4 15 (16.48%) Retail
5 11 (12.09%) Finance
6 6 (6.59%) Games
6 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.40%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.40%) Brand Awareness
8 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Electronics
10 1 (1.10%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.29%) Account Manager
1 13 (14.29%) Developer
2 11 (12.09%) .NET Developer
2 11 (12.09%) Marketing Manager
3 9 (9.89%) Performance Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Trainee
7 4 (4.40%) Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing Executive
8 3 (3.30%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) Node.js
2 12 (13.19%) .NET
2 12 (13.19%) ASP.NET
3 11 (12.09%) .NET Core
3 11 (12.09%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (12.09%) React
4 6 (6.59%) REST
4 6 (6.59%) RESTful
4 6 (6.59%) Terraform
4 6 (6.59%) Vue
5 5 (5.49%) Blazor
5 5 (5.49%) ML.NET
6 4 (4.40%) gRPC
6 4 (4.40%) Material-UI
6 4 (4.40%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (4.40%) Spring
6 4 (4.40%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.59%) Social Media
3 5 (5.49%) iPhone
3 5 (5.49%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.40%) Podcast
4 4 (4.40%) Video Editing
4 4 (4.40%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.10%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Android
3 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.40%) CentOS
4 4 (4.40%) Debian
4 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.10%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.10%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) AI
2 19 (20.88%) Agile
2 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (18.68%) SEO
4 15 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
5 14 (15.38%) Analytics
5 14 (15.38%) Microservices
6 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.19%) Collaborative Working
7 12 (13.19%) DevOps
8 11 (12.09%) Containerisation
8 11 (12.09%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (12.09%) Lead Generation
8 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.99%) CI/CD
9 10 (10.99%) CRM
9 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (10.99%) Marketing Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) SQL
2 15 (16.48%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.29%) C#
4 12 (13.19%) Python
5 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.40%) Java
6 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.20%) C
7 2 (2.20%) C++
8 1 (1.10%) Bash
8 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) City & Guilds
5 3 (3.30%) HNC
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.10%) GRC
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.10%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Puppet
3 2 (2.20%) Podman
4 1 (1.10%) Packer
Vendors
1 54 (59.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.38%) Cisco
3 9 (9.89%) HubSpot
4 7 (7.69%) TikTok
5 5 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.40%) Adobe
6 4 (4.40%) Marketo
6 4 (4.40%) Pardot
6 4 (4.40%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.30%) Facebook
7 3 (3.30%) SAP
8 2 (2.20%) Instagram
9 1 (1.10%) Apple
9 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.10%) OneTrust
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle
9 1 (1.10%) Pinterest
9 1 (1.10%) Splunk
9 1 (1.10%) Veeam
9 1 (1.10%) VMware