Google Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 132 150
Rank change year-on-year -44 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Google 246 449 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.91% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 4.27% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 286 359
10th Percentile £220 £248 £260
25th Percentile £350 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 35
10th Percentile £11.08 £17.16 £15.80
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £18.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.55 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.26% +13.00% +61.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.94 £44.63
90th Percentile - £59.28 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £39.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.67% +13.71% +29.63%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,753 10,503 12,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.69% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 7,193 8,247
10th Percentile £206 £205 £187
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 476 644
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.81
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.67 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.65%
75th Percentile £59.94 £62.00 £36.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.17
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the UK excluding London

Google
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -36 69 £500 -9.09% 174
South East -37 55 £375 +3.90% 113
South West +17 52 £450 -18.18% 71
North West -15 40 £450 -17.24% 105
East of England +2 28 £525 -0.94% 42
Yorkshire -16 24 £550 - 62
Midlands +3 23 £575 +9.52% 81
Scotland -7 18 £619 +47.32% 25
East Midlands +18 13 £613 - 37
West Midlands -14 10 £525 -2.78% 44
North East +18 5 £600 +215.79% 9
Wales +13 1 - - 11
Google
UK

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (8.13%) Confluence
2 9 (3.66%) SAS
3 7 (2.85%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.85%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.03%) WordPress
5 4 (1.63%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.63%) CMS
5 4 (1.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Drupal
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.81%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.63%) FastStats
1 4 (1.63%) Unica
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (42.68%) GCP
2 68 (27.64%) AWS
3 53 (21.54%) Azure
4 31 (12.60%) Google Analytics
5 27 (10.98%) SaaS
6 26 (10.57%) PaaS
7 23 (9.35%) Google Workspace
8 22 (8.94%) GitHub
9 17 (6.91%) Power Platform
10 15 (6.10%) OpenShift
11 14 (5.69%) IaaS
12 13 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (4.47%) Google Sheets
14 8 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.85%) Google Tag Manager
16 5 (2.03%) Serverless
17 4 (1.63%) Amazon S3
17 4 (1.63%) Apigee
17 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
17 4 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.91%) SNMP
1 17 (6.91%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (6.50%) VPN
3 14 (5.69%) Firewall
4 11 (4.47%) DNS
5 9 (3.66%) PBX
5 9 (3.66%) VoIP
6 8 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.03%) DHCP
7 5 (2.03%) SAN
8 4 (1.63%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.63%) IPsec
8 4 (1.63%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.22%) HTTP
9 3 (1.22%) LAN
9 3 (1.22%) SSL
9 3 (1.22%) VLAN
9 3 (1.22%) WAN
9 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) BigQuery
2 15 (6.10%) Power BI
3 14 (5.69%) MySQL
4 11 (4.47%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.25%) Big Data
8 7 (2.85%) Tableau
9 6 (2.44%) DB2
10 5 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.03%) GIS
11 4 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.63%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.63%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.22%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.22%) Bigtable
12 3 (1.22%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (1.22%) Metadata
12 3 (1.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (14.63%) JIRA
2 30 (12.20%) GoogleTest
3 28 (11.38%) Git
3 28 (11.38%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.54%) Bitbucket
5 18 (7.32%) Eclipse
6 17 (6.91%) Robot Framework
7 10 (4.07%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (2.44%) Maven
9 3 (1.22%) gulp
10 2 (0.81%) Selenium
11 1 (0.41%) Appium
11 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.41%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.41%) JMeter
11 1 (0.41%) MSTest
11 1 (0.41%) NUnit
11 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.41%) Valgrind
General
1 65 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.38%) Finance
4 20 (8.13%) Legal
5 18 (7.32%) Banking
6 17 (6.91%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.28%) Marketing
7 13 (5.28%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.66%) Retail
9 8 (3.25%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.85%) Digital Economy
11 5 (2.03%) Back Office
11 5 (2.03%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.81%) Advertising
14 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.41%) Games
15 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (15.85%) Architect
1 39 (15.85%) Developer
2 31 (12.60%) Software Engineer
3 24 (9.76%) Analyst
4 20 (8.13%) Java Engineer
4 20 (8.13%) Java Software Engineer
5 18 (7.32%) C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.69%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Data Analyst
9 11 (4.47%) Senior
10 10 (4.07%) Administrator
10 10 (4.07%) Lead
11 8 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.25%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 6 (2.44%) Consultant
13 6 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.44%) GCP Architect
13 6 (2.44%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.35%) HTML
2 21 (8.54%) CSS
3 15 (6.10%) REST
4 14 (5.69%) Node.js
4 14 (5.69%) SAML
5 13 (5.28%) Qt
6 12 (4.88%) Spring
7 11 (4.47%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.66%) GWT
8 9 (3.66%) RESTful
8 9 (3.66%) Restlet
9 8 (3.25%) JAX-RS
10 7 (2.85%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.85%) React
11 6 (2.44%) .NET
11 6 (2.44%) Flash
11 6 (2.44%) JSON
12 5 (2.03%) Google Maps API
12 5 (2.03%) Web Services
13 4 (1.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (5.28%) Public Cloud
1 13 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (4.88%) Virtual Team
3 11 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.47%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.66%) Blackberry
5 9 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.66%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.03%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.03%) Social Media
8 4 (1.63%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.63%) Insider Threat
8 4 (1.63%) NVMe
8 4 (1.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.67%) Linux
2 26 (10.57%) Windows
3 14 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.47%) Apple iOS
5 10 (4.07%) Android
6 9 (3.66%) Unix
7 4 (1.63%) CentOS
7 4 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.83%) Agile
2 50 (20.33%) DevOps
3 47 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (17.89%) Analytics
4 44 (17.89%) Software Engineering
5 42 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 29 (11.79%) Roadmaps
7 25 (10.16%) Migration
8 24 (9.76%) Computer Science
9 23 (9.35%) Scrum
10 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (8.54%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (8.54%) TOGAF
11 18 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (6.91%) Data Modelling
12 17 (6.91%) ITIL
13 16 (6.50%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (6.50%) Customer Requirements
13 16 (6.50%) UML
14 15 (6.10%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.39%) Java
2 58 (23.58%) Python
3 41 (16.67%) SQL
4 37 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.60%) C++
6 14 (5.69%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.07%) Bash
7 10 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.03%) PHP
9 4 (1.63%) Perl
10 3 (1.22%) C
11 2 (0.81%) C#
11 2 (0.81%) Go
11 2 (0.81%) Groovy
11 2 (0.81%) R
11 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.41%) CQL
12 1 (0.41%) Elixir
12 1 (0.41%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.63%) Degree
3 30 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.66%) APMP
6 9 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.66%) PMP
7 8 (3.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.85%) HND
9 5 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.63%) CCNP
10 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) GDPR
2 13 (5.28%) MISRA
3 8 (3.25%) QA
4 6 (2.44%) NIST
5 5 (2.03%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.81%) WCAG
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (8.13%) Docker
2 16 (6.50%) Firmware
3 14 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.03%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.63%) GPFS
6 4 (1.63%) NFS
6 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.63%) zsh
7 3 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.41%) Snort
8 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 26 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.13%) Terraform
3 14 (5.69%) Ansible
4 10 (4.07%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.25%) Istio
6 7 (2.85%) Rancher
7 6 (2.44%) SCCM
8 4 (1.63%) OPNET
8 4 (1.63%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.81%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) Puppet
10 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 45 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.13%) Atlassian
3 18 (7.32%) Oracle
4 16 (6.50%) Salesforce
5 15 (6.10%) IBM
5 15 (6.10%) VMware
6 14 (5.69%) Cisco
7 9 (3.66%) Avaya
7 9 (3.66%) Ericsson
7 9 (3.66%) Juniper
7 9 (3.66%) Nokia
7 9 (3.66%) Ribbon
8 8 (3.25%) Apple
9 7 (2.85%) Adobe
9 7 (2.85%) Facebook
10 5 (2.03%) Brocade
10 5 (2.03%) EMC
10 5 (2.03%) NetApp
10 5 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.03%) Veritas