Google Contracts in Essex

Google
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 17 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing Google 4 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.81% 6.73% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 22.39% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 10
10th Percentile - £485 £275
25th Percentile £315 £496 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £574 £507
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% +13.17% -
75th Percentile £492 £675 £528
90th Percentile £503 - £549
East of England median daily rate £400 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -23.81% +0.38% -15.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £88.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £11.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.65% -47.73% -

All Vendors
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 43 67 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 40.95% 30.04% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 73
10th Percentile £195 £169 £212
25th Percentile £227 £263 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -4.60% +2.56%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £550
90th Percentile £498 £675 £608
East of England median daily rate £527 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.30% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £17.92 £12.13 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £12.68 £31.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.74 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.99% -66.81% +172.92%
75th Percentile £40.06 £64.25 £73.88
90th Percentile £41.73 £72.35 £78.50
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £17.40 £19.81
% change year-on-year +22.30% -12.17% +1.59%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Essex

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Essex

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Essex over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Essex

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Essex

Google
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Basildon +6 3 £315 -53.33% 16
Google
East of England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Looker
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) GCP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Programmer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) DataOps
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft