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 9 August 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 88 96
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 35 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.79% 0.66% 1.04%
As % of the Vendors category 3.60% 1.14% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 9
10th Percentile £448 £458 £335
25th Percentile £455 £469 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +21.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £583 £522 £438
90th Percentile £700 £561 £499
South East median daily rate £525 £425 £388
% change year-on-year +23.53% +9.68% +13.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £24.01 - -
25th Percentile £39.98 - -
Median hourly rate £68.22 - -
75th Percentile £76.41 - -
90th Percentile £80.36 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.64 £18.82 £70.00
% change year-on-year +158.46% -73.11% +116.58%

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 971 701 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.74% 57.70% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 434 493
10th Percentile £310 £350 £285
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £696 £738
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 25 42
10th Percentile £25.33 £14.48 £14.50
25th Percentile £54.00 £14.75 £18.91
Median hourly rate £85.00 £19.91 £58.40
Median % change year-on-year +326.92% -65.90% +4.17%
75th Percentile £88.00 £32.31 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.20 £51.10 £68.48
South East median hourly rate £56.00 £19.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +194.74% -66.87% +27.44%

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 9 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in Berkshire

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 9 August 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
Reading -5 20 £490 -6.67% 17
Wokingham -11 6 £549 +15.53%
Slough - 3 £460 - 1
Windsor - 2 £450 - 5
Bracknell - 1 - -
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 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (91.43%) GCP
2 26 (74.29%) AWS
2 26 (74.29%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (17.14%) Route 53
6 3 (8.57%) Apigee
6 3 (8.57%) Azure API Management
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.57%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.71%) Datadog
7 2 (5.71%) dbt
7 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
7 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) DNS
1 6 (17.14%) DNSSEC
1 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
2 4 (11.43%) DHCP
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 4 (11.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) Metadata
2 2 (5.71%) Tableau
2 2 (5.71%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 5 (14.29%) Publishing
3 5 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Data Integration Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Integration Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Apigee Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) GCP Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) OAuth
1 4 (11.43%) SAML
2 3 (8.57%) JWT
2 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
2 3 (8.57%) OpenAPI
2 3 (8.57%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) RESTful
2 3 (8.57%) SOAP
2 3 (8.57%) Swagger
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (37.14%) DevOps
2 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.86%) Analytics
5 8 (22.86%) Incident Response
5 8 (22.86%) Migration
5 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.14%) Data Protection
7 6 (17.14%) DDoS Mitigation
7 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.14%) Microservices
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
3 8 (22.86%) Bash
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 5 (14.29%) Degree
5 4 (11.43%) CISSP
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.71%) CCSP
7 2 (5.71%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (2.86%) CEH
8 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.86%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Terraform
2 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) CASB
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Nessus
5 1 (2.86%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Infoblox
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.71%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.86%) Qualys
5 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.86%) SAP