Google Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Google
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 24 September 2026, 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Google 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 1.46% - 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £368 - -

All Vendors
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 16.06% 56.25% 48.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £367 £300 £340
25th Percentile £368 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £646 £550 £519
90th Percentile £735 £575 £538
Suffolk median daily rate £410 £450 £363
% change year-on-year -8.89% +24.14% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £15.96 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.65 -
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £14.86 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year -16.47% - -

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Google job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 2 (100.00%) RTCP
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
2 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle