Google Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 131 157
Rank change year-on-year -48 +26 -25
Contract jobs citing Google 242 481 518
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.98% 1.66%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 4.45% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 305 348
10th Percentile £294 £247 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 28 32
10th Percentile £10.90 - £15.67
25th Percentile £14.72 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.58 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.30% +26.64% +44.51%
75th Percentile £62.25 £57.33 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.07 £49.29
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% +29.63%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,958 10,799 12,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.14% 44.55% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,416 7,430 8,392
10th Percentile £205 £206 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 500 647
10th Percentile £11.79 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.74 £13.95
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +105.88% -0.70%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -48.96% +105.95% -6.67%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
North of England -32 72 £500 -8.05% 156
South East -33 58 £463 +15.63% 107
North West -20 42 £500 -5.88% 103
South West +9 41 £615 +18.55% 75
East of England +12 29 £525 -1.41% 45
Midlands +11 25 £600 +11.52% 89
Yorkshire -22 24 £555 +0.91% 48
Scotland -21 16 £638 +51.79% 23
East Midlands +17 13 £613 -12.50% 38
West Midlands +4 10 £525 -2.60% 51
North East +25 6 £477 +33.43% 10
Wales +7 1 - - 7
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.72%) SAS
3 7 (2.89%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.07%) WordPress
5 4 (1.65%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.65%) nginx
6 3 (1.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.83%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.65%) FastStats
1 4 (1.65%) Unica
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (45.04%) GCP
2 67 (27.69%) AWS
3 55 (22.73%) Azure
4 31 (12.81%) Google Analytics
5 27 (11.16%) SaaS
6 25 (10.33%) PaaS
7 24 (9.92%) Google Workspace
8 15 (6.20%) Power Platform
9 14 (5.79%) IaaS
9 14 (5.79%) OpenShift
10 12 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (4.13%) GitHub
12 8 (3.31%) Google Sheets
12 8 (3.31%) Google Tag Manager
13 4 (1.65%) Apigee
13 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.68%) VPN
2 15 (6.20%) SNMP
2 15 (6.20%) Software-Defined Radio
3 14 (5.79%) Firewall
4 11 (4.55%) DNS
5 9 (3.72%) Network Security
5 9 (3.72%) PBX
5 9 (3.72%) VoIP
6 8 (3.31%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.07%) DHCP
7 5 (2.07%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (2.07%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.65%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.65%) IPsec
8 4 (1.65%) SAN
9 3 (1.24%) HTTP
9 3 (1.24%) SSL
9 3 (1.24%) VLAN
10 2 (0.83%) SDH
10 2 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.74%) BigQuery
2 13 (5.37%) MySQL
2 13 (5.37%) Power BI
3 11 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.48%) DB2
7 5 (2.07%) Big Data
7 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.07%) GIS
7 5 (2.07%) Tableau
8 4 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.65%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.24%) Bigtable
9 3 (1.24%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (1.24%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.24%) Looker
9 3 (1.24%) Metadata
10 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (11.16%) Git
2 24 (9.92%) JIRA
3 20 (8.26%) GoogleTest
4 18 (7.44%) Jenkins
5 17 (7.02%) Bitbucket
6 16 (6.61%) Eclipse
7 15 (6.20%) Robot Framework
8 10 (4.13%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.24%) gulp
9 3 (1.24%) Maven
10 2 (0.83%) Selenium
11 1 (0.41%) Appium
11 1 (0.41%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.41%) JMeter
11 1 (0.41%) MSTest
11 1 (0.41%) NUnit
11 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.41%) Valgrind
11 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.05%) Finance
3 26 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.26%) Legal
5 17 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.61%) Banking
7 14 (5.79%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.55%) Marketing
9 10 (4.13%) Retail
10 7 (2.89%) Digital Economy
10 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.07%) Back Office
12 5 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.83%) Advertising
16 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (19.83%) Architect
2 32 (13.22%) Developer
3 22 (9.09%) Analyst
4 21 (8.68%) Software Engineer
5 18 (7.44%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.96%) Data Analyst
6 12 (4.96%) GCP Architect
6 12 (4.96%) Java Engineer
6 12 (4.96%) Java Software Engineer
6 12 (4.96%) Senior
7 11 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (4.55%) Lead
8 10 (4.13%) Administrator
9 8 (3.31%) Consultant
9 8 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.31%) Java Developer
9 8 (3.31%) Technical Architect
10 7 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (2.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.68%) HTML
2 19 (7.85%) CSS
3 15 (6.20%) Node.js
4 11 (4.55%) SAML
5 9 (3.72%) REST
5 9 (3.72%) RESTful
6 7 (2.89%) JSON
6 7 (2.89%) Spring
7 6 (2.48%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.48%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.48%) YAML
8 5 (2.07%) .NET
8 5 (2.07%) Flash
8 5 (2.07%) Google Maps API
8 5 (2.07%) GWT
8 5 (2.07%) JAX-RS
8 5 (2.07%) React
8 5 (2.07%) Restlet
8 5 (2.07%) Web Services
9 4 (1.65%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.96%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.13%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.72%) Blackberry
5 9 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.72%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.65%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.65%) NVMe
8 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.24%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.24%) PKI
10 2 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.22%) Linux
2 30 (12.40%) Windows
3 16 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.13%) Android
4 10 (4.13%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.89%) Unix
6 4 (1.65%) CentOS
6 4 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.73%) Agile
2 47 (19.42%) DevOps
3 43 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (16.94%) Analytics
5 39 (16.12%) CI/CD
6 37 (15.29%) Roadmaps
7 32 (13.22%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.33%) Migration
9 22 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 22 (9.09%) TOGAF
10 21 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (8.26%) ITIL
11 20 (8.26%) Scrum
12 18 (7.44%) Customer Requirements
12 18 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (7.44%) Microservices
13 17 (7.02%) SDLC
14 16 (6.61%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (6.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.25%) Python
2 45 (18.60%) Java
3 36 (14.88%) JavaScript
3 36 (14.88%) SQL
4 20 (8.26%) C++
5 14 (5.79%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.72%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.31%) Bash
8 5 (2.07%) PHP
9 4 (1.65%) Perl
10 2 (0.83%) C
10 2 (0.83%) C#
10 2 (0.83%) Go
10 2 (0.83%) Groovy
10 2 (0.83%) LookML
10 2 (0.83%) R
11 1 (0.41%) CQL
11 1 (0.41%) Elixir
11 1 (0.41%) Julia
11 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.05%) Degree
3 30 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.72%) APMP
6 9 (3.72%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.72%) PMP
7 8 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.89%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.89%) HND
9 6 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.65%) CCNP
10 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.83%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.79%) GDPR
2 9 (3.72%) QA
3 6 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.48%) NIST
4 5 (2.07%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.65%) MISRA
6 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.83%) WCAG
8 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (7.85%) Docker
2 16 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.37%) Firmware
4 8 (3.31%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.65%) GPFS
6 4 (1.65%) NFS
6 4 (1.65%) zsh
7 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.41%) Snort
8 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (10.74%) Kubernetes
1 26 (10.74%) Terraform
2 14 (5.79%) Ansible
3 9 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.31%) Istio
5 7 (2.89%) Rancher
5 7 (2.89%) SCCM
6 4 (1.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (1.24%) Kibana
7 3 (1.24%) OPNET
8 2 (0.83%) logstash
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 48 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.02%) Atlassian
2 17 (7.02%) VMware
3 15 (6.20%) Cisco
4 14 (5.79%) IBM
4 14 (5.79%) Oracle
4 14 (5.79%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.55%) Juniper
5 11 (4.55%) Nokia
6 9 (3.72%) Avaya
6 9 (3.72%) Ericsson
6 9 (3.72%) Ribbon
7 8 (3.31%) Adobe
7 8 (3.31%) Apple
8 6 (2.48%) EMC
9 5 (2.07%) Databricks
9 5 (2.07%) Facebook
9 5 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.65%) Snapchat
10 4 (1.65%) Veritas