Google Contracts in the South East

Google
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 96 125
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 -20
Contract jobs citing Google 60 123 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.04% 2.17% 1.91%
As % of the Vendors category 2.23% 4.28% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 73 105
10th Percentile £304 £213 £268
25th Percentile £324 £263 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £340 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -38.18% +22.15%
75th Percentile £470 £494 £650
90th Percentile £553 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 3
10th Percentile £20.75 £26.08 £32.35
25th Percentile £41.38 £32.30 £39.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -1.87% +33.75%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £67.83
90th Percentile - - £75.37
England median hourly rate £33.00 £39.55 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.56% +13.00% +15.32%

All Vendors
South East

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,688 2,872 3,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.72% 50.72% 45.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,594 1,951 2,359
10th Percentile £243 £205 £200
25th Percentile £400 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.28% +5.70%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 123 142
10th Percentile £12.08 £16.25 £10.78
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.69 £13.16
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £19.76
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +147.95% -7.66%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.75 £65.63
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the South East

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the South East

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the South East

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in the South East

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the South East

Google
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -23 24 £350 +45.83% 19
Thames Valley -16 22 £400 - 37
Berkshire -32 16 £400 +7.56% 8
West Sussex +10 6 £463 +42.31% 3
Oxfordshire +4 6 £375 - 16
Surrey +1 6 £314 -3.46% 17
Kent +8 2 £400 -17.95% 22
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (30.00%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) SAS
3 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.67%) CMS
4 1 (1.67%) Drupal
4 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (6.67%) FastStats
2 4 (6.67%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) GCP
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) AWS
4 7 (11.67%) Google Workspace
4 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.00%) SaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.33%) Google App Engine
6 2 (3.33%) IaaS
6 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.33%) PaaS
6 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.67%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.67%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.67%) SNMP
1 19 (31.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (3.33%) LAN
3 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) WAN
3 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.67%) RS-485
4 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) DB2
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Looker
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) Git
2 20 (33.33%) GoogleTest
3 19 (31.67%) Eclipse
3 19 (31.67%) JIRA
3 19 (31.67%) Robot Framework
4 18 (30.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.67%) Appium
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.67%) MSTest
6 1 (1.67%) NUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Selenium
6 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.33%) Marketing
4 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Java Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) DBA
8 2 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) HTML
2 20 (33.33%) CSS
3 4 (6.67%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) Node.js
4 3 (5.00%) XML
5 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.33%) CSS3
5 2 (3.33%) Django
5 2 (3.33%) Express.js
5 2 (3.33%) GWT
5 2 (3.33%) HTML5
5 2 (3.33%) Kafka
5 2 (3.33%) RESTful
5 2 (3.33%) Restlet
5 2 (3.33%) Spring
5 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) .NET
6 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.33%) Linux
2 10 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 21 (35.00%) Agile
2 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (35.00%) Scrum
3 17 (28.33%) SysML
3 17 (28.33%) UML
4 12 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 12 (20.00%) Validation
4 12 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
5 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
5 11 (18.33%) DevOps
6 10 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (11.67%) Time Management
7 7 (11.67%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (8.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (35.00%) C++
3 17 (28.33%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) Python
5 8 (13.33%) SQL
6 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) Go
8 2 (3.33%) Groovy
8 2 (3.33%) Scala
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Firmware
2 8 (13.33%) Docker
3 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Terraform
2 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.67%) Istio
3 7 (11.67%) Rancher
4 3 (5.00%) SCCM
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) Ansible
6 1 (1.67%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
6 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) VMware
4 5 (8.33%) Adobe
4 5 (8.33%) Oracle
5 4 (6.67%) Facebook
5 4 (6.67%) Snapchat
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco
7 2 (3.33%) Meraki
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.33%) SAP
7 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.67%) Apple
8 1 (1.67%) Brocade
8 1 (1.67%) Citrix
8 1 (1.67%) EMC
8 1 (1.67%) IBM
8 1 (1.67%) NetApp
8 1 (1.67%) Veeam
8 1 (1.67%) Veritas