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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 94 91
Rank change year-on-year -54 -3 +28
Permanent jobs citing Google 45 74 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.70% 2.63% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 3.03% 7.40% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 23 50 152
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,425 £29,168
25th Percentile £30,938 £37,688 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,975 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% -3.68% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £98,867 £91,934
England median annual salary £48,105 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.03% +13.64% -17.65%

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 1,486 1,000 2,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.12% 35.51% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 693 577 2,185
10th Percentile £27,275 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.12%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,300 £72,433
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +12 12 £42,500 - 3
Bristol -54 9 £45,000 -21.66% 9
Wiltshire +2 8 £80,000 - 5
Cornwall - 5 £30,000 - 4
Dorset -17 4 £75,000 +105.48%
Somerset -20 3 - - 6
Devon - 2 £39,375 - 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 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) GCP
2 10 (22.22%) AWS
2 10 (22.22%) Google Workspace
3 9 (20.00%) Azure
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub
5 4 (8.89%) Google Ads
5 4 (8.89%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.44%) Slack
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.22%) Canva
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.22%) Google Sheets
7 1 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.22%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (4.44%) Broadband
4 1 (2.22%) AMQP
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) SMS
4 1 (2.22%) VLAN
4 1 (2.22%) WAN
4 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Airbyte
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (2.22%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) Looker
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 3 (6.67%) Gradle
3 3 (6.67%) JUnit
3 3 (6.67%) Maven
3 3 (6.67%) TestNG
4 2 (4.44%) Checkstyle
4 2 (4.44%) ESLint
4 2 (4.44%) Mockito
4 2 (4.44%) Selenium
4 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Advertising
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Humanities
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Social Science
5 1 (2.22%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Publishing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) GCP Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Account Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Customer Service Advisor
6 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lecturer
6 2 (4.44%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing Executive
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.22%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) REST
1 4 (8.89%) Spring
1 4 (8.89%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.67%) Node.js
2 3 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 3 (6.67%) Spring MVC
2 3 (6.67%) Swagger
3 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.44%) JWT
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth
3 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.44%) React
3 2 (4.44%) Spring Security
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) gRPC
4 1 (2.22%) Laravel
4 1 (2.22%) Leaflet
4 1 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.89%) IoT
1 4 (8.89%) Mobile App
1 4 (8.89%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Blog
3 2 (4.44%) NHS
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.22%) EPoS
4 1 (2.22%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.22%) Podcast
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) Social Media
4 1 (2.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) CentOS
3 1 (2.22%) Debian
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) DevOps
2 7 (15.56%) AI
2 7 (15.56%) Cloud Security
2 7 (15.56%) Containerisation
3 6 (13.33%) Agile
3 6 (13.33%) Analytics
3 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (13.33%) User Experience
4 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 5 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 5 (11.11%) SEO
5 4 (8.89%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (8.89%) ITIL
5 4 (8.89%) ITSM
5 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.89%) Password Management
5 4 (8.89%) Process Improvement
6 3 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) Python
2 7 (15.56%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) Bash
3 5 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) PhD
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) JSP 440
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.56%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.89%) Ansible
5 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
7 1 (2.22%) Argo
7 1 (2.22%) Istio
7 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.22%) Podman
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Cisco
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe
3 1 (2.22%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.22%) Meraki
3 1 (2.22%) New Relic
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.22%) SaltStack