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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 104 110
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Google 778 899 1,280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.53% 2.08% 2.29%
As % of the Vendors category 5.32% 4.87% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 544 901
10th Percentile £213 £300 £275
25th Percentile £361 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £612 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £485 £478
% change year-on-year -7.22% +1.52% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 86 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £11.44 £15.40
25th Percentile £16.95 £25.50 £21.38
Median hourly rate £24.66 £34.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -27.47% -14.14% +13.14%
75th Percentile £45.03 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.25 - £60.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.82 £70.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -73.11% +76.99% +13.00%

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 14,621 18,467 24,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.78% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,943 11,456 16,143
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 1,167 649
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.28 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.76 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.44% -23.11% +49.55%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +9 676 £500 -4.76% 7,659
London -4 373 £500 -6.54% 4,784
UK excluding London +47 322 £450 -7.22% 3,259
Work from Home -1 232 £475 -6.31% 3,872
North of England +24 111 £500 -0.99% 1,014
South East +79 97 £488 +21.88% 901
North West +31 62 £588 +20.51% 596
Yorkshire +1 45 £463 -8.78% 362
South West -11 29 £370 -26.00% 290
Midlands +18 28 £400 -33.33% 421
East of England +21 22 £400 -23.81% 298
Scotland +11 22 £450 +32.84% 187
West Midlands +12 19 £375 -31.82% 252
Wales +15 17 £463 -11.48% 87
East Midlands +2 8 £396 -39.15% 168
North East +1 4 £625 - 56
Northern Ireland - 1 £281 - 75

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 36 (4.63%) Confluence
2 26 (3.34%) Apache
3 22 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.19%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.06%) CMS
5 16 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.90%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.90%) WordPress
7 5 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) IBM Domino
9 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.26%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.64%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.39%) Sketch
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.13%) Maple
8 1 (0.13%) Maya
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Shopify
2 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) Magento
4 2 (0.26%) assyst
4 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.26%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Maximo
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 421 (54.11%) GCP
2 248 (31.88%) AWS
3 232 (29.82%) Azure
4 124 (15.94%) Google Workspace
5 51 (6.56%) Google Analytics
6 49 (6.30%) GitHub
7 48 (6.17%) Power Platform
8 39 (5.01%) SaaS
9 34 (4.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 29 (3.73%) Google Sheets
11 28 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.83%) Entra ID
14 21 (2.70%) PaaS
15 20 (2.57%) dbt
16 19 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.44%) Snowflake
17 18 (2.31%) IaaS
17 18 (2.31%) OpenShift
18 17 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.56%) Firewall
2 36 (4.63%) DNS
3 34 (4.37%) VPN
4 20 (2.57%) DHCP
5 15 (1.93%) Network Security
6 14 (1.80%) HTTP
6 14 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.54%) SMTP
8 9 (1.16%) VLAN
9 7 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.77%) SNMP
10 6 (0.77%) Wireless
11 5 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.64%) VoIP
12 4 (0.51%) Intranet
12 4 (0.51%) Software-Defined Radio
13 3 (0.39%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.39%) Internet
13 3 (0.39%) MPLS
13 3 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.72%) BigQuery
2 49 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (5.78%) Power BI
4 38 (4.88%) Big Data
5 33 (4.24%) Looker
6 31 (3.98%) Tableau
7 25 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (2.83%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.70%) Metadata
10 18 (2.31%) NoSQL
11 17 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (2.06%) MySQL
13 15 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.80%) SQL Server
15 11 (1.41%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.41%) Relational Database
16 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.16%) Hadoop
17 9 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (7.71%) JIRA
2 56 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 46 (5.91%) GitLab
4 40 (5.14%) Git
5 20 (2.57%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.80%) GoogleTest
7 13 (1.67%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.29%) Robot Framework
9 9 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.16%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.77%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.77%) Gradle
10 6 (0.77%) JUnit
10 6 (0.77%) Maven
11 5 (0.64%) DBeaver
11 5 (0.64%) ERwin
11 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.51%) MLflow
12 4 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 257 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 152 (19.54%) Finance
3 90 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 71 (9.13%) Banking
6 68 (8.74%) Marketing
7 27 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 22 (2.83%) Legal
10 21 (2.70%) Retail
11 16 (2.06%) Advertising
12 14 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.54%) Military
15 11 (1.41%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.16%) Electronics
17 9 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 140 (17.99%) Architect
2 91 (11.70%) Developer
3 90 (11.57%) Senior
4 68 (8.74%) Analyst
5 44 (5.66%) Lead
6 39 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
7 38 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 34 (4.37%) Data Engineer
9 30 (3.86%) IT Support
10 29 (3.73%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.60%) Data Analyst
11 28 (3.60%) GCP Architect
12 27 (3.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (3.34%) Consultant
14 25 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
15 24 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (2.83%) Software Engineer
17 20 (2.57%) 1st Line Support
17 20 (2.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.63%) Node.js
2 35 (4.50%) Kafka
3 32 (4.11%) HTML
4 31 (3.98%) React
5 29 (3.73%) CSS
6 28 (3.60%) RESTful
7 24 (3.08%) .NET
8 20 (2.57%) REST
9 17 (2.19%) Spring
10 16 (2.06%) React Native
11 15 (1.93%) OAuth
12 14 (1.80%) GraphQL
13 12 (1.54%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.54%) Jest
13 12 (1.54%) LangChain
13 12 (1.54%) Middleware
14 11 (1.41%) Redux
15 10 (1.29%) Next.js
15 10 (1.29%) Spring Boot
15 10 (1.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (3.47%) iPad
3 27 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 26 (3.34%) iPhone
5 24 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.31%) Social Media
8 17 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 17 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.06%) PKI
10 15 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 14 (1.80%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.41%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.21%) Windows
2 57 (7.33%) Linux
3 42 (5.40%) Apple iOS
4 25 (3.21%) Android
5 19 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.67%) Unix
6 13 (1.67%) Windows 10
7 12 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.29%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.39%) AIX
10 3 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.26%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.26%) Rocky
11 2 (0.26%) VMS
11 2 (0.26%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.26%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
2 146 (18.77%) CI/CD
3 140 (17.99%) Agile
4 137 (17.61%) Analytics
5 126 (16.20%) DevOps
6 84 (10.80%) Migration
7 83 (10.67%) Containerisation
7 83 (10.67%) Data Modelling
8 81 (10.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 77 (9.90%) ETL
10 70 (9.00%) Software Engineering
11 63 (8.10%) Computer Science
11 63 (8.10%) Machine Learning
12 62 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
13 61 (7.84%) User Experience
14 59 (7.58%) Microservices
15 58 (7.46%) Customer Service
16 57 (7.33%) Cloud Security
16 57 (7.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (23.78%) Python
2 133 (17.10%) SQL
3 70 (9.00%) Java
4 60 (7.71%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.40%) PowerShell
6 34 (4.37%) Bash
7 33 (4.24%) TypeScript
8 19 (2.44%) C#
9 18 (2.31%) C++
10 15 (1.93%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.80%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.54%) Go
13 8 (1.03%) Bicep
13 8 (1.03%) Perl
13 8 (1.03%) Scala
14 6 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.77%) R
15 5 (0.64%) Groovy
16 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 93 (11.95%) Degree
4 52 (6.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (5.01%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.31%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.93%) CISSP
9 15 (1.93%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.29%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.90%) CEH
13 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.77%) CISM
14 5 (0.64%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.64%) OSCP
14 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.53%) GDPR
3 32 (4.11%) SLA
4 21 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.57%) QA
6 19 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.41%) NIST
7 11 (1.41%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.16%) GRC
9 8 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 8 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.03%) WCAG
10 7 (0.90%) PMO
11 5 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.51%) NCSC
13 3 (0.39%) ECSS
13 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.39%) PERC
14 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.26%) HL7
System Software
1 88 (11.31%) Docker
2 42 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.54%) BitLocker
6 11 (1.41%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (1.16%) Terminal Services
7 9 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.64%) vSphere
9 4 (0.51%) Firmware
10 3 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.39%) Lustre
10 3 (0.39%) NFS
11 2 (0.26%) XenApp
12 1 (0.13%) GPFS
12 1 (0.13%) Snort
12 1 (0.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 120 (15.42%) Kubernetes
2 99 (12.72%) Terraform
3 40 (5.14%) Ansible
4 22 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.70%) Grafana
6 18 (2.31%) Puppet
6 18 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (1.29%) Argo
8 10 (1.29%) Nagios
9 9 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.16%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.16%) vMotion
10 7 (0.90%) PowerCLI
11 6 (0.77%) Istio
11 6 (0.77%) SmoothWall
12 4 (0.51%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.51%) Podman
12 4 (0.51%) vRealize
13 3 (0.39%) Consul
Vendors
1 159 (20.44%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.01%) ServiceNow
3 31 (3.98%) SAP
4 30 (3.86%) Adobe
5 29 (3.73%) Oracle
6 28 (3.60%) VMware
7 26 (3.34%) MobileIron
7 26 (3.34%) Nexthink
8 25 (3.21%) Databricks
9 21 (2.70%) Salesforce
10 16 (2.06%) Cisco
10 16 (2.06%) Splunk
11 15 (1.93%) Citrix
12 13 (1.67%) Apple
13 12 (1.54%) HP
13 12 (1.54%) IBM
13 12 (1.54%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.54%) Symantec
14 11 (1.41%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.29%) MuleSoft