Google Contracts in England

Google
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 127 104
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +10
Contract jobs citing Google 611 681 1,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.51% 1.83% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 5.29% 4.34% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 444 860
10th Percentile £242 £252 £313
25th Percentile £393 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £727 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 56 30
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £24.18 £19.88 £22.27
Median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%
75th Percentile £55.25 £55.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -49.76% +47.86%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,548 15,682 21,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.44% 42.13% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,449 9,975 14,526
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 1,003 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.03 £15.19
25th Percentile £18.10 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.68 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in England

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Google in England

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in England

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London -5 342 £525 -0.94% 1,153
North of England +42 89 £500 - 490
South East +74 81 £508 +16.00% 383
North West +16 45 £600 +23.08% 242
Yorkshire +32 41 £463 -15.91% 196
South West +35 34 £500 -13.04% 53
Midlands +24 23 £400 -30.43% 429
East of England +24 19 £405 -22.86% 66
West Midlands +21 15 £420 -20.00% 214
East Midlands +5 8 £346 -43.59% 212
North East -4 3 - - 54
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 35 (5.73%) Confluence
2 17 (2.78%) Apache
2 17 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.64%) CMS
6 6 (0.98%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Mule
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.49%) Trello
6 2 (0.33%) 1Password
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Notion
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) SAP CO
1 6 (0.98%) SAP FI
1 6 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (0.98%) SAP HR
1 6 (0.98%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (0.65%) Shopify
3 3 (0.49%) Unica
4 2 (0.33%) assyst
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.33%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) iTrent
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.16%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.16%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 326 (53.36%) GCP
2 204 (33.39%) AWS
3 184 (30.11%) Azure
4 99 (16.20%) Google Workspace
5 47 (7.69%) Google Analytics
6 41 (6.71%) Power Platform
7 37 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (5.73%) GitHub
9 33 (5.40%) Entra ID
10 22 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (3.44%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.95%) PaaS
13 17 (2.78%) IaaS
14 16 (2.62%) Serverless
15 14 (2.29%) Google Sheets
15 14 (2.29%) OpenShift
15 14 (2.29%) SaaS
16 12 (1.96%) dbt
16 12 (1.96%) OneDrive
17 11 (1.80%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.36%) Firewall
2 33 (5.40%) VPN
3 30 (4.91%) DNS
4 19 (3.11%) DHCP
5 13 (2.13%) SMTP
6 12 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.80%) HTTP
7 11 (1.80%) Network Security
8 10 (1.64%) VLAN
9 9 (1.47%) SNMP
10 8 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
12 5 (0.82%) Wireless
13 4 (0.65%) Intranet
13 4 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
13 4 (0.65%) VoIP
14 3 (0.49%) MPLS
14 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.49%) WAN
15 2 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.97%) BigQuery
2 41 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (6.55%) Power BI
4 30 (4.91%) Big Data
4 30 (4.91%) Tableau
5 29 (4.75%) Looker
6 21 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (2.62%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.62%) SQL Server
8 15 (2.45%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.96%) Metadata
11 10 (1.64%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.47%) MySQL
12 9 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.31%) Flink
14 7 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (9.17%) JIRA
2 45 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.56%) Git
4 30 (4.91%) GitLab
5 28 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 21 (3.44%) GoogleTest
7 16 (2.62%) Eclipse
8 13 (2.13%) Robot Framework
9 7 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (1.15%) TestRail
10 6 (0.98%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.98%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.82%) ERwin
12 4 (0.65%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.65%) Maven
13 3 (0.49%) Gradle
13 3 (0.49%) Mockito
13 3 (0.49%) TestNG
13 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 222 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 101 (16.53%) Finance
3 88 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.98%) Marketing
6 47 (7.69%) Banking
7 29 (4.75%) Legal
8 26 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.62%) Advertising
11 16 (2.62%) Retail
12 13 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.96%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.47%) Military
16 8 (1.31%) Electronics
16 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.15%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (16.69%) Architect
2 76 (12.44%) Developer
3 56 (9.17%) Senior
4 52 (8.51%) Analyst
5 42 (6.87%) GCP Engineer
6 32 (5.24%) Data Engineer
6 32 (5.24%) Support Engineer
7 28 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (4.42%) Lead
9 25 (4.09%) Software Engineer
10 24 (3.93%) Data Analyst
11 21 (3.44%) IT Support
12 20 (3.27%) Consultant
12 20 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (2.95%) Cloud Architect
14 18 (2.95%) Security Architect
15 17 (2.78%) Data Architect
16 16 (2.62%) IT Engineer
17 15 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.56%) HTML
2 32 (5.24%) CSS
3 28 (4.58%) Node.js
4 22 (3.60%) .NET
5 19 (3.11%) Kafka
5 19 (3.11%) React
6 17 (2.78%) REST
7 14 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.29%) RESTful
8 11 (1.80%) Spring
9 9 (1.47%) Next.js
9 9 (1.47%) OAuth
10 7 (1.15%) Google Maps API
10 7 (1.15%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.15%) PySpark
10 7 (1.15%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (0.98%) HTML5
11 6 (0.98%) NumPy
11 6 (0.98%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 27 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.27%) Social Media
5 17 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.45%) PKI
6 15 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.13%) iPhone
9 11 (1.80%) iPad
10 10 (1.64%) Clustering
10 10 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.64%) Digital Media
10 10 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.09%) Windows
2 52 (8.51%) Linux
3 21 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.27%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.29%) Mac OS
6 13 (2.13%) Android
7 12 (1.96%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.98%) Unix
10 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.49%) AIX
13 2 (0.33%) Rocky
13 2 (0.33%) VMS
14 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (26.51%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (17.84%) Analytics
3 108 (17.68%) Agile
4 93 (15.22%) CI/CD
5 85 (13.91%) DevOps
6 83 (13.58%) Migration
7 81 (13.26%) Software Engineering
8 68 (11.13%) Computer Science
9 67 (10.97%) ETL
10 61 (9.98%) Containerisation
11 59 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
12 53 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (8.02%) Machine Learning
14 46 (7.53%) Data Modelling
14 46 (7.53%) Visualisation
15 45 (7.36%) Microservices
16 44 (7.20%) Project Management
17 43 (7.04%) Data Pipeline
18 42 (6.87%) Data Governance
19 41 (6.71%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 140 (22.91%) Python
2 96 (15.71%) SQL
3 60 (9.82%) JavaScript
4 54 (8.84%) Java
5 42 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 28 (4.58%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.93%) C++
8 21 (3.44%) Bash
9 20 (3.27%) C#
10 10 (1.64%) Scala
11 6 (0.98%) ABAP
11 6 (0.98%) Bicep
11 6 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.98%) Perl
12 5 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.82%) Go
12 5 (0.82%) Groovy
12 5 (0.82%) R
13 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 108 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 95 (15.55%) Degree
3 86 (14.08%) SC Cleared
4 52 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.40%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 21 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.13%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.64%) CISSP
12 8 (1.31%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.15%) CEH
14 5 (0.82%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.82%) OSCP
14 5 (0.82%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.82%) PMP
15 4 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.89%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.24%) GDPR
3 30 (4.91%) QA
4 20 (3.27%) SLA
5 11 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.15%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.98%) PMO
9 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.65%) NCSC
10 4 (0.65%) NIST
11 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.33%) GRC
12 2 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (10.47%) Docker
2 46 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (2.13%) BitLocker
6 11 (1.80%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (1.47%) Terminal Services
7 9 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.65%) Lustre
8 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (14.24%) Kubernetes
2 69 (11.29%) Terraform
3 32 (5.24%) Ansible
4 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.62%) Grafana
5 16 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.45%) Puppet
7 14 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.64%) Nagios
9 9 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.47%) vMotion
10 5 (0.82%) Podman
10 5 (0.82%) SCCM
10 5 (0.82%) SmoothWall
11 4 (0.65%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.65%) PowerCLI
11 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.49%) CASB
12 3 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 131 (21.44%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.42%) SAP
3 20 (3.27%) Adobe
3 20 (3.27%) Databricks
4 19 (3.11%) VMware
5 17 (2.78%) Oracle
5 17 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.29%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.29%) Citrix
7 14 (2.29%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.96%) Apple
8 12 (1.96%) IBM
9 11 (1.80%) MobileIron
9 11 (1.80%) Nexthink
10 10 (1.64%) HP
11 9 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.47%) Symantec
11 9 (1.47%) Workday
12 8 (1.31%) Cisco