Google Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Google
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 25 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 61 75
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Google 10 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.72% 1.61% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 4.39% 4.44% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £251 £375 £283
25th Percentile £309 £391 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £431 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -28.17% +46.34%
75th Percentile £519 £574 £644
90th Percentile - £618 £667
Scotland median daily rate £460 £471 £467
% change year-on-year -2.39% +0.91% +11.19%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 228 225 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.18% 36.17% 43.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 108 226
10th Percentile £294 £159 £164
25th Percentile £413 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.52% +0.90%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £668 £685 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £498
% change year-on-year - -9.55% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 9
10th Percentile £17.11 £19.84 £16.00
25th Percentile - £21.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +34.28% -5.49%
75th Percentile £37.88 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.38 £27.12 £60.30
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.61% +33.13% -

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Google job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Edinburgh

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (70.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Apigee
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Google Play
4 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Slack
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Liquibase
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) CocoaPods
3 1 (10.00%) Gradle
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iOS Android Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Java Android Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Mobile Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Jest
3 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) React Native
3 1 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Development
4 1 (10.00%) OCR
4 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Go
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) Swift
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
4 1 (10.00%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI