Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Google over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Google.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 -53 +25
Permanent jobs citing Google 2,683 3,075 8,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.71% 3.03% 5.37%
As % of the Vendors category 7.35% 7.24% 13.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,676 1,809 2,866
10th Percentile £26,400 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £43,162 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +2.45% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,590 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.99% +3.98% +10.53%

All Vendors
UK

Google is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,515 42,452 61,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.84% 41.89% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25,000 24,240 32,762
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +17 2,349 £55,000 -15.38% 906
UK excluding London +51 1,808 £47,500 -12.99% 498
Work from Home -9 950 £57,500 -10.20% 453
London -11 775 £70,000 -6.67% 434
North of England +50 555 £47,500 -17.83% 163
South East +18 337 £45,000 -10.00% 114
North West +45 276 £50,000 -13.51% 98
South West +26 262 £47,500 -9.52% 73
Midlands +46 245 £47,500 -5.00% 74
Yorkshire +47 219 £46,899 -21.21% 60
Scotland +9 202 £69,500 +16.76% 25
East of England +90 133 £28,500 -49.33% 41
West Midlands -3 126 £42,500 -15.00% 37
East Midlands +75 116 £47,500 +11.76% 37
North East +37 60 £52,500 +11.70% 7
Northern Ireland +43 37 £60,000 +51.90% 8
Wales -6 31 £50,000 +11.94% 8
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 3

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
1 159 (5.93%) Apache
2 136 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (4.40%) Apache Spark
4 78 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 74 (2.76%) CMS
6 71 (2.65%) WordPress
7 62 (2.31%) SharePoint
8 54 (2.01%) Confluence
9 28 (1.04%) SAS
10 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.45%) nginx
12 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.41%) SharePoint 2010
12 11 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
13 10 (0.37%) Joomla!
14 8 (0.30%) IIS
15 7 (0.26%) Drupal
15 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
17 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 162 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 159 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (3.17%) MS Visio
4 35 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.86%) Photoshop
5 23 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe XD
7 15 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 14 (0.52%) Trello
9 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
10 9 (0.34%) InDesign
11 4 (0.15%) SPSS
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.11%) Pro Tools
13 2 (0.075%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.075%) InCopy
13 2 (0.075%) Notion
13 2 (0.075%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 38 (1.42%) Shopify
2 17 (0.63%) Magento
3 9 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) iTrent
6 4 (0.15%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.075%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.075%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.075%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.037%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.037%) FastStats
9 1 (0.037%) HFM
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.037%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.037%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.037%) Unica
9 1 (0.037%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 1,359 (50.65%) GCP
2 1,089 (40.59%) Azure
3 1,022 (38.09%) AWS
4 341 (12.71%) Google Analytics
5 300 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
6 216 (8.05%) SaaS
7 191 (7.12%) Google Workspace
8 175 (6.52%) Power Platform
9 138 (5.14%) Google Drive
10 134 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
11 121 (4.51%) OneDrive
12 119 (4.44%) Dropbox
13 82 (3.06%) Google Ads
13 82 (3.06%) Google Play
14 81 (3.02%) GitHub
15 71 (2.65%) Google Sheets
16 62 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
17 60 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
18 58 (2.16%) Serverless
19 56 (2.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 116 (4.32%) Firewall
2 78 (2.91%) Wireless
3 59 (2.20%) DNS
4 57 (2.12%) LAN
5 42 (1.57%) WAN
6 40 (1.49%) VPN
7 39 (1.45%) Internet
8 38 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.01%) Broadband
11 26 (0.97%) AMQP
12 25 (0.93%) VoIP
13 23 (0.86%) HTTP
13 23 (0.86%) VLAN
14 19 (0.71%) DHCP
15 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
16 16 (0.60%) NAS
17 11 (0.41%) Network Security
18 10 (0.37%) BGP
18 10 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 480 (17.89%) BigQuery
2 454 (16.92%) Looker
3 277 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
4 172 (6.41%) Power BI
5 167 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
6 165 (6.15%) SQL Server
7 114 (4.25%) Apache Ignite
8 98 (3.65%) Tableau
9 91 (3.39%) Hadoop
10 86 (3.21%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.80%) Big Data
12 70 (2.61%) NoSQL
13 63 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
14 58 (2.16%) Data Lake
15 53 (1.98%) Redis
16 52 (1.94%) MySQL
17 35 (1.30%) MongoDB
18 29 (1.08%) Data Mining
19 26 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
20 23 (0.86%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 178 (6.63%) Git
2 135 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 91 (3.39%) JIRA
4 56 (2.09%) GitLab
5 55 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.16%) Selenium
7 29 (1.08%) Android Studio
8 25 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
9 22 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 20 (0.75%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.67%) CircleCI
12 17 (0.63%) Maven
13 16 (0.60%) Spinnaker
13 16 (0.60%) TeamCity
14 10 (0.37%) Appium
14 10 (0.37%) webpack
15 9 (0.34%) JUnit
15 9 (0.34%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 643 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
2 601 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 567 (21.13%) Finance
4 362 (13.49%) Marketing
5 275 (10.25%) Banking
6 191 (7.12%) Retail
7 182 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 141 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 101 (3.76%) Law
10 91 (3.39%) Front Office
11 79 (2.94%) Advertising
12 73 (2.72%) Billing
13 71 (2.65%) Public Sector
14 62 (2.31%) Legal
15 39 (1.45%) Games
16 38 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 37 (1.38%) Aerospace
18 34 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 407 (15.17%) Senior
2 398 (14.83%) Developer
3 387 (14.42%) Architect
4 271 (10.10%) Data Engineer
5 267 (9.95%) Software Engineer
6 246 (9.17%) Principal Engineer
7 181 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
8 179 (6.67%) Principal Data Engineer
9 176 (6.56%) Lead
10 167 (6.22%) Analyst
11 133 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
12 124 (4.62%) Python Engineer
13 120 (4.47%) Data Architect
14 109 (4.06%) Python Developer
15 104 (3.88%) IT Technician
15 104 (3.88%) React Developer
16 102 (3.80%) Data Manager
17 101 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
18 95 (3.54%) Python Software Engineer
19 93 (3.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (9.43%) React
2 186 (6.93%) AngularJS
3 157 (5.85%) .NET
4 141 (5.26%) HTML
5 136 (5.07%) REST
6 127 (4.73%) CSS
7 122 (4.55%) Node.js
8 121 (4.51%) gRPC
9 117 (4.36%) Material-UI
10 115 (4.29%) Kafka
11 112 (4.17%) Spring
12 106 (3.95%) ASP.NET
13 100 (3.73%) Redux
14 97 (3.62%) .NET Framework
15 94 (3.50%) .NET Core
16 92 (3.43%) Entity Framework
17 91 (3.39%) Protocol Buffers
18 85 (3.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 80 (2.98%) ASP.NET Web API
20 79 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 364 (13.57%) Self-Motivation
2 222 (8.27%) Public Cloud
3 167 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 129 (4.81%) Social Media
5 114 (4.25%) iPad
6 107 (3.99%) Cloud Native
7 101 (3.76%) Algorithms
8 97 (3.62%) Mobile App
8 97 (3.62%) PKI
9 95 (3.54%) Management Information System
10 91 (3.39%) Fixed Income
10 91 (3.39%) Hedge funds
11 64 (2.39%) Data Structures
12 62 (2.31%) Onboarding
13 48 (1.79%) BBC
14 44 (1.64%) Equities
15 42 (1.57%) iPhone
16 34 (1.27%) Data Centre
17 30 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.01%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 293 (10.92%) Windows
2 160 (5.96%) Linux
3 120 (4.47%) Android
4 118 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 54 (2.01%) Apple iOS
5 54 (2.01%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 32 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 27 (1.01%) CentOS
10 26 (0.97%) Debian
11 25 (0.93%) Unix
12 23 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 23 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.19%) VMS
14 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.19%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.15%) DC/OS
15 4 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (35.48%) Agile
2 837 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
3 531 (19.79%) Analytics
4 530 (19.75%) Mentoring
5 474 (17.67%) DevOps
6 439 (16.36%) Data Engineering
7 398 (14.83%) Software Engineering
8 396 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
9 322 (12.00%) Project Management
10 291 (10.85%) CI/CD
11 272 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
12 269 (10.03%) Data Science
13 261 (9.73%) Data Modelling
14 260 (9.69%) Migration
15 259 (9.65%) ETL
16 252 (9.39%) Roadmaps
17 231 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
18 228 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence
19 226 (8.42%) Microservices
20 214 (7.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 528 (19.68%) Python
2 445 (16.59%) SQL
3 288 (10.73%) Java
4 282 (10.51%) JavaScript
5 211 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 181 (6.75%) C#
7 76 (2.83%) Scala
8 73 (2.72%) Go
9 65 (2.42%) PHP
10 64 (2.39%) PowerShell
11 63 (2.35%) Bash
11 63 (2.35%) Kotlin
12 35 (1.30%) R
13 30 (1.12%) C++
14 23 (0.86%) Groovy
15 21 (0.78%) C
16 16 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.30%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 394 (14.69%) Degree
2 126 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 106 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 94 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 69 (2.57%) DBS Check
6 46 (1.71%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 38 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (0.75%) CISSP
12 20 (0.75%) MCSE
13 17 (0.63%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.56%) HND
14 15 (0.56%) PhD
15 13 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.48%) HNC
15 13 (0.48%) MCITP
16 11 (0.41%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (11.37%) GDPR
2 183 (6.82%) QA
3 170 (6.34%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.89%) SLA
7 17 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.48%) NIST
8 13 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.41%) COBIT
10 8 (0.30%) PSD2
10 8 (0.30%) WCAG
11 7 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.26%) COSHH
11 7 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.26%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 3 (0.11%) CRD IV
13 3 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 241 (8.98%) Docker
2 169 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 109 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 79 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.63%) XenDesktop
7 14 (0.52%) XenApp
8 9 (0.34%) KVM
9 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.26%) vSphere
10 6 (0.22%) Firmware
11 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
11 4 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.075%) Apache Flume
13 2 (0.075%) HDFS
13 2 (0.075%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.075%) Varnish
14 1 (0.037%) etcd
14 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 276 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 228 (8.50%) Terraform
3 94 (3.50%) Ansible
4 52 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 38 (1.42%) Puppet
6 37 (1.38%) Grafana
6 37 (1.38%) SCCM
7 35 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 29 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.34%) SCOM
12 8 (0.30%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.22%) Packer
14 5 (0.19%) logstash
14 5 (0.19%) Rancher
15 4 (0.15%) Istio
15 4 (0.15%) SmoothWall
15 4 (0.15%) WSUS
16 3 (0.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 695 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 157 (5.85%) Apple
3 122 (4.55%) VMware
4 79 (2.94%) Adobe
5 69 (2.57%) Facebook
5 69 (2.57%) Oracle
6 58 (2.16%) Cisco
7 56 (2.09%) IBM
8 45 (1.68%) Dell
9 36 (1.34%) Databricks
9 36 (1.34%) Sony
9 36 (1.34%) Yahoo!
10 34 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.08%) Citrix
12 29 (1.08%) SAP
13 28 (1.04%) HP
13 28 (1.04%) Splunk
14 27 (1.01%) Dynatrace
15 26 (0.97%) SaltStack