Cloud Spanner Contracts

Google Cloud Spanner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cloud Spanner skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Spanner over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 593 687
Rank change year-on-year +71 +94 +158
Contract jobs citing Cloud Spanner 2 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.016% 0.049%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.036% 0.096% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 23
10th Percentile £426 - £380
25th Percentile £455 £625 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £650 £610
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +6.56% -9.63%
75th Percentile £555 £706 £659
90th Percentile £582 £725 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400

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 5,566 7,284 10,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 16.88% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,841 5,197 7,526
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £771 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 143 186
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.88 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

Cloud Spanner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Spanner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Spanner in the UK

Cloud Spanner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Spanner.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Spanner in the UK

Cloud Spanner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Spanner over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Spanner in the UK

Cloud Spanner
Top 3 Contract 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 6 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
England +57 1 £413 -36.54% 2
Work from Home +45 1 £413 -36.54% 1
London +33 1 £413 -36.54%

Cloud Spanner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Google App Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Bigtable
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) CQRS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google