Google Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Google
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 17 June 2026, 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £431 £420 £550
% change year-on-year +2.68% -23.64% -21.43%

All Vendors
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 350 74 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 52.01% 52.11% 44.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 51 50
10th Percentile £350 £313 £282
25th Percentile £405 £350 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £358
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +28.49% -33.70%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £500
90th Percentile £572 £541 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +0.43% +3.78% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £14.87
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £29.67 £16.82
% change year-on-year +14.58% +76.37% -17.36%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Google job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Telford - 3 £473 - 14
Google
West Midlands

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance