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 16 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 112 105
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -32
Permanent jobs citing Google 87 58 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.87% 1.66% 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 4.18% 4.75% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 64 33 80
10th Percentile - £29,848 £27,725
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £37,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -1.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £56,563 £45,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £81,750 £52,500 £85,250
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 2,082 1,222 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.76% 34.96% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 724 1,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,020 £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 16 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 16 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 - 23 £30,000 -
Bristol -35 22 £75,000 +102.70% 57
Gloucestershire -54 15 £52,500 +21.39% 43
Dorset +4 11 £42,500 +40.50% 27
Wiltshire -18 6 £80,000 +118.28% 10
Devon -23 5 £36,070 +3.06% 8
Somerset -37 3 £70,000 +55.56% 14
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 (8.05%) WordPress
2 6 (6.90%) Apache
3 5 (5.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.45%) Confluence
5 1 (1.15%) CMS
5 1 (1.15%) Drupal
5 1 (1.15%) IIS
5 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) Azure
2 24 (27.59%) GCP
2 24 (27.59%) Google Workspace
3 17 (19.54%) AWS
4 12 (13.79%) GitHub
5 8 (9.20%) Google Ads
5 8 (9.20%) Google Analytics
6 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (6.90%) ChatGPT
7 6 (6.90%) SaaS
8 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.75%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.75%) Azure AI
8 5 (5.75%) Canva
8 5 (5.75%) Google Play
8 5 (5.75%) Serverless
9 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) AMQP
2 2 (2.30%) Broadband
2 2 (2.30%) Internet
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.15%) LAN
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SMS
3 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) VoIP
3 1 (1.15%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.75%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.60%) Big Data
5 4 (4.60%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (4.60%) Power BI
5 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.30%) Looker
7 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
8 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.15%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.15%) Gatling
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.15%) JMeter
4 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Marketing
3 15 (17.24%) Retail
3 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.09%) Advertising
5 12 (13.79%) Finance
6 6 (6.90%) Games
6 6 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.60%) Brand Awareness
8 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.30%) Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Electronics
10 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.15%) Publishing
10 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Account Manager
2 13 (14.94%) Developer
3 11 (12.64%) .NET Developer
4 7 (8.05%) Senior
5 6 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Architect
6 5 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Marketing Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Marketing Executive
7 4 (4.60%) Performance Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Technologist
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) .NET
1 13 (14.94%) Node.js
2 12 (13.79%) ASP.NET
3 11 (12.64%) .NET Core
3 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
3 11 (12.64%) ASP.NET Core
3 11 (12.64%) React
4 7 (8.05%) Terraform
5 6 (6.90%) REST
5 6 (6.90%) RESTful
5 6 (6.90%) Vue
6 5 (5.75%) Blazor
6 5 (5.75%) ML.NET
7 4 (4.60%) gRPC
7 4 (4.60%) Material-UI
7 4 (4.60%) OpenAPI
7 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.60%) Spring
7 4 (4.60%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.75%) iPhone
3 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) Social Media
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Podcast
4 4 (4.60%) Video Editing
4 4 (4.60%) Web Conferencing
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.15%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.15%) EPoS
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Linux
2 10 (11.49%) Windows
3 5 (5.75%) Android
3 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.60%) CentOS
4 4 (4.60%) Debian
4 4 (4.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.15%) ThreadX
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) AI
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.09%) Analytics
5 14 (16.09%) Microservices
5 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
6 13 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (12.64%) Analytical Thinking
8 11 (12.64%) Digital Marketing
8 11 (12.64%) SEO
9 10 (11.49%) DevOps
10 9 (10.34%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.34%) Machine Learning
10 9 (10.34%) Marketing Automation
10 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.20%) Containerisation
11 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.29%) SQL
2 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.94%) C#
4 12 (13.79%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) Java
7 2 (2.30%) C
7 2 (2.30%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Bash
8 1 (1.15%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
2 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) City & Guilds
5 3 (3.45%) HNC
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.30%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.15%) GRC
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (12.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Ansible
2 5 (5.75%) Puppet
3 2 (2.30%) Packer
3 2 (2.30%) Podman
4 1 (1.15%) Consul
4 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (56.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.39%) Cisco
3 9 (10.34%) HubSpot
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.60%) Adobe
5 4 (4.60%) Marketo
5 4 (4.60%) Pardot
5 4 (4.60%) SaltStack
6 3 (3.45%) Facebook
6 3 (3.45%) SAP
7 2 (2.30%) Instagram
7 2 (2.30%) TikTok
8 1 (1.15%) Apple
8 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.15%) OneTrust
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Pinterest
8 1 (1.15%) Splunk
8 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.15%) VMware