Google Contract Job Trends in the North East

Google
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 September 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
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 26 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Google 5 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.68% 4.26% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 4.90% 10.17% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £518 £493 £372
25th Percentile £534 £494 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £498 £394
Median % change year-on-year +14.57% +26.35% -23.54%
75th Percentile £609 £499 £405
90th Percentile £626 £500 £406
England median daily rate £478 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.05% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £11.44 -
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -67.77% +105.88% -2.86%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 118 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 34.23% 41.84% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 76
10th Percentile £197 £279 £237
25th Percentile £340 £388 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +5.56% -10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £600
90th Percentile £641 £734 £720
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £16.23 £15.11 £31.55
25th Percentile £17.88 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% - +191.17%
75th Percentile £36.31 - -
90th Percentile £54.24 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +83.52%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the North East

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Tyne and Wear -10 5 £570 +14.00% 6
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Google Docs
3 1 (20.00%) Google Sheets
3 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft