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 12 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
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 97 93
Rank change year-on-year -54 -4 +24
Permanent jobs citing Google 44 75 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.69% 2.55% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.99% 7.11% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19 50 153
10th Percentile £31,125 £27,750 £29,335
25th Percentile £40,500 £35,875 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,507 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -11.81% -7.60%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £98,474 £91,934
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 1,473 1,055 2,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.25% 35.91% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 695 575 2,175
10th Percentile £27,425 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +5.26% +5.32%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £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 12 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 12 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 +16 14 £42,500 -2.86% 4
Bristol -49 12 £61,250 +6.63% 13
Wiltshire +3 6 £83,750 - 5
Dorset -14 4 £75,000 +105.48%
Somerset -27 3 - - 6
Devon - 2 £39,375 - 1
Cornwall - 1 - - 4
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 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) GCP
2 9 (20.45%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 9 (20.45%) Google Workspace
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.09%) GitHub
4 4 (9.09%) Google Ads
5 3 (6.82%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.55%) Slack
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.27%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) AMQP
3 1 (2.27%) Broadband
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) VLAN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Big Data
1 3 (6.82%) CockroachDB
2 1 (2.27%) Airbyte
2 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.27%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
2 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.27%) Looker
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) MySQL
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.27%) Redis
2 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) Gradle
3 3 (6.82%) JUnit
3 3 (6.82%) Maven
3 3 (6.82%) TestNG
4 2 (4.55%) Checkstyle
4 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) ESLint
4 2 (4.55%) Mockito
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.27%) Git
5 1 (2.27%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Marketing
4 3 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Advertising
5 2 (4.55%) Aeronautics
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Aviation
5 2 (4.55%) Avionics
5 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Humanities
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (4.55%) Social Science
6 1 (2.27%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Architect
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (11.36%) Desktop Support
2 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) GCP Architect
2 5 (11.36%) Senior
3 2 (4.55%) Customer Service Advisor
3 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
3 2 (4.55%) Developer
3 2 (4.55%) Lecturer
3 2 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing Executive
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing Manager
3 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Architect
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Architect
4 1 (2.27%) Python Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) REST
2 4 (9.09%) Spring
2 4 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.82%) OpenAPI
3 3 (6.82%) Spring MVC
3 3 (6.82%) Swagger
4 2 (4.55%) JWT
4 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 2 (4.55%) OAuth
4 2 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Security
5 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.27%) gRPC
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) PrimeNG
5 1 (2.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.09%) IoT
2 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (4.55%) Blog
4 2 (4.55%) NHS
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.27%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.27%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.27%) Podcast
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Social Media
5 1 (2.27%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) CentOS
2 1 (2.27%) Debian
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) DevOps
2 10 (22.73%) AI
2 10 (22.73%) Analytics
2 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (18.18%) Agile
4 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.64%) User Experience
6 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.36%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (11.36%) SEO
7 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.09%) ITIL
7 4 (9.09%) ITSM
7 4 (9.09%) Password Management
7 4 (9.09%) Project Management
7 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) SQL
4 5 (11.36%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) C
5 2 (4.55%) C++
5 2 (4.55%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) MATLAB
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Tcl
5 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) Degree
2 7 (15.91%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.55%) PhD
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) JSP 440
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (9.09%) Ansible
5 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.55%) Grafana
7 1 (2.27%) Argo
7 1 (2.27%) Istio
7 1 (2.27%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Splunk
3 1 (2.27%) Adobe
3 1 (2.27%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.27%) Meraki
3 1 (2.27%) New Relic
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.27%) SaltStack