Google Contracts in Somerset

Google
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 21 26 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.16% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 5.45% 1.32% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £525 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £193
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +185.71% -45.58%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £196
90th Percentile £645 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +7.69%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 76 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 39.57% 37.44% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 49
10th Percentile £259 £159 £281
25th Percentile £371 £205 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £436 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -5.68% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £600
90th Percentile £638 £602 £703
South West median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 4
10th Percentile - £12.50 £16.93
25th Percentile - £13.93 £17.94
Median hourly rate £14.42 £40.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.95% +15.94% +122.58%
75th Percentile £17.72 - £50.00
90th Percentile £19.69 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Somerset

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Somerset

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Somerset

Google
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Somerset 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
Bath - 2 £600 - 22
Street - 1 £650 -
Google
South West

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Ads
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ArchiMate
1 2 (66.67%) Budget Management
1 2 (66.67%) Business Development
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) IT Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CCIE
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIE
1 2 (66.67%) JNCIP
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Criteo
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks