Google Contracts in Wales

Google
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 44 55
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Google 22 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.56% 0.25% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 17.46% 0.65% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 7
10th Percentile £209 - £502
25th Percentile £250 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £486 - £663
90th Percentile £561 - £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -49.76% +47.86%

All Vendors
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 126 154 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 43.30% 39.19% 45.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 107 215
10th Percentile £185 £206 £189
25th Percentile £250 £419 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £484 £563 £550
90th Percentile £550 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 6
10th Percentile £14.11 £11.02 £14.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.56 £16.13
Median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%
75th Percentile £32.25 £86.45 £44.31
90th Percentile £41.25 £87.80 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Wales

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Wales

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Wales

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Wales

Google
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Wales +26 21 £446 - 25
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) GCP
2 16 (72.73%) Azure
3 15 (68.18%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Google Docs
4 3 (13.64%) Google Sheets
4 3 (13.64%) Google Workspace
4 3 (13.64%) PaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Metadata
2 5 (22.73%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) GCP Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Migration Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Angular 2
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) HTML5
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) NumPy
1 1 (4.55%) Pandas
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
1 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.55%) SciPy
1 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) NHS
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 8 (36.36%) Analytics
2 8 (36.36%) Data Science
2 8 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Data Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Metadata Management
5 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
5 5 (22.73%) Data Privacy
5 5 (22.73%) DevSecOps
5 5 (22.73%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
6 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) IT Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) ITIL
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) AWS Certification
1 12 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 10 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 10 (45.45%) Master's Degree
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (18.18%) CITP
6 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Databricks
3 4 (18.18%) Cloudera
4 3 (13.64%) Xero
5 1 (4.55%) Remedy