Google
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Google 777 1,391 2,276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.80% 2.35% 2.57%
As % of the Vendors category 4.23% 5.49% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 978 1,566
10th Percentile £263 £313 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 33 49
10th Percentile £11.25 - £16.41
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +14.29% +29.63%
75th Percentile £62.00 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £39.55 £31.25
% change year-on-year -34.26% +26.56% +44.51%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,383 25,346 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,390 16,954 23,530
10th Percentile £263 £272 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 695 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.89
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in the UK

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the UK

Google
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England -18 687 £525 -4.55% 1,082
London -2 440 £531 -7.65% 569
Work from Home -36 256 £525 -4.55% 529
UK excluding London -45 238 £500 +2.56% 540
North of England -29 71 £500 -9.09% 170
South East -34 53 £425 +14.29% 124
South West +21 46 £550 - 81
North West -12 41 £475 -9.52% 111
East of England +13 28 £525 -0.28% 47
Midlands +1 23 £575 +6.88% 84
Yorkshire -21 23 £550 - 54
Scotland -13 16 £638 +51.79% 27
East Midlands +15 13 £613 - 42
West Midlands -9 10 £525 -2.78% 42
North East +22 7 £477 +151.05% 8
Wales +8 1 - - 8

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 57 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (6.69%) Apache
3 33 (4.25%) Confluence
4 16 (2.06%) CMS
4 16 (2.06%) WordPress
5 13 (1.67%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.29%) Drupal
8 9 (1.16%) SAS
9 7 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.77%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.64%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.51%) nginx
13 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
15 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 50 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.51%) Trello
7 3 (0.39%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.26%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Shopify
2 6 (0.77%) Magento
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.51%) FastStats
3 4 (0.51%) Unica
3 4 (0.51%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.13%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 449 (57.79%) GCP
2 244 (31.40%) AWS
3 220 (28.31%) Azure
4 109 (14.03%) Google Analytics
5 86 (11.07%) Google Workspace
6 54 (6.95%) GitHub
7 45 (5.79%) Power Platform
8 44 (5.66%) SaaS
9 40 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (3.99%) PaaS
11 25 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (3.22%) OpenShift
12 24 (3.09%) Apigee
13 23 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 21 (2.70%) Google Sheets
15 18 (2.32%) IaaS
16 17 (2.19%) dbt
16 17 (2.19%) Serverless
17 16 (2.06%) Google Tag Manager
17 16 (2.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.25%) Firewall
2 21 (2.70%) DNS
3 19 (2.45%) VPN
4 18 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.19%) VoIP
6 16 (2.06%) SNMP
6 16 (2.06%) Software-Defined Radio
7 14 (1.80%) DHCP
8 13 (1.67%) LAN
9 12 (1.54%) HTTP
10 11 (1.42%) WAN
11 10 (1.29%) VLAN
11 10 (1.29%) Wireless
12 9 (1.16%) IPsec
12 9 (1.16%) Network Security
12 9 (1.16%) PBX
13 7 (0.90%) MPLS
13 7 (0.90%) SAN
14 6 (0.77%) BGP
14 6 (0.77%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.07%) BigQuery
2 85 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (6.31%) Apache Ignite
4 45 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (5.41%) Power BI
6 37 (4.76%) Looker
7 34 (4.38%) NoSQL
8 28 (3.60%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.96%) Big Data
10 22 (2.83%) MySQL
10 22 (2.83%) Tableau
11 14 (1.80%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.16%) Bigtable
12 9 (1.16%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.16%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.03%) Metadata
14 7 (0.90%) Apache Hive
14 7 (0.90%) Cloud Spanner
14 7 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 57 (7.34%) Jenkins
2 55 (7.08%) Git
2 55 (7.08%) JIRA
3 37 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 26 (3.35%) GoogleTest
5 20 (2.57%) GitLab
6 19 (2.45%) Bitbucket
7 18 (2.32%) Robot Framework
8 17 (2.19%) Eclipse
9 12 (1.54%) Maven
10 10 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (1.03%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 7 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.77%) Postman
14 4 (0.51%) IDA Disassembler
14 4 (0.51%) JMeter
14 4 (0.51%) Selenium
15 3 (0.39%) gulp
15 3 (0.39%) LoadRunner
16 2 (0.26%) Liquibase
General
1 194 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 150 (19.31%) Finance
3 111 (14.29%) Banking
4 79 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (7.85%) Retail
6 50 (6.44%) Marketing
7 49 (6.31%) Front Office
8 39 (5.02%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.99%) Legal
10 24 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.42%) Advertising
12 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.03%) Electronics
15 8 (1.03%) Local Government
16 7 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.90%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 176 (22.65%) Developer
2 121 (15.57%) Architect
3 83 (10.68%) Software Engineer
4 73 (9.40%) Analyst
5 64 (8.24%) Senior
6 63 (8.11%) Python Developer
7 55 (7.08%) Python Engineer
8 52 (6.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 50 (6.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 49 (6.31%) React Developer
11 45 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
12 39 (5.02%) Java Developer
13 35 (4.50%) GCP Engineer
14 33 (4.25%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.86%) Full Stack Developer
16 28 (3.60%) Full Stack Engineer
16 28 (3.60%) Lead
17 26 (3.35%) GCP Architect
18 25 (3.22%) Full Stack Python Developer
18 25 (3.22%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (9.40%) React
2 54 (6.95%) REST
3 49 (6.31%) gRPC
3 49 (6.31%) Material-UI
3 49 (6.31%) Protocol Buffers
3 49 (6.31%) Redux
4 45 (5.79%) CSS
5 43 (5.53%) HTML
6 41 (5.28%) Node.js
7 39 (5.02%) Spring
8 36 (4.63%) SAML
9 33 (4.25%) Spring Boot
10 26 (3.35%) AngularJS
11 25 (3.22%) Restlet
12 24 (3.09%) GWT
13 22 (2.83%) JAX-RS
14 21 (2.70%) RESTful
15 16 (2.06%) JSON
16 14 (1.80%) OAuth
16 14 (1.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.56%) Fixed Income
2 50 (6.44%) Hedge funds
3 37 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 24 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.57%) Equities
9 19 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 18 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (2.06%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.42%) Social Media
14 9 (1.16%) Blackberry
14 9 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.16%) PKI
15 8 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.98%) Linux
2 59 (7.59%) Windows
3 28 (3.60%) Unix
4 25 (3.22%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.06%) Android
6 15 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.64%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.51%) CentOS
9 4 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.39%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (24.84%) Agile
2 157 (20.21%) Analytics
3 125 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (15.44%) CI/CD
5 117 (15.06%) Software Engineering
6 108 (13.90%) DevOps
7 94 (12.10%) Machine Learning
8 73 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
8 73 (9.40%) Computer Science
9 69 (8.88%) Microservices
9 69 (8.88%) Migration
10 62 (7.98%) Roadmaps
11 61 (7.85%) Full Stack Development
12 59 (7.59%) Asset Management
13 58 (7.46%) Containerisation
13 58 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (7.34%) ETL
15 55 (7.08%) Investment Management
16 52 (6.69%) Data Modelling
17 49 (6.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 211 (27.16%) Python
2 125 (16.09%) Java
2 125 (16.09%) SQL
3 89 (11.45%) JavaScript
4 85 (10.94%) TypeScript
5 29 (3.73%) C++
6 24 (3.09%) Bash
7 17 (2.19%) Go
8 16 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.42%) PHP
10 10 (1.29%) C#
10 10 (1.29%) Scala
11 9 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.90%) R
13 5 (0.64%) C
13 5 (0.64%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Perl
14 4 (0.51%) Rust
15 3 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 111 (14.29%) Degree
2 63 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 54 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.06%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.06%) PMP
6 15 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.67%) APMP
8 13 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.54%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.42%) CCNP
10 11 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.42%) CISSP
10 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.90%) CCNA
12 7 (0.90%) HND
12 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.53%) QA
2 25 (3.22%) GDPR
3 17 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.80%) NIST
5 9 (1.16%) MISRA
5 9 (1.16%) WCAG
6 8 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.77%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.64%) SLA
9 4 (0.51%) PMO
9 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.39%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 66 (8.49%) Docker
2 26 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.06%) Firmware
5 13 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.42%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.51%) GPFS
7 4 (0.51%) NFS
7 4 (0.51%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.51%) Snort
7 4 (0.51%) zsh
8 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
9 2 (0.26%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (11.45%) Terraform
2 85 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 34 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (4.25%) Ansible
5 11 (1.42%) SCCM
6 9 (1.16%) Istio
7 7 (0.90%) Kibana
7 7 (0.90%) Rancher
8 6 (0.77%) Grafana
9 5 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.64%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.64%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Management
10 4 (0.51%) Puppet
10 4 (0.51%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (0.39%) OPNET
12 2 (0.26%) Ambari
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.26%) Oozie
12 2 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 149 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.21%) Oracle
3 51 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 33 (4.25%) Adobe
5 26 (3.35%) Apple
6 25 (3.22%) Cisco
6 25 (3.22%) SAP
7 22 (2.83%) VMware
8 20 (2.57%) Atlassian
8 20 (2.57%) IBM
9 14 (1.80%) Databricks
9 14 (1.80%) Optimizely
10 13 (1.67%) Okta
11 10 (1.29%) Avaya
11 10 (1.29%) Splunk
12 9 (1.16%) Ericsson
12 9 (1.16%) F5
12 9 (1.16%) Juniper
12 9 (1.16%) Nokia
12 9 (1.16%) Ribbon