Google Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Google
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Google 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.92% - 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.45% - 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% -7.69%

All Vendors
Bedfordshire

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 138 99 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 63.30% 54.10% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 56 64
10th Percentile £209 £381 £313
25th Percentile £411 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +5.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £513
90th Percentile £650 £675 £557
East of England median daily rate £523 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 0
10th Percentile £37.90 £39.68 -
25th Percentile £49.74 £51.18 -
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.33 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.47% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.01 -
90th Percentile £98.80 £69.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.02 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +29.48% -63.53% +84.46%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Google job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 £625 - 1
Google
East of England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI