Google Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Google
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 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
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 65 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 -22 +31
Contract jobs citing Google 7 1 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.86% 0.13% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 1.97% 0.31% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 23
10th Percentile £365 - £353
25th Percentile £375 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.07%
75th Percentile £432 - £578
90th Percentile £465 - £690
England median daily rate £478 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.05% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.25 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £14.00
75th Percentile £20.75 - £15.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -67.77% +105.88% -2.86%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 355 320 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.77% 41.78% 50.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 188 297
10th Percentile £209 £263 £198
25th Percentile £332 £361 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £594
90th Percentile £638 £626 £693
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 26
10th Percentile £17.12 £12.75 £11.52
25th Percentile £18.60 £14.37 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.00 £16.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% +2.35% -5.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.37 £56.25
90th Percentile - £48.83 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +83.52%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the East Midlands

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Leicestershire - 3 £475 - 3
Nottinghamshire 0 2 £411 - 6
Northamptonshire - 2 £367 - 5
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Power Query
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) EDI
2 1 (14.29%) Enzyme
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Redux
2 1 (14.29%) Sass
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (14.29%) SEO
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe