Google Contracts with Work from Home Options

Google
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 119 94 88
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Google 274 579 1,276
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.86% 2.43% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 4.37% 5.51% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 423 916
10th Percentile £324 £313 £354
25th Percentile £434 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +5.12%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £688 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 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 £27.23 £58.75 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.14% +6.54%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,268 10,513 17,342
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.48% 44.03% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 7,074 11,904
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £720 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 248 250
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £16.53 £24.94 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.62 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.40% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.09
90th Percentile £71.25 £79.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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 12 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 12 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 12 (4.38%) Confluence
2 8 (2.92%) WordPress
3 7 (2.55%) Apache Solr
4 6 (2.19%) nginx
5 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.82%) CMS
5 5 (1.82%) Drupal
5 5 (1.82%) SAS
6 4 (1.46%) Apache
6 4 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (5.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.82%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.73%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (1.46%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (1.09%) FastStats
2 3 (1.09%) Shopify
2 3 (1.09%) Unica
3 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 172 (62.77%) GCP
2 72 (26.28%) AWS
3 70 (25.55%) Azure
4 47 (17.15%) Google Analytics
5 25 (9.12%) Power Platform
6 24 (8.76%) Google Workspace
7 19 (6.93%) SaaS
8 16 (5.84%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (5.47%) GitHub
10 13 (4.74%) IaaS
10 13 (4.74%) PaaS
11 11 (4.01%) Google Sheets
12 10 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.65%) Serverless
13 8 (2.92%) Adobe Analytics
13 8 (2.92%) Apigee
13 8 (2.92%) dbt
14 7 (2.55%) Twilio
15 6 (2.19%) Firebase
15 6 (2.19%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.28%) HTTP
2 9 (3.28%) VoIP
3 7 (2.55%) CTI
3 7 (2.55%) Firewall
4 6 (2.19%) DNS
5 4 (1.46%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.46%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.46%) IPsec
5 4 (1.46%) SSL
5 4 (1.46%) tcpdump
5 4 (1.46%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) MQTT
6 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.73%) SCCP
6 2 (0.73%) VLAN
6 2 (0.73%) VPN
6 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.52%) BigQuery
2 25 (9.12%) Power BI
3 18 (6.57%) Looker
4 14 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.11%) MySQL
4 14 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.74%) Tableau
6 12 (4.38%) Big Data
7 8 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.82%) Couchbase
9 5 (1.82%) GIS
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.46%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.09%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (8.03%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.93%) Git
3 16 (5.84%) JIRA
4 8 (2.92%) GitLab
5 7 (2.55%) Maven
6 6 (2.19%) Postman
7 4 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.46%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.73%) Appium
8 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.73%) gulp
8 2 (0.73%) JMeter
8 2 (0.73%) webpack
9 1 (0.36%) Darcs
9 1 (0.36%) ESLint
9 1 (0.36%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.36%) Lerna
9 1 (0.36%) Storybook
9 1 (0.36%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 71 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.79%) Finance
3 33 (12.04%) Retail
4 30 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.03%) Marketing
6 21 (7.66%) Banking
7 17 (6.20%) Legal
8 16 (5.84%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.19%) Advertising
10 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.82%) Back Office
11 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Electronics
13 3 (1.09%) Publishing
14 2 (0.73%) Law
14 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (23.36%) Developer
2 42 (15.33%) Architect
3 24 (8.76%) Senior
3 24 (8.76%) Solutions Architect
4 23 (8.39%) Analyst
5 20 (7.30%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.47%) GCP Engineer
7 13 (4.74%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.38%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.01%) GCP Developer
9 11 (4.01%) Lead
10 10 (3.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 9 (3.28%) Consultant
12 8 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.92%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (2.92%) GCP Data Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Senior Java Developer
14 6 (2.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.76%) REST
2 19 (6.93%) Node.js
2 19 (6.93%) SAML
3 18 (6.57%) CSS
4 17 (6.20%) Spring
5 14 (5.11%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.11%) HTML
5 14 (5.11%) React
6 13 (4.74%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.38%) RESTful
7 12 (4.38%) Restlet
8 11 (4.01%) GWT
8 11 (4.01%) JSON
8 11 (4.01%) Web Services
9 10 (3.65%) JAX-RS
9 10 (3.65%) Middleware
9 10 (3.65%) Swagger
10 9 (3.28%) jQuery
10 9 (3.28%) Kafka
11 7 (2.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.76%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.84%) Virtual Team
3 14 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.01%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.55%) IVR
6 7 (2.55%) Marketing Technology
6 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.19%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.82%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.46%) Social Media
9 4 (1.46%) YARA
10 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.73%) CBDC
11 2 (0.73%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.57%) Linux
2 14 (5.11%) Windows
3 5 (1.82%) Android
3 5 (1.82%) Unix
4 4 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.46%) CentOS
5 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.37%) Analytics
2 60 (21.90%) Agile
3 48 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.15%) DevOps
5 36 (13.14%) CI/CD
6 29 (10.58%) Migration
7 24 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (8.39%) Computer Science
9 21 (7.66%) Roadmaps
10 20 (7.30%) ETL
10 20 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (6.93%) Containerisation
11 19 (6.93%) Data Engineering
11 19 (6.93%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.57%) Data Modelling
13 17 (6.20%) User Experience
14 16 (5.84%) Machine Learning
14 16 (5.84%) Software Engineering
15 15 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence
15 15 (5.47%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.26%) Python
2 46 (16.79%) SQL
3 45 (16.42%) Java
4 36 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.92%) PHP
7 7 (2.55%) Go
8 6 (2.19%) Bash
9 5 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.46%) C#
11 3 (1.09%) Groovy
11 3 (1.09%) Rust
12 2 (0.73%) R
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (13.87%) Degree
2 17 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.84%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.74%) PMI Certification
4 13 (4.74%) PMP
4 13 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.38%) APMP
6 9 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) CISSP
10 2 (0.73%) OCP
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.30%) GDPR
2 17 (6.20%) QA
3 11 (4.01%) HIPAA
4 9 (3.28%) NIST
5 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.19%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.46%) WCAG
9 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.73%) 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
System Software
1 27 (9.85%) Docker
2 4 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.46%) Snort
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.73%) zsh
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.12%) Terraform
3 16 (5.84%) Ansible
4 14 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.19%) Kibana
6 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.09%) Puppet
7 2 (0.73%) Grafana
7 2 (0.73%) logstash
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.73%) Salt
7 2 (0.73%) 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 52 (18.98%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.39%) Salesforce
3 16 (5.84%) Adobe
3 16 (5.84%) Oracle
4 7 (2.55%) Avaya
4 7 (2.55%) Cisco
4 7 (2.55%) Genesys
4 7 (2.55%) Splunk
5 5 (1.82%) Databricks
5 5 (1.82%) Facebook
5 5 (1.82%) Monetate
5 5 (1.82%) Optimizely
5 5 (1.82%) SAP
6 4 (1.46%) Apple
6 4 (1.46%) Ensighten
6 4 (1.46%) Omniture
6 4 (1.46%) Tealium
6 4 (1.46%) VMware
7 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.09%) Snapchat