Google Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Google
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 January 2026, 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 85 121
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 -37
Contract jobs citing Google 45 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.01% 1.18% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 4.88% 2.45% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 2
10th Percentile £175 £385 £393
25th Percentile £184 £387 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £390 £398
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -1.89% -32.05%
75th Percentile £322 £398 £399
90th Percentile £374 £500 £400
South East median daily rate £313 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -37.40% -9.09% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
South East median hourly rate £14.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -77.60% - +18.48%

All Vendors
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 923 693 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.78% 48.02% 54.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 433 570
10th Percentile £293 £315 £205
25th Percentile £413 £432 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £622
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 39
10th Percentile £14.50 £26.25 £24.90
25th Percentile £18.33 £35.75 £54.78
Median hourly rate £28.81 £56.75 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -49.24% -8.16% +16.58%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.09 £67.09
90th Percentile £95.25 £65.62 £75.42
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -47.65% -24.65% +111.00%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Google job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Berkshire

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Wokingham - 31 £306 - 1
Reading +23 21 £306 -20.73% 1
Slough -2 2 £313 - 20
Bracknell -10 2 - -
Google
South East

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) Apache
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (93.33%) GCP
2 37 (82.22%) AWS
2 37 (82.22%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) Google Analytics
3 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (4.44%) IaaS
3 2 (4.44%) PaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Boomi
4 1 (2.22%) Datadog
4 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) GitHub
4 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Big Data
1 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Mocha
General
1 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Arabic Language
4 2 (4.44%) Brand Awareness
4 2 (4.44%) Dutch Language
4 2 (4.44%) French Language
4 2 (4.44%) German Language
4 2 (4.44%) Italian Language
4 2 (4.44%) Japanese Language
4 2 (4.44%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Polish Language
4 2 (4.44%) Portuguese Language
4 2 (4.44%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Lead
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Consultant
2 6 (13.33%) Consultant
2 6 (13.33%) Technology Consultant
3 3 (6.67%) Analyst
3 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Data Scientist
4 2 (4.44%) Marketing Executive
4 2 (4.44%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.22%) Developer
5 1 (2.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (2.22%) IT Support
5 1 (2.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Junior
5 1 (2.22%) Junior IT Support
5 1 (2.22%) Junior Support Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.22%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) NumPy
1 3 (6.67%) Pandas
1 3 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.44%) Jinja
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) Fastify
3 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.22%) Jest
3 1 (2.22%) Node.js
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth
3 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.22%) OpenID
3 1 (2.22%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) Swagger
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
3 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 3 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.44%) Blog
2 2 (4.44%) Social Media
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) ITSM
1 32 (71.11%) Service Management
2 31 (68.89%) Change Management
2 31 (68.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (68.89%) ITIL
2 31 (68.89%) Performance Metrics
3 21 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (42.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (13.33%) Agile
7 5 (11.11%) Data Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.89%) Data Science
8 4 (8.89%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
8 4 (8.89%) DevOps
8 4 (8.89%) Use Case
8 4 (8.89%) Visualisation
9 3 (6.67%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (57.78%) SC Cleared
1 26 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) CEH
4 1 (2.22%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) GRC
1 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Ansible
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) logstash
3 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Nmap
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) HubSpot
1 2 (4.44%) Splunk
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.22%) VMware