Google Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 97 89
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Google 281 583 1,282
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 2.43% 2.89%
As % of the Vendors category 4.49% 5.53% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 426 922
10th Percentile £325 £313 £351
25th Percentile £444 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £685 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 14
10th Percentile - - £15.89
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.60 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% +15.62% -14.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £54.57 £68.19
90th Percentile - £58.75 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +13.14% +6.54%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,255 10,539 17,588
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.51% 43.99% 39.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 7,090 12,063
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £631
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 251 250
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.61 £13.45
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.61 £19.85
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £56.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

Google
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Google trend for jobs with a WFH option

Google
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Google over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Google over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

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 15 (5.34%) Confluence
2 8 (2.85%) WordPress
3 7 (2.49%) Apache Solr
4 6 (2.14%) nginx
5 5 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.78%) CMS
5 5 (1.78%) Drupal
5 5 (1.78%) SAS
6 4 (1.42%) Apache
6 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.07%) FastStats
2 3 (1.07%) Shopify
2 3 (1.07%) Unica
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.06%) GCP
2 71 (25.27%) AWS
3 70 (24.91%) Azure
4 47 (16.73%) Google Analytics
5 25 (8.90%) Google Workspace
5 25 (8.90%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.12%) SaaS
7 16 (5.69%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (5.34%) GitHub
9 14 (4.98%) IaaS
9 14 (4.98%) PaaS
10 12 (4.27%) dbt
11 11 (3.91%) Google Sheets
12 10 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.56%) Serverless
13 8 (2.85%) Apigee
14 7 (2.49%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (2.49%) Twilio
15 5 (1.78%) Firebase
15 5 (1.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.20%) HTTP
2 9 (3.20%) VoIP
3 8 (2.85%) Firewall
4 7 (2.49%) CTI
5 6 (2.14%) DNS
6 4 (1.42%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.42%) IPsec
6 4 (1.42%) SSL
6 4 (1.42%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.42%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.71%) DHCP
8 2 (0.71%) Internet
8 2 (0.71%) Network Security
8 2 (0.71%) SCCP
8 2 (0.71%) VLAN
8 2 (0.71%) VPN
8 2 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.86%) BigQuery
2 25 (8.90%) Power BI
3 18 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (6.05%) Looker
5 14 (4.98%) MySQL
5 14 (4.98%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.27%) Tableau
7 11 (3.91%) Big Data
8 8 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.49%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.49%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.78%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.78%) GIS
11 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.42%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.07%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (1.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.83%) Git
1 22 (7.83%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.12%) JIRA
3 8 (2.85%) GitLab
4 7 (2.49%) Maven
5 6 (2.14%) Postman
6 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.42%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.71%) Appium
7 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.71%) gulp
7 2 (0.71%) JMeter
7 2 (0.71%) webpack
8 1 (0.36%) Darcs
8 1 (0.36%) ESLint
8 1 (0.36%) Lerna
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Storybook
8 1 (0.36%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 70 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.73%) Finance
3 34 (12.10%) Retail
4 29 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.83%) Banking
6 21 (7.47%) Marketing
7 18 (6.41%) Legal
8 17 (6.05%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.85%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.49%) Advertising
11 5 (1.78%) Back Office
11 5 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.07%) Electronics
13 3 (1.07%) Publishing
14 2 (0.71%) Law
14 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.06%) Developer
2 48 (17.08%) Architect
3 26 (9.25%) Senior
4 23 (8.19%) Analyst
4 23 (8.19%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.12%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.34%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (4.63%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.27%) Data Architect
8 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.91%) GCP Developer
9 11 (3.91%) Lead
10 10 (3.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (2.85%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.85%) Consultant
11 8 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (2.85%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (2.49%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.14%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.54%) REST
2 19 (6.76%) Node.js
2 19 (6.76%) SAML
3 17 (6.05%) CSS
3 17 (6.05%) Spring
4 14 (4.98%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.63%) HTML
5 13 (4.63%) React
5 13 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.27%) RESTful
6 12 (4.27%) Restlet
7 11 (3.91%) GWT
7 11 (3.91%) JSON
7 11 (3.91%) Web Services
8 10 (3.56%) JAX-RS
8 10 (3.56%) Middleware
8 10 (3.56%) Swagger
9 9 (3.20%) jQuery
9 9 (3.20%) Kafka
10 7 (2.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.54%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.05%) Virtual Team
3 15 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) IVR
6 8 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.49%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.78%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.42%) Social Media
9 4 (1.42%) YARA
10 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.71%) CBDC
11 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.71%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.41%) Linux
2 14 (4.98%) Windows
3 8 (2.85%) Unix
4 4 (1.42%) Android
4 4 (1.42%) CentOS
5 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (26.69%) Analytics
2 65 (23.13%) Agile
3 51 (18.15%) DevOps
4 45 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (12.81%) CI/CD
6 33 (11.74%) Migration
7 25 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (8.54%) Data Modelling
8 24 (8.54%) ETL
9 23 (8.19%) Computer Science
10 21 (7.47%) Roadmaps
11 20 (7.12%) Containerisation
11 20 (7.12%) Data Engineering
11 20 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (6.05%) Mentoring
13 16 (5.69%) Software Engineering
13 16 (5.69%) User Experience
14 15 (5.34%) Data Ingestion
14 15 (5.34%) Decision-Making
14 15 (5.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (21.71%) Python
2 47 (16.73%) SQL
3 45 (16.01%) Java
4 35 (12.46%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.05%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.85%) PHP
7 7 (2.49%) Go
8 6 (2.14%) Bash
9 5 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.42%) C#
11 3 (1.07%) Groovy
11 3 (1.07%) Rust
11 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.71%) R
12 2 (0.71%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (13.88%) Degree
2 17 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.69%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.98%) PMI Certification
4 14 (4.98%) PMP
5 13 (4.63%) APMP
5 13 (4.63%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) OCP
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) IIBA
10 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.12%) GDPR
2 17 (6.05%) QA
3 11 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.91%) HIPAA
4 9 (3.20%) NIST
5 7 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.14%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.42%) WCAG
9 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.71%) SLA
11 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (10.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) Snort
4 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) zsh
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.90%) Terraform
3 16 (5.69%) Ansible
4 14 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.14%) Kibana
6 3 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.07%) Puppet
7 2 (0.71%) Grafana
7 2 (0.71%) logstash
7 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.71%) Salt
7 2 (0.71%) SCCM
8 1 (0.36%) CASB
8 1 (0.36%) Consul
8 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.36%) Nessus
8 1 (0.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 54 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.19%) Salesforce
3 20 (7.12%) Oracle
4 15 (5.34%) Adobe
5 8 (2.85%) Cisco
5 8 (2.85%) Genesys
6 7 (2.49%) Avaya
6 7 (2.49%) Splunk
7 6 (2.14%) Databricks
8 5 (1.78%) Facebook
8 5 (1.78%) Monetate
8 5 (1.78%) Optimizely
8 5 (1.78%) SAP
9 4 (1.42%) Apple
9 4 (1.42%) Ensighten
9 4 (1.42%) Omniture
9 4 (1.42%) Tealium
10 3 (1.07%) Snapchat
10 3 (1.07%) Teradata
10 3 (1.07%) VMware