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 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 78 128 105
Rank change year-on-year +50 -23 +4
Contract jobs citing Google 24 17 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% 0.63% 1.57%
As % of the Vendors category 3.02% 1.32% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 28
10th Percentile - £285 £340
25th Percentile £479 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £425 £443
Median % change year-on-year +19.41% -4.12% -19.41%
75th Percentile £562 £455 £603
90th Percentile £700 £514 £704
South East median daily rate £508 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +19.41% +6.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £19.99 - £27.32
25th Percentile £27.11 - £29.19
Median hourly rate £46.30 - £32.30
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £62.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -55.23% +18.10% +50.00%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the Thames Valley

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
Berkshire +32 12 £500 +17.65% 58
Oxfordshire +5 6 £700 +86.67% 38
Buckinghamshire - 6 £508 - 146
Google
South East

Google
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 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) GCP
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 8 (33.33%) Google Workspace
4 7 (29.17%) Azure
5 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.33%) Google Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Miro
6 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) Google Sheets
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) VLAN
2 5 (20.83%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
3 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.17%) MPLS
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) Tableau
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) HBase
4 1 (4.17%) HDInsight
4 1 (4.17%) Impala
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) MS Access
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) DBeaver
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) ERwin
3 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Aviation
5 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
1 5 (20.83%) IT Support
1 5 (20.83%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Project Planner
3 2 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.33%) DBA
3 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (4.17%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.17%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) NumPy
1 2 (8.33%) Pandas
1 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.17%) Prophet
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.17%) XGBoost
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Content Management
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Workflow
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.83%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (20.83%) Post-Production
4 5 (20.83%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) ETL
5 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (12.50%) Change Control
6 3 (12.50%) Critical Path Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.33%) PMP
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) CCSK
4 1 (4.17%) CEH
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Flume
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) CASB
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Databricks
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) Amdocs
3 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.17%) Mavenir
3 1 (4.17%) Rakuten
3 1 (4.17%) Samsung
3 1 (4.17%) StreamSets
3 1 (4.17%) Twitter