Google Contracts in Scotland

Google
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 115 94 102
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 +27
Contract jobs citing Google 16 75 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 2.63% 1.85%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 6.54% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 43
10th Percentile £325 - £288
25th Percentile £540 £250 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £711 £488 £606
90th Percentile £722 £619 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £55.13 £15.54
25th Percentile - £55.31 £15.59
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £30.38
Median % change year-on-year - +85.19% +164.13%
75th Percentile - £57.81 £48.13
90th Percentile - £58.38 £49.71
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £51.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -49.51% +47.14% +29.63%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 893 1,146 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.46% 40.15% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 827 777
10th Percentile £184 £175 £175
25th Percentile £350 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +5.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £688 £629 £600
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 16 31
10th Percentile £13.28 £21.26 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £43.86 £16.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +47.56% +24.03%
75th Percentile £55.63 £65.39 £48.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.38 £53.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Google in Scotland

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +31 9 £600 +42.86% 14
Glasgow -38 7 £693 +65.00% 7
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.25%) CMS
3 1 (6.25%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Apigee
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Run
5 1 (6.25%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (6.25%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (31.25%) iSCSI
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DB2
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Flink
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.25%) Looker
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JMeter
1 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Python Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Content Coordinator
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Architect
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Flash
1 4 (25.00%) POSIX
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Client/Server
2 4 (25.00%) NVMe
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Unix
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) Analytics
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (25.00%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Observability
2 4 (25.00%) OO
2 4 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (25.00%) SDLC
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (18.75%) Investment Management
3 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) Storage Virtualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Perl
5 2 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Elixir
6 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) IIBA
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) GPFS
2 4 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Brocade
2 4 (25.00%) EMC
2 4 (25.00%) NetApp
2 4 (25.00%) Sybase
2 4 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Confluent
3 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Teradata
3 1 (6.25%) VMware