Cloud Spanner Contract Job Trends

Google Cloud Spanner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cloud Spanner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 557 611
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 +185
Contract jobs citing Cloud Spanner 4 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.020% 0.002%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.063% 0.11% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £444 -
25th Percentile - £500 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £600 £638
90th Percentile - £630 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £625

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Cloud Spanner falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,332 6,233 7,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 18.02% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 4,126 5,243
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 139
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +1.49%

Cloud Spanner
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Spanner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Spanner job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Spanner
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Spanner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Spanner

Cloud Spanner
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Spanner within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
England -37 4 £350 -34.88% 5
UK excluding London - 4 £350 - 6
North of England - 4 £350 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 1
North West - 1 - -

Cloud Spanner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google