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 16 June 2024, 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
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 135 151
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 -10
Contract jobs citing Google 292 406 546
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.79% 1.80%
As % of the Vendors category 3.25% 3.98% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 253 372
10th Percentile £214 £240 £260
25th Percentile £335 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £639
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 28 30
10th Percentile £11.25 £18.69 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.00 £32.19
Median hourly rate £68.75 £35.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.37% +2.64% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.46 £48.95
90th Percentile - £58.75 £77.79
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.14% +6.54%

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 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -9 87 £505 -3.81% 218
South West +29 76 £450 -14.29% 62
South East -44 60 £388 +13.97% 112
Yorkshire +2 42 £507 -7.82% 59
North West -3 40 £475 -9.52% 142
Midlands +2 27 £575 +2.22% 87
East of England -3 24 £525 -1.87% 46
Scotland +6 14 £333 -23.56% 19
East Midlands +1 14 £613 +20.10% 34
West Midlands +1 13 £525 -25.00% 54
North East +10 5 £600 +54.84% 19
Wales +18 4 £550 -5.58% 4
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 25 (8.56%) Confluence
2 16 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) SAS
4 5 (1.71%) WordPress
5 4 (1.37%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.37%) nginx
6 3 (1.03%) CMS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.34%) Drupal
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.37%) FastStats
2 4 (1.37%) Unica
3 1 (0.34%) Magento
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (44.52%) GCP
2 85 (29.11%) AWS
3 74 (25.34%) Azure
4 38 (13.01%) GitHub
5 30 (10.27%) Google Analytics
6 28 (9.59%) PaaS
7 27 (9.25%) SaaS
8 26 (8.90%) Google Workspace
9 21 (7.19%) Cloud Computing
10 18 (6.16%) Power Platform
11 14 (4.79%) IaaS
11 14 (4.79%) Serverless
12 13 (4.45%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.11%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.11%) Google Sheets
14 10 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.08%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 9 (3.08%) Google Tag Manager
16 4 (1.37%) Google Data Studio
16 4 (1.37%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.51%) SNMP
1 19 (6.51%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (5.48%) VPN
3 14 (4.79%) Firewall
4 9 (3.08%) DNS
4 9 (3.08%) PBX
4 9 (3.08%) VoIP
5 6 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.71%) SSL
7 4 (1.37%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.37%) IPsec
7 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.03%) HTTP
8 3 (1.03%) Intranet
8 3 (1.03%) LAN
8 3 (1.03%) WAN
8 3 (1.03%) Wireless
9 2 (0.68%) DHCP
9 2 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.99%) BigQuery
2 18 (6.16%) Big Data
3 17 (5.82%) MySQL
4 16 (5.48%) Power BI
5 11 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 11 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.08%) Tableau
8 8 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.05%) Apache Hive
9 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.05%) Spark SQL
10 5 (1.71%) GIS
10 5 (1.71%) Impala
11 4 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.37%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 56 (19.18%) JIRA
2 51 (17.47%) Jenkins
3 47 (16.10%) GoogleTest
4 43 (14.73%) Git
5 24 (8.22%) Bitbucket
6 19 (6.51%) Eclipse
6 19 (6.51%) Robot Framework
7 9 (3.08%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (2.05%) Maven
9 3 (1.03%) gulp
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
11 1 (0.34%) Appium
11 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.34%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.34%) JMeter
11 1 (0.34%) JUnit
11 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.34%) MSTest
11 1 (0.34%) NUnit
11 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (11.99%) Finance
3 22 (7.53%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.85%) Legal
5 19 (6.51%) Banking
5 19 (6.51%) Marketing
6 15 (5.14%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.42%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.74%) Retail
9 7 (2.40%) Digital Economy
10 5 (1.71%) Back Office
10 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 50 (17.12%) Architect
2 45 (15.41%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.07%) Developer
4 32 (10.96%) Java Engineer
4 32 (10.96%) Java Software Engineer
5 28 (9.59%) C++ Software Engineer
6 27 (9.25%) Analyst
7 25 (8.56%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (6.16%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.11%) Senior
10 11 (3.77%) Data Analyst
11 10 (3.42%) Lead
12 9 (3.08%) Administrator
12 9 (3.08%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.74%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Embedded Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 8 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.40%) Embedded C++ Engineer
14 7 (2.40%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.93%) Qt
2 25 (8.56%) HTML
3 23 (7.88%) CSS
4 15 (5.14%) Node.js
4 15 (5.14%) REST
4 15 (5.14%) SAML
5 14 (4.79%) RESTful
6 13 (4.45%) Kafka
7 12 (4.11%) Spring
8 11 (3.77%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.42%) OAuth
10 9 (3.08%) GWT
10 9 (3.08%) Restlet
11 8 (2.74%) .NET
11 8 (2.74%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.74%) JAX-RS
12 7 (2.40%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.05%) gRPC
13 6 (2.05%) JWT
13 6 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.14%) Public Cloud
3 15 (5.14%) Virtual Team
4 13 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.11%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.42%) Mobile App
8 9 (3.08%) Blackberry
8 9 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.40%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.05%) PKI
10 6 (2.05%) Social Media
11 4 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Insider Threat
12 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.86%) Linux
2 22 (7.53%) Windows
3 10 (3.42%) Apple iOS
4 9 (3.08%) Android
4 9 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.74%) Unix
6 4 (1.37%) CentOS
7 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.79%) Agile
2 73 (25.00%) DevOps
3 72 (24.66%) CI/CD
4 59 (20.21%) Software Engineering
5 57 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (18.15%) Analytics
7 32 (10.96%) Containerisation
7 32 (10.96%) Data Modelling
8 31 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (9.93%) Roadmaps
9 29 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (8.90%) Scrum
11 24 (8.22%) Migration
12 23 (7.88%) TOGAF
13 22 (7.53%) Computer Science
14 21 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (6.51%) Validation
16 17 (5.82%) ITIL
16 17 (5.82%) SysML
16 17 (5.82%) UML
Programming Languages
1 87 (29.79%) Java
1 87 (29.79%) Python
2 51 (17.47%) C++
3 50 (17.12%) SQL
4 37 (12.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (4.79%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.45%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.42%) Bash
8 5 (1.71%) PHP
8 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.37%) C
9 4 (1.37%) Groovy
10 2 (0.68%) Go
10 2 (0.68%) R
10 2 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) C#
11 1 (0.34%) CQL
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
11 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.67%) Degree
3 31 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.08%) APMP
6 9 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.08%) PMP
7 8 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.40%) HND
9 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.37%) CCNP
10 4 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.37%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.93%) MISRA
2 20 (6.85%) GDPR
3 11 (3.77%) HIPAA
4 8 (2.74%) QA
5 6 (2.05%) NIST
6 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.68%) WCAG
8 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (7.88%) Docker
2 17 (5.82%) Firmware
3 16 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.05%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.68%) zsh
8 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.34%) Snort
8 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (10.27%) Kubernetes
1 30 (10.27%) Terraform
2 16 (5.48%) Ansible
3 10 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.40%) Istio
4 7 (2.40%) Rancher
5 6 (2.05%) OPNET
6 5 (1.71%) SCCM
7 4 (1.37%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Nessus
9 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.34%) vMotion
Vendors
1 60 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.22%) Atlassian
3 21 (7.19%) Oracle
4 17 (5.82%) VMware
5 16 (5.48%) Cisco
5 16 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.42%) IBM
7 9 (3.08%) Avaya
7 9 (3.08%) Ericsson
7 9 (3.08%) Juniper
7 9 (3.08%) Nokia
7 9 (3.08%) Ribbon
8 8 (2.74%) Adobe
8 8 (2.74%) Apple
8 8 (2.74%) Facebook
9 6 (2.05%) SAP
10 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.37%) Snapchat
11 4 (1.37%) Twitter
12 3 (1.03%) Instagram