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 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 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 161 131
Rank change year-on-year +52 -30 +22
Contract jobs citing Google 299 259 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.31% 1.28% 1.91%
As % of the Vendors category 4.71% 3.03% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 136 283
10th Percentile £200 £220 £242
25th Percentile £355 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - -
75th Percentile £591 £628 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 48 28
10th Percentile £16.00 £11.15 £18.69
25th Percentile £16.95 £20.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £26.00 £35.93
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% -27.63% +2.64%
75th Percentile £38.58 £70.00 £57.46
90th Percentile £61.09 - £59.07
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £26.49 £39.60
% change year-on-year +7.15% -33.12% +13.14%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,354 8,560 10,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.11% 42.22% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 5,199 7,033
10th Percentile £213 £206 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +7.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 961 462
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +97.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.70 £61.11
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +18.60% -47.03% +88.79%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
North of England +24 92 £500 -1.19% 395
South East +67 83 £508 +35.33% 524
North West +23 46 £600 +41.18% 226
Yorkshire +22 42 £463 -8.78% 110
South West +19 31 £438 -12.50% 98
Midlands +19 28 £410 -25.45% 197
Scotland +11 23 £474 -23.47% 64
Wales +22 22 £440 -20.05% 23
East of England +18 20 £485 -7.62% 117
West Midlands +11 18 £498 -0.50% 127
East Midlands +6 9 £391 -36.16% 60
North East -6 4 - - 63
Northern Ireland - 1 £281 - 31
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 22 (7.36%) Confluence
2 11 (3.68%) Apache
3 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.01%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.67%) CMS
6 5 (1.67%) WordPress
7 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) SAP CO
1 6 (2.01%) SAP FI
1 6 (2.01%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (2.01%) SAP HR
1 6 (2.01%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.67%) Shopify
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 148 (49.50%) GCP
2 97 (32.44%) AWS
3 85 (28.43%) Azure
4 58 (19.40%) Google Workspace
5 27 (9.03%) Google Analytics
6 13 (4.35%) PaaS
6 13 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.68%) GitHub
7 11 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.01%) Adobe Analytics
8 9 (3.01%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.68%) IaaS
9 8 (2.68%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.01%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (1.67%) Apigee
12 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.67%) Google Ads
12 5 (1.67%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.02%) Firewall
1 21 (7.02%) VPN
2 14 (4.68%) DNS
3 12 (4.01%) DHCP
4 8 (2.68%) SMTP
4 8 (2.68%) VLAN
5 6 (2.01%) SNMP
5 6 (2.01%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.01%) Wireless
6 5 (1.67%) Network Security
7 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.00%) HTTP
8 3 (1.00%) MPLS
8 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.00%) WAN
9 2 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.67%) Internet
9 2 (0.67%) OSPF
9 2 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.36%) BigQuery
2 19 (6.35%) Big Data
2 19 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.35%) Power BI
4 11 (3.68%) Metadata
4 11 (3.68%) Tableau
5 10 (3.34%) Looker
5 10 (3.34%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.34%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.01%) Flink
9 6 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (11.37%) JIRA
2 24 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.69%) GitLab
4 19 (6.35%) Git
5 18 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 17 (5.69%) GoogleTest
7 12 (4.01%) Robot Framework
8 11 (3.68%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.67%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.67%) ER Studio
9 5 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (1.67%) TestRail
10 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.00%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.67%) Introscope
11 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.33%) ERwin
12 1 (0.33%) Maven
12 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (43.81%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.06%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.04%) Finance
4 38 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.03%) Marketing
6 21 (7.02%) Banking
7 17 (5.69%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.35%) Legal
9 15 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.01%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.68%) Electronics
11 8 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 6 (2.01%) Military
14 5 (1.67%) Retail
15 4 (1.34%) Brand Awareness
15 4 (1.34%) French Language
15 4 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.67%) Aviation
16 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (15.38%) Architect
2 39 (13.04%) Developer
3 28 (9.36%) Support Engineer
4 27 (9.03%) Analyst
5 25 (8.36%) Senior
6 21 (7.02%) Software Engineer
7 19 (6.35%) IT Support
8 17 (5.69%) Lead
9 16 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.68%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) Communications Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) Embedded Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) 1st Line Support
13 10 (3.34%) Administrator
13 10 (3.34%) GCP Architect
14 9 (3.01%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.03%) HTML
2 23 (7.69%) CSS
3 19 (6.35%) .NET
4 17 (5.69%) Kafka
5 14 (4.68%) Node.js
5 14 (4.68%) RESTful
6 10 (3.34%) React
7 9 (3.01%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.01%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.67%) NumPy
9 5 (1.67%) Pandas
9 5 (1.67%) Web Services
10 4 (1.34%) Angular 2
10 4 (1.34%) HTML5
10 4 (1.34%) J2EE
10 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (1.34%) OAuth
10 4 (1.34%) Playwright
11 3 (1.00%) Puppeteer
11 3 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.69%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.02%) iPad
3 15 (5.02%) iPhone
4 14 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.34%) PKI
6 10 (3.34%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.68%) Clustering
7 8 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.01%) NHS
8 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.01%) Social Media
9 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.06%) Windows
2 36 (12.04%) Linux
3 18 (6.02%) Apple iOS
4 14 (4.68%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.01%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.34%) Unix
7 6 (2.01%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (1.00%) AIX
9 3 (1.00%) Android
9 3 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (23.41%) Agile
3 61 (20.40%) Analytics
4 54 (18.06%) Software Engineering
5 49 (16.39%) CI/CD
6 44 (14.72%) Computer Science
7 36 (12.04%) DevOps
8 33 (11.04%) Customer Service
9 32 (10.70%) Migration
10 30 (10.03%) Data Modelling
11 27 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (9.03%) ETL
12 26 (8.70%) Test Automation
13 25 (8.36%) Scrum
14 23 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (7.69%) Data Governance
14 23 (7.69%) Data Science
15 22 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
16 21 (7.02%) Project Management
16 21 (7.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.40%) Python
2 54 (18.06%) SQL
3 33 (11.04%) JavaScript
4 22 (7.36%) Java
5 17 (5.69%) C#
5 17 (5.69%) C++
5 17 (5.69%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.02%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.34%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.01%) Bash
9 6 (2.01%) ABAP
9 6 (2.01%) Perl
9 6 (2.01%) Scala
10 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.00%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.67%) C
11 2 (0.67%) Groovy
11 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Go
12 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 76 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 58 (19.40%) Degree
4 39 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (11.37%) Azure Certification
6 23 (7.69%) AWS Certification
7 21 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.01%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.01%) Master's Degree
10 10 (3.34%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.34%) A+ Certification
12 4 (1.34%) CITP
12 4 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.00%) CCNP
14 2 (0.67%) CCIE
14 2 (0.67%) MCP
14 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.36%) SLA
2 17 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.02%) GDPR
4 13 (4.35%) QA
5 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.34%) PMO
6 4 (1.34%) WCAG
7 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.00%) PERC
8 2 (0.67%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.33%) NIST
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (8.36%) Docker
2 21 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.01%) BitLocker
4 10 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (3.01%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (2.68%) Terminal Services
6 8 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) Firmware
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.33%) GPFS
8 1 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 34 (11.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.36%) Terraform
3 17 (5.69%) Ansible
4 9 (3.01%) Puppet
5 8 (2.68%) Nagios
5 8 (2.68%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.68%) vMotion
6 6 (2.01%) Grafana
6 6 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.01%) SmoothWall
7 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.67%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.33%) CASB
10 1 (0.33%) Podman
10 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.33%) SCCM
10 1 (0.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 70 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.36%) SAP
3 20 (6.69%) Databricks
4 18 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 15 (5.02%) MobileIron
5 15 (5.02%) Nexthink
6 13 (4.35%) Adobe
7 12 (4.01%) Atlassian
7 12 (4.01%) Citrix
8 11 (3.68%) VMware
9 9 (3.01%) HP
9 9 (3.01%) Workday
10 8 (2.68%) Cisco
10 8 (2.68%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.68%) Symantec
11 7 (2.34%) Oracle
12 6 (2.01%) Intel
13 5 (1.67%) Apple
13 5 (1.67%) IBM
13 5 (1.67%) Red Hat