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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 135 152
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 -25
Contract jobs citing Google 259 437 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.28% 1.90% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 3.00% 4.26% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 281 362
10th Percentile £220 £245 £260
25th Percentile £359 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.36%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 25 34
10th Percentile £11.15 £16.39 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -7.71% +84.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.03 £45.94
90th Percentile - £59.38 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £26.49 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.12% +13.14% +32.08%

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 8,635 10,251 12,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.54% 44.55% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,213 7,037 8,307
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 455 642
10th Percentile £11.88 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £58.70 £61.63 £36.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.31
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
North of England -17 78 £506 -8.00% 203
South East -21 55 £375 +7.14% 199
South West +13 54 £500 -9.09% 62
North West -18 38 £425 -21.84% 116
Yorkshire -8 35 £507 -7.82% 79
East of England -2 28 £525 -0.94% 60
Midlands -1 24 £550 +4.76% 83
Scotland -3 18 £619 +47.32% 27
East Midlands +9 13 £613 +16.67% 37
West Midlands -4 11 £500 -11.11% 46
North East +16 5 £600 +215.79% 11
Wales +12 2 £550 -8.33% 8
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 20 (7.72%) Confluence
2 13 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.47%) SAS
4 7 (2.70%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.93%) WordPress
6 4 (1.54%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.54%) CMS
6 4 (1.54%) nginx
7 2 (0.77%) Apache
8 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.39%) Drupal
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.77%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.54%) FastStats
1 4 (1.54%) Unica
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.39%) Magento
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (45.95%) GCP
2 77 (29.73%) AWS
3 64 (24.71%) Azure
4 31 (11.97%) Google Analytics
5 27 (10.42%) SaaS
6 26 (10.04%) PaaS
7 24 (9.27%) GitHub
8 23 (8.88%) Google Workspace
9 20 (7.72%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (6.18%) Power Platform
11 15 (5.79%) OpenShift
12 14 (5.41%) IaaS
13 11 (4.25%) Google Sheets
13 11 (4.25%) Serverless
14 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (2.70%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 7 (2.70%) Google Tag Manager
17 4 (1.54%) Apigee
17 4 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.56%) SNMP
1 17 (6.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 17 (6.56%) VPN
2 14 (5.41%) Firewall
3 12 (4.63%) DNS
4 9 (3.47%) PBX
4 9 (3.47%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.47%) VoIP
5 6 (2.32%) DHCP
6 5 (1.93%) SAN
7 4 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (1.54%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.54%) IPsec
7 4 (1.54%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.54%) SSL
7 4 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.16%) HTTP
8 3 (1.16%) Intranet
8 3 (1.16%) VLAN
8 3 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.20%) BigQuery
2 15 (5.79%) MySQL
3 14 (5.41%) Big Data
3 14 (5.41%) Power BI
4 11 (4.25%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.25%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.86%) Hadoop
5 10 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.70%) Tableau
9 6 (2.32%) DB2
10 5 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.93%) GIS
11 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.54%) Couchbase
12 3 (1.16%) Bigtable
12 3 (1.16%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 39 (15.06%) Git
2 38 (14.67%) JIRA
3 36 (13.90%) Jenkins
4 30 (11.58%) GoogleTest
5 20 (7.72%) Bitbucket
6 17 (6.56%) Eclipse
6 17 (6.56%) Robot Framework
7 9 (3.47%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (2.32%) Maven
9 3 (1.16%) gulp
10 2 (0.77%) Selenium
11 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.39%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.39%) JMeter
11 1 (0.39%) JUnit
11 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.39%) NUnit
11 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 31 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (10.81%) Finance
4 20 (7.72%) Banking
4 20 (7.72%) Legal
5 18 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.02%) Marketing
8 9 (3.47%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.47%) Retail
9 7 (2.70%) Digital Economy
10 5 (1.93%) Back Office
10 5 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.77%) Advertising
12 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.77%) Law
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (17.37%) Architect
2 43 (16.60%) Developer
3 30 (11.58%) Software Engineer
4 22 (8.49%) Analyst
4 22 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.72%) Java Engineer
5 20 (7.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 18 (6.95%) C++ Software Engineer
7 16 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.25%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.86%) Administrator
9 10 (3.86%) Lead
9 10 (3.86%) Senior
10 8 (3.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.09%) Technical Architect
11 7 (2.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (2.32%) Consultant
12 6 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.32%) GCP Architect
12 6 (2.32%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.88%) HTML
2 21 (8.11%) CSS
3 15 (5.79%) Qt
4 14 (5.41%) Node.js
4 14 (5.41%) REST
4 14 (5.41%) SAML
5 13 (5.02%) RESTful
6 12 (4.63%) Spring
7 11 (4.25%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.47%) GWT
8 9 (3.47%) Kafka
8 9 (3.47%) Restlet
9 8 (3.09%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.09%) JAX-RS
9 8 (3.09%) React
10 7 (2.70%) OAuth
11 6 (2.32%) .NET
11 6 (2.32%) Flash
12 5 (1.93%) Google Maps API
12 5 (1.93%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (5.02%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.63%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.25%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.25%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.47%) Blackberry
6 9 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.93%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.93%) Social Media
9 4 (1.54%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.54%) Insider Threat
9 4 (1.54%) NVMe
9 4 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.22%) Linux
2 25 (9.65%) Windows
3 14 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.25%) Apple iOS
5 10 (3.86%) Android
6 9 (3.47%) Unix
7 4 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (27.03%) Agile
2 59 (22.78%) DevOps
3 50 (19.31%) CI/CD
4 49 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (18.53%) Analytics
6 44 (16.99%) Software Engineering
7 28 (10.81%) Data Modelling
7 28 (10.81%) Roadmaps
8 27 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (10.04%) Containerisation
10 25 (9.65%) Migration
11 24 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (9.27%) Scrum
12 23 (8.88%) Computer Science
13 21 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (8.11%) TOGAF
14 18 (6.95%) Validation
15 17 (6.56%) ITIL
16 16 (6.18%) Customer Requirements
17 15 (5.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 72 (27.80%) Java
2 69 (26.64%) Python
3 46 (17.76%) SQL
4 37 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.36%) C++
6 14 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.86%) Bash
7 10 (3.86%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.93%) PHP
9 4 (1.54%) Perl
10 3 (1.16%) C
11 2 (0.77%) Go
11 2 (0.77%) Groovy
11 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) CQL
12 1 (0.39%) Elixir
12 1 (0.39%) R
12 1 (0.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.39%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.13%) Degree
3 31 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.47%) APMP
6 9 (3.47%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.47%) PMP
7 8 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.70%) HND
9 5 (1.93%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.54%) CCNP
10 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.95%) GDPR
2 15 (5.79%) MISRA
3 9 (3.47%) HIPAA
4 8 (3.09%) QA
5 6 (2.32%) NIST
6 5 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.77%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (9.65%) Docker
2 16 (6.18%) Firmware
3 14 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.54%) GPFS
6 4 (1.54%) NFS
6 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.54%) zsh
7 3 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.39%) Snort
8 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 31 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.04%) Terraform
3 14 (5.41%) Ansible
4 10 (3.86%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.09%) Istio
6 7 (2.70%) Rancher
7 6 (2.32%) SCCM
8 4 (1.54%) OPNET
8 4 (1.54%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.77%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.39%) vMotion
Vendors
1 50 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.72%) Atlassian
3 19 (7.34%) Oracle
4 16 (6.18%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.79%) IBM
5 15 (5.79%) VMware
6 14 (5.41%) Cisco
7 9 (3.47%) Avaya
7 9 (3.47%) Ericsson
7 9 (3.47%) Juniper
7 9 (3.47%) Nokia
7 9 (3.47%) Ribbon
8 8 (3.09%) Apple
9 7 (2.70%) Adobe
9 7 (2.70%) Facebook
10 5 (1.93%) Brocade
10 5 (1.93%) EMC
10 5 (1.93%) NetApp
10 5 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.93%) Veritas