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 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 89 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing Google 7 23 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 1.37% 1.89%
As % of the Vendors category 1.05% 2.67% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 16
10th Percentile £214 £363 £325
25th Percentile £309 £385 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -13.33% -20.18%
75th Percentile £488 £428 £600
90th Percentile £510 £486 £681
South East median daily rate £225 £390 £350
% change year-on-year -42.31% +11.43% -28.57%

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 665 861 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.38% 51.13% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 468 571
10th Percentile £300 £321 £248
25th Percentile £420 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +7.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £633
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 29
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.30 £18.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £27.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £19.81 £58.49 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.13% -0.44% -4.47%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.60 £66.44
90th Percentile £39.98 £75.17 £72.91
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £51.96
% change year-on-year -67.10% +10.37% +159.80%

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
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 September 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 16 September 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
Reading +11 3 £475 +18.75% 2
Slough -2 1 £150 - 50
Maidenhead - 1 - -
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Jinja
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Fastify
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) DataOps
3 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
2 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk