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 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Google 721 1,130 1,711
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.98% 2.35% 2.43%
As % of the Vendors category 4.70% 5.60% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 826 1,193
10th Percentile £276 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
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 66 30 41
10th Percentile £11.25 £13.31 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £20.89
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.55 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.26% +13.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile - £80.00 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £26.49 £39.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +13.07% +32.08%

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 15,356 20,176 27,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.13% 41.93% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,758 13,896 19,050
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 574 786
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £11.95
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +66.12% +1.76%
75th Percentile £57.12 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.59 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.03% +88.79% -2.27%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 456 £539 -6.71% 412
North of England -17 78 £506 -8.00% 184
South East -31 55 £375 +7.14% 102
South West +8 54 £500 -9.09% 62
North West -22 38 £425 -21.84% 112
Yorkshire -9 35 £507 -7.82% 66
East of England +4 28 £525 -0.94% 44
Midlands +8 24 £550 +3.48% 79
East Midlands +9 13 £613 - 32
West Midlands -2 11 £500 -11.11% 47
North East +18 5 £600 +215.79% 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 65 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (8.74%) Apache
3 30 (4.16%) Confluence
4 17 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.39%) CMS
5 10 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.97%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.97%) WordPress
7 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.83%) nginx
7 6 (0.83%) SAS
8 5 (0.69%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.69%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.42%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.28%) Trello
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.14%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Shopify
2 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.55%) FastStats
2 4 (0.55%) Unica
2 4 (0.55%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.28%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.14%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 430 (59.64%) GCP
2 227 (31.48%) AWS
3 214 (29.68%) Azure
4 92 (12.76%) Google Analytics
5 80 (11.10%) Google Workspace
6 48 (6.66%) GitHub
7 44 (6.10%) SaaS
8 34 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
9 33 (4.58%) Power Platform
10 31 (4.30%) PaaS
11 30 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (3.05%) Apigee
13 21 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 21 (2.91%) Google Sheets
14 20 (2.77%) OpenShift
14 20 (2.77%) Serverless
15 18 (2.50%) IaaS
16 17 (2.36%) Slack
17 16 (2.22%) dbt
18 14 (1.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.02%) Firewall
2 22 (3.05%) DNS
2 22 (3.05%) VPN
3 21 (2.91%) VoIP
4 17 (2.36%) SNMP
4 17 (2.36%) Software-Defined Radio
5 15 (2.08%) DHCP
5 15 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.94%) LAN
7 12 (1.66%) WAN
8 10 (1.39%) HTTP
8 10 (1.39%) VLAN
8 10 (1.39%) Wireless
9 9 (1.25%) IPsec
9 9 (1.25%) Network Security
9 9 (1.25%) PBX
10 7 (0.97%) MPLS
10 7 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.83%) BGP
11 6 (0.83%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.48%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (12.07%) BigQuery
3 61 (8.46%) Apache Ignite
4 35 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.44%) Looker
7 31 (4.30%) Power BI
8 30 (4.16%) Relational Database
9 27 (3.74%) Big Data
10 25 (3.47%) MySQL
11 17 (2.36%) Data Lake
12 15 (2.08%) Tableau
13 12 (1.66%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.53%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.25%) Bigtable
17 8 (1.11%) MongoDB
18 7 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 64 (8.88%) Git
3 56 (7.77%) JIRA
4 47 (6.52%) Cypress.io
5 30 (4.16%) GoogleTest
6 20 (2.77%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.64%) GitLab
8 18 (2.50%) Robot Framework
9 17 (2.36%) Eclipse
10 12 (1.66%) Maven
11 9 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (1.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 7 (0.97%) Postman
14 6 (0.83%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.42%) Appium
15 3 (0.42%) gulp
16 2 (0.28%) Darcs
16 2 (0.28%) Liquibase
16 2 (0.28%) Mercurial
16 2 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 163 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 159 (22.05%) Finance
3 115 (15.95%) Banking
4 67 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.46%) Front Office
5 61 (8.46%) Retail
6 44 (6.10%) Marketing
7 31 (4.30%) Legal
7 31 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.53%) Advertising
11 9 (1.25%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.11%) Local Government
13 7 (0.97%) Digital Economy
13 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.83%) Law
15 5 (0.69%) Back Office
15 5 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (24.69%) Developer
2 123 (17.06%) Architect
3 93 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 65 (9.02%) Analyst
5 64 (8.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 64 (8.88%) Python Developer
6 62 (8.60%) Python Engineer
6 62 (8.60%) Python Software Engineer
7 61 (8.46%) React Developer
8 58 (8.04%) Senior
9 49 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (5.27%) Java Developer
11 36 (4.99%) Full Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.85%) Full Stack Developer
13 31 (4.30%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 31 (4.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 30 (4.16%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.47%) GCP Architect
15 25 (3.47%) Lead
16 24 (3.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.68%) React
2 65 (9.02%) gRPC
3 61 (8.46%) Material-UI
3 61 (8.46%) Protocol Buffers
3 61 (8.46%) Redux
4 48 (6.66%) REST
5 46 (6.38%) CSS
6 44 (6.10%) HTML
7 42 (5.83%) Node.js
8 32 (4.44%) Spring
9 29 (4.02%) SAML
10 27 (3.74%) Spring Boot
11 23 (3.19%) AngularJS
12 20 (2.77%) Restlet
13 19 (2.64%) GWT
13 19 (2.64%) RESTful
14 18 (2.50%) OAuth
15 17 (2.36%) JAX-RS
15 17 (2.36%) Kafka
15 17 (2.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.60%) Fixed Income
1 62 (8.60%) Hedge funds
2 31 (4.30%) Management Information System
3 30 (4.16%) Equities
4 27 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 22 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.25%) Blackberry
11 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.25%) PKI
12 8 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.46%) Linux
2 47 (6.52%) Windows
3 19 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.36%) Unix
5 14 (1.94%) Android
5 14 (1.94%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.97%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.55%) CentOS
9 3 (0.42%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (27.18%) Agile
2 138 (19.14%) Analytics
3 123 (17.06%) Software Engineering
4 122 (16.92%) CI/CD
5 111 (15.40%) DevOps
6 110 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (13.59%) Machine Learning
8 88 (12.21%) Artificial Intelligence
9 74 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
10 71 (9.85%) Asset Management
11 67 (9.29%) Containerisation
12 64 (8.88%) Investment Management
13 61 (8.46%) Automated Trading
13 61 (8.46%) Computer Science
14 59 (8.18%) Microservices
15 57 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (7.77%) Migration
17 53 (7.35%) Roadmaps
18 51 (7.07%) Data Modelling
18 51 (7.07%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 206 (28.57%) Python
2 123 (17.06%) Java
3 108 (14.98%) SQL
4 93 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.79%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.85%) C++
7 25 (3.47%) Bash
8 18 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.36%) Go
10 10 (1.39%) PHP
11 9 (1.25%) C#
12 6 (0.83%) Rust
13 5 (0.69%) C
13 5 (0.69%) Groovy
13 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.55%) R
14 4 (0.55%) Scala
15 2 (0.28%) U-SQL
16 1 (0.14%) CQL
Qualifications
1 98 (13.59%) Degree
2 55 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 46 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.94%) AWS Certification
5 14 (1.94%) PMI Certification
5 14 (1.94%) PMP
6 13 (1.80%) APMP
6 13 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.53%) CCNP
8 11 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.53%) CISSP
8 11 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.97%) CCNA
11 7 (0.97%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.58%) QA
2 30 (4.16%) GDPR
3 16 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.08%) MISRA
5 13 (1.80%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.53%) NIST
7 8 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.83%) WCAG
9 5 (0.69%) SLA
10 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.55%) PMO
11 3 (0.42%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) IFRS
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 60 (8.32%) Docker
2 26 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.36%) Firmware
5 11 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.55%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.55%) zsh
8 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.28%) KVM
9 2 (0.28%) vSphere
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.14%) Snort
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (11.51%) Terraform
2 74 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.30%) Ansible
4 24 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.53%) SCCM
6 8 (1.11%) Istio
7 7 (0.97%) Rancher
8 5 (0.69%) Grafana
8 5 (0.69%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) OPNET
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Identity Management
9 4 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.42%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) Ambari
11 2 (0.28%) logstash
11 2 (0.28%) Oozie
11 2 (0.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 136 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.93%) Oracle
3 41 (5.69%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.16%) Cisco
5 29 (4.02%) Adobe
6 25 (3.47%) Apple
7 22 (3.05%) Atlassian
7 22 (3.05%) VMware
8 20 (2.77%) SAP
9 15 (2.08%) IBM
10 14 (1.94%) Avaya
10 14 (1.94%) Optimizely
11 10 (1.39%) Okta
12 9 (1.25%) Databricks
12 9 (1.25%) Ericsson
12 9 (1.25%) F5
12 9 (1.25%) Genesys
12 9 (1.25%) Juniper
12 9 (1.25%) Nokia
12 9 (1.25%) Ribbon