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 6 November 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 91 98
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Google 22 20 24
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.67% 1.24% 1.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 2.47% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 13
10th Percentile £163 £369 £351
25th Percentile £214 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% -13.33% -21.74%
75th Percentile £322 £400 £638
90th Percentile £449 £456 £693
South East median daily rate £307 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -23.38% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
South East median hourly rate £16.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -77.14% +21.74% +61.97%

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 831 811 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 63.00% 50.47% 53.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 465 552
10th Percentile £293 £331 £205
25th Percentile £425 £430 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £513
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.98% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 34
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.20 £18.64
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £20.79 £58.30 £62.40
Median % change year-on-year -64.34% -6.56% +78.83%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.60 £68.63
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.62 £76.72
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +88.38%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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
Wokingham - 11 £310 - 3
Reading +19 10 £313 -20.36% 14
Slough -2 1 £150 - 169
Bracknell -8 1 - -
Maidenhead - 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 3 (13.64%) Apache
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) GCP
2 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (9.09%) IaaS
3 2 (9.09%) PaaS
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Datadog
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Big Data
1 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Mocha
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Arabic Language
4 1 (4.55%) Brand Awareness
4 1 (4.55%) Dutch Language
4 1 (4.55%) French Language
4 1 (4.55%) German Language
4 1 (4.55%) Italian Language
4 1 (4.55%) Japanese Language
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Polish Language
4 1 (4.55%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Spanish Language
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Junior
3 1 (4.55%) Junior IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing Executive
3 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Support
3 1 (4.55%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) NumPy
1 3 (13.64%) Pandas
1 3 (13.64%) scikit-learn
2 2 (9.09%) Jinja
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Fastify
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Jest
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) Swagger
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Blog
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Kali Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Change Management
1 11 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (50.00%) ITSM
1 11 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (50.00%) Service Management
2 10 (45.45%) ITIL
3 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
4 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Data Science
4 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (22.73%) Decision-Making
4 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (18.18%) Use Case
6 3 (13.64%) Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Degree
3 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CEH
5 1 (4.55%) CISSP
5 1 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) logstash
2 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Nmap
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow