Google Contracts in England

Google
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 105 112
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 -17
Contract jobs citing Google 668 1,189 1,757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.81% 2.35% 2.47%
As % of the Vendors category 4.28% 5.61% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 863 1,227
10th Percentile £250 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 31 37
10th Percentile £11.25 £21.00 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.54 £16.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £51.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -49.51% +47.14% +29.63%

All Vendors
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Google in England

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in England.

Daily rate trend for Google in England

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in England.

Hourly rate trend for Google in England

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +1 431 £525 -8.70% 429
North of England -35 69 £500 -6.98% 147
South East -36 49 £438 +9.38% 102
South West +12 42 £595 +14.70% 77
North West -19 40 £488 -7.14% 100
East of England +11 28 £525 -0.94% 45
Midlands -4 23 £575 +6.88% 77
Yorkshire -27 22 £555 +0.91% 42
East Midlands +16 13 £613 -12.50% 36
West Midlands -3 10 £525 -2.78% 41
North East +24 7 £477 +33.43% 9
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 46 (6.89%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (6.44%) Apache
3 25 (3.74%) Confluence
4 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.20%) CMS
6 7 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.05%) WordPress
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.75%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.75%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.75%) SAS
9 4 (0.60%) nginx
10 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.45%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.45%) Trello
7 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) Shopify
2 4 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.60%) FastStats
2 4 (0.60%) Unica
2 4 (0.60%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.15%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.15%) Magento
3 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 378 (56.59%) GCP
2 195 (29.19%) AWS
3 181 (27.10%) Azure
4 99 (14.82%) Google Analytics
5 81 (12.13%) Google Workspace
6 43 (6.44%) SaaS
7 35 (5.24%) GitHub
8 33 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 30 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (4.49%) PaaS
10 22 (3.29%) Apigee
11 20 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 20 (2.99%) Google Sheets
12 19 (2.84%) OpenShift
13 18 (2.69%) IaaS
14 17 (2.54%) dbt
15 16 (2.40%) Slack
16 14 (2.10%) Google Tag Manager
17 12 (1.80%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.34%) Firewall
2 21 (3.14%) DNS
3 19 (2.84%) VPN
4 16 (2.40%) VoIP
5 15 (2.25%) SNMP
5 15 (2.25%) Software-Defined Radio
6 14 (2.10%) DHCP
6 14 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.95%) LAN
8 11 (1.65%) WAN
9 10 (1.50%) HTTP
9 10 (1.50%) VLAN
9 10 (1.50%) Wireless
10 9 (1.35%) IPsec
10 9 (1.35%) Network Security
10 9 (1.35%) PBX
11 7 (1.05%) MPLS
12 6 (0.90%) BGP
12 6 (0.90%) OSPF
13 5 (0.75%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.83%) BigQuery
2 66 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (6.14%) Apache Ignite
4 38 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (5.09%) Looker
5 34 (5.09%) NoSQL
6 31 (4.64%) Power BI
7 27 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 20 (2.99%) MySQL
9 18 (2.69%) Big Data
10 14 (2.10%) Tableau
11 10 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.35%) Bigtable
12 9 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.35%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.05%) Cloud Spanner
13 7 (1.05%) GIS
14 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 50 (7.49%) Jenkins
2 47 (7.04%) Git
3 43 (6.44%) JIRA
4 30 (4.49%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.29%) GoogleTest
6 18 (2.69%) GitLab
7 17 (2.54%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.40%) Eclipse
8 16 (2.40%) Robot Framework
9 10 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (1.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.90%) Maven
11 6 (0.90%) Postman
11 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.45%) gulp
12 3 (0.45%) JMeter
13 2 (0.30%) Appium
13 2 (0.30%) Darcs
13 2 (0.30%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.30%) LoadRunner
General
1 158 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 135 (20.21%) Finance
3 94 (14.07%) Banking
4 64 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.83%) Retail
6 48 (7.19%) Marketing
7 41 (6.14%) Front Office
8 31 (4.64%) Legal
8 31 (4.64%) Public Sector
9 22 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.80%) Advertising
12 10 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.20%) Local Government
14 7 (1.05%) Digital Economy
14 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 137 (20.51%) Developer
2 112 (16.77%) Architect
3 67 (10.03%) Software Engineer
4 66 (9.88%) Analyst
5 56 (8.38%) Senior
6 44 (6.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 42 (6.29%) Python Developer
7 42 (6.29%) Python Engineer
7 42 (6.29%) Python Software Engineer
8 41 (6.14%) React Developer
9 39 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
10 31 (4.64%) GCP Engineer
11 28 (4.19%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.04%) Data Engineer
13 25 (3.74%) Full Stack Developer
13 25 (3.74%) GCP Architect
14 24 (3.59%) Full Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.59%) Lead
15 22 (3.29%) Data Architect
16 21 (3.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.08%) React
2 43 (6.44%) HTML
3 42 (6.29%) CSS
4 41 (6.14%) gRPC
4 41 (6.14%) Material-UI
4 41 (6.14%) Protocol Buffers
4 41 (6.14%) Redux
4 41 (6.14%) REST
5 38 (5.69%) Node.js
6 26 (3.89%) Spring
7 24 (3.59%) SAML
8 23 (3.44%) AngularJS
9 21 (3.14%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.25%) JSON
10 15 (2.25%) RESTful
11 13 (1.95%) Kafka
11 13 (1.95%) OAuth
11 13 (1.95%) Restlet
11 13 (1.95%) Swagger
12 12 (1.80%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.44%) Fixed Income
2 42 (6.29%) Hedge funds
3 26 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.10%) Equities
10 13 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
11 12 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.50%) PKI
13 10 (1.50%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.50%) Social Media
14 9 (1.35%) Blackberry
15 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.93%) Linux
2 51 (7.63%) Windows
3 19 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.54%) Unix
5 14 (2.10%) Android
6 13 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.75%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.60%) CentOS
10 3 (0.45%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.15%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (24.25%) Agile
2 140 (20.96%) Analytics
3 104 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (15.12%) CI/CD
5 95 (14.22%) Software Engineering
6 89 (13.32%) DevOps
7 76 (11.38%) Machine Learning
8 62 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence
9 61 (9.13%) Microservices
10 57 (8.53%) Roadmaps
11 55 (8.23%) Containerisation
12 54 (8.08%) Migration
13 53 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 51 (7.63%) Asset Management
14 51 (7.63%) Full Stack Development
15 49 (7.34%) Computer Science
16 48 (7.19%) ETL
17 46 (6.89%) Decision-Making
18 44 (6.59%) Data Modelling
18 44 (6.59%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 170 (25.45%) Python
2 105 (15.72%) SQL
3 99 (14.82%) Java
4 83 (12.43%) JavaScript
5 71 (10.63%) TypeScript
6 26 (3.89%) C++
7 19 (2.84%) Bash
8 15 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.80%) Go
10 11 (1.65%) C#
11 10 (1.50%) PHP
12 7 (1.05%) R
13 6 (0.90%) Scala
13 6 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.75%) Groovy
15 4 (0.60%) Rust
16 3 (0.45%) C
16 3 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 89 (13.32%) Degree
2 53 (7.93%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.10%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.10%) PMP
6 13 (1.95%) APMP
6 13 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.65%) CCNP
8 11 (1.65%) CISSP
8 11 (1.65%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.20%) CCNA
10 8 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.05%) HND
11 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.09%) QA
2 21 (3.14%) GDPR
3 18 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.65%) NIST
5 10 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.90%) MISRA
6 6 (0.90%) WCAG
7 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.75%) SLA
8 4 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.60%) PMO
9 3 (0.45%) ISO 31000
9 3 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.30%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 53 (7.93%) Docker
2 25 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.10%) Firmware
5 11 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.60%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.60%) zsh
8 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.30%) KVM
9 2 (0.30%) vSphere
10 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.15%) Snort
10 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (11.53%) Terraform
2 67 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.49%) Ansible
4 20 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.50%) SCCM
6 8 (1.20%) Istio
7 7 (1.05%) Grafana
7 7 (1.05%) Rancher
8 6 (0.90%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.60%) Kibana
10 4 (0.60%) Oracle Identity Management
10 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.45%) OPNET
11 3 (0.45%) Puppet
12 2 (0.30%) Ambari
12 2 (0.30%) logstash
12 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.30%) Oozie
13 1 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 129 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.19%) Oracle
3 43 (6.44%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.79%) Adobe
5 25 (3.74%) Cisco
6 24 (3.59%) Apple
7 22 (3.29%) VMware
8 20 (2.99%) SAP
9 19 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.25%) Optimizely
11 14 (2.10%) IBM
12 11 (1.65%) Databricks
13 10 (1.50%) Juniper
13 10 (1.50%) Nokia
14 9 (1.35%) Avaya
14 9 (1.35%) Ericsson
14 9 (1.35%) F5
14 9 (1.35%) Okta
14 9 (1.35%) Ribbon
15 8 (1.20%) Tealium