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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 113 77
Rank change year-on-year +32 -36 +22
Contract jobs citing Google 12 11 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.55% 2.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.95% 1.13% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 24
10th Percentile £465 £281 £340
25th Percentile £488 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -14.92% -0.10%
75th Percentile £522 £472 £628
90th Percentile £561 £534 £709
South East median daily rate £508 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +19.41% +6.25% -27.27%

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 616 971 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.51% 48.94% 51.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 559 595
10th Percentile £350 £211 £350
25th Percentile £450 £359 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £644
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 46 36
10th Percentile £18.92 £17.30 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £51.66 £31.31
Median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.09 £64.15 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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 1 May 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 - 4 - - 3
Wokingham - 3 £475 - 1
Reading +22 2 £575 +35.29% 27
Slough - 1 - - 21
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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Miro
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Google Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) 3GPP
2 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) HBase
4 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
4 1 (8.33%) Impala
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) DBeaver
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) ERwin
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Web Manager
3 1 (8.33%) WebOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Prophet
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Time Series Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) CCSK
1 1 (8.33%) CEH
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) GIAC
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Flume
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) CASB
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Amdocs
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (8.33%) Mavenir
2 1 (8.33%) Rakuten
2 1 (8.33%) Samsung
2 1 (8.33%) StreamSets