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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 113 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Google 26 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 0.90% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 2.68% 2.14% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 32
10th Percentile £283 £356 £350
25th Percentile £381 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +2.33% +22.86%
75th Percentile £522 £650 £700
90th Percentile £636 £663 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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% -18.63%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £14.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £27.74 £39.55
% change year-on-year +4.56% -29.87% +13.00%

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 971 1,167 1,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 47.23% 41.93% 49.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 764 1,076
10th Percentile £200 £213 £205
25th Percentile £320 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £669 £688 £689
England median daily rate £520 £518 £534
% change year-on-year +0.48% -3.09% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 48
10th Percentile £13.80 £10.93 £12.64
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £15.61 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -24.63% +21.42%
75th Percentile £29.33 £26.50 £32.56
90th Percentile £43.58 £45.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £26.75 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.89% -40.00% +74.42%

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 31 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 31 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 17 £498 -0.50% 87
East Midlands +3 8 £391 -36.16% 37
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 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) GCP
2 14 (53.85%) AWS
3 13 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (19.23%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Google Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Anthos
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Google App Engine
7 1 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.85%) Google Sheets
7 1 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Power Query
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Introscope
1 2 (7.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Marketing
5 4 (15.38%) Brand Awareness
5 4 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.69%) Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Architect
1 4 (15.38%) Campaign Manager
1 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (7.69%) Administrator
2 2 (7.69%) Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
2 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) DBA
2 2 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) Lead
2 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
2 2 (7.69%) SQL DBA
2 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
3 1 (3.85%) Project Officer
3 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
3 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) J2EE
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) Express.js
3 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) Next.js
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) Redux
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Social Media
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) AIX
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) VMS
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Analytics
2 6 (23.08%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
3 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
4 4 (15.38%) B2B
4 4 (15.38%) Content Development
4 4 (15.38%) Demand Generation
4 4 (15.38%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Intelligent Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Generation
4 4 (15.38%) Marketing Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Multichannel Marketing
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Measurement
4 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (15.38%) Storytelling
4 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) C
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CIPD
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) CA Wily
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Adobe
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (11.54%) VMware
5 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
5 2 (7.69%) SAP
5 2 (7.69%) Splunk
6 1 (3.85%) Alibaba
6 1 (3.85%) Databricks
6 1 (3.85%) HP
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) Workday