Google Contracts in the South West

Google
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 77 112 116
Rank change year-on-year +35 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Google 34 45 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.03% 1.41% 1.41%
As % of the Vendors category 4.44% 3.49% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 29
10th Percentile £281 £300 £238
25th Percentile £355 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £675
90th Percentile £726 £688 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £18.80 £49.20 -
25th Percentile £26.96 - £39.55
Median hourly rate £33.00 £70.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -52.86% +31.21% +48.19%
75th Percentile £34.88 - £59.80
90th Percentile £35.55 - £60.34
England median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 766 1,291 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 45.65% 40.36% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 822 1,105
10th Percentile £220 £195 £243
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £715
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 174 81
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.69 £49.00
Median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Google in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +3 13 £370 -17.78% 31
Gloucestershire +21 7 £700 - 18
Dorset +6 6 £650 - 4
Wiltshire +31 4 £725 +11.54% 3
Somerset +5 3 £600 +9.09% 7
Devon +13 1 £185 -13.95% 6
Google
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) GCP
3 10 (29.41%) Google Workspace
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 4 (11.76%) Google Analytics
7 2 (5.88%) Apple Pay
7 2 (5.88%) Google Ads
7 2 (5.88%) Google Pay
7 2 (5.88%) Matillion
8 1 (2.94%) Akamai
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.94%) Figma
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) BGP
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) MPLS
1 2 (5.88%) OSPF
1 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.88%) VLAN
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
1 2 (5.88%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Marketing
2 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (23.53%) Manufacturing
4 7 (20.59%) Electronics
4 7 (20.59%) Legal
4 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.82%) Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Support Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Applications Support
5 7 (20.59%) Applications Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (20.59%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Developer
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (17.65%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (17.65%) C# Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Architect
8 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 4 (11.76%) Site Engineer
8 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (8.82%) Analyst
9 3 (8.82%) IT Support
10 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
10 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) CSS
1 10 (29.41%) HTML
2 8 (23.53%) .NET
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) Angular 2
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) HTML5
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Management Information System
2 6 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
1 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) Computer Science
4 9 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (26.47%) Service Delivery
4 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) User Experience
5 8 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (23.53%) Service Management
5 8 (23.53%) Software Delivery
5 8 (23.53%) TDD
5 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 8 (23.53%) Web Development
6 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (20.59%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (20.59%) Migration
6 7 (20.59%) Programme Management
7 6 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 8 (23.53%) C#
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Azure Certification
2 9 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (26.47%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CCIE
4 2 (5.88%) CCNP
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) JNCIE
4 2 (5.88%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) GRC
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) SAP
3 4 (11.76%) Apple
3 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.88%) Juniper
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe
5 1 (2.94%) Criteo
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) F5
5 1 (2.94%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.94%) HubSpot