Google Contracts

Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 133 104
Rank change year-on-year +26 -29 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 716 772 1,428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 1.77% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 5.16% 4.17% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 491 1,004
10th Percentile £250 £258 £313
25th Percentile £383 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £714 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 58 32
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.25 £21.00
25th Percentile £20.48 £20.56 £24.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -49.76% +47.86%
75th Percentile £52.25 £50.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.63 £26.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year +6.27% -34.34% +26.72%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +23 611 £508 -3.33% 2,544
London -5 342 £525 -0.94% 1,142
UK excluding London +82 288 £500 -2.44% 1,463
Work from Home +23 230 £475 -9.52% 1,677
North of England +42 89 £500 - 491
South East +74 81 £508 +16.00% 384
North West +16 45 £600 +23.08% 241
Yorkshire +32 41 £463 -15.91% 197
South West +35 34 £500 -13.04% 55
Midlands +24 23 £400 -30.43% 429
Wales +26 22 £440 - 18
East of England +24 19 £405 -22.86% 66
Scotland +12 19 £500 -21.57% 37
West Midlands +21 15 £420 -20.00% 214
East Midlands +5 8 £346 -43.59% 212
North East -4 3 - - 55
Northern Ireland - 2 £281 - 10

Google
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:

Application Platforms
1 40 (5.59%) Confluence
2 24 (3.35%) Apache
3 20 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.09%) Apache Spark
6 14 (1.96%) CMS
7 13 (1.82%) SharePoint
8 10 (1.40%) WordPress
9 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) SAS
10 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.56%) Trello
5 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.28%) 1Password
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Notion
7 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) SAP CO
1 6 (0.84%) SAP FI
1 6 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (0.84%) SAP HR
1 6 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (0.70%) Shopify
3 3 (0.42%) Unica
4 2 (0.28%) assyst
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.28%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.14%) iTrent
5 1 (0.14%) Magento
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.14%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.14%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 397 (55.45%) GCP
2 247 (34.50%) AWS
3 233 (32.54%) Azure
4 103 (14.39%) Google Workspace
5 59 (8.24%) Google Analytics
6 47 (6.56%) Power Platform
7 46 (6.42%) GitHub
8 38 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (5.03%) Entra ID
10 23 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
11 22 (3.07%) PaaS
11 22 (3.07%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.51%) Google Sheets
13 17 (2.37%) IaaS
14 16 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.23%) OpenShift
14 16 (2.23%) Serverless
15 15 (2.09%) SaaS
16 13 (1.82%) dbt
16 13 (1.82%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.56%) Firewall
2 34 (4.75%) VPN
3 33 (4.61%) DNS
4 19 (2.65%) DHCP
5 13 (1.82%) SMTP
6 12 (1.68%) Network Security
6 12 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.54%) HTTP
8 10 (1.40%) VLAN
9 9 (1.26%) SNMP
10 8 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
12 5 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (0.70%) Wireless
13 4 (0.56%) Internet
13 4 (0.56%) Intranet
13 4 (0.56%) VoIP
14 3 (0.42%) MPLS
14 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.75%) BigQuery
2 46 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (6.42%) Power BI
3 36 (5.03%) Tableau
4 34 (4.75%) Big Data
5 33 (4.61%) Looker
6 23 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.93%) Metadata
7 21 (2.93%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.51%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.37%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 14 (1.96%) MySQL
12 13 (1.82%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.12%) Flink
16 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (8.66%) JIRA
2 55 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 41 (5.73%) GitLab
4 40 (5.59%) Git
5 31 (4.33%) Bitbucket
6 21 (2.93%) GoogleTest
7 16 (2.23%) Eclipse
8 13 (1.82%) Robot Framework
9 9 (1.26%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.98%) TestRail
11 6 (0.84%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.70%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.70%) DBeaver
12 5 (0.70%) ERwin
12 5 (0.70%) Gradle
13 4 (0.56%) JUnit
13 4 (0.56%) Maven
13 4 (0.56%) MLflow
13 4 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 257 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 118 (16.48%) Finance
3 103 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 66 (9.22%) Marketing
6 59 (8.24%) Banking
7 29 (4.05%) Legal
8 26 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 18 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.23%) Advertising
11 16 (2.23%) Retail
12 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.82%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.26%) Military
16 8 (1.12%) Electronics
16 8 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.98%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (18.02%) Architect
2 102 (14.25%) Developer
3 65 (9.08%) Senior
4 62 (8.66%) Analyst
5 44 (6.15%) GCP Engineer
6 43 (6.01%) Lead
7 37 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 35 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (4.47%) Support Engineer
10 29 (4.05%) Software Engineer
11 28 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
12 26 (3.63%) Data Analyst
13 23 (3.21%) Consultant
14 22 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.93%) IT Support
16 20 (2.79%) Data Architect
16 20 (2.79%) GCP Architect
16 20 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (2.65%) Security Architect
18 18 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.45%) HTML
2 36 (5.03%) CSS
3 33 (4.61%) Node.js
4 25 (3.49%) .NET
4 25 (3.49%) Kafka
5 24 (3.35%) React
6 23 (3.21%) RESTful
7 21 (2.93%) REST
8 19 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 17 (2.37%) Spring
10 13 (1.82%) OAuth
11 12 (1.68%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.54%) Next.js
12 11 (1.54%) Spring Boot
13 9 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.26%) Middleware
14 7 (0.98%) Google Maps API
14 7 (0.98%) JWT
14 7 (0.98%) Pandas
14 7 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.05%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 21 (2.93%) Social Media
6 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.37%) PKI
9 15 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.82%) iPhone
10 13 (1.82%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.54%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.54%) Digital Media
11 11 (1.54%) iPad
12 10 (1.40%) Clustering
12 10 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 82 (11.45%) Windows
2 60 (8.38%) Linux
3 22 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.93%) Apple iOS
5 20 (2.79%) Android
6 14 (1.96%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.82%) Windows 10
8 12 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (1.40%) Unix
10 7 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.56%) AIX
11 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.28%) Rocky
12 2 (0.28%) VMS
13 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (19.83%) Analytics
3 133 (18.58%) Agile
4 117 (16.34%) CI/CD
5 114 (15.92%) DevOps
6 94 (13.13%) Migration
7 86 (12.01%) Computer Science
8 85 (11.87%) Software Engineering
9 74 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 73 (10.20%) ETL
11 68 (9.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 62 (8.66%) Data Modelling
13 61 (8.52%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (8.38%) Microservices
15 59 (8.24%) Machine Learning
16 53 (7.40%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (7.12%) Visualisation
18 50 (6.98%) Data Engineering
19 49 (6.84%) Data Governance
19 49 (6.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (23.88%) Python
2 113 (15.78%) SQL
3 73 (10.20%) Java
4 71 (9.92%) JavaScript
5 46 (6.42%) PowerShell
6 35 (4.89%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.35%) Bash
7 24 (3.35%) C++
8 21 (2.93%) C#
9 13 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.40%) R
10 10 (1.40%) Scala
11 9 (1.26%) Go
12 8 (1.12%) Perl
13 6 (0.84%) ABAP
13 6 (0.84%) Bicep
13 6 (0.84%) PHP
13 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 116 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.78%) Degree
3 94 (13.13%) SC Cleared
4 69 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (6.70%) Azure Certification
6 38 (5.31%) AWS Certification
7 30 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (3.21%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.54%) CISSP
13 8 (1.12%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.98%) CEH
15 6 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.70%) A+ Certification
16 5 (0.70%) CCNP
16 5 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 5 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.75%) GDPR
2 34 (4.75%) QA
3 21 (2.93%) SLA
4 13 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.98%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.84%) PMO
9 5 (0.70%) NIST
9 5 (0.70%) WCAG
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) PERC
12 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 81 (11.31%) Docker
2 50 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.82%) BitLocker
6 12 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (1.26%) Terminal Services
7 9 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.56%) Lustre
10 3 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.42%) NFS
10 3 (0.42%) vSphere
11 2 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.14%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 103 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.45%) Terraform
3 42 (5.87%) Ansible
4 20 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (2.65%) Puppet
6 18 (2.51%) Grafana
7 17 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.40%) Nagios
10 9 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.26%) vMotion
11 7 (0.98%) PowerCLI
12 5 (0.70%) Argo
12 5 (0.70%) logstash
12 5 (0.70%) Packer
12 5 (0.70%) Podman
12 5 (0.70%) SCCM
12 5 (0.70%) SmoothWall
13 4 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 159 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.47%) SAP
3 28 (3.91%) Databricks
4 25 (3.49%) VMware
5 24 (3.35%) Adobe
6 23 (3.21%) Oracle
7 19 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 17 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.09%) IBM
10 14 (1.96%) Atlassian
10 14 (1.96%) Citrix
10 14 (1.96%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.82%) Apple
12 12 (1.68%) Splunk
13 11 (1.54%) Cisco
13 11 (1.54%) MobileIron
13 11 (1.54%) Nexthink
14 10 (1.40%) HP
14 10 (1.40%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.40%) Symantec