Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GWT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GWT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 714 813
Rank change year-on-year +135 +99 -154
Contract jobs citing GWT 19 5 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.008% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.036% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 28
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £300 £613 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.60% +4.17% -2.82%
75th Percentile £525 £644 £641
90th Percentile £536 £648 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -52.00% +4.17% +4.30%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

GWT is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

GWT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GWT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GWT in the UK

GWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GWT in the UK

GWT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GWT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GWT in the UK

GWT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GWT in the UK

GWT
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWT within the UK 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
England +138 14 £375 -40.00% 2
Work from Home +135 8 £513 -18.00%
UK excluding London +69 6 £300 -52.00% 1
London +104 5 £378 -40.78% 1
South West - 4 £300 - 1
South East +26 1 - -
North of England - 1 £525 -
North West - 1 £525 -

GWT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Back Office
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 14 (73.68%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) Spring
2 17 (89.47%) REST
3 16 (84.21%) Restlet
3 16 (84.21%) SAML
3 16 (84.21%) Spring Boot
4 15 (78.95%) JAX-RS
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) React
6 1 (5.26%) Apache Wicket
6 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.26%) Java EE
6 1 (5.26%) JSF
6 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Insider Threat
2 3 (15.79%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Risk Assessment
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Security
3 5 (26.32%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) UX Design
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.26%) Deadline-Driven
6 1 (5.26%) Design Patterns
6 1 (5.26%) Front End Development
6 1 (5.26%) HOOD
6 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (5.26%) Memory Management
6 1 (5.26%) Microservices
6 1 (5.26%) MVC
6 1 (5.26%) OO
6 1 (5.26%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian