Google Contracts 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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 92 70
Rank change year-on-year +9 -22 +22
Contract jobs citing Google 8 18 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.70% 0.92% 2.47%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.86% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 23
10th Percentile £460 £335 £328
25th Percentile £475 £363 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -23.81%
75th Percentile £544 £438 £594
90th Percentile £570 £499 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -33.33%

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 649 970 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 56.73% 49.46% 51.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 515 567
10th Percentile £350 £232 £325
25th Percentile £450 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £700 £695 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.15% +2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 53 34
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £17.34
25th Percentile £19.91 £20.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +6.43% +28.89%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £65.20 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -52.63% +5.56% +125.00%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Google in Berkshire

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Google in Berkshire

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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
Bracknell - 3 - - 12
Wokingham - 3 £475 - 4
Reading +20 1 £575 +43.75% 65
Google
South East

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Miro
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) DBeaver
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) ERwin
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) NumPy
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Prophet
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSK
1 1 (12.50%) CEH
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) GIAC
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) CASB
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft