Google Contracts in the Thames Valley

Google
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 103 110
Rank change year-on-year -21 +7 -51
Contract jobs citing Google 19 43 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 1.52% 1.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 3.21% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 44
10th Percentile £305 £340 £338
25th Percentile £363 £350 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £438 £540 £595
90th Percentile £493 £650 £653
South East median daily rate £375 £372 £550
% change year-on-year +0.84% -32.39% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.32 £14.10
25th Percentile - £29.19 £19.13
Median hourly rate - £32.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.67% -
75th Percentile - - £56.45
90th Percentile - - £70.82
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £42.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.23% +21.14% -12.50%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

Google is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,258 1,339 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 47.60% 47.43% 44.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 922 1,035
10th Percentile £205 £300 £195
25th Percentile £363 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £589
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 48 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.08 £10.75
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.38 £10.77
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +280.77% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £28.00
90th Percentile £63.05 £80.25 £66.49
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Google in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the Thames Valley

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -31 13 £400 - 8
Oxfordshire +9 6 £375 - 17
Google
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Drupal
1 1 (5.26%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) GCP
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (10.53%) Google Workspace
4 2 (10.53%) IaaS
4 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) MailChimp
5 1 (5.26%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Appium
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) MSTest
2 1 (5.26%) NUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) DBA
2 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (5.26%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.26%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Designer
3 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) GWT
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) Restlet
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) CSS3
3 1 (5.26%) Django
3 1 (5.26%) Express.js
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
3 1 (5.26%) JAX-RS
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
3 1 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (36.84%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (36.84%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (36.84%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (36.84%) Time Management
3 7 (36.84%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Database Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (10.53%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (10.53%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) Server Management
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Istio
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Rancher
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Meraki
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Apple
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce