GoogleTest Contracts

Google Test
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GoogleTest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GoogleTest over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 678 843
Rank change year-on-year +132 +165 -169
Contract jobs citing GoogleTest 30 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% 0.071% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £63 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -89.13% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £63 £575 -
% change year-on-year -89.13% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £62.50 £52.25 -
25th Percentile - £53.75 £49.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £55.44
90th Percentile - - £63.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

GoogleTest is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GoogleTest in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoogleTest within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +138 30 £63 -89.13% 7
UK excluding London +79 30 £63 -89.13% 7
South East +26 17 £63 - 2
South West - 13 - - 5
Work from Home +119 1 - -

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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 15 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) SNMP
1 17 (56.67%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 28 (93.33%) JIRA
2 17 (56.67%) Eclipse
2 17 (56.67%) Git
2 17 (56.67%) Robot Framework
3 15 (50.00%) Bitbucket
4 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (30.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Software Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) Java Engineer
2 19 (63.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 18 (60.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Linux Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) C++/Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Software Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) CSS
1 15 (50.00%) HTML
2 13 (43.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (83.33%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 27 (90.00%) Agile
3 15 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (50.00%) Scrum
3 15 (50.00%) SysML
3 15 (50.00%) UML
4 14 (46.67%) Prototyping
4 14 (46.67%) Validation
4 14 (46.67%) Verification and Validation
5 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
5 13 (43.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) C++
2 21 (70.00%) Java
3 15 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Google
2 15 (50.00%) Atlassian