Google Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 91 85
Rank change year-on-year -32 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Google 264 637 1,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.75% 2.54% 2.97%
As % of the Vendors category 4.11% 5.88% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 462 939
10th Percentile £323 £313 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% +4.86%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £688 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 23
10th Percentile £23.80 - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.58 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% +50.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £54.57 £45.00
90th Percentile £51.50 £58.75 £54.40
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% +29.63%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,417 10,829 17,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.51% 43.10% 39.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 7,281 11,786
10th Percentile £325 £325 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 257 253
10th Percentile £13.72 £17.50 £13.58
25th Percentile £16.70 £31.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.12 £54.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.53% +50.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%

Google
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google.

Google daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Google over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Google daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google.

Google hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Google over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Google hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (5.30%) Confluence
2 7 (2.65%) WordPress
3 6 (2.27%) Apache Solr
4 5 (1.89%) Drupal
4 5 (1.89%) nginx
4 5 (1.89%) SAS
5 4 (1.52%) CMS
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.38%) Apache
Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.52%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.76%) Trello
6 1 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.38%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.14%) FastStats
1 3 (1.14%) Shopify
1 3 (1.14%) Unica
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 164 (62.12%) GCP
2 62 (23.48%) AWS
3 57 (21.59%) Azure
4 46 (17.42%) Google Analytics
5 27 (10.23%) Google Workspace
6 26 (9.85%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.58%) SaaS
8 14 (5.30%) IaaS
8 14 (5.30%) PaaS
9 12 (4.55%) GitHub
9 12 (4.55%) Google Sheets
10 10 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (3.79%) dbt
11 9 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.03%) Apigee
13 7 (2.65%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (2.27%) Serverless
15 5 (1.89%) Google Docs
15 5 (1.89%) Google Tag Manager
15 5 (1.89%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.17%) Firewall
3 9 (3.41%) HTTP
4 7 (2.65%) VoIP
5 6 (2.27%) DNS
6 5 (1.89%) CTI
6 5 (1.89%) WAN
7 4 (1.52%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.52%) IPsec
7 4 (1.52%) LAN
7 4 (1.52%) tcpdump
7 4 (1.52%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.14%) DHCP
8 3 (1.14%) Multicast
8 3 (1.14%) Network Security
8 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.14%) SSL
8 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 26 (9.85%) Power BI
3 19 (7.20%) Looker
4 18 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.30%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.30%) Tableau
6 13 (4.92%) MySQL
7 8 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.65%) Big Data
8 7 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.89%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.89%) GIS
9 5 (1.89%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.52%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.14%) Bigtable
11 3 (1.14%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.14%) OLAP
11 3 (1.14%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Git
2 19 (7.20%) JIRA
3 17 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.65%) GitLab
4 7 (2.65%) Maven
5 5 (1.89%) Postman
6 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.52%) IDA Disassembler
7 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.14%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.14%) GoogleTest
7 3 (1.14%) JMeter
7 3 (1.14%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.76%) gulp
8 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.38%) Darcs
9 1 (0.38%) ESLint
9 1 (0.38%) Lerna
9 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 67 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.39%) Finance
3 33 (12.50%) Retail
4 27 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.58%) Banking
6 19 (7.20%) Legal
6 19 (7.20%) Marketing
7 17 (6.44%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.65%) Advertising
10 6 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.89%) Back Office
12 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Electronics
14 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.76%) Publishing
14 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (21.59%) Developer
2 43 (16.29%) Architect
3 28 (10.61%) Senior
4 23 (8.71%) Analyst
5 19 (7.20%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.30%) Data Architect
8 11 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 11 (4.17%) GCP Developer
8 11 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.79%) Lead
10 9 (3.41%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.65%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.65%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.65%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.65%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.47%) REST
2 19 (7.20%) SAML
3 17 (6.44%) CSS
3 17 (6.44%) Node.js
4 16 (6.06%) Spring
5 14 (5.30%) HTML
6 13 (4.92%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.55%) JSON
7 12 (4.55%) Restlet
7 12 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.55%) Web Services
8 11 (4.17%) GWT
8 11 (4.17%) React
9 10 (3.79%) JAX-RS
9 10 (3.79%) RESTful
10 8 (3.03%) jQuery
10 8 (3.03%) Swagger
11 7 (2.65%) Middleware
11 7 (2.65%) YAML
12 6 (2.27%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 10 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.27%) Educational Technology
5 6 (2.27%) IVR
5 6 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.52%) YARA
7 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.58%) Linux
2 16 (6.06%) Windows
3 8 (3.03%) Unix
4 4 (1.52%) Android
4 4 (1.52%) CentOS
5 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (26.14%) Analytics
2 58 (21.97%) Agile
3 43 (16.29%) DevOps
4 39 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (12.88%) Migration
6 30 (11.36%) CI/CD
7 26 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (8.71%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 21 (7.95%) Computer Science
11 20 (7.58%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.20%) Decision-Making
12 19 (7.20%) ETL
12 19 (7.20%) Machine Learning
13 17 (6.44%) Data Engineering
14 16 (6.06%) Front End Development
14 16 (6.06%) Microservices
14 16 (6.06%) Visualisation
15 15 (5.68%) Mentoring
15 15 (5.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.97%) Python
2 42 (15.91%) SQL
3 41 (15.53%) Java
4 38 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.03%) PHP
7 6 (2.27%) Bash
8 5 (1.89%) C#
8 5 (1.89%) Go
9 4 (1.52%) C++
9 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.52%) R
10 3 (1.14%) Groovy
10 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.76%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.76%) Ruby
11 2 (0.76%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (14.77%) Degree
2 16 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (5.68%) PMI Certification
3 15 (5.68%) PMP
3 15 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.92%) APMP
5 9 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
9 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.44%) QA
2 14 (5.30%) GDPR
3 12 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.79%) NIST
5 6 (2.27%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.52%) WCAG
8 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.76%) PMO
9 2 (0.76%) SLA
10 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (9.85%) Docker
2 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Snort
4 3 (1.14%) Firmware
4 3 (1.14%) zsh
5 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.58%) Terraform
3 17 (6.44%) Ansible
4 14 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.27%) Kibana
6 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Grafana
7 2 (0.76%) logstash
7 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.76%) Salt
8 1 (0.38%) CASB
8 1 (0.38%) Consul
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.38%) Packer
8 1 (0.38%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 21 (7.95%) Oracle
4 15 (5.68%) Adobe
5 9 (3.41%) Cisco
5 9 (3.41%) Genesys
6 8 (3.03%) Splunk
7 6 (2.27%) Databricks
7 6 (2.27%) Omniture
8 5 (1.89%) Avaya
8 5 (1.89%) Facebook
8 5 (1.89%) Monetate
8 5 (1.89%) Optimizely
8 5 (1.89%) SAP
9 4 (1.52%) Ensighten
9 4 (1.52%) F5
9 4 (1.52%) Tealium
10 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.14%) Snapchat