Google Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Google
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 29 August 2026, 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs citing Google 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 4.14% - 2.34%
As % of the Vendors category 13.46% - 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +390.74%
75th Percentile - - £895
90th Percentile - - £967
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 - £663
% change year-on-year - - +39.47%

All Vendors
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 52 24 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 30.77% 28.92% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 10 25
10th Percentile £380 £278 £313
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £608 £688
90th Percentile £585 £632 £733
Gloucestershire median daily rate £470 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +8.05% -17.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.80%
75th Percentile £76.75 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.72% -48.57% +48.07%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Google job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes