Google Contracts in England

Google
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Google products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 112 113
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -20
Contract jobs citing Google 700 1,131 1,718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.90% 2.31% 2.45%
As % of the Vendors category 4.51% 5.51% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 827 1,197
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 29 42
10th Percentile £11.25 £19.46 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% +13.14% +37.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £54.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £75.76
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £39.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.67% +13.71% +29.63%

All Vendors
England

Google is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,530 20,542 27,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.25% 41.94% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,855 14,123 18,824
10th Percentile £263 £265 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 594 785
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.94
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.03 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year -42.34% +82.79% +1.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.31 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in England

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Google in England

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in England

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in England

Google
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +1 446 £536 -6.78% 420
North of England -31 69 £500 -9.09% 164
South East -33 55 £375 +0.84% 113
South West +21 52 £450 -18.18% 74
North West -20 40 £450 -15.29% 99
East of England +9 28 £525 -0.94% 42
Yorkshire -19 24 £550 - 57
Midlands -1 23 £575 +9.52% 77
East Midlands +18 13 £613 - 37
West Midlands -13 10 £525 -2.78% 40
North East +19 5 £600 +215.79% 10
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (8.43%) Apache
3 28 (4.00%) Confluence
4 11 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.43%) CMS
5 10 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (1.00%) WordPress
7 6 (0.86%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.86%) SAS
8 5 (0.71%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.71%) nginx
9 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.43%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.43%) Trello
8 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.14%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Shopify
2 4 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.57%) FastStats
2 4 (0.57%) Unica
2 4 (0.57%) WebTrends
3 2 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.14%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 411 (58.71%) GCP
2 215 (30.71%) AWS
3 199 (28.43%) Azure
4 90 (12.86%) Google Analytics
5 80 (11.43%) Google Workspace
6 46 (6.57%) GitHub
7 43 (6.14%) SaaS
8 33 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.43%) PaaS
10 30 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (3.14%) Apigee
13 21 (3.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 21 (3.00%) Google Sheets
14 19 (2.71%) OpenShift
15 18 (2.57%) IaaS
16 17 (2.43%) dbt
17 16 (2.29%) Slack
18 15 (2.14%) Serverless
19 13 (1.86%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.14%) Firewall
2 21 (3.00%) DNS
2 21 (3.00%) VoIP
3 20 (2.86%) VPN
4 17 (2.43%) SNMP
4 17 (2.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 14 (2.00%) DHCP
5 14 (2.00%) LAN
5 14 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.71%) WAN
7 10 (1.43%) HTTP
7 10 (1.43%) VLAN
7 10 (1.43%) Wireless
8 9 (1.29%) IPsec
8 9 (1.29%) Network Security
8 9 (1.29%) PBX
9 7 (1.00%) MPLS
10 6 (0.86%) BGP
10 6 (0.86%) OSPF
10 6 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (11.43%) BigQuery
3 57 (8.14%) Apache Ignite
4 36 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 31 (4.43%) Looker
6 31 (4.43%) Power BI
7 29 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 23 (3.29%) MySQL
9 20 (2.86%) Big Data
10 14 (2.00%) Tableau
11 11 (1.57%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.57%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.29%) Bigtable
13 8 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.00%) Cloud Spanner
14 7 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.00%) GIS
15 6 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 59 (8.43%) Jenkins
2 53 (7.57%) JIRA
3 52 (7.43%) Git
4 42 (6.00%) Cypress.io
5 30 (4.29%) GoogleTest
6 21 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 18 (2.57%) Eclipse
7 18 (2.57%) GitLab
7 18 (2.57%) Robot Framework
8 12 (1.71%) Maven
9 10 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (1.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 6 (0.86%) Postman
11 6 (0.86%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.43%) gulp
13 2 (0.29%) Appium
13 2 (0.29%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.29%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.29%) Selenium
13 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 161 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 152 (21.71%) Finance
3 107 (15.29%) Banking
4 64 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (8.86%) Retail
6 57 (8.14%) Front Office
7 44 (6.29%) Marketing
8 31 (4.43%) Legal
9 30 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.57%) Advertising
12 10 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.14%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.14%) Local Government
14 7 (1.00%) Digital Economy
14 7 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.71%) Back Office
15 5 (0.71%) Law
15 5 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (24.00%) Developer
2 116 (16.57%) Architect
3 90 (12.86%) Software Engineer
4 65 (9.29%) Analyst
5 60 (8.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 60 (8.57%) Python Developer
6 58 (8.29%) Python Engineer
6 58 (8.29%) Python Software Engineer
6 58 (8.29%) Senior
7 57 (8.14%) React Developer
8 43 (6.14%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (5.14%) Java Developer
10 33 (4.71%) Full Stack Developer
11 32 (4.57%) Full Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
13 29 (4.14%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 29 (4.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 25 (3.57%) GCP Architect
15 24 (3.43%) Java Engineer
16 23 (3.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.00%) React
2 57 (8.14%) gRPC
2 57 (8.14%) Material-UI
2 57 (8.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (8.14%) Redux
3 49 (7.00%) REST
4 44 (6.29%) CSS
5 42 (6.00%) HTML
6 40 (5.71%) Node.js
7 32 (4.57%) Spring
8 29 (4.14%) SAML
9 27 (3.86%) Spring Boot
10 22 (3.14%) AngularJS
11 20 (2.86%) Restlet
12 19 (2.71%) GWT
13 17 (2.43%) JAX-RS
14 16 (2.29%) JSON
15 15 (2.14%) RESTful
15 15 (2.14%) Web Services
16 14 (2.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.29%) Fixed Income
1 58 (8.29%) Hedge funds
2 31 (4.43%) Management Information System
3 27 (3.86%) Public Cloud
4 26 (3.71%) Equities
5 23 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.86%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.43%) PKI
11 9 (1.29%) Blackberry
11 9 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.71%) Linux
2 47 (6.71%) Windows
3 19 (2.71%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.43%) Unix
5 14 (2.00%) Android
5 14 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.57%) CentOS
9 3 (0.43%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (27.00%) Agile
2 131 (18.71%) Analytics
3 118 (16.86%) Software Engineering
4 114 (16.29%) CI/CD
5 107 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (14.43%) DevOps
7 93 (13.29%) Machine Learning
8 83 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
9 67 (9.57%) Asset Management
9 67 (9.57%) Full Stack Development
10 61 (8.71%) Computer Science
11 60 (8.57%) Investment Management
12 59 (8.43%) Microservices
13 58 (8.29%) Containerisation
14 57 (8.14%) Automated Trading
14 57 (8.14%) Migration
15 54 (7.71%) Roadmaps
16 53 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 46 (6.57%) ETL
18 42 (6.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 194 (27.71%) Python
2 111 (15.86%) Java
3 102 (14.57%) SQL
4 89 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 83 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 34 (4.86%) C++
7 24 (3.43%) Bash
8 18 (2.57%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.29%) Go
10 11 (1.57%) C#
11 10 (1.43%) PHP
12 5 (0.71%) C
12 5 (0.71%) Groovy
12 5 (0.71%) R
12 5 (0.71%) Rust
12 5 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.57%) Scala
14 3 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.29%) U-SQL
16 1 (0.14%) CQL
Qualifications
1 100 (14.29%) Degree
2 55 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 46 (6.57%) SC Cleared
4 41 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.00%) PMP
7 13 (1.86%) APMP
7 13 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.57%) CCNP
9 11 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.57%) CISSP
9 11 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.43%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.00%) CCNA
12 7 (1.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.57%) QA
2 26 (3.71%) GDPR
3 17 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.86%) MISRA
5 11 (1.57%) NIST
6 9 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.86%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.86%) WCAG
9 5 (0.71%) PMO
9 5 (0.71%) SLA
10 4 (0.57%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.43%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.29%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) IFRS
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 56 (8.00%) Docker
2 25 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.43%) Firmware
5 11 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.57%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.57%) zsh
8 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.29%) KVM
9 2 (0.29%) vSphere
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.14%) Snort
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (11.14%) Terraform
2 71 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.43%) Ansible
4 24 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.43%) SCCM
6 8 (1.14%) Istio
7 7 (1.00%) Rancher
8 6 (0.86%) Grafana
9 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.57%) Kibana
10 4 (0.57%) OPNET
10 4 (0.57%) Oracle Identity Management
10 4 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.43%) Puppet
12 2 (0.29%) Ambari
12 2 (0.29%) logstash
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.29%) Oozie
12 2 (0.29%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 130 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.14%) Oracle
3 40 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.29%) Cisco
5 28 (4.00%) Adobe
6 25 (3.57%) Apple
7 22 (3.14%) Atlassian
7 22 (3.14%) SAP
7 22 (3.14%) VMware
8 15 (2.14%) IBM
9 14 (2.00%) Avaya
9 14 (2.00%) Optimizely
10 11 (1.57%) Databricks
11 9 (1.29%) Ericsson
11 9 (1.29%) F5
11 9 (1.29%) Genesys
11 9 (1.29%) Juniper
11 9 (1.29%) Nokia
11 9 (1.29%) Okta
11 9 (1.29%) Ribbon