Google Contract Job Trends 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 22 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 66 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 -9
Contract jobs citing Google 20 27 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.44% 1.93% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 2.96% 4.38% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £251 £315 £277
25th Percentile £384 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £675
90th Percentile £638 £613 £888
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £16.58 - -
25th Percentile £18.10 - -
Median hourly rate £21.28 - -
75th Percentile £22.24 - -
90th Percentile £22.43 - -
England median hourly rate £21.92 £70.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -68.69% +116.58% -7.66%

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 676 616 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.56% 44.00% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 265 433
10th Percentile £200 £240 £190
25th Percentile £400 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £610
90th Percentile £675 £650 £735
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 140 97
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.98 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.62 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.28 £16.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% -63.53% +97.78%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.20
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.81% +76.80%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Google job vacancy trend in the East of England

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the East of England

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Google
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 22 October 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
Hertfordshire -4 11 £375 - 8
Cambridgeshire -11 7 £500 -13.04% 9
Bedfordshire - 2 £625 - 4
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (15.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (15.00%) CMS
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
1 3 (15.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) GCP
3 7 (35.00%) Google Workspace
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (15.00%) Contentsquare
5 3 (15.00%) Google Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
6 2 (10.00%) ChatGPT
6 2 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Metadata
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Publishing
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) IT Support
3 4 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Junior
3 4 (20.00%) Junior IT Support
3 4 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Junior IT Support Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Junior Support Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) iPad
1 5 (25.00%) iPhone
2 3 (15.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Signage
4 1 (5.00%) Midjourney
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Analytics
1 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
2 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (25.00%) ITSM
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (20.00%) AI
3 4 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Content Management
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.00%) SEO
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (25.00%) MobileIron
3 5 (25.00%) Nexthink
4 4 (20.00%) Adobe
5 3 (15.00%) IBM
5 3 (15.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (15.00%) Splunk
6 2 (10.00%) Foundry
7 1 (5.00%) Amplitude
7 1 (5.00%) Citrix
7 1 (5.00%) VMware
7 1 (5.00%) Wyse