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 4 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 109 100
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 -25
Permanent jobs citing Google 84 54 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.88% 1.58% 2.02%
As % of the Vendors category 4.15% 4.54% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 65 35 82
10th Percentile - £29,848 £28,064
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% - -23.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £46,875 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £68,000 £84,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -17.39% -11.54%

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 2,023 1,190 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 21.12% 34.81% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,147 721 1,213
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 4 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 4 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
Cornwall - 26 £30,000 -
Bristol -31 22 £75,000 +78.41% 37
Gloucestershire -48 15 £52,500 +21.39% 32
Dorset -1 9 £42,500 +40.50% 13
Wiltshire -18 6 £67,500 +84.17% 6
Devon -25 3 £36,070 +3.06% 7
Somerset -44 1 £70,000 +55.56% 11
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 7 (8.33%) WordPress
2 5 (5.95%) Apache
3 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.38%) Confluence
5 1 (1.19%) CMS
5 1 (1.19%) Drupal
5 1 (1.19%) IIS
5 1 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.76%) Google Workspace
2 23 (27.38%) Azure
3 22 (26.19%) GCP
4 13 (15.48%) AWS
5 12 (14.29%) GitHub
6 9 (10.71%) Google Analytics
7 8 (9.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.14%) Canva
9 6 (7.14%) Google Ads
9 6 (7.14%) SaaS
10 5 (5.95%) Azure AI
10 5 (5.95%) Google Play
11 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.76%) ChatGPT
11 4 (4.76%) Google Sheets
11 4 (4.76%) Serverless
12 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) AMQP
1 3 (3.57%) Broadband
2 2 (2.38%) SMS
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) Internet
3 1 (1.19%) LAN
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.19%) VLAN
3 1 (1.19%) VoIP
3 1 (1.19%) WAN
3 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.86%) MongoDB
2 12 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.57%) Big Data
5 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.57%) Power BI
5 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.38%) Looker
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.19%) Redis
7 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) CircleCI
2 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 3 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.19%) Gatling
4 1 (1.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.19%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.19%) JMeter
4 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (17.86%) Marketing
2 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
4 12 (14.29%) Advertising
4 12 (14.29%) Retail
5 9 (10.71%) Finance
6 7 (8.33%) Games
7 6 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (5.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (4.76%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (3.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.19%) Electronics
12 1 (1.19%) Multimedia
12 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (20.24%) Account Manager
2 15 (17.86%) Developer
3 12 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 5 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (5.95%) Senior
4 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Marketing Executive
6 3 (3.57%) Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (3.57%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Technologist
7 2 (2.38%) Backend Developer
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.38%) Lead
7 2 (2.38%) Paid Search Manager
7 2 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.67%) .NET
1 14 (16.67%) Node.js
2 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET
3 12 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 12 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
4 11 (13.10%) AngularJS
4 11 (13.10%) React
5 7 (8.33%) Vue
6 6 (7.14%) RESTful
6 6 (7.14%) Terraform
7 5 (5.95%) Blazor
7 5 (5.95%) ML.NET
8 3 (3.57%) gRPC
8 3 (3.57%) Leaflet
8 3 (3.57%) Material-UI
8 3 (3.57%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.57%) Playwright
8 3 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.57%) REST
8 3 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) iPhone
2 5 (5.95%) Mobile App
2 5 (5.95%) Social Media
3 4 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.76%) Podcast
3 4 (4.76%) Video Editing
3 4 (4.76%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.38%) EPoS
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.90%) Windows
2 8 (9.52%) Linux
3 5 (5.95%) Android
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.57%) CentOS
5 3 (3.57%) Debian
5 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (1.19%) ThreadX
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) AI
2 18 (21.43%) Agile
3 15 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (16.67%) Analytics
4 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
6 12 (14.29%) Microservices
7 10 (11.90%) DevOps
7 10 (11.90%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.71%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (10.71%) Machine Learning
8 9 (10.71%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.71%) SEO
9 8 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.52%) Scrum
10 7 (8.33%) Data Analysis
10 7 (8.33%) Kanban
10 7 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.19%) SQL
2 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.67%) C#
4 10 (11.90%) Python
5 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.57%) Java
7 2 (2.38%) C
7 2 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
2 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) City & Guilds
5 2 (2.38%) HNC
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CISM
6 1 (1.19%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.19%) GRC
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
2 4 (4.76%) Puppet
3 3 (3.57%) Podman
4 2 (2.38%) Packer
5 1 (1.19%) Consul
5 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.43%) Cisco
3 7 (8.33%) HubSpot
4 4 (4.76%) Adobe
4 4 (4.76%) Marketo
4 4 (4.76%) Pardot
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.57%) Facebook
5 3 (3.57%) SaltStack
6 2 (2.38%) Instagram
6 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) TikTok
7 1 (1.19%) Apple
7 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.19%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.19%) Pinterest
7 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.19%) Veeam
7 1 (1.19%) VMware