Google Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 134 155
Rank change year-on-year +79 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Google 154 62 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.31% 1.43% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 10.26% 4.25% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 53 22 26
10th Percentile £27,250 - £27,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £25,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -21.88% -27.27%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,375 £98,750
South East median annual salary £33,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -33.00% +11.11% -18.18%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,501 1,460 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.99% 33.73% 43.60%
Number of salaries quoted 631 641 1,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,735
25th Percentile £33,625 £38,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,293
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.38% -0.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,435 £77,500
South East median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -4.76%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Google job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Google
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Google in the Thames Valley

Google
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. 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
Berkshire +72 83 £45,000 -28.00% 17
Buckinghamshire +46 52 £43,750 -28.57% 17
Oxfordshire +15 19 £32,000 +16.36% 6
Google
South East

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.25%) IIS
3 4 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.55%) MadCap Flare
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.65%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Shopify
2 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.86%) GCP
2 52 (33.77%) Azure
3 40 (25.97%) AWS
4 30 (19.48%) Vertex AI
5 24 (15.58%) Google Analytics
6 16 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (9.74%) Azure AI
8 13 (8.44%) Google Ads
9 9 (5.84%) GitHub
10 8 (5.19%) Google Workspace
11 7 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.55%) Google Docs
11 7 (4.55%) SaaS
12 4 (2.60%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.95%) Canva
14 2 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (1.30%) Contentsquare
14 2 (1.30%) dbt
14 2 (1.30%) Fivetran
14 2 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) DHCP
1 10 (6.49%) DNS
2 7 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.25%) Firewall
4 2 (1.30%) Wireless
5 1 (0.65%) LAN
5 1 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (16.88%) BigQuery
2 15 (9.74%) Data Mining
3 9 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.55%) Big Data
4 7 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 7 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.60%) Power BI
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.30%) Looker
7 2 (1.30%) Tableau
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.65%) Balsamiq
General
1 64 (41.56%) Law
1 64 (41.56%) Retail
2 52 (33.77%) Social Skills
3 45 (29.22%) Marketing
4 39 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (17.53%) Manufacturing
6 17 (11.04%) Legal
7 12 (7.79%) Finance
8 9 (5.84%) Catalan Language
9 6 (3.90%) Games
10 3 (1.95%) Electronics
10 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.30%) Advertising
11 2 (1.30%) Automotive
11 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.30%) French Language
11 2 (1.30%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.30%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (1.30%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (17.53%) Trainer
2 25 (16.23%) Senior
3 22 (14.29%) Architect
3 22 (14.29%) Lead
4 20 (12.99%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (12.99%) GCP Architect
4 20 (12.99%) Platform Architect
5 17 (11.04%) Product Manager
5 17 (11.04%) Support Engineer
6 15 (9.74%) Product Delivery Manager
7 14 (9.09%) IT Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) IT Support
8 13 (8.44%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Marketing Manager
10 7 (4.55%) Author
10 7 (4.55%) Data Analytics Director
10 7 (4.55%) Technical Author
11 6 (3.90%) Analyst
12 5 (3.25%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.19%) Kafka
2 5 (3.25%) .NET
2 5 (3.25%) .NET Framework
2 5 (3.25%) Entity Framework
2 5 (3.25%) WinForms
3 2 (1.30%) Hugging Face
3 2 (1.30%) NumPy
3 2 (1.30%) Pandas
3 2 (1.30%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.65%) CSS
4 1 (0.65%) GraalVM
4 1 (0.65%) HTML
4 1 (0.65%) Quarkus
4 1 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.65%) Spring
4 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.53%) Cloud Native
1 27 (17.53%) Robotics
2 15 (9.74%) AI Agents
2 15 (9.74%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.84%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.95%) Blog
5 3 (1.95%) Social Media
6 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.30%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.34%) Windows
2 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.95%) Linux
4 2 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.40%) AI
1 73 (47.40%) Machine Learning
2 71 (46.10%) Analytics
3 63 (40.91%) Data Science
3 63 (40.91%) Generative AI
3 63 (40.91%) LLM
4 61 (39.61%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (38.31%) Agile
6 52 (33.77%) Roadmaps
7 44 (28.57%) Data Privacy
8 42 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (25.32%) Use Case
10 35 (22.73%) DevOps
11 32 (20.78%) Product Management
12 29 (18.83%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (18.18%) Data Engineering
14 27 (17.53%) Red Team
15 25 (16.23%) B2B
16 23 (14.94%) Customer-Centricity
16 23 (14.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.13%) Python
2 21 (13.64%) Java
3 20 (12.99%) Go
4 19 (12.34%) SQL
5 8 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.25%) C#
6 5 (3.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 49 (31.82%) Degree
2 13 (8.44%) Master's Degree
3 12 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.84%) A+ Certification
5 7 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.55%) MCP
5 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.60%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.30%) CCSP
7 2 (1.30%) CEH
7 2 (1.30%) CISA
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.30%) CISM
7 2 (1.30%) CISSP
7 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) GDPR
2 7 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.95%) SLA
4 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.30%) GRC
4 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) QA
5 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.30%) SCCM
3 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 45 (29.22%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.13%) Adobe
3 27 (17.53%) Databricks
4 17 (11.04%) OpenAI
5 15 (9.74%) Foundry
6 7 (4.55%) Zoho
7 6 (3.90%) HubSpot
8 5 (3.25%) Sage
8 5 (3.25%) Xamarin
9 3 (1.95%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.30%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.30%) Apple
10 2 (1.30%) Hootsuite
10 2 (1.30%) Instagram
10 2 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.30%) Talend
10 2 (1.30%) Tenable
10 2 (1.30%) YouTube