The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Google over the 3 months to 19 June 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 currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google
Rank 257 301 348
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +47
Contract jobs citing Google 327 316 277
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.680% 0.544% 0.445%
As % of the Vendors category 1.443% 1.169% 0.947%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 175 156
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £700 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 13
Average hourly rate £23.13 £30.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.18% +1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £16.50 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £42.75 £45.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-29.92% +10.00%
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22661 27024 29251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.10% 46.57% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12046 13666 14795
Average daily rate £396 £388 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.19% -4.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1322 1627
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.20 £11.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%

Google
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Google Daily Rate Trend

Google
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Google within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Google Daily Rate Histogram

Google
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Google Hourly Rate Trend

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Google within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Google Hourly Rate Histogram

Google
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +31 319 £375 +7.14% 241
London +72 235 £388 +3.33% 130
City of London +19 51 £358 -13.21% 25
South East +19 32 £313 +19.04% 29
East Midlands +13 16 - - 7
Northamptonshire +19 13 - - 2
Northampton +15 13 - - 2
Hampshire +5 13 £250 - 10
South West +9 10 £275 -60.71% 15
Surrey +20 9 £375 +25.00% 9
West Midlands +10 9 £250 +11.11% 13
East of England +8 9 £225 -25.00% 15
Southampton - 6 £250 - 2
Hertfordshire +16 5 £350 -22.22% 4
Scotland -7 5 £226 - 5
Yorkshire -16 5 £425 +41.66% 7
Basingstoke - 5 - - 4
Coventry - 5 £250 - 1
Bristol +19 4 £230 +9.52% 2
Oxfordshire +5 4 £165 -52.85% 1
North Yorkshire +3 4 £425 -
Berkshire +3 4 £390 +45.11% 5
Reading +9 3 - - 1
Birmingham +7 3 £263 - 7
Manchester +7 3 - - 16
North West +7 3 - - 25
Bromley +3 2 £225 -
Devon 0 2 £300 +50.00% 1
Warwickshire -4 2 £313 +38.88% 2
Dorset - 2 £250 - 2

Google
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 197 (32.30%) Java
2 179 (29.34%) Analytics
3 172 (28.20%) JavaScript
3 172 (28.20%) CSS
4 166 (27.21%) Google Analytics
5 142 (23.28%) Android
6 139 (22.79%) HTML
7 110 (18.03%) jQuery
8 103 (16.89%) SQL
8 103 (16.89%) OO
9 91 (14.92%) MVC
9 91 (14.92%) SEO
10 87 (14.26%) Marketing
11 84 (13.77%) HTML5
12 83 (13.61%) Facebook
13 78 (12.79%) XML
14 74 (12.13%) PHP
15 72 (11.80%) Agile Software Development
16 71 (11.64%) Social Media
17 69 (11.31%) TDD
17 69 (11.31%) Scrum
17 69 (11.31%) Apple iOS
18 68 (11.15%) Microsoft
19 67 (10.98%) Web Services
19 67 (10.98%) Google Maps API
20 66 (10.82%) CMS
21 65 (10.66%) CSS3
22 61 (10.00%) Mobile App
22 61 (10.00%) Web Analytics
23 58 (9.508%) Omniture

Google
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 172 (28.20%) CSS
2 139 (22.79%) HTML
3 110 (18.03%) jQuery
4 84 (13.77%) HTML5
5 78 (12.79%) XML
6 67 (10.98%) Web Services
6 67 (10.98%) Google Maps API
7 65 (10.66%) CSS3
8 56 (9.180%) Spring
9 54 (8.852%) JSON
10 51 (8.361%) .NET
11 42 (6.885%) Hibernate
12 41 (6.721%) ASP.NET
12 41 (6.721%) Ajax
13 39 (6.393%) SOAP
14 38 (6.230%) GWT
15 34 (5.574%) J2EE
16 27 (4.426%) RESTful
16 27 (4.426%) XHTML
17 25 (4.098%) REST
Application Platforms
1 66 (10.82%) CMS
2 32 (5.246%) Apache
3 28 (4.590%) Google App Engine
4 27 (4.426%) Windows Azure
5 23 (3.770%) Umbraco
6 20 (3.279%) Drupal
7 18 (2.951%) SharePoint
7 18 (2.951%) WordPress
8 16 (2.623%) IIS
9 14 (2.295%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.967%) Alfresco
10 12 (1.967%) Amazon AWS
11 11 (1.803%) Sitecore CMS
11 11 (1.803%) ESB
12 8 (1.311%) Tomcat
12 8 (1.311%) MS Exchange
12 8 (1.311%) OpenStack
12 8 (1.311%) CloudStack
13 7 (1.148%) ExpressionEngine
13 7 (1.148%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (6.230%) Photoshop
2 31 (5.082%) Google Apps
3 27 (4.426%) MS Excel
4 23 (3.770%) MS PowerPoint
5 16 (2.623%) Adobe Illustrator
6 13 (2.131%) Office 365
7 12 (1.967%) MS Office
8 8 (1.311%) MS Project
9 6 (0.984%) CATIA
9 6 (0.984%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.492%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.492%) Fireworks
10 3 (0.492%) QuarkXPress
11 2 (0.328%) SPSS
11 2 (0.328%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.328%) FreeHand
12 1 (0.164%) Mingle
12 1 (0.164%) InDesign
12 1 (0.164%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 166 (27.21%) Google Analytics
2 38 (6.230%) WebTrends
3 23 (3.770%) SiteCatalyst
4 6 (0.984%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.492%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.164%) SAP cProjects
6 1 (0.164%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.164%) Tridion
6 1 (0.164%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.590%) Internet
2 20 (3.279%) Intranet
3 8 (1.311%) VPN
3 8 (1.311%) DNS
3 8 (1.311%) HTTP
4 7 (1.148%) SSL
5 6 (0.984%) NFC
6 4 (0.656%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.656%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.492%) Firewall
8 2 (0.328%) PBX
8 2 (0.328%) VoIP
8 2 (0.328%) Wireless
8 2 (0.328%) Extranet
9 1 (0.164%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.164%) NetScreen
9 1 (0.164%) 3G
9 1 (0.164%) SAN
9 1 (0.164%) WAN
9 1 (0.164%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.213%) MySQL
2 42 (6.885%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.967%) Data Mining
4 10 (1.639%) Data Mart
5 9 (1.475%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.475%) Big Data
6 6 (0.984%) SQLite
7 5 (0.820%) MarkLogic
7 5 (0.820%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.656%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (0.656%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.656%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.656%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (0.656%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.492%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (0.492%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.492%) GIS
9 3 (0.492%) DB2
9 3 (0.492%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (0.328%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (6.230%) Git (software)
2 36 (5.902%) Subversion
2 36 (5.902%) Eclipse
3 28 (4.590%) Maven
4 26 (4.262%) JUnit
5 25 (4.098%) Visual Studio
6 18 (2.951%) Hudson
7 17 (2.787%) Team Foundation Server
8 14 (2.295%) Jasmine
8 14 (2.295%) MSBuild
9 13 (2.131%) NUnit
10 12 (1.967%) Mockito
11 7 (1.148%) Jenkins
11 7 (1.148%) JIRA
12 6 (0.984%) NetBeans
13 5 (0.820%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.820%) Xcode
13 5 (0.820%) jMock
14 4 (0.656%) Firebug
14 4 (0.656%) Mercurial
General
1 87 (14.26%) Marketing
2 40 (6.557%) Finance
3 33 (5.410%) Games
4 32 (5.246%) Banking
5 23 (3.770%) Publishing
6 19 (3.115%) Back Office
7 17 (2.787%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.459%) Retail
9 14 (2.295%) French Language
10 12 (1.967%) Advertising
11 10 (1.639%) German Language
12 6 (0.984%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.492%) Front Office
13 3 (0.492%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.492%) Music Industry
14 2 (0.328%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.164%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.164%) Electronics
15 1 (0.164%) Automotive
15 1 (0.164%) Law
Job Titles
1 309 (50.66%) Developer
2 98 (16.07%) Analyst
3 94 (15.41%) Android Developer
4 70 (11.48%) Java Developer
5 49 (8.033%) Web Developer
6 44 (7.213%) Web Analyst
7 32 (5.246%) Senior Developer
8 28 (4.590%) Consultant
9 27 (4.426%) .NET Developer
10 25 (4.098%) Architect
11 21 (3.443%) PHP Developer
12 19 (3.115%) Front-End Developer
13 18 (2.951%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.459%) Programmer
15 14 (2.295%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.295%) Junior
16 13 (2.131%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.131%) ASP.NET Developer
16 13 (2.131%) Senior Java Developer
17 12 (1.967%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.64%) Social Media
2 61 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 30 (4.918%) Open Source
4 27 (4.426%) Social Network
5 26 (4.262%) Computer Science
6 25 (4.098%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (3.279%) Digital Media
8 18 (2.951%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.787%) Blackberry
9 17 (2.787%) Management Information System
10 15 (2.459%) iPhone
11 14 (2.295%) SaaS
12 11 (1.803%) IaaS
13 10 (1.639%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.639%) iPad
14 9 (1.475%) PaaS
14 9 (1.475%) Streaming Video
15 7 (1.148%) Mathematics
16 6 (0.984%) Online Games
16 6 (0.984%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 142 (23.28%) Android
2 69 (11.31%) Apple iOS
3 47 (7.705%) Windows
4 34 (5.574%) Linux
5 21 (3.443%) UNIX
6 11 (1.803%) Windows 7
7 7 (1.148%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.820%) Solaris
9 4 (0.656%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.656%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.492%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.492%) Windows XP
10 3 (0.492%) Windows Mobile
11 2 (0.328%) OS/2
11 2 (0.328%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.328%) Windows Phone 8
11 2 (0.328%) Windows Phone
12 1 (0.164%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (29.34%) Analytics
2 103 (16.89%) OO
3 91 (14.92%) MVC
3 91 (14.92%) SEO
4 72 (11.80%) Agile Software Development
5 69 (11.31%) TDD
5 69 (11.31%) Scrum
6 61 (10.00%) Web Analytics
7 51 (8.361%) E-Commerce
8 49 (8.033%) Web Development
9 38 (6.230%) OOP
9 38 (6.230%) SOA
10 36 (5.902%) Content Management
10 36 (5.902%) Project Management
11 28 (4.590%) Migration
11 28 (4.590%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (4.262%) Online Marketing
13 23 (3.770%) Pay per click
13 23 (3.770%) Digital Marketing
14 22 (3.607%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 197 (32.30%) Java
2 172 (28.20%) JavaScript
3 103 (16.89%) SQL
4 74 (12.13%) PHP
5 56 (9.180%) C#
6 42 (6.885%) C++
7 33 (5.410%) Python
8 23 (3.770%) Objective-C
9 18 (2.951%) Scala
10 17 (2.787%) Groovy
10 17 (2.787%) C
11 15 (2.459%) Ruby
12 14 (2.295%) Lua
13 13 (2.131%) PHP5
14 8 (1.311%) VBA
15 7 (1.148%) ActionScript
16 6 (0.984%) XPath
16 6 (0.984%) ActionScript 3.0
17 3 (0.492%) ActionScript 2.0
17 3 (0.492%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (7.705%) Degree
2 13 (2.131%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (1.967%) PMP
3 12 (1.967%) PMI Certification
4 5 (0.820%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.820%) MCITP
5 4 (0.656%) MCTS
6 3 (0.492%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.328%) PhD
7 2 (0.328%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.164%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.164%) MBA
8 1 (0.164%) ISEB
8 1 (0.164%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.164%) HND
8 1 (0.164%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.607%) QA
2 7 (1.148%) HL7
3 6 (0.984%) SLA
4 2 (0.328%) WAI
5 1 (0.164%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (2.295%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.475%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.311%) Xen
3 8 (1.311%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.656%) UAG
5 3 (0.492%) Varnish
6 1 (0.164%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (1.475%) SCOM
2 3 (0.492%) HP SiteScope
3 2 (0.328%) SCCM
4 1 (0.164%) Splunk
4 1 (0.164%) Puppet
4 1 (0.164%) AppDNA
4 1 (0.164%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.164%) WSUS
4 1 (0.164%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 83 (13.61%) Facebook
2 68 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 58 (9.508%) Omniture
4 55 (9.016%) Twitter
5 48 (7.869%) Oracle
6 31 (5.082%) IBM
7 30 (4.918%) Adobe
8 18 (2.951%) Coremetrics
8 18 (2.951%) Apple
9 14 (2.295%) Sitecore
10 13 (2.131%) Zend
11 10 (1.639%) Unica
12 9 (1.475%) VMware
13 8 (1.311%) Citrix
14 7 (1.148%) Business Objects
14 7 (1.148%) Interwoven
15 6 (0.984%) Lombardi
15 6 (0.984%) JBoss
15 6 (0.984%) Sybase
15 6 (0.984%) ATG
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