Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 102 118
Rank change year-on-year +41 +16 -57
Permanent jobs citing Google 2,232 2,676 2,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 2.59% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 10.12% 7.31% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 659 1,645 1,732
10th Percentile £29,970 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £109,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £54,590
% change year-on-year - -12.99% +3.98%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,055 36,622 40,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.80% 35.46% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,937 24,877 23,438
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,863 £45,673 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.80% -8.66% +5.26%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK

Google
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google.

Salary trend for Google in the UK

Google
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 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
England +33 2,039 £60,000 +9.09% 5,799
UK excluding London +35 1,396 £47,500 - 5,704
Work from Home +75 1,257 £62,500 +13.64% 3,966
London +30 600 £65,500 -6.43% 944
South East +76 423 £33,000 -28.26% 1,728
Midlands +93 393 £40,000 -15.79% 991
North of England -32 376 £69,384 +54.19% 1,342
East Midlands +59 205 £41,750 -12.11% 391
North West -57 195 £71,991 +59.98% 684
West Midlands +90 188 £40,000 -5.88% 534
Yorkshire +17 161 £42,500 -5.56% 501
East of England -9 70 £34,500 +21.05% 763
South West -18 67 £48,507 +2.12% 595
Scotland +2 38 £74,870 +15.63% 245
North East +8 20 £69,384 +26.15% 160
Northern Ireland +20 17 - - 82
Wales +28 10 £60,000 +20.00% 144
Isle of Man +11 1 £34,500 -58.18% 2
Channel Islands -3 1 £45,000 -33.33% 19

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (4.75%) CMS
2 64 (2.87%) WordPress
3 51 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.39%) Confluence
5 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.85%) Drupal
7 12 (0.54%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.49%) WinCC
9 10 (0.45%) Apache
9 10 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 7 (0.31%) IBM Domino
12 6 (0.27%) nginx
12 6 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
12 6 (0.27%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.13%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.090%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 112 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 97 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (1.79%) Photoshop
4 30 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.90%) Adobe Premiere
6 11 (0.49%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.49%) EPLAN
7 8 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.36%) CapCut
7 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 7 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.22%) Trello
10 4 (0.18%) Notion
11 3 (0.13%) InDesign
11 3 (0.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 31 (1.39%) Shopify
2 11 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.45%) Magento
4 8 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.13%) CiviCRM
7 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.090%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.090%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.045%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.045%) Lorenzo
9 1 (0.045%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 591 (26.48%) AWS
2 462 (20.70%) GCP
3 437 (19.58%) Azure
4 350 (15.68%) Google Analytics
5 227 (10.17%) Pulumi
6 130 (5.82%) Google Ads
7 127 (5.69%) Google Workspace
8 104 (4.66%) Power Platform
9 81 (3.63%) SaaS
10 80 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
11 53 (2.37%) Google Sheets
12 41 (1.84%) Google Tag Manager
13 40 (1.79%) Canva
14 37 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
14 37 (1.66%) Facebook Ads
14 37 (1.66%) Serverless
14 37 (1.66%) Snowflake
15 34 (1.52%) GitHub
16 28 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
17 26 (1.16%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 216 (9.68%) Broadband
2 84 (3.76%) Firewall
3 63 (2.82%) DNS
4 52 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 44 (1.97%) DHCP
6 42 (1.88%) WAN
7 41 (1.84%) Ethernet
7 41 (1.84%) LAN
8 30 (1.34%) HTTP
8 30 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
10 25 (1.12%) VPN
11 23 (1.03%) VLAN
12 21 (0.94%) Network Security
13 16 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (0.67%) SMTP
15 13 (0.58%) SAN
15 13 (0.58%) Wireless
16 12 (0.54%) Internet
16 12 (0.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (13.22%) NoSQL
2 246 (11.02%) Relational Database
3 226 (10.13%) RDBMS
4 97 (4.35%) Power BI
5 68 (3.05%) BigQuery
6 66 (2.96%) Tableau
7 55 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 54 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (2.06%) Looker
10 38 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 38 (1.70%) MySQL
11 37 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 36 (1.61%) Big Data
12 36 (1.61%) Hadoop
13 27 (1.21%) Metadata
14 25 (1.12%) Data Mining
15 23 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
16 21 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (0.85%) SQL Server
18 18 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 215 (9.63%) Jaeger
2 68 (3.05%) JIRA
3 60 (2.69%) Git
4 28 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.36%) GitLab
6 8 (0.36%) Gradle
7 7 (0.31%) Maven
8 6 (0.27%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.27%) Storybook
9 5 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.22%) webpack
10 4 (0.18%) Bazaar
10 4 (0.18%) Postman
10 4 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.13%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.13%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 914 (40.95%) Retail
2 782 (35.04%) Manufacturing
3 543 (24.33%) Social Skills
4 389 (17.43%) Marketing
5 387 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
6 359 (16.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 287 (12.86%) Finance
8 199 (8.92%) Dutch Language
9 198 (8.87%) Finnish Language
10 196 (8.78%) Norwegian Language
11 160 (7.17%) Advertising
12 130 (5.82%) Law
13 105 (4.70%) Banking
14 60 (2.69%) Public Sector
15 56 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
16 49 (2.20%) Catalan Language
17 44 (1.97%) Legal
18 40 (1.79%) Games
19 37 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
20 34 (1.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 738 (33.06%) Trainer
2 352 (15.77%) Lead
3 215 (9.63%) Team Leader
4 207 (9.27%) Senior
5 134 (6.00%) Architect
6 99 (4.44%) Analyst
7 90 (4.03%) Developer
8 79 (3.54%) Software Engineer
9 64 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.02%) Support Engineer
11 41 (1.84%) IT Support
12 39 (1.75%) Data Engineer
13 38 (1.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (1.43%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (1.43%) SEO Specialist
15 31 (1.39%) IT Engineer
15 31 (1.39%) Senior Developer
16 27 (1.21%) Network Architect
17 25 (1.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 25 (1.12%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (9.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 91 (4.08%) HTML
4 71 (3.18%) CSS
5 65 (2.91%) React
6 63 (2.82%) Kafka
7 53 (2.37%) Node.js
7 53 (2.37%) REST
8 40 (1.79%) JSON
9 39 (1.75%) RESTful
10 29 (1.30%) Flask
11 27 (1.21%) Spring
12 24 (1.08%) FastAPI
13 22 (0.99%) Django
13 22 (0.99%) GraphQL
13 22 (0.99%) Spring Boot
14 21 (0.94%) AngularJS
15 20 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (0.90%) React Native
16 18 (0.81%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 739 (33.11%) Robotics
2 156 (6.99%) Social Media
3 89 (3.99%) Cloud Native
4 80 (3.58%) Algorithms
5 75 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 70 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 59 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 59 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.20%) Blog
9 38 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 36 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 35 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.03%) Smartphone
16 21 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.85%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 280 (12.54%) Linux
2 234 (10.48%) Unix
3 85 (3.81%) Windows
4 38 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.67%) Android
7 14 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.54%) Mac OS X
9 12 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.18%) VMS
11 2 (0.090%) CentOS
11 2 (0.090%) Rocky
11 2 (0.090%) Solaris
11 2 (0.090%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (47.89%) Problem-Solving
2 892 (39.96%) Artificial Intelligence
3 846 (37.90%) Machine Learning
4 774 (34.68%) Generative AI
5 769 (34.45%) LLM
6 735 (32.93%) Red Team
7 589 (26.39%) Data Privacy
8 536 (24.01%) Analytics
9 522 (23.39%) Agile
10 404 (18.10%) DevOps
11 396 (17.74%) Roadmaps
12 345 (15.46%) Mentoring
13 308 (13.80%) Containerisation
14 295 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 268 (12.01%) Performance Optimisation
16 262 (11.74%) High Availability
17 260 (11.65%) Continuous Integration
18 254 (11.38%) Product Management
19 244 (10.93%) Task Automation
20 238 (10.66%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 479 (21.46%) Python
2 343 (15.37%) Java
3 310 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 240 (10.75%) Go
5 232 (10.39%) Bash
6 227 (10.17%) SQL
7 55 (2.46%) C#
8 44 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 44 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.57%) Scala
10 26 (1.16%) PHP
11 13 (0.58%) R
12 12 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 9 (0.40%) C++
14 8 (0.36%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.27%) Ruby
17 5 (0.22%) VBA
18 4 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 991 (44.40%) Degree
2 269 (12.05%) AWS Certification
3 92 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 77 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 65 (2.91%) SC Cleared
6 61 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 59 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 38 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (1.57%) DBS Check
10 31 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.25%) HNC
12 16 (0.72%) A+ Certification
12 16 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.49%) HND
14 11 (0.49%) MCSE
15 10 (0.45%) CCSP
16 9 (0.40%) CISSP
17 8 (0.36%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.85%) GDPR
2 47 (2.11%) QA
3 43 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 26 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.03%) NIST
7 21 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 16 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.54%) SLA
11 10 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.40%) PERC
13 7 (0.31%) GLP
13 7 (0.31%) GMP
14 6 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.22%) WCAG
16 3 (0.13%) PMO
17 2 (0.090%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 377 (16.89%) Docker
2 69 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 24 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.45%) vSphere
7 7 (0.31%) HDFS
8 6 (0.27%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
8 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.090%) Firmware
9 2 (0.090%) NFS
9 2 (0.090%) SRDF
9 2 (0.090%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.090%) Xen
9 2 (0.090%) XenApp
9 2 (0.090%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 384 (17.20%) Kubernetes
2 368 (16.49%) Terraform
3 272 (12.19%) Ansible
4 236 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 223 (9.99%) Argo
6 217 (9.72%) Kustomize
7 29 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 22 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.85%) Grafana
10 15 (0.67%) Puppet
11 12 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.49%) Wonderware InTouch
13 10 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.31%) Nagios
14 7 (0.31%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.27%) Istio
15 6 (0.27%) vMotion
16 5 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 832 (37.28%) Adobe
2 765 (34.27%) Databricks
3 373 (16.71%) Microsoft
4 78 (3.49%) Facebook
5 72 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 64 (2.87%) VMware
7 61 (2.73%) SAP
8 60 (2.69%) Cisco
9 58 (2.60%) TikTok
10 52 (2.33%) Instagram
11 48 (2.15%) Apple
12 45 (2.02%) Ahrefs
13 40 (1.79%) ServiceNow
14 33 (1.48%) F5
15 31 (1.39%) Screaming Frog
16 30 (1.34%) CheckPoint
16 30 (1.34%) Pinterest
17 29 (1.30%) Oracle
18 28 (1.25%) Blue Coat
18 28 (1.25%) OpenAI