Google Contracts

Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 111 104
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing Google 862 1,278 2,239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 2.28% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 5.25% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 895 1,515
10th Percentile £288 £300 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 36 43
10th Percentile £11.29 £17.16 £16.14
25th Percentile £22.00 £21.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +13.14% +15.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £53.01
90th Percentile - £65.35 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £39.55 £35.00
% change year-on-year +56.76% +13.00% +59.09%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +2 752 £525 -4.55% 1,000
London +9 472 £550 -6.78% 459
Work from Home -20 278 £525 -5.75% 480
UK excluding London -18 275 £500 +2.56% 545
North of England -7 84 £505 -8.18% 213
South West +24 63 £450 -21.74% 59
South East -43 56 £375 +10.29% 124
North West +1 40 £475 -11.63% 132
Yorkshire +2 39 £507 -7.82% 70
East of England -1 27 £525 -1.41% 42
Midlands +8 25 £550 +2.33% 84
Scotland -6 16 £339 -19.35% 20
East Midlands +6 14 £613 +20.10% 42
West Midlands -3 11 £500 -28.57% 43
North East +14 5 £600 +103.39% 14
Wales +16 4 £550 -2.65% 6

Google
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 76 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (8.24%) Apache
3 43 (4.99%) Confluence
4 24 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.86%) WordPress
6 15 (1.74%) CMS
7 12 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 10 (1.16%) Drupal
9 8 (0.93%) SAS
10 7 (0.81%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.81%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.70%) nginx
12 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
15 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 50 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (1.16%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.58%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.46%) Trello
9 3 (0.35%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (0.70%) Magento
1 6 (0.70%) Shopify
2 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.46%) FastStats
2 4 (0.46%) Unica
3 3 (0.35%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.12%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 524 (60.79%) GCP
2 289 (33.53%) AWS
3 271 (31.44%) Azure
4 105 (12.18%) Google Analytics
5 86 (9.98%) Google Workspace
6 72 (8.35%) GitHub
7 46 (5.34%) Power Platform
7 46 (5.34%) SaaS
8 42 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
9 40 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (4.06%) PaaS
11 28 (3.25%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 26 (3.02%) Serverless
13 25 (2.90%) Google Sheets
14 24 (2.78%) Apigee
15 19 (2.20%) dbt
15 19 (2.20%) Google Data Studio
16 18 (2.09%) IaaS
17 16 (1.86%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.71%) Firewall
2 27 (3.13%) VoIP
3 23 (2.67%) VPN
4 21 (2.44%) DNS
5 18 (2.09%) SNMP
5 18 (2.09%) Software-Defined Radio
6 17 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.39%) DHCP
7 12 (1.39%) HTTP
7 12 (1.39%) LAN
8 11 (1.28%) CTI
9 10 (1.16%) Network Security
9 10 (1.16%) VLAN
9 10 (1.16%) WAN
9 10 (1.16%) Wireless
10 9 (1.04%) IPsec
10 9 (1.04%) PBX
11 8 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.81%) MPLS
13 6 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (12.53%) BigQuery
2 105 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (7.54%) Apache Ignite
4 43 (4.99%) Power BI
5 42 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (4.18%) Big Data
6 36 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 34 (3.94%) Looker
8 32 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.48%) MySQL
10 26 (3.02%) Tableau
11 22 (2.55%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.97%) Hadoop
13 15 (1.74%) Spark SQL
14 12 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (1.16%) Apache Hive
17 9 (1.04%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 88 (10.21%) Jenkins
2 77 (8.93%) Git
3 76 (8.82%) JIRA
4 52 (6.03%) Cypress.io
5 36 (4.18%) GoogleTest
6 27 (3.13%) GitLab
7 24 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.67%) Robot Framework
9 18 (2.09%) Eclipse
10 15 (1.74%) Maven
11 9 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (0.93%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.93%) Visual Website Optimizer
13 7 (0.81%) Postman
13 7 (0.81%) Selenium
14 4 (0.46%) IDA Disassembler
15 3 (0.35%) Appium
15 3 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.35%) JMeter
15 3 (0.35%) JUnit
General
1 208 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 191 (22.16%) Finance
3 134 (15.55%) Banking
4 85 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (8.00%) Retail
6 65 (7.54%) Front Office
7 52 (6.03%) Marketing
8 45 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 30 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 29 (3.36%) Legal
11 20 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.28%) Advertising
14 10 (1.16%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.04%) Local Government
15 9 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.81%) Digital Economy
16 7 (0.81%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 217 (25.17%) Developer
2 139 (16.13%) Architect
3 107 (12.41%) Software Engineer
4 81 (9.40%) Python Developer
5 76 (8.82%) Analyst
6 70 (8.12%) Senior
7 69 (8.00%) Python Engineer
8 68 (7.89%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 66 (7.66%) Python Software Engineer
10 65 (7.54%) React Developer
11 62 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
12 47 (5.45%) Java Developer
13 43 (4.99%) GCP Engineer
14 39 (4.52%) Data Engineer
15 38 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
15 38 (4.41%) Full Stack Engineer
16 33 (3.83%) Full Stack Python Developer
16 33 (3.83%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 31 (3.60%) Java Engineer
18 30 (3.48%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (10.79%) React
2 70 (8.12%) gRPC
3 65 (7.54%) Material-UI
3 65 (7.54%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (7.54%) Redux
4 59 (6.84%) REST
5 50 (5.80%) CSS
6 48 (5.57%) Node.js
7 47 (5.45%) HTML
8 43 (4.99%) Spring
9 37 (4.29%) SAML
10 36 (4.18%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.36%) AngularJS
12 26 (3.02%) RESTful
12 26 (3.02%) Restlet
13 25 (2.90%) GWT
14 23 (2.67%) JAX-RS
14 23 (2.67%) Kafka
14 23 (2.67%) Web Services
15 20 (2.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.77%) Hedge funds
2 66 (7.66%) Fixed Income
3 43 (4.99%) Management Information System
4 34 (3.94%) Equities
5 33 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 27 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 27 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 24 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 21 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.74%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.62%) Social Media
13 13 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
14 12 (1.39%) IVR
15 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.28%) PKI
16 10 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.70%) Linux
2 53 (6.15%) Windows
3 29 (3.36%) Unix
4 21 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.62%) Android
5 14 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.46%) CentOS
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (28.54%) Agile
2 172 (19.95%) Analytics
3 157 (18.21%) CI/CD
4 148 (17.17%) DevOps
4 148 (17.17%) Software Engineering
5 142 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (13.11%) Machine Learning
7 100 (11.60%) Artificial Intelligence
8 97 (11.25%) Computer Science
9 79 (9.16%) Full Stack Development
10 77 (8.93%) Containerisation
11 75 (8.70%) Asset Management
12 74 (8.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 71 (8.24%) Microservices
14 69 (8.00%) Investment Management
15 68 (7.89%) Migration
16 67 (7.77%) ETL
17 65 (7.54%) Automated Trading
18 61 (7.08%) Data Modelling
19 59 (6.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 254 (29.47%) Python
2 149 (17.29%) Java
3 138 (16.01%) SQL
4 102 (11.83%) TypeScript
5 92 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 42 (4.87%) C++
7 27 (3.13%) Bash
8 20 (2.32%) Go
8 20 (2.32%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.28%) PHP
9 11 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.16%) Scala
11 9 (1.04%) C#
12 6 (0.70%) C
12 6 (0.70%) Rust
13 5 (0.58%) Groovy
14 4 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.35%) R
15 3 (0.35%) Ruby
16 2 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 132 (15.31%) Degree
2 72 (8.35%) Security Cleared
3 69 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (7.08%) SC Cleared
5 25 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 17 (1.97%) PMP
10 15 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.51%) APMP
11 13 (1.51%) CISSP
11 13 (1.51%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.28%) CCNP
12 11 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.81%) CCNA
14 7 (0.81%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.87%) QA
2 41 (4.76%) GDPR
3 19 (2.20%) HIPAA
3 19 (2.20%) MISRA
4 18 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.74%) NIST
6 14 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.28%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (1.04%) WCAG
10 6 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.58%) SLA
12 4 (0.46%) PMO
13 3 (0.35%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.23%) IFRS
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 79 (9.16%) Docker
2 22 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.09%) Firmware
4 11 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.46%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.46%) Snort
7 4 (0.46%) zsh
8 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.23%) GPFS
9 2 (0.23%) KVM
9 2 (0.23%) NFS
9 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (12.18%) Terraform
2 101 (11.72%) Kubernetes
3 41 (4.76%) Ansible
4 35 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (1.39%) SCCM
6 10 (1.16%) Istio
7 8 (0.93%) Grafana
8 7 (0.81%) Kibana
8 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.81%) Rancher
9 6 (0.70%) OPNET
10 5 (0.58%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.58%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle Identity Management
11 4 (0.46%) PowerCLI
11 4 (0.46%) Puppet
12 2 (0.23%) Ambari
12 2 (0.23%) Argo
12 2 (0.23%) Oozie
Vendors
1 167 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 60 (6.96%) Oracle
3 50 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 36 (4.18%) Cisco
5 30 (3.48%) Adobe
6 28 (3.25%) Apple
7 27 (3.13%) SAP
8 24 (2.78%) Atlassian
8 24 (2.78%) VMware
9 20 (2.32%) Avaya
10 17 (1.97%) IBM
11 13 (1.51%) Databricks
11 13 (1.51%) Genesys
11 13 (1.51%) Okta
11 13 (1.51%) Optimizely
12 9 (1.04%) Ericsson
12 9 (1.04%) Facebook
12 9 (1.04%) Juniper
12 9 (1.04%) Nokia
12 9 (1.04%) Ribbon