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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 61
Rank change year-on-year +18 -54 +26
Permanent jobs citing Google 2,696 3,007 8,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.70% 3.03% 5.43%
As % of the Vendors category 7.38% 7.21% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,678 1,777 2,861
10th Percentile £26,400 £36,400 £34,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,491 £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 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £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 £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 18 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 18 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 2,364 £55,000 -15.38% 1,058
UK excluding London +53 1,816 £47,500 -12.99% 641
Work from Home -8 951 £57,500 -11.54% 533
London -11 779 £70,000 -6.67% 531
North of England +51 566 £47,500 -20.20% 202
South East +37 340 £46,000 -8.00% 196
North West +53 286 £46,500 -21.88% 114
South West +17 261 £47,500 -9.52% 63
Midlands +51 241 £47,500 -5.00% 83
Yorkshire +48 220 £45,000 -24.40% 80
Scotland +18 199 £69,500 +16.76% 30
East of England +80 134 £28,500 -42.13% 59
West Midlands 0 122 £42,500 -15.00% 46
East Midlands +81 115 £47,500 +11.76% 37
North East +35 60 £52,500 +11.70% 11
Northern Ireland +35 38 £60,000 +51.90% 6
Wales -8 30 £50,000 +11.94% 9
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
1 165 (6.12%) Apache
2 141 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (4.34%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 76 (2.82%) CMS
6 71 (2.63%) WordPress
7 63 (2.34%) SharePoint
8 56 (2.08%) Confluence
9 28 (1.04%) SAS
10 17 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
11 13 (0.48%) nginx
12 12 (0.45%) SharePoint 2010
12 12 (0.45%) SharePoint 2013
13 11 (0.41%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.37%) Joomla!
15 8 (0.30%) IIS
16 7 (0.26%) Drupal
16 7 (0.26%) Umbraco
17 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
17 4 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 164 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 160 (5.93%) 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 1,365 (50.63%) GCP
2 1,102 (40.88%) Azure
3 1,041 (38.61%) AWS
4 338 (12.54%) Google Analytics
5 300 (11.13%) Microsoft 365
6 214 (7.94%) SaaS
7 189 (7.01%) Google Workspace
8 176 (6.53%) Power Platform
9 138 (5.12%) Google Drive
10 135 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (4.53%) OneDrive
12 119 (4.41%) Dropbox
13 86 (3.19%) Google Ads
14 83 (3.08%) GitHub
15 82 (3.04%) Google Play
16 72 (2.67%) Google Sheets
17 66 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
18 62 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
19 59 (2.19%) Serverless
20 56 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 115 (4.27%) Firewall
2 76 (2.82%) Wireless
3 61 (2.26%) DNS
4 54 (2.00%) LAN
5 39 (1.45%) Internet
5 39 (1.45%) WAN
6 38 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
7 37 (1.37%) VPN
8 31 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 27 (1.00%) AMQP
9 27 (1.00%) Broadband
10 26 (0.96%) HTTP
11 24 (0.89%) VoIP
12 20 (0.74%) DHCP
12 20 (0.74%) VLAN
13 17 (0.63%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.59%) NAS
15 11 (0.41%) Network Security
16 10 (0.37%) BGP
16 10 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 478 (17.73%) BigQuery
2 454 (16.84%) Looker
3 273 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
4 173 (6.42%) Power BI
5 171 (6.34%) SQL Server
6 170 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
7 115 (4.27%) Apache Ignite
8 96 (3.56%) Tableau
9 88 (3.26%) Relational Database
10 87 (3.23%) Hadoop
11 75 (2.78%) Big Data
12 73 (2.71%) NoSQL
13 60 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
14 55 (2.04%) Data Lake
15 54 (2.00%) MySQL
16 53 (1.97%) Redis
17 37 (1.37%) MongoDB
18 27 (1.00%) Cloudera CDH
19 26 (0.96%) Data Mining
20 23 (0.85%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 181 (6.71%) Git
2 134 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.34%) JIRA
4 59 (2.19%) 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 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 17 (0.63%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.63%) Maven
12 16 (0.59%) 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
1 637 (23.63%) Analytical Skills
2 606 (22.48%) Social Skills
3 571 (21.18%) Finance
4 369 (13.69%) Marketing
5 280 (10.39%) Banking
6 197 (7.31%) Retail
7 182 (6.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 140 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
9 102 (3.78%) Law
10 95 (3.52%) Front Office
11 83 (3.08%) Advertising
12 73 (2.71%) Billing
13 70 (2.60%) 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
1 406 (15.06%) Developer
2 402 (14.91%) Senior
3 386 (14.32%) Architect
4 276 (10.24%) Software Engineer
5 268 (9.94%) Data Engineer
6 245 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
7 181 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
8 179 (6.64%) Principal Data Engineer
9 177 (6.57%) Lead
10 164 (6.08%) Analyst
11 131 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
12 127 (4.71%) Python Engineer
13 120 (4.45%) Data Architect
14 113 (4.19%) Python Developer
15 107 (3.97%) React Developer
16 104 (3.86%) IT Technician
17 102 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
17 102 (3.78%) Data Manager
18 99 (3.67%) Python Software Engineer
19 97 (3.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (9.68%) React
2 189 (7.01%) AngularJS
3 163 (6.05%) .NET
4 141 (5.23%) HTML
5 136 (5.04%) REST
6 129 (4.78%) CSS
7 126 (4.67%) gRPC
7 126 (4.67%) Node.js
8 122 (4.53%) Material-UI
9 112 (4.15%) Kafka
10 111 (4.12%) Spring
11 107 (3.97%) ASP.NET
12 104 (3.86%) Redux
13 98 (3.64%) .NET Framework
14 96 (3.56%) .NET Core
15 95 (3.52%) Protocol Buffers
16 93 (3.45%) Entity Framework
17 85 (3.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
18 81 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
19 80 (2.97%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 366 (13.58%) Self-Motivation
2 218 (8.09%) Public Cloud
3 160 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 131 (4.86%) Social Media
5 114 (4.23%) iPad
6 108 (4.01%) Cloud Native
7 103 (3.82%) Algorithms
8 100 (3.71%) Management Information System
9 98 (3.64%) PKI
10 97 (3.60%) Mobile App
11 95 (3.52%) Fixed Income
11 95 (3.52%) Hedge funds
12 63 (2.34%) Onboarding
13 61 (2.26%) Data Structures
14 48 (1.78%) BBC
14 48 (1.78%) Equities
15 42 (1.56%) iPhone
16 34 (1.26%) Data Centre
17 28 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
18 27 (1.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 292 (10.83%) Windows
2 159 (5.90%) Linux
3 122 (4.53%) Android
4 116 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 55 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 52 (1.93%) Mac OS
7 35 (1.30%) Windows 10
8 33 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (1.08%) 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
1 949 (35.20%) Agile
2 837 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
3 530 (19.66%) Analytics
4 528 (19.58%) Mentoring
5 475 (17.62%) DevOps
6 441 (16.36%) Data Engineering
7 405 (15.02%) Software Engineering
8 397 (14.73%) Platform Engineering
9 321 (11.91%) Project Management
10 295 (10.94%) CI/CD
11 278 (10.31%) Full Stack Development
12 265 (9.83%) Data Science
13 262 (9.72%) Migration
14 258 (9.57%) ETL
15 255 (9.46%) Data Modelling
16 252 (9.35%) Roadmaps
17 236 (8.75%) Microservices
18 234 (8.68%) Artificial Intelligence
19 228 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
20 221 (8.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 532 (19.73%) Python
2 447 (16.58%) SQL
3 295 (10.94%) Java
4 291 (10.79%) JavaScript
5 212 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 186 (6.90%) C#
7 78 (2.89%) Scala
8 76 (2.82%) Go
9 68 (2.52%) Kotlin
10 66 (2.45%) PHP
11 61 (2.26%) PowerShell
12 58 (2.15%) Bash
13 35 (1.30%) 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
1 398 (14.76%) Degree
2 129 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 106 (3.93%) Security Cleared
4 94 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 71 (2.63%) DBS Check
6 47 (1.74%) 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%) CIPD
17 12 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (11.31%) GDPR
2 187 (6.94%) QA
3 167 (6.19%) 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
1 245 (9.09%) Docker
2 166 (6.16%) Active Directory
3 110 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 76 (2.82%) Hyper-V
5 24 (0.89%) 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 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.074%) Apache Flume
14 2 (0.074%) HDFS
14 2 (0.074%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.074%) Varnish
15 1 (0.037%) etcd
15 1 (0.037%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 279 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 236 (8.75%) Terraform
3 96 (3.56%) Ansible
4 50 (1.85%) 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 8 (0.30%) 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
15 4 (0.15%) SmoothWall
15 4 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 698 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 153 (5.68%) Apple
3 123 (4.56%) VMware
4 78 (2.89%) Adobe
5 71 (2.63%) Facebook
5 71 (2.63%) Oracle
6 58 (2.15%) Cisco
7 56 (2.08%) IBM
8 45 (1.67%) Dell
9 38 (1.41%) Databricks
10 36 (1.34%) Sony
10 36 (1.34%) Yahoo!
11 34 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 31 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.11%) Citrix
13 30 (1.11%) HP
14 28 (1.04%) SAP
15 27 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 27 (1.00%) SaltStack
15 27 (1.00%) Splunk