Google Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Google
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Google 7 15 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.45% 7.46% -
As % of the Vendors category 6.14% 22.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% -27.24%

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 114 67 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 56.16% 33.33% 28.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 24
10th Percentile £338 £317 £133
25th Percentile £438 £408 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £471
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% -0.37% -0.79%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £531
90th Percentile £700 £638 £571
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £480 £488
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £18.18 £38.75 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.19 £51.25 £15.76
Median hourly rate £29.75 £57.50 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year -48.26% +249.17% -0.02%
75th Percentile £37.69 £72.19 £17.12
90th Percentile £41.93 £75.00 £17.24
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.85 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +16.14% +11.93% -6.45%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Google job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Artifactory
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Task Automation
1 6 (85.71%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (57.14%) Case Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Data Enrichment
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) SOAR
2 4 (57.14%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat