Google Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Google
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 126 90
Rank change year-on-year +17 -36 -5
Contract jobs citing Google 232 256 650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.37% 1.69% 2.55%
As % of the Vendors category 5.16% 4.00% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 161 471
10th Percentile £250 £325 £313
25th Percentile £350 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -0.09%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.00 £23.80 -
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £39.58
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -34.30% +58.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £54.57
90th Percentile £68.20 £51.50 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £31.55 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.36% -35.00% +14.29%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,493 6,398 10,972
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.82% 42.23% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,935 3,980 7,370
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 217 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.72 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.58 £16.70 £31.04
Median hourly rate £53.50 £32.12 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.59% -40.53% +54.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +97.67%

Google
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Google
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Google.

Google daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Google over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Google daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Google.

Google hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Google over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Google hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (4.74%) Apache
2 8 (3.45%) Confluence
3 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.59%) CMS
4 6 (2.59%) WordPress
5 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.29%) Trello
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Notion
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Shopify
1 3 (1.29%) Unica
2 2 (0.86%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.86%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.86%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.86%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.43%) iTrent
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 137 (59.05%) GCP
2 82 (35.34%) AWS
3 78 (33.62%) Azure
4 22 (9.48%) Google Analytics
5 21 (9.05%) Google Workspace
5 21 (9.05%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.90%) GitHub
7 11 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.45%) Google Ads
8 8 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 7 (3.02%) Serverless
10 6 (2.59%) Google Data Studio
10 6 (2.59%) Google Sheets
10 6 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.16%) Cloud Composer
11 5 (2.16%) Cloud Run
11 5 (2.16%) dbt
11 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.16%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.31%) Firewall
2 6 (2.59%) DNS
3 5 (2.16%) HTTP
4 3 (1.29%) SNMP
4 3 (1.29%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.86%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) H.323
6 1 (0.43%) MQTT
6 1 (0.43%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.43%) SMTP
6 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.43%) SSL
6 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.43%) WebEx
6 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.95%) BigQuery
2 21 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (9.05%) Power BI
3 20 (8.62%) Looker
4 18 (7.76%) Tableau
5 13 (5.60%) Big Data
6 11 (4.74%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.88%) Metadata
7 9 (3.88%) MySQL
7 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.02%) Redis
9 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.16%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.86%) GIS
12 2 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (6.90%) Git
1 16 (6.90%) GitLab
2 15 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.60%) JIRA
4 6 (2.59%) Eclipse
5 5 (2.16%) Gradle
6 4 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.72%) GoogleTest
6 4 (1.72%) Maven
6 4 (1.72%) MLflow
6 4 (1.72%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.29%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.29%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.29%) JUnit
7 3 (1.29%) Mockito
7 3 (1.29%) TestNG
7 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.86%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
General
1 60 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (13.36%) Finance
4 30 (12.93%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.91%) Marketing
6 17 (7.33%) Banking
7 11 (4.74%) Legal
8 9 (3.88%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.02%) Advertising
10 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.86%) Billing
12 2 (0.86%) Digital Health
12 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Military
12 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 43 (18.53%) Developer
2 35 (15.09%) Architect
3 28 (12.07%) Analyst
4 19 (8.19%) Lead
5 18 (7.76%) Senior
6 15 (6.47%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.47%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (6.03%) Data Analyst
8 13 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
9 11 (4.74%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) GCP Developer
12 6 (2.59%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.33%) RESTful
2 15 (6.47%) Node.js
3 14 (6.03%) React
4 11 (4.74%) .NET
4 11 (4.74%) Kafka
5 10 (4.31%) CSS
5 10 (4.31%) OAuth
6 9 (3.88%) HTML
7 8 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.45%) Middleware
8 7 (3.02%) JWT
8 7 (3.02%) Spring
9 6 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.16%) REST
11 4 (1.72%) JSON
11 4 (1.72%) Next.js
11 4 (1.72%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.72%) Playwright
11 4 (1.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.16%) NHS
6 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.72%) Social Media
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.86%) Life Science
7 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.86%) PKI
7 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.31%) Linux
2 5 (2.16%) Android
3 4 (1.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.29%) Unix
5 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) AIX
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.16%) Analytics
2 45 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (18.97%) CI/CD
4 38 (16.38%) Agile
5 35 (15.09%) DevOps
6 32 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 31 (13.36%) Migration
7 31 (13.36%) Software Engineering
8 27 (11.64%) Computer Science
9 25 (10.78%) Microservices
10 24 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (9.91%) ETL
12 22 (9.48%) Data Modelling
13 21 (9.05%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (9.05%) Machine Learning
14 20 (8.62%) Data Science
14 20 (8.62%) Visualisation
15 19 (8.19%) Cloud Security
16 17 (7.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (28.45%) Python
2 47 (20.26%) SQL
3 33 (14.22%) Java
4 25 (10.78%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.45%) Bash
6 8 (3.45%) C#
6 8 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.59%) R
8 5 (2.16%) C++
8 5 (2.16%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.29%) PHP
9 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.86%) ABAP
10 2 (0.86%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.79%) Degree
3 31 (13.36%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 24 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (9.48%) AWS Certification
6 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.74%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.72%) CISSP
12 3 (1.29%) CEH
12 3 (1.29%) CITP
12 3 (1.29%) OSCP
12 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.86%) CCNA
13 2 (0.86%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.90%) QA
2 14 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.31%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.29%) WCAG
6 2 (0.86%) PERC
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (12.93%) Docker
2 9 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.47%) Terraform
3 12 (5.17%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.74%) Grafana
5 9 (3.88%) Ansible
6 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.29%) Argo
9 2 (0.86%) Consul
9 2 (0.86%) logstash
9 2 (0.86%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.43%) Istio
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Nessus
10 1 (0.43%) Perfmon
10 1 (0.43%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) vRealize
10 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.60%) Databricks
3 11 (4.74%) SAP
4 9 (3.88%) Adobe
5 8 (3.45%) Oracle
5 8 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.59%) Splunk
6 6 (2.59%) VMware
7 5 (2.16%) Apple
7 5 (2.16%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.16%) IBM
7 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.16%) Workday
8 4 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco
9 3 (1.29%) Sage
9 3 (1.29%) Xero
10 2 (0.86%) Okta
10 2 (0.86%) TikTok