Google Contracts in Scotland

Google
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 97 113 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 +13
Contract jobs citing Google 19 16 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.72% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 2.64% 1.80% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 28
10th Percentile £392 £325 -
25th Percentile £415 £540 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £420
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +51.79% -16.00%
75th Percentile £610 £711 £531
90th Percentile £626 £722 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £55.13
25th Percentile - - £55.31
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £57.81
90th Percentile - - £58.38
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -49.76% +47.86%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 719 888 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.25% 40.05% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 546 823
10th Percentile £234 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 52 16
10th Percentile £16.11 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.58 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Google in Scotland

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Scotland

Google
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +9 13 £500 -16.67% 14
Glasgow 0 4 £472 -31.89% 14
Perthshire - 1 - -
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (15.79%) CMS
1 3 (15.79%) WordPress
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.26%) SAS
3 1 (5.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.79%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Google Analytics
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) AWS
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (10.53%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
2 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) PowerCenter
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Content Editor
6 1 (5.26%) Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) Unix Architect
6 1 (5.26%) WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
3 2 (10.53%) J2EE
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Flash
4 1 (5.26%) JMS
4 1 (5.26%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) NVMe
2 1 (5.26%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) AIX
3 1 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Analytics
2 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) OO
4 4 (21.05%) SEO
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) API Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Content Management
5 3 (15.79%) Data Security
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) Digital Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (15.79%) Web Development
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Observability
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Measurement
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) WCAG
2 3 (15.79%) PERC
3 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) GPFS
2 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe
1 2 (10.53%) IBM
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Sybase
2 1 (5.26%) Brocade
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.26%) EMC
2 1 (5.26%) Informatica
2 1 (5.26%) NetApp
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Teradata
2 1 (5.26%) TSYS
2 1 (5.26%) Veritas