Google Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Google
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 45 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Google 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.66% - 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £360 - £327
25th Percentile £362 - £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - £400
75th Percentile £371 - -
90th Percentile £373 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -18.07%

All Vendors
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 121 90 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 39.93% 32.97% 63.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 53 96
10th Percentile £308 £328 £213
25th Percentile £340 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -13.18% +5.21%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £538
90th Percentile £525 £600 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -11.58% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - - £11.52
Median hourly rate - - £11.83
Median % change year-on-year - - -59.73%
75th Percentile - - £13.18
90th Percentile - - £13.98
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.28 £17.00 £16.61
% change year-on-year +25.15% +2.35% -5.41%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Northamptonshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 2 £367 - 5
Google
East Midlands

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes