Google Contracts in the Midlands

Google
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 110 117
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 +18
Contract jobs citing Google 24 23 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 0.83% 1.45%
As % of the Vendors category 2.78% 1.94% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 42
10th Percentile £278 £444 £413
25th Percentile £338 £500 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +6.88% +19.56%
75th Percentile £522 £653 £700
90th Percentile £636 £663 -
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.90 £13.31
Median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% +87.39% -18.38%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £14.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the Midlands

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the Midlands

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Google in the Midlands

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in the Midlands

Google
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +19 15 £420 -20.00% 215
East Midlands +6 9 £391 -36.16% 212
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) GCP
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Google Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) Anthos
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Google App Engine
7 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.17%) Google Sheets
7 1 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Big Data
1 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Power Query
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Looker
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Introscope
1 2 (8.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Brand Awareness
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Architect
1 4 (16.67%) Campaign Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Project Officer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.17%) GCP Architect
4 1 (4.17%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Looker Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) J2EE
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) Express.js
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) Jest
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Next.js
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Redux
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Social Media
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) AIX
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Analytics
1 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) B2B
3 4 (16.67%) Campaign Management
3 4 (16.67%) Content Development
3 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (16.67%) Demand Generation
3 4 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Generation
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing Automation
3 4 (16.67%) Multichannel Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Measurement
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.67%) Storytelling
3 4 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) C
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CIPD
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) CA Wily
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Adobe
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) Workday
5 1 (4.17%) Alibaba
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) HP
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle