Hybrid/Remote Google Job Trends

Google
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 71 100
Rank change year-on-year -38 +29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Google 407 543 918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 4.17% 2.90%
As % of the Vendors category 7.41% 9.88% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 243 333 767
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.00% -11.16%
75th Percentile £75,839 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,743 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.69% +10.44% -15.38%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,489 5,494 12,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.67% 42.23% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 3,824 10,155
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Google
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Google.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Google

Google
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Google over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Google salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 18 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (4.42%) WordPress
2 15 (3.69%) CMS
3 11 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.97%) Drupal
5 7 (1.72%) Confluence
6 6 (1.47%) Apache
6 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.74%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.25%) Moodle
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.44%) Adobe XD
3 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.72%) Trello
5 4 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.74%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.49%) Elementor
7 2 (0.49%) InDesign
8 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 11 (2.70%) Magento
2 2 (0.49%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 2 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (37.84%) GCP
2 135 (33.17%) AWS
3 132 (32.43%) Azure
4 107 (26.29%) Google Analytics
5 66 (16.22%) Google Workspace
6 57 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (8.60%) SaaS
8 33 (8.11%) Power Platform
9 32 (7.86%) Pulumi
10 24 (5.90%) Google Ads
11 19 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (4.67%) Figma
11 19 (4.67%) Google Tag Manager
12 17 (4.18%) Google Sheets
13 16 (3.93%) dbt
14 15 (3.69%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.69%) GitHub
15 14 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (3.19%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.83%) Broadband
2 31 (7.62%) TCP/IP
3 24 (5.90%) DNS
3 24 (5.90%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (5.65%) VoIP
5 21 (5.16%) DHCP
5 21 (5.16%) LAN
6 18 (4.42%) Firewall
6 18 (4.42%) WAN
7 10 (2.46%) Network Security
8 9 (2.21%) VPN
9 7 (1.72%) Internet
9 7 (1.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.98%) VLAN
11 3 (0.74%) SCCP
11 3 (0.74%) SSL
12 2 (0.49%) AMQP
12 2 (0.49%) Bluetooth
12 2 (0.49%) IPsec
12 2 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.30%) BigQuery
2 38 (9.34%) Metadata
3 34 (8.35%) NoSQL
4 31 (7.62%) Looker
4 31 (7.62%) Power BI
5 22 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.91%) RDBMS
7 18 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (4.18%) Tableau
9 15 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (3.44%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.44%) Redis
11 12 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (2.46%) SQL Server
13 8 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (1.97%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 3 (0.74%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (4.67%) Jaeger
2 17 (4.18%) Git
3 16 (3.93%) JIRA
4 14 (3.44%) Axure RP
4 14 (3.44%) Balsamiq
5 8 (1.97%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.97%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.72%) Storybook
7 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.25%) ERwin
8 1 (0.25%) GCC
8 1 (0.25%) Gradle
8 1 (0.25%) JMeter
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.25%) Subversion
8 1 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 144 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 99 (24.32%) Marketing
3 73 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 63 (15.48%) Finance
6 60 (14.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (7.62%) Legal
8 30 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (7.13%) Law
10 24 (5.90%) Retail
11 15 (3.69%) Advertising
12 12 (2.95%) Brand Awareness
13 10 (2.46%) Banking
14 9 (2.21%) Automotive
15 7 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.72%) Publishing
16 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.98%) Local Government
18 3 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 67 (16.46%) Senior
2 47 (11.55%) IT Support
3 44 (10.81%) Analyst
4 42 (10.32%) Support Engineer
5 41 (10.07%) IT Engineer
6 40 (9.83%) IT Support Engineer
7 35 (8.60%) Architect
8 32 (7.86%) Lead
9 25 (6.14%) Software Engineer
10 22 (5.41%) Senior Manager
11 20 (4.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 20 (4.91%) 2nd Line Support
11 20 (4.91%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 16 (3.93%) Consultant
12 16 (3.93%) Data Architect
13 15 (3.69%) Designer
13 15 (3.69%) Developer
13 15 (3.69%) Senior Architect
14 13 (3.19%) Performance Analyst
14 13 (3.19%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.37%) HTML
2 26 (6.39%) CSS
3 23 (5.65%) React
4 21 (5.16%) Node.js
5 19 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (4.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 17 (4.18%) Django
7 11 (2.70%) .NET
8 9 (2.21%) LangChain
9 8 (1.97%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.97%) ASP.NET
9 8 (1.97%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (1.97%) Leaflet
9 8 (1.97%) Playwright
9 8 (1.97%) React Native
9 8 (1.97%) RESTful
10 7 (1.72%) Express.js
10 7 (1.72%) OAuth
11 6 (1.47%) Entity Framework
11 6 (1.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.88%) Social Media
2 24 (5.90%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.65%) Algorithms
4 21 (5.16%) Blog
5 20 (4.91%) Cloud Native
6 19 (4.67%) Management Information System
7 18 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (3.69%) Public Cloud
9 13 (3.19%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.70%) Mobile App
10 11 (2.70%) Onboarding
10 11 (2.70%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.46%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.21%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.23%) Cyberattack
14 5 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.98%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 51 (12.53%) Windows
2 42 (10.32%) Linux
3 32 (7.86%) Unix
4 25 (6.14%) Windows 10
5 23 (5.65%) Mac OS
5 23 (5.65%) Windows Server
6 16 (3.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.72%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.23%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Debian
10 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (36.12%) Analytics
2 118 (28.99%) Agile
3 93 (22.85%) Mentoring
4 75 (18.43%) DevOps
5 73 (17.94%) AI
6 68 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (15.23%) SEO
8 56 (13.76%) Containerisation
8 56 (13.76%) Roadmaps
9 53 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (12.29%) CI/CD
11 48 (11.79%) User Experience
12 46 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 44 (10.81%) Coaching
13 44 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
14 41 (10.07%) Decision-Making
15 39 (9.58%) Customer Experience
16 38 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.16%) Python
2 56 (13.76%) SQL
3 52 (12.78%) JavaScript
4 43 (10.57%) Java
5 24 (5.90%) Go
6 19 (4.67%) Bash
7 15 (3.69%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.46%) C#
9 5 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.23%) R
10 3 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.49%) PHP
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 51 (12.53%) Degree
4 25 (6.14%) AWS Certification
5 21 (5.16%) CISSP
6 12 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.70%) DBS Check
8 10 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.46%) CISM
9 8 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.72%) CRISC
10 7 (1.72%) GSEC
10 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.23%) GIAC
11 5 (1.23%) ISACA
11 5 (1.23%) SANS
12 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.74%) ACCA
13 3 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.83%) Accessibility
2 22 (5.41%) GDPR
3 18 (4.42%) WCAG
4 16 (3.93%) NIST
5 15 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.46%) QA
7 7 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
7 7 (1.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (1.72%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.47%) GRC
8 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.49%) NCSC
11 2 (0.49%) SEPA
12 1 (0.25%) PMO
12 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (15.72%) Docker
2 38 (9.34%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (13.76%) Terraform
2 36 (8.85%) Kubernetes
3 31 (7.62%) Ansible
4 19 (4.67%) Argo
4 19 (4.67%) Kustomize
4 19 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (1.97%) Podman
7 6 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.74%) Puppet
9 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.49%) Grafana
10 2 (0.49%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.25%) Consul
11 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.25%) Packer
11 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 107 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.62%) Adobe
3 26 (6.39%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.46%) Pardot
4 10 (2.46%) Screaming Frog
5 9 (2.21%) Foundry
5 9 (2.21%) Hotjar
6 8 (1.97%) Apple
7 7 (1.72%) Ahrefs
7 7 (1.72%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.72%) Xero
8 6 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.47%) Oracle
8 6 (1.47%) SAP
8 6 (1.47%) VMware
8 6 (1.47%) YouTube
9 5 (1.23%) Cisco
9 5 (1.23%) Facebook
9 5 (1.23%) Okta
9 5 (1.23%) TikTok