Google Contracts in the South East

Google
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 146 107
Rank change year-on-year +73 -39 +23
Contract jobs citing Google 81 52 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.69% 0.94% 1.96%
As % of the Vendors category 5.10% 1.98% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 20 73
10th Percentile £200 £296 £217
25th Percentile £408 £316 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% +13.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £588 £476 £500
90th Percentile £629 £580 £643
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 9
10th Percentile - - £31.06
25th Percentile £16.95 £20.75 £32.30
Median hourly rate £27.76 £62.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.23% +18.10% +50.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.25 £58.25
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%

All Vendors
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,587 2,625 2,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.67% 47.30% 49.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 1,604 1,947
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £604
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 184 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.48 £22.16
Median hourly rate £24.66 £51.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.88% +13.89% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £67.02 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the South East

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Google in the South East

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the South East

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the South East

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Hampshire +45 40 £575 -4.17% 25
Thames Valley +44 24 £508 +19.41% 154
Berkshire +28 12 £500 +17.65% 20
Surrey +21 11 £500 +62.60% 21
West Sussex +13 6 - - 17
Oxfordshire +6 6 £700 +86.67% 19
Buckinghamshire - 6 £508 - 116
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (18.52%) Confluence
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.47%) Apache
5 1 (1.23%) CMS
5 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) GCP
2 22 (27.16%) AWS
3 15 (18.52%) Google Workspace
4 8 (9.88%) IaaS
4 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
4 8 (9.88%) PaaS
5 7 (8.64%) Azure
6 4 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.47%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.47%) Google Ads
8 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.47%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (2.47%) Miro
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.23%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.52%) Firewall
2 9 (11.11%) VPN
3 8 (9.88%) DHCP
3 8 (9.88%) DNS
3 8 (9.88%) SMTP
4 7 (8.64%) SNMP
4 7 (8.64%) Software-Defined Radio
5 5 (6.17%) VLAN
5 5 (6.17%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.23%) 3GPP
6 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.23%) HTTP
6 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.23%) MPLS
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
6 1 (1.23%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) Big Data
2 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.94%) Power BI
3 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.94%) Tableau
4 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.47%) Looker
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.23%) HBase
6 1 (1.23%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.23%) Impala
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (29.63%) JIRA
2 20 (24.69%) Bitbucket
2 20 (24.69%) GoogleTest
3 16 (19.75%) Git
4 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
5 13 (16.05%) Robot Framework
6 12 (14.81%) Eclipse
7 9 (11.11%) GitLab
8 7 (8.64%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (8.64%) TestRail
9 2 (2.47%) DBeaver
10 1 (1.23%) ERwin
10 1 (1.23%) Maven
General
1 36 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.17%) Marketing
5 4 (4.94%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Aviation
7 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Finance
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Software Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Embedded Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Communications Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Support Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (9.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (8.64%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) CSS
1 10 (12.35%) HTML
2 3 (3.70%) .NET
2 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (2.47%) Angular 2
3 2 (2.47%) HTML5
3 2 (2.47%) Kafka
3 2 (2.47%) NumPy
3 2 (2.47%) Pandas
3 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.23%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.23%) Prophet
4 1 (1.23%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) React
4 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.23%) Vaadin
4 1 (1.23%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) PKI
2 8 (9.88%) Clustering
2 8 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.41%) iPad
3 6 (7.41%) iPhone
3 6 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.04%) Linux
2 22 (27.16%) Windows
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.64%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (7.41%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Agile
2 24 (29.63%) Software Engineering
3 23 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (24.69%) Scrum
5 12 (14.81%) Machine Learning
5 12 (14.81%) Migration
6 11 (13.58%) Customer Service
6 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.35%) DevOps
7 10 (12.35%) Multithreading
7 10 (12.35%) OO
7 10 (12.35%) Validation
8 9 (11.11%) Analytics
8 9 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (9.88%) Software Deployment
10 7 (8.64%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) C++
2 13 (16.05%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.35%) Python
3 10 (12.35%) SQL
4 8 (9.88%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.94%) C#
6 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.47%) Java
8 1 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (46.91%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 21 (25.93%) Degree
4 10 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.47%) PMP
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) CCNP
7 1 (1.23%) CCSK
7 1 (1.23%) CEH
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CISSP
7 1 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.23%) GIAC
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) SLA
2 3 (3.70%) PMO
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 9 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.88%) BitLocker
3 8 (9.88%) Hyper-V
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (9.88%) Terminal Services
3 8 (9.88%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Firmware
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.11%) Ansible
3 8 (9.88%) Nagios
3 8 (9.88%) Puppet
3 8 (9.88%) vCenter Server
3 8 (9.88%) vMotion
4 1 (1.23%) CASB
4 1 (1.23%) Grafana
4 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Atlassian
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Citrix
3 8 (9.88%) HP
3 8 (9.88%) Symantec
3 8 (9.88%) VMware
4 7 (8.64%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.41%) Intel
5 6 (7.41%) MobileIron
5 6 (7.41%) Nexthink
6 3 (3.70%) Adobe
6 3 (3.70%) Databricks
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle
7 2 (2.47%) TikTok
7 2 (2.47%) Twitter
8 1 (1.23%) Amdocs
8 1 (1.23%) Dell
8 1 (1.23%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.23%) SAP