The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Google over the 3 months to 22 May 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 Cambridge 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google
Rank 35 - 27
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Google 2 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% - 2.789%
As % of the Vendors category 1.266% - 8.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.08% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £16.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year
+40.15% -22.35%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
158 178 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.02% 41.59% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 85 39
Average daily rate £300 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £418 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 14
Average hourly rate £24.95 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.62% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.88 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Google
Cambridgeshire

Google
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Google Daily Rate Trend

Google
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Google across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Google Hourly Rate Trend

Google
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) STL
1 2 (40.00%) UML
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) LabVIEW
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (40.00%) GoogleTest
1 2 (40.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Bing Maps
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Telerik
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel

Google
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (40.00%) STL
1 2 (40.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Bing Maps
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) LabVIEW
1 2 (40.00%) GoogleTest
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) UML
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Web Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Telerik
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft