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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 145 151
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing Google 275 405 540
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 1.77% 1.77%
As % of the Vendors category 3.12% 3.94% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 250 372
10th Percentile £213 £240 £260
25th Percentile £333 £340 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £639
90th Percentile £676 £700 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 32
10th Percentile £11.25 £19.46 £15.67
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £30.31
Median hourly rate £62.00 £39.55 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% +13.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £47.82
90th Percentile - £58.96 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +13.14% +14.01%

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 8,822 10,291 12,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.32% 44.91% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,309 7,034 8,437
10th Percentile £208 £205 £190
25th Percentile £365 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 435 639
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.29
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.00 £38.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
North of England -1 84 £505 -8.18% 219
South West +28 63 £450 -21.74% 59
South East -46 56 £375 +10.29% 128
North West -3 40 £475 -11.63% 134
Yorkshire +3 39 £507 -7.82% 73
East of England +2 27 £525 -1.41% 41
Midlands +10 25 £550 +2.33% 84
Scotland -1 16 £339 -19.35% 22
East Midlands +4 14 £613 +20.10% 42
West Midlands -2 11 £500 -28.57% 43
North East +13 5 £600 +54.84% 15
Wales +16 4 £550 -2.65% 6
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 24 (8.73%) Confluence
2 15 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.55%) SAS
3 7 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.82%) WordPress
5 4 (1.45%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.45%) nginx
6 3 (1.09%) CMS
7 2 (0.73%) Apache
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.45%) FastStats
1 4 (1.45%) Unica
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (45.82%) GCP
2 81 (29.45%) AWS
3 69 (25.09%) Azure
4 30 (10.91%) GitHub
4 30 (10.91%) Google Analytics
5 28 (10.18%) PaaS
6 27 (9.82%) SaaS
7 24 (8.73%) Google Workspace
8 20 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (5.82%) Power Platform
10 15 (5.45%) OpenShift
11 14 (5.09%) IaaS
12 12 (4.36%) Google Sheets
12 12 (4.36%) Serverless
13 11 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 11 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.91%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 6 (2.18%) Google Tag Manager
16 4 (1.45%) Google Data Studio
16 4 (1.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.55%) SNMP
1 18 (6.55%) Software-Defined Radio
1 18 (6.55%) VPN
2 14 (5.09%) Firewall
3 11 (4.00%) DNS
4 9 (3.27%) PBX
4 9 (3.27%) VoIP
5 8 (2.91%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.82%) SSL
7 4 (1.45%) DHCP
7 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.45%) IPsec
7 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.09%) HTTP
8 3 (1.09%) Intranet
8 3 (1.09%) LAN
8 3 (1.09%) SAN
8 3 (1.09%) VLAN
8 3 (1.09%) WAN
8 3 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.27%) BigQuery
2 16 (5.82%) Big Data
2 16 (5.82%) MySQL
3 14 (5.09%) Power BI
4 11 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.27%) Tableau
7 8 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.82%) Apache Hive
9 5 (1.82%) GIS
9 5 (1.82%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.45%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 45 (16.36%) JIRA
2 42 (15.27%) Git
2 42 (15.27%) Jenkins
3 36 (13.09%) GoogleTest
4 23 (8.36%) Bitbucket
5 18 (6.55%) Eclipse
5 18 (6.55%) Robot Framework
6 9 (3.27%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (2.18%) Maven
8 3 (1.09%) gulp
9 2 (0.73%) Selenium
10 1 (0.36%) Appium
10 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.36%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.36%) JMeter
10 1 (0.36%) JUnit
10 1 (0.36%) MSTest
10 1 (0.36%) NUnit
10 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.64%) Finance
4 20 (7.27%) Legal
4 20 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.91%) Banking
6 15 (5.45%) Marketing
6 15 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.64%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.27%) Retail
9 7 (2.55%) Digital Economy
10 6 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.82%) Back Office
11 5 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.73%) Law
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 47 (17.09%) Architect
2 45 (16.36%) Developer
3 35 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 24 (8.73%) Analyst
4 24 (8.73%) Java Engineer
4 24 (8.73%) Java Software Engineer
5 23 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 16 (5.82%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.00%) Senior
9 10 (3.64%) Lead
10 9 (3.27%) Administrator
11 8 (2.91%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.91%) Technical Architect
12 7 (2.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (2.55%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (2.18%) Consultant
13 6 (2.18%) GCP Architect
13 6 (2.18%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.36%) HTML
2 21 (7.64%) CSS
3 19 (6.91%) Qt
4 15 (5.45%) Node.js
4 15 (5.45%) REST
5 14 (5.09%) SAML
6 13 (4.73%) RESTful
7 12 (4.36%) Spring
8 11 (4.00%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.64%) Kafka
10 9 (3.27%) GWT
10 9 (3.27%) Restlet
11 8 (2.91%) .NET
11 8 (2.91%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.91%) JAX-RS
11 8 (2.91%) OAuth
12 7 (2.55%) React
13 6 (2.18%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.18%) ModSecurity
14 5 (1.82%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (5.09%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (5.09%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.09%) Virtual Team
3 13 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.64%) Mobile App
7 9 (3.27%) Blackberry
7 9 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.18%) PKI
9 6 (2.18%) Social Media
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.45%) Insider Threat
11 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.45%) Linux
2 24 (8.73%) Windows
3 12 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.64%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.27%) Android
5 9 (3.27%) Unix
6 4 (1.45%) CentOS
7 2 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.64%) Agile
2 62 (22.55%) DevOps
3 59 (21.45%) CI/CD
4 56 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 49 (17.82%) Analytics
7 30 (10.91%) Data Modelling
8 28 (10.18%) Roadmaps
8 28 (10.18%) Technical Leadership
9 27 (9.82%) Containerisation
9 27 (9.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (9.09%) Scrum
11 24 (8.73%) Computer Science
11 24 (8.73%) Migration
12 23 (8.36%) TOGAF
13 22 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (6.91%) Validation
15 17 (6.18%) ITIL
16 16 (5.82%) ETL
16 16 (5.82%) UML
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.27%) Java
1 75 (27.27%) Python
2 48 (17.45%) SQL
3 38 (13.82%) C++
4 35 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 15 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.64%) Bash
8 5 (1.82%) PHP
9 4 (1.45%) C
9 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.73%) Groovy
10 2 (0.73%) Perl
11 1 (0.36%) C#
11 1 (0.36%) CQL
11 1 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.45%) Degree
3 33 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.27%) APMP
6 9 (3.27%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.27%) PMP
7 8 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.55%) HND
9 5 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.45%) CCNP
10 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.91%) GDPR
1 19 (6.91%) MISRA
2 10 (3.64%) HIPAA
3 8 (2.91%) QA
4 6 (2.18%) NIST
5 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.73%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (8.73%) Docker
2 17 (6.18%) Firmware
3 16 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.45%) zsh
7 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.73%) GPFS
8 2 (0.73%) NFS
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.36%) Snort
9 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.82%) Terraform
3 16 (5.82%) Ansible
4 10 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.55%) Istio
5 7 (2.55%) Rancher
6 6 (2.18%) OPNET
6 6 (2.18%) SCCM
7 4 (1.45%) PowerCLI
8 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.73%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.36%) vMotion
Vendors
1 56 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.36%) Atlassian
3 20 (7.27%) Oracle
4 17 (6.18%) VMware
5 16 (5.82%) Cisco
5 16 (5.82%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.36%) IBM
7 9 (3.27%) Apple
7 9 (3.27%) Avaya
7 9 (3.27%) Ericsson
7 9 (3.27%) Juniper
7 9 (3.27%) Nokia
7 9 (3.27%) Ribbon
8 8 (2.91%) Facebook
9 6 (2.18%) Adobe
10 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.45%) SAP
11 4 (1.45%) Snapchat
11 4 (1.45%) Twitter
12 3 (1.09%) Instagram