Google Contracts in the South East

Google
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 103 133
Rank change year-on-year -35 +30 -28
Contract jobs citing Google 53 111 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.96% 1.92% 1.88%
As % of the Vendors category 2.02% 3.89% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 71 106
10th Percentile £304 £213 £337
25th Percentile £320 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £372 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -32.39% +22.22%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £650
90th Percentile £575 £613 £694
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.46 £17.45
25th Percentile £20.75 £32.30 £27.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +50.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £66.25 £58.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.34
England median hourly rate £26.00 £39.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.67% +13.71% +37.25%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,619 2,856 3,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.23% 49.45% 44.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 1,961 2,360
10th Percentile £213 £205 £185
25th Percentile £386 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year - +2.77% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 131 139
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.13 £20.47 £12.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.75 £35.75
90th Percentile £67.02 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% +83.33% -

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Google in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 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
Hampshire -6 22 £475 +97.92% 26
Thames Valley -17 17 £425 +6.25% 40
Berkshire -33 11 £425 +6.25% 8
Oxfordshire +10 6 £375 - 18
West Sussex +5 6 £463 +8.82% 7
Surrey +3 5 £308 -5.38% 18
Kent +6 3 £450 -7.69% 11
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (28.30%) Confluence
2 4 (7.55%) SAS
3 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.77%) CMS
5 1 (1.89%) Drupal
5 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (7.55%) FastStats
1 4 (7.55%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) GCP
2 16 (30.19%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) AWS
4 7 (13.21%) Google Workspace
4 7 (13.21%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.66%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.77%) Google App Engine
6 2 (3.77%) IaaS
6 2 (3.77%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.77%) PaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.89%) MailChimp
7 1 (1.89%) Miro
7 1 (1.89%) OCI
7 1 (1.89%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.19%) SNMP
1 16 (30.19%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) DNS
3 2 (3.77%) HTTP
3 2 (3.77%) LAN
3 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 2 (3.77%) WAN
3 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.89%) NFC
4 1 (1.89%) PPP
4 1 (1.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.77%) DB2
1 2 (3.77%) MySQL
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) Git
2 17 (32.08%) Eclipse
2 17 (32.08%) GoogleTest
3 16 (30.19%) JIRA
3 16 (30.19%) Robot Framework
4 15 (28.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.89%) Appium
6 1 (1.89%) MSTest
6 1 (1.89%) NUnit
6 1 (1.89%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.89%) Selenium
6 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.89%) TestRail
6 1 (1.89%) Valgrind
6 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Aerospace
3 5 (9.43%) Marketing
4 4 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Software Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Developer
3 7 (13.21%) Java Engineer
3 7 (13.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 2 (3.77%) C++ Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (3.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) CSS
1 18 (33.96%) HTML
2 4 (7.55%) REST
3 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.77%) CSS3
3 2 (3.77%) GWT
3 2 (3.77%) HTML5
3 2 (3.77%) Node.js
3 2 (3.77%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) Restlet
3 2 (3.77%) Spring
3 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Flash
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) SAML
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
4 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.89%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.89%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Software Engineering
2 19 (35.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (28.30%) Agile
3 15 (28.30%) Prototyping
3 15 (28.30%) Scrum
3 15 (28.30%) UML
3 15 (28.30%) Validation
3 15 (28.30%) Verification and Validation
4 14 (26.42%) SysML
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps
6 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.09%) Containerisation
6 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (13.21%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (13.21%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (13.21%) Time Management
7 7 (13.21%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (7.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) JavaScript
2 16 (30.19%) C++
3 13 (24.53%) Java
4 8 (15.09%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) SQL
6 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.66%) Bash
8 2 (3.77%) C#
8 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Firmware
2 8 (15.09%) Docker
3 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Terraform
2 7 (13.21%) Istio
2 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Rancher
3 3 (5.66%) SCCM
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.89%) Ansible
5 1 (1.89%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.89%) Puppet
5 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Atlassian
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) VMware
4 4 (7.55%) Adobe
4 4 (7.55%) Facebook
4 4 (7.55%) Snapchat
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) Meraki
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) Apple
7 1 (1.89%) Aruba
7 1 (1.89%) Citrix
7 1 (1.89%) EMC
7 1 (1.89%) IBM
7 1 (1.89%) Isilon
7 1 (1.89%) NetApp
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam
7 1 (1.89%) Veritas