Google Job Trends in Wales

Google
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 17 May 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 53 88
Rank change year-on-year -29 +35 -20
Permanent jobs citing Google 9 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.53% 1.68% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.98% 4.09% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 17
10th Percentile - £51,375 £23,450
25th Percentile £31,500 £60,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £63,813 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.47% +27.63% +11.94%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,520 - £76,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -14.10%

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 454 220 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 26.82% 41.04% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 201 156 476
10th Percentile £24,733 £24,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,328 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,319 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +6.63% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,748
90th Percentile £76,201 £70,800 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,900 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.64% +10.00% -13.04%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Google job vacancy trend in Wales

Google
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google in Wales over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Google in Wales

Google
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Wales region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South Wales -31 4 £73,801 +9.13% 7
North Wales - 3 £33,000 -
Google
UK

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Figma
2 3 (33.33%) Google Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Google Sheets
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 1 (11.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Looker
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Redis
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Law
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Web Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Website Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Generation
2 3 (33.33%) Marketing Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Observability
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) SEO
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) Wireframes
3 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (22.22%) Major Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) Operational Stability
3 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Google Apps Script
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
1 2 (22.22%) SEPA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Opsgenie
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
1 3 (33.33%) Hotjar
1 3 (33.33%) HubSpot
2 2 (22.22%) GoldenSource
2 2 (22.22%) PagerDuty