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 16 May 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 79 108
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 -30
Contract jobs citing Google 25 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.35% 1.03% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.73% 1.89% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 6
10th Percentile £175 £465 £294
25th Percentile £184 £488 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -37.40% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £413 £522 £438
90th Percentile £700 £561 £506
South East median daily rate £509 £508 £375
% change year-on-year +0.30% +35.33% +7.14%

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 917 635 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.62% 54.55% 48.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 393 531
10th Percentile £306 £350 £213
25th Percentile £406 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 15 46
10th Percentile £30.53 £19.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £63.00 £26.83 £30.94
Median hourly rate £88.00 £45.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +95.56% -22.81% -8.67%
75th Percentile - £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £98.50 £83.11 £63.75
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.78% -48.08% +5.56%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -12 14 £306 -35.58%
Reading -17 12 £306 -46.78% 3
Bracknell -1 3 - -
Slough +9 1 £475 - 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) GCP
2 18 (72.00%) AWS
3 16 (64.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) Boomi
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) Google Docs
4 1 (4.00%) Google Sheets
4 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Technology Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) GCP Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
4 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (56.00%) ITIL
2 14 (56.00%) ITSM
2 14 (56.00%) Service Management
3 13 (52.00%) Change Management
3 13 (52.00%) Performance Metrics
4 11 (44.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (16.00%) Agile
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 3 (12.00%) Data Mapping
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
10 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
10 2 (8.00%) Incident Response
10 2 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) Google Apps Script
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Nessus
1 2 (8.00%) OpenVAS
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Qualys
1 2 (8.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.00%) Zscaler