Google Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Google
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Google 6 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.56% 4.86% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.97% 10.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £383 -
25th Percentile £153 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% - -
75th Percentile £158 £603 -
90th Percentile - £691 -
East of England median daily rate £538 £425 £563
% change year-on-year +26.47% -24.44% -14.77%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 151 152 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 39.22% 46.20% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 29
10th Percentile £197 £313 £154
25th Percentile £363 £413 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £650
90th Percentile £661 £650 £704
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 52 37
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £19.48 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £15.98
90th Percentile £45.15 £21.46 £23.27
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £40.31
% change year-on-year -0.45% -50.38% +57.95%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Google job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Cambridge -21 4 - - 1
Google
East of England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
2 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Signage
2 1 (16.67%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (66.67%) Case Management
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Data Enrichment
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) SOAR
1 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow