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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 115 61
Rank change year-on-year +19 -54 +26
Permanent jobs citing Google 2,695 3,004 8,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.70% 3.02% 5.43%
As % of the Vendors category 7.39% 7.19% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 1,777 2,872
10th Percentile £26,400 £36,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £43,000 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,700 £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 36,482 41,804 63,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.51% 42.03% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,833 23,990 33,191
10th Percentile £26,702 £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 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,802 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.40% +5.26% +3.62%

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 20 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 20 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 +18 2,363 £55,000 -15.38% 1,109
UK excluding London +54 1,813 £47,500 -12.99% 679
Work from Home -4 946 £57,500 -11.54% 546
London -13 783 £70,000 -6.67% 548
North of England +53 565 £47,500 -20.20% 219
South East +39 340 £46,000 -8.00% 206
North West +49 286 £46,500 -21.88% 127
South West +19 260 £47,500 -9.52% 68
Midlands +42 241 £47,500 -5.00% 82
Yorkshire +42 220 £45,000 -24.40% 85
Scotland +17 199 £69,500 +16.76% 32
East of England +84 133 £28,500 -42.13% 65
West Midlands +5 123 £42,500 -15.00% 48
East Midlands +74 114 £47,500 +11.76% 34
North East +39 59 £53,750 +14.36% 10
Northern Ireland +47 38 £60,000 +51.90% 5
Wales -7 30 £50,000 +11.94% 10
Isle of Man - 4 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1

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
1 170 (6.31%) Apache
2 145 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.82%) CMS
4 76 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 71 (2.63%) WordPress
6 62 (2.30%) SharePoint
7 55 (2.04%) Confluence
8 28 (1.04%) SAS
9 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
10 13 (0.48%) nginx
11 12 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
11 12 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
12 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.37%) Joomla!
14 8 (0.30%) IIS
15 7 (0.26%) Drupal
15 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 164 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (3.15%) MS Visio
4 36 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.85%) Photoshop
5 23 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
7 16 (0.59%) Adobe XD
8 15 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 14 (0.52%) Trello
10 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
11 9 (0.33%) InDesign
12 4 (0.15%) SPSS
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.11%) Pro Tools
14 2 (0.074%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.074%) InCopy
14 2 (0.074%) Notion
14 2 (0.074%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (1.45%) Shopify
2 18 (0.67%) Magento
3 9 (0.33%) 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 (0.074%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.074%) SAP FI-GL
8 2 (0.074%) 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 1,364 (50.61%) GCP
2 1,104 (40.96%) Azure
3 1,043 (38.70%) AWS
4 337 (12.50%) Google Analytics
5 298 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
6 213 (7.90%) SaaS
7 189 (7.01%) Google Workspace
8 175 (6.49%) Power Platform
9 138 (5.12%) Google Drive
10 135 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (4.53%) OneDrive
12 119 (4.42%) Dropbox
13 86 (3.19%) Google Ads
14 82 (3.04%) GitHub
14 82 (3.04%) Google Play
15 72 (2.67%) Google Sheets
16 67 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
17 63 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
18 59 (2.19%) Serverless
19 56 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 114 (4.23%) Firewall
2 76 (2.82%) Wireless
3 60 (2.23%) DNS
4 54 (2.00%) LAN
5 39 (1.45%) Internet
5 39 (1.45%) WAN
6 37 (1.37%) VPN
6 37 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.00%) AMQP
8 27 (1.00%) Broadband
9 26 (0.96%) HTTP
10 23 (0.85%) VoIP
11 19 (0.71%) DHCP
11 19 (0.71%) VLAN
12 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
13 16 (0.59%) NAS
14 11 (0.41%) Network Security
15 10 (0.37%) BGP
15 10 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (17.74%) BigQuery
2 454 (16.85%) Looker
3 272 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
4 174 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
5 172 (6.38%) Power BI
6 171 (6.35%) SQL Server
7 119 (4.42%) Apache Ignite
8 95 (3.53%) Tableau
9 88 (3.27%) Relational Database
10 85 (3.15%) Hadoop
11 75 (2.78%) Big Data
12 73 (2.71%) NoSQL
13 59 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
14 55 (2.04%) Data Lake
15 54 (2.00%) MySQL
16 52 (1.93%) Redis
17 37 (1.37%) MongoDB
18 27 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
19 26 (0.96%) Data Mining
20 22 (0.82%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 181 (6.72%) Git
2 135 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 89 (3.30%) JIRA
4 63 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 55 (2.04%) GitLab
6 33 (1.22%) Selenium
7 29 (1.08%) Android Studio
8 26 (0.96%) IBM UrbanCode
9 22 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 19 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.63%) Maven
11 17 (0.63%) Spinnaker
12 16 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.37%) Appium
13 10 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.33%) webpack
15 8 (0.30%) JUnit
15 8 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 633 (23.49%) Analytical Skills
2 605 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 574 (21.30%) Finance
4 369 (13.69%) Marketing
5 283 (10.50%) Banking
6 197 (7.31%) Retail
7 179 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 139 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
9 102 (3.78%) Law
10 99 (3.67%) Front Office
11 83 (3.08%) Advertising
12 73 (2.71%) Billing
13 68 (2.52%) Public Sector
14 62 (2.30%) Legal
15 40 (1.48%) Games
16 39 (1.45%) Manufacturing
16 39 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 37 (1.37%) Aerospace
18 36 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 410 (15.21%) Developer
2 400 (14.84%) Senior
3 387 (14.36%) Architect
4 281 (10.43%) Software Engineer
5 266 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 243 (9.02%) Principal Engineer
7 181 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
8 178 (6.60%) Lead
8 178 (6.60%) Principal Data Engineer
9 162 (6.01%) Analyst
10 131 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
10 131 (4.86%) Python Engineer
11 121 (4.49%) Data Architect
12 117 (4.34%) Python Developer
13 111 (4.12%) React Developer
14 104 (3.86%) IT Technician
15 103 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
16 102 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
17 101 (3.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 100 (3.71%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (9.83%) React
2 189 (7.01%) AngularJS
3 163 (6.05%) .NET
4 141 (5.23%) HTML
5 136 (5.05%) REST
6 130 (4.82%) gRPC
7 129 (4.79%) CSS
8 126 (4.68%) Material-UI
8 126 (4.68%) Node.js
9 111 (4.12%) Kafka
9 111 (4.12%) Spring
10 108 (4.01%) Redux
11 107 (3.97%) ASP.NET
12 99 (3.67%) Protocol Buffers
13 98 (3.64%) .NET Framework
14 96 (3.56%) .NET Core
15 93 (3.45%) Entity Framework
16 85 (3.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 81 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web API
18 80 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 366 (13.58%) Self-Motivation
2 218 (8.09%) Public Cloud
3 159 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 132 (4.90%) Social Media
5 114 (4.23%) iPad
6 108 (4.01%) Cloud Native
7 102 (3.78%) Algorithms
8 101 (3.75%) Management Information System
9 99 (3.67%) Fixed Income
9 99 (3.67%) Hedge funds
10 98 (3.64%) Mobile App
10 98 (3.64%) PKI
11 63 (2.34%) Onboarding
12 60 (2.23%) Data Structures
13 52 (1.93%) Equities
14 48 (1.78%) BBC
15 42 (1.56%) iPhone
16 35 (1.30%) Data Centre
17 28 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 291 (10.80%) Windows
2 160 (5.94%) Linux
3 122 (4.53%) Android
4 114 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 55 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 52 (1.93%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 34 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (1.11%) Ubuntu
10 28 (1.04%) CentOS
11 27 (1.00%) Debian
12 26 (0.96%) Unix
13 24 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
13 24 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.19%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.19%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.15%) DC/OS
16 4 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (35.32%) Agile
2 835 (30.98%) Problem-Solving
3 528 (19.59%) Analytics
4 527 (19.55%) Mentoring
5 474 (17.59%) DevOps
6 439 (16.29%) Data Engineering
7 409 (15.18%) Software Engineering
8 398 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
9 322 (11.95%) Project Management
10 297 (11.02%) CI/CD
11 282 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
12 263 (9.76%) Data Science
13 262 (9.72%) Migration
14 257 (9.54%) ETL
15 254 (9.42%) Data Modelling
16 252 (9.35%) Roadmaps
17 238 (8.83%) Microservices
18 237 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence
19 228 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
20 225 (8.35%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 535 (19.85%) Python
2 445 (16.51%) SQL
3 296 (10.98%) Java
4 291 (10.80%) JavaScript
5 216 (8.01%) TypeScript
6 186 (6.90%) C#
7 78 (2.89%) Scala
8 75 (2.78%) Go
9 70 (2.60%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.45%) PHP
11 61 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 57 (2.12%) Bash
13 34 (1.26%) R
14 33 (1.22%) C++
15 23 (0.85%) Groovy
16 21 (0.78%) C
17 16 (0.59%) T-SQL
18 13 (0.48%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.33%) Rust
20 8 (0.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 400 (14.84%) Degree
2 131 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 105 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 93 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 70 (2.60%) DBS Check
6 48 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 39 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.78%) MCSE
12 20 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (0.74%) CISSP
13 16 (0.59%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.59%) PhD
14 15 (0.56%) HND
15 14 (0.52%) MCITP
16 13 (0.48%) HNC
17 12 (0.45%) CISM
17 12 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (11.32%) GDPR
2 188 (6.98%) QA
3 165 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 37 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.89%) SLA
7 17 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.45%) COBIT
9 12 (0.45%) NIST
9 12 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.30%) PSD2
11 7 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.26%) COSHH
11 7 (0.26%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.26%) NEBOSH
11 7 (0.26%) WCAG
12 4 (0.15%) NCSC
13 3 (0.11%) CRD IV
13 3 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 246 (9.13%) Docker
2 164 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 109 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 75 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 26 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.67%) XenDesktop
7 15 (0.56%) XenApp
8 9 (0.33%) KVM
9 8 (0.30%) vSphere
10 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.22%) Firmware
12 4 (0.15%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.074%) HDFS
13 2 (0.074%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.074%) Varnish
13 2 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.037%) Apache Flume
14 1 (0.037%) etcd
14 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 279 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 239 (8.87%) Terraform
3 98 (3.64%) Ansible
4 49 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (1.48%) Puppet
6 39 (1.45%) SCCM
7 36 (1.34%) Grafana
7 36 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 15 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.33%) SCOM
12 7 (0.26%) PaperCut
13 6 (0.22%) Packer
14 5 (0.19%) logstash
15 4 (0.15%) Argo
15 4 (0.15%) Istio
15 4 (0.15%) Rancher
16 3 (0.11%) Galera Cluster
16 3 (0.11%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 697 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.64%) Apple
3 122 (4.53%) VMware
4 78 (2.89%) Adobe
5 70 (2.60%) Facebook
5 70 (2.60%) Oracle
6 58 (2.15%) Cisco
7 54 (2.00%) IBM
8 44 (1.63%) Dell
9 38 (1.41%) Databricks
10 36 (1.34%) Sony
10 36 (1.34%) Yahoo!
11 33 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 31 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.11%) HP
14 29 (1.08%) Citrix
15 27 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 27 (1.00%) SaltStack
15 27 (1.00%) SAP
16 26 (0.96%) Splunk