Google Contracts in the East of England

Google
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 84 90
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Google 19 28 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.03% 1.47% 1.60%
As % of the Vendors category 3.79% 3.93% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 23
10th Percentile £272 £326 £235
25th Percentile £314 £485 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -0.94% +31.68%
75th Percentile £503 £600 £700
90th Percentile £588 £675 -
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.95 £11.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.82 £11.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.65% -47.73% +31.34%
75th Percentile £21.61 £23.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £25.96 £62.30 -
England median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Google in the East of England

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the East of England

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire - 7 £413 - 29
Hertfordshire +30 5 - - 32
Essex -1 5 £400 -21.95% 12
Suffolk -8 2 - - 3
Google
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) GCP
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Google Workspace
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) Google Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Vertex AI
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
1 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.53%) Looker
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Agile Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Junior IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) SEO Executive
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) NumPy
2 2 (10.53%) Pandas
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) iPad
1 5 (26.32%) iPhone
2 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
2 5 (26.32%) ITSM
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Proactive Maintenance
3 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) Workload Management
5 2 (10.53%) Open Source
5 2 (10.53%) SIEM
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 2 (10.53%) Workflow
5 2 (10.53%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) Perl
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) logstash
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) MobileIron
1 5 (26.32%) Nexthink
1 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) IBM
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Apple
5 1 (5.26%) Screaming Frog