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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 104 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing Google 834 1,351 2,236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.96% 2.36% 2.53%
As % of the Vendors category 4.61% 5.48% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 957 1,532
10th Percentile £276 £300 £319
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 46
10th Percentile £11.25 £17.16 £16.28
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £20.79
Median hourly rate £26.97 £39.60 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +13.14% +29.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £50.94
90th Percentile - £75.00 £75.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.93 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% +2.64% +61.85%

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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England -7 728 £525 -4.55% 1,103
London +7 462 £550 -5.17% 546
Work from Home -24 277 £525 -4.55% 541
UK excluding London -38 262 £500 - 671
North of England -19 79 £505 -8.18% 218
South East -37 55 £375 +7.14% 198
South West +15 54 £500 -9.09% 69
North West -22 39 £425 -20.93% 126
Yorkshire -5 35 £507 -7.82% 84
East of England +5 28 £525 -0.94% 64
Midlands -6 24 £550 +4.76% 83
Scotland -1 19 £619 +47.32% 31
East Midlands +12 13 £613 +16.67% 35
West Midlands -6 11 £500 -11.11% 48
North East +16 5 £600 +215.79% 11
Wales +15 3 £550 -8.33% 10

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 72 (8.63%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (8.39%) Apache
3 39 (4.68%) Confluence
4 20 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.04%) CMS
6 16 (1.92%) WordPress
7 12 (1.44%) SharePoint
8 10 (1.20%) Drupal
8 10 (1.20%) SAS
9 7 (0.84%) Apache Solr
9 7 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.72%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.72%) nginx
11 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (1.20%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.48%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.48%) Trello
8 3 (0.36%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.12%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Shopify
2 6 (0.72%) Magento
3 4 (0.48%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.48%) FastStats
3 4 (0.48%) Unica
3 4 (0.48%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
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
1 502 (60.19%) GCP
2 277 (33.21%) AWS
3 257 (30.82%) Azure
4 107 (12.83%) Google Analytics
5 85 (10.19%) Google Workspace
6 63 (7.55%) GitHub
7 49 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 45 (5.40%) SaaS
9 43 (5.16%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (3.96%) PaaS
12 27 (3.24%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.12%) Google Sheets
14 24 (2.88%) Apigee
14 24 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 23 (2.76%) Serverless
16 20 (2.40%) Google Data Studio
17 18 (2.16%) IaaS
18 17 (2.04%) dbt
18 17 (2.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.96%) Firewall
2 27 (3.24%) VoIP
3 22 (2.64%) DNS
3 22 (2.64%) VPN
4 19 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.04%) SNMP
5 17 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
6 15 (1.80%) DHCP
7 14 (1.68%) LAN
8 12 (1.44%) HTTP
8 12 (1.44%) WAN
9 11 (1.32%) CTI
10 10 (1.20%) VLAN
10 10 (1.20%) Wireless
11 9 (1.08%) IPsec
11 9 (1.08%) Network Security
11 9 (1.08%) PBX
12 7 (0.84%) MPLS
12 7 (0.84%) SAN
12 7 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.47%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (12.11%) BigQuery
3 65 (7.79%) Apache Ignite
4 46 (5.52%) Power BI
5 42 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (4.32%) Looker
7 34 (4.08%) NoSQL
8 32 (3.84%) Big Data
9 31 (3.72%) Relational Database
10 27 (3.24%) MySQL
11 26 (3.12%) Tableau
12 20 (2.40%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.80%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (1.08%) Bigtable
16 9 (1.08%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 76 (9.11%) Jenkins
2 72 (8.63%) Git
3 65 (7.79%) JIRA
4 52 (6.24%) Cypress.io
5 30 (3.60%) GoogleTest
6 24 (2.88%) GitLab
7 21 (2.52%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.52%) Robot Framework
8 17 (2.04%) Eclipse
9 13 (1.56%) Maven
10 9 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.96%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 7 (0.84%) Postman
12 7 (0.84%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.72%) Selenium
14 4 (0.48%) IDA Disassembler
15 3 (0.36%) Appium
15 3 (0.36%) gulp
15 3 (0.36%) JMeter
16 2 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 203 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 182 (21.82%) Finance
3 134 (16.07%) Banking
4 85 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (8.39%) Retail
6 65 (7.79%) Front Office
7 52 (6.24%) Marketing
8 45 (5.40%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.72%) Legal
10 29 (3.48%) Telecoms
11 23 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.32%) Advertising
14 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.08%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.08%) Local Government
15 9 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.84%) Digital Economy
16 7 (0.84%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 206 (24.70%) Developer
2 137 (16.43%) Architect
3 102 (12.23%) Software Engineer
4 80 (9.59%) Python Developer
5 78 (9.35%) Analyst
6 71 (8.51%) Python Engineer
7 68 (8.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 66 (7.91%) Python Software Engineer
8 66 (7.91%) Senior
9 65 (7.79%) React Developer
10 59 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (5.16%) Java Developer
12 38 (4.56%) Full Stack Developer
12 38 (4.56%) Full Stack Engineer
13 37 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
14 33 (3.96%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 33 (3.96%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 32 (3.84%) Data Engineer
16 30 (3.60%) Lead
17 27 (3.24%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.03%) React
2 69 (8.27%) gRPC
3 65 (7.79%) Material-UI
3 65 (7.79%) Protocol Buffers
3 65 (7.79%) Redux
4 57 (6.83%) REST
5 48 (5.76%) CSS
6 45 (5.40%) HTML
7 44 (5.28%) Node.js
8 40 (4.80%) Spring
9 37 (4.44%) SAML
10 34 (4.08%) Spring Boot
11 27 (3.24%) AngularJS
12 26 (3.12%) Restlet
13 25 (3.00%) GWT
14 24 (2.88%) RESTful
15 23 (2.76%) JAX-RS
16 21 (2.52%) Web Services
17 20 (2.40%) Kafka
18 18 (2.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.91%) Fixed Income
1 66 (7.91%) Hedge funds
2 45 (5.40%) Management Information System
3 34 (4.08%) Equities
4 31 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 25 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.68%) Social Media
11 13 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (1.44%) IVR
12 12 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.08%) Blackberry
14 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.27%) Linux
2 56 (6.71%) Windows
3 28 (3.36%) Unix
4 24 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.80%) Android
5 15 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.96%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.48%) CentOS
9 4 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.36%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (27.46%) Agile
2 174 (20.86%) Analytics
3 140 (16.79%) CI/CD
4 139 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 136 (16.31%) DevOps
6 132 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (13.43%) Machine Learning
8 98 (11.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 89 (10.67%) Computer Science
10 80 (9.59%) Full Stack Development
11 75 (8.99%) Asset Management
12 71 (8.51%) Containerisation
12 71 (8.51%) Investment Management
13 69 (8.27%) Migration
14 67 (8.03%) Microservices
15 65 (7.79%) Automated Trading
15 65 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 64 (7.67%) ETL
17 61 (7.31%) Data Modelling
18 60 (7.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 247 (29.62%) Python
2 142 (17.03%) Java
3 134 (16.07%) SQL
4 101 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 92 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.20%) C++
7 26 (3.12%) Bash
8 21 (2.52%) Go
9 18 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.32%) PHP
11 9 (1.08%) C#
11 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.96%) Scala
13 6 (0.72%) Rust
14 5 (0.60%) C
14 5 (0.60%) Groovy
15 4 (0.48%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.48%) Perl
15 4 (0.48%) R
16 3 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 124 (14.87%) Degree
2 67 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 63 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.76%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.64%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 16 (1.92%) PMP
10 15 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.56%) APMP
12 12 (1.44%) CISSP
13 11 (1.32%) CCNP
13 11 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.32%) DBS Check
13 11 (1.32%) DV Cleared
14 8 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.84%) CCNA
15 7 (0.84%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.04%) QA
2 38 (4.56%) GDPR
3 18 (2.16%) HIPAA
4 16 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 15 (1.80%) MISRA
6 14 (1.68%) NIST
7 13 (1.56%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (1.08%) WCAG
10 6 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.60%) SLA
12 4 (0.48%) PMO
13 3 (0.36%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.36%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS
14 2 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 73 (8.75%) Docker
2 27 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.04%) Firmware
5 11 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.48%) GPFS
7 4 (0.48%) NFS
7 4 (0.48%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.48%) Snort
7 4 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.48%) zsh
8 3 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) KVM
9 2 (0.24%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (11.63%) Terraform
2 90 (10.79%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
4 34 (4.08%) Ansible
5 12 (1.44%) SCCM
6 9 (1.08%) Istio
7 7 (0.84%) Kibana
7 7 (0.84%) Rancher
8 5 (0.60%) Grafana
8 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (0.48%) OPNET
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Management
9 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.48%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.24%) Ambari
11 2 (0.24%) Oozie
11 2 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 162 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.95%) Oracle
3 50 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 36 (4.32%) Cisco
5 31 (3.72%) Adobe
6 26 (3.12%) Apple
6 26 (3.12%) SAP
7 23 (2.76%) VMware
8 22 (2.64%) Atlassian
9 20 (2.40%) Avaya
9 20 (2.40%) IBM
10 15 (1.80%) Genesys
11 14 (1.68%) Okta
11 14 (1.68%) Optimizely
12 12 (1.44%) Databricks
13 9 (1.08%) Ericsson
13 9 (1.08%) F5
13 9 (1.08%) Juniper
13 9 (1.08%) Nokia
13 9 (1.08%) Ribbon