The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Google over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Google.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google
Rank - 34 -
Contract jobs citing Google 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.382% -
As % of the Vendors category - 0.806% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-29.92% +10.00%
All Vendors
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
79 124 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 40.10% 47.33% 52.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 61 46
Average daily rate £350 £375 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +26.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 7
Average hourly rate - £32.75 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Google
East of England

Google
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Google across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Bedfordshire Google Jobs Demand Trend

Google
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Google across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Google Daily Rate Trend

Google
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton - - - - 2
Google
East of England

Google
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Google also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Google.

1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) SiteCatalyst
1 2 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) SQLite
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) PhoneGap
2 1 (25.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (25.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) J2ME
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse

Google
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Google also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Google. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) J2ME
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SiteCatalyst
1 2 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQLite
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) PhoneGap
1 1 (25.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe