GoogleTest Contracts

Google Test
UK

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 509 655
Rank change year-on-year -31 +146 +200
Contract jobs citing GoogleTest 12 55 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.14% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% 1.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £328 - £388
25th Percentile £605 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.20% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £575 £606
90th Percentile £660 - £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £626 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.20% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 5
10th Percentile £51.49 - £53.25
25th Percentile £52.14 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +21.74% -12.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.64% +21.74% -12.21%

All Development Application Skills
UK

GoogleTest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,915 5,001 7,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.91% 12.79% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,328 3,286 5,133
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.15% +0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 215 239
10th Percentile £25.64 £26.79 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.22 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.90 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £63.44
% change year-on-year - +2.46% +5.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GoogleTest over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GoogleTest in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoogleTest within the UK over the 6 months to 6 August 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 -38 12 £626 +25.20% 7
UK excluding London -38 11 £626 +25.20% 5
South East +8 10 £633 +26.60% 1
Work from Home - 2 £626 -
South West -3 1 £58 - 1
London - 1 £600 - 3

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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 8 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SNMP
1 4 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) JIRA
1 10 (83.33%) Robot Framework
2 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (66.67%) Bitbucket
4 7 (58.33%) Eclipse
5 6 (50.00%) Git
5 6 (50.00%) GitLab
6 1 (8.33%) CMake
General
1 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Market Data Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) CSS
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (8.33%) OpenCV
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) CUDA
2 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 4 (33.33%) SysML
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) UML
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
8 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (8.33%) DevOps
8 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
8 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (8.33%) Sensor Fusion
8 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Google
2 8 (66.67%) Atlassian
3 6 (50.00%) Intel
4 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA