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 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 113 104
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Google 630 721 1,141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.59% 1.98% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 5.45% 4.73% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 473 831
10th Percentile £240 £276 £313
25th Percentile £388 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 66 33
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.64 £20.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -34.26% +13.00%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.50 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £26.49 £39.60
% change year-on-year +7.15% -33.12% +13.14%

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 11,570 15,250 20,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.62% 41.89% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,429 9,734 13,966
10th Percentile £275 £263 £265
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £517 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -3.81% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 1,018 577
10th Percentile £14.45 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.05 £14.43 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.18 £22.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -38.89% +68.22%
75th Percentile £58.73 £57.12 £62.68
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +18.60% -47.03% +88.79%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
London -12 352 £525 -2.55% 1,696
North of England +24 92 £500 -1.19% 395
South East +67 83 £508 +35.33% 524
North West +23 46 £600 +41.18% 227
Yorkshire +22 42 £463 -8.78% 109
South West +19 31 £438 -12.50% 98
Midlands +19 28 £410 -25.45% 198
East of England +18 20 £485 -7.62% 117
West Midlands +11 18 £498 -0.50% 128
East Midlands +6 9 £391 -36.16% 60
North East -6 4 - - 63
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 33 (5.24%) Confluence
2 19 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.86%) Apache
4 17 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.22%) Apache Spark
6 13 (2.06%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.59%) CMS
8 5 (0.79%) WordPress
9 4 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.16%) Mule
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.48%) Trello
6 2 (0.32%) 1Password
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.16%) Maya
7 1 (0.16%) Notion
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.95%) SAP CO
1 6 (0.95%) SAP FI
1 6 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (0.95%) SAP HR
1 6 (0.95%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (0.63%) Shopify
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) assyst
4 2 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.16%) iTrent
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Maximo
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
5 1 (0.16%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 341 (54.13%) GCP
2 211 (33.49%) AWS
3 191 (30.32%) Azure
4 110 (17.46%) Google Workspace
5 44 (6.98%) Google Analytics
5 44 (6.98%) Power Platform
6 38 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (5.87%) GitHub
8 29 (4.60%) Entra ID
9 22 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 18 (2.86%) PaaS
12 16 (2.54%) IaaS
12 16 (2.54%) Serverless
13 15 (2.38%) SaaS
14 14 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 14 (2.22%) Google Sheets
14 14 (2.22%) Slack
15 13 (2.06%) dbt
15 13 (2.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.62%) Firewall
2 34 (5.40%) DNS
2 34 (5.40%) VPN
3 22 (3.49%) DHCP
4 13 (2.06%) HTTP
4 13 (2.06%) Network Security
4 13 (2.06%) SMTP
4 13 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.59%) VLAN
6 8 (1.27%) SNMP
6 8 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
7 6 (0.95%) Wireless
8 4 (0.63%) Intranet
8 4 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.63%) VoIP
9 3 (0.48%) MPLS
9 3 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.48%) WAN
10 2 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 45 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (6.83%) Power BI
4 35 (5.56%) Big Data
5 33 (5.24%) Tableau
6 27 (4.29%) Looker
7 22 (3.49%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 16 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (2.38%) MongoDB
11 15 (2.38%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.59%) Metadata
13 10 (1.59%) MySQL
13 10 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.59%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.43%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 53 (8.41%) JIRA
2 45 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.08%) GitLab
4 29 (4.60%) Git
5 25 (3.97%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.86%) GoogleTest
7 15 (2.38%) Eclipse
8 12 (1.90%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.95%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.79%) ERwin
10 5 (0.79%) Maven
10 5 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.79%) TestRail
11 4 (0.63%) DBeaver
11 4 (0.63%) Gradle
11 4 (0.63%) JUnit
11 4 (0.63%) TestNG
12 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 236 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.14%) Finance
3 94 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.68%) Marketing
6 51 (8.10%) Banking
7 29 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 27 (4.29%) Legal
9 24 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (3.02%) Retail
11 15 (2.38%) Advertising
12 13 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.59%) Electronics
13 10 (1.59%) Military
14 8 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (16.98%) Architect
2 74 (11.75%) Developer
3 60 (9.52%) Senior
4 54 (8.57%) Analyst
5 43 (6.83%) GCP Engineer
6 39 (6.19%) Support Engineer
7 38 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 30 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (4.44%) IT Support
10 26 (4.13%) Lead
11 25 (3.97%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.81%) Data Analyst
13 22 (3.49%) Data Architect
14 21 (3.33%) IT Engineer
15 20 (3.17%) Consultant
15 20 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.02%) IT Support Engineer
17 18 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (2.86%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.08%) HTML
2 30 (4.76%) CSS
3 29 (4.60%) Node.js
4 23 (3.65%) .NET
4 23 (3.65%) Kafka
5 20 (3.17%) React
6 16 (2.54%) REST
7 15 (2.38%) RESTful
8 14 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.59%) OAuth
10 9 (1.43%) Spring
11 8 (1.27%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.27%) PySpark
12 7 (1.11%) HTML5
12 7 (1.11%) Next.js
12 7 (1.11%) Pandas
12 7 (1.11%) SailPoint
13 6 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.95%) Jest
13 6 (0.95%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 26 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (3.02%) Social Media
5 18 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.70%) iPhone
6 17 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.54%) iPad
7 16 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.38%) PKI
9 13 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.59%) Clustering
11 10 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.43%) Digital Media
12 9 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 89 (14.13%) Windows
2 52 (8.25%) Linux
3 23 (3.65%) Apple iOS
4 19 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.54%) Mac OS
6 15 (2.38%) Windows 10
7 11 (1.75%) Android
8 8 (1.27%) Unix
9 5 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.48%) AIX
12 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.32%) Rocky
12 2 (0.32%) VMS
12 2 (0.32%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.32%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (18.57%) Analytics
3 109 (17.30%) Agile
4 104 (16.51%) CI/CD
5 84 (13.33%) Migration
6 83 (13.17%) DevOps
7 79 (12.54%) Software Engineering
8 69 (10.95%) ETL
9 64 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence
10 62 (9.84%) Computer Science
11 59 (9.37%) Business Intelligence
12 58 (9.21%) Containerisation
12 58 (9.21%) Data Modelling
13 51 (8.10%) Machine Learning
14 47 (7.46%) Customer Service
14 47 (7.46%) Data Pipeline
15 46 (7.30%) Project Management
16 45 (7.14%) Data Governance
16 45 (7.14%) Visualisation
17 43 (6.83%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (23.81%) Python
2 109 (17.30%) SQL
3 58 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 49 (7.78%) Java
5 40 (6.35%) PowerShell
6 29 (4.60%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.49%) Bash
7 22 (3.49%) C++
8 20 (3.17%) C#
9 10 (1.59%) Scala
10 8 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.11%) Go
11 7 (1.11%) Perl
12 6 (0.95%) ABAP
12 6 (0.95%) Bicep
12 6 (0.95%) R
13 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.79%) Groovy
14 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 115 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 93 (14.76%) Degree
3 91 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 49 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (5.24%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.49%) AWS Certification
7 21 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.75%) CISSP
12 10 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.59%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.27%) CEH
14 6 (0.95%) OSCP
15 5 (0.79%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.79%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.79%) PMP
16 4 (0.63%) CCNP
16 4 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.87%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.40%) GDPR
3 29 (4.60%) QA
4 24 (3.81%) SLA
5 13 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.27%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.95%) PMO
9 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.63%) NCSC
10 4 (0.63%) NIST
11 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.32%) GRC
12 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.32%) WCAG
13 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 65 (10.32%) Docker
2 46 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (2.06%) BitLocker
6 11 (1.75%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (1.43%) Terminal Services
7 9 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.48%) Lustre
9 3 (0.48%) vSphere
10 2 (0.32%) Firmware
10 2 (0.32%) XenApp
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 94 (14.92%) Kubernetes
2 75 (11.90%) Terraform
3 32 (5.08%) Ansible
4 19 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.70%) Grafana
6 16 (2.54%) Puppet
7 15 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.59%) Nagios
10 9 (1.43%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.43%) vMotion
11 6 (0.95%) SmoothWall
12 4 (0.63%) Podman
12 4 (0.63%) PowerCLI
12 4 (0.63%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.63%) SCCM
13 3 (0.48%) CASB
13 3 (0.48%) Istio
13 3 (0.48%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.48%) vRealize
Vendors
1 135 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 29 (4.60%) SAP
3 25 (3.97%) Adobe
4 23 (3.65%) Databricks
4 23 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.33%) VMware
6 17 (2.70%) Oracle
7 16 (2.54%) Citrix
8 15 (2.38%) MobileIron
8 15 (2.38%) Nexthink
9 14 (2.22%) Cisco
10 13 (2.06%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.90%) Apple
11 12 (1.90%) HP
12 11 (1.75%) Symantec
13 9 (1.43%) IBM
13 9 (1.43%) Workday
14 8 (1.27%) Red Hat