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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 126 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 -22 -32
Permanent jobs citing Google 98 42 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.93% 1.18% 1.93%
As % of the Vendors category 4.77% 3.27% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 61 23 79
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,700 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,650 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.96% -18.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £71,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £60,853
% change year-on-year +22.22% -26.05% -6.68%

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 2,056 1,285 1,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.49% 35.96% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 736 940
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,975
25th Percentile £31,500 £30,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £66,063 £57,634 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,450 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £51,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +8.74% -9.65% -0.87%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -22 29 £75,000 +102.70% 16
Gloucestershire -50 22 £52,500 +5.00% 16
Cornwall - 14 £30,000 - 1
Dorset +2 12 £42,500 +40.50% 16
Devon -17 8 £36,070 -24.06% 4
Wiltshire -22 8 £80,000 +118.28% 7
Somerset -29 3 £70,000 +81.82% 6
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 10 (10.20%) Apache
2 9 (9.18%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.14%) WordPress
4 3 (3.06%) Confluence
5 2 (2.04%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 29 (29.59%) GCP
3 23 (23.47%) AWS
4 21 (21.43%) Google Workspace
5 14 (14.29%) Google Ads
6 10 (10.20%) GitHub
7 9 (9.18%) Serverless
8 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (7.14%) Google Analytics
10 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) ChatGPT
10 6 (6.12%) Google Tag Manager
10 6 (6.12%) SaaS
11 5 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.10%) Azure AI
11 5 (5.10%) Google Play
11 5 (5.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Internet
2 5 (5.10%) AMQP
3 2 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.02%) Broadband
4 1 (1.02%) DMARC
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) FTP
4 1 (1.02%) LAN
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) SAN
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.02%) VLAN
4 1 (1.02%) VoIP
4 1 (1.02%) WAN
4 1 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) MongoDB
2 11 (11.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.16%) Looker
4 6 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.12%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.10%) Big Data
5 5 (5.10%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.08%) Power BI
6 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.06%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.06%) Flink
7 3 (3.06%) Metadata
8 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.02%) GitLab
3 1 (1.02%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (25.51%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Marketing
3 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 17 (17.35%) Finance
5 16 (16.33%) Retail
6 14 (14.29%) Advertising
7 8 (8.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.12%) Games
9 5 (5.10%) Aerospace
9 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.08%) Banking
10 4 (4.08%) Retail Banking
11 3 (3.06%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (1.02%) Electronics
13 1 (1.02%) Multimedia
13 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
13 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (12.24%) Developer
2 11 (11.22%) .NET Developer
2 11 (11.22%) Marketing Manager
3 10 (10.20%) Account Manager
3 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Performance Manager
5 7 (7.14%) Architect
5 7 (7.14%) Senior
6 6 (6.12%) Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) GCP Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Trainee
8 4 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Marketing Executive
9 3 (3.06%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.06%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.06%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) AngularJS
1 13 (13.27%) Node.js
2 12 (12.24%) .NET
2 12 (12.24%) ASP.NET
2 12 (12.24%) React
3 11 (11.22%) .NET Core
3 11 (11.22%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (8.16%) REST
5 7 (7.14%) Terraform
5 7 (7.14%) Vue
6 6 (6.12%) RESTful
7 5 (5.10%) Blazor
7 5 (5.10%) gRPC
7 5 (5.10%) Material-UI
7 5 (5.10%) ML.NET
7 5 (5.10%) OpenAPI
7 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.10%) Spring
7 5 (5.10%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.12%) Social Media
3 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.10%) iPhone
3 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.06%) Podcast
5 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Video Editing
5 3 (3.06%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.02%) CUDA
7 1 (1.02%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.27%) Linux
2 7 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Android
3 5 (5.10%) CentOS
3 5 (5.10%) Debian
3 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.10%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.02%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.02%) ThreadX
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) AI
2 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (19.39%) Agile
4 18 (18.37%) SEO
4 18 (18.37%) Software Engineering
5 15 (15.31%) Analytics
5 15 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (15.31%) Microservices
6 14 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (14.29%) DevOps
7 13 (13.27%) Analytical Thinking
7 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
8 12 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (11.22%) Cloud Security
9 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.22%) Lead Generation
9 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
10 10 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.20%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.43%) SQL
2 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
2 15 (15.31%) Python
3 13 (13.27%) C#
4 9 (9.18%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.14%) Java
6 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.06%) Scala
8 2 (2.04%) C
8 2 (2.04%) C++
8 2 (2.04%) Go
8 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.04%) Rust
9 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) Degree
4 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.10%) City & Guilds
5 5 (5.10%) HNC
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.02%) GRC
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.02%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.02%) Firmware
2 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.10%) Ansible
2 5 (5.10%) Puppet
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) Podman
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (55.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.22%) Cisco
3 8 (8.16%) HubSpot
4 7 (7.14%) TikTok
5 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.10%) SaltStack
5 5 (5.10%) SAP
6 3 (3.06%) Adobe
6 3 (3.06%) Facebook
6 3 (3.06%) Marketo
6 3 (3.06%) Pardot
7 2 (2.04%) Instagram
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle
7 2 (2.04%) Splunk
7 2 (2.04%) Veeam
7 2 (2.04%) VMware
8 1 (1.02%) Apple
8 1 (1.02%) Citrix
8 1 (1.02%) Dell
8 1 (1.02%) Proofpoint