Google Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 116 91 85
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 277 616 1,295
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.88% 2.50% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 4.43% 5.79% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 451 932
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £455 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.17% +3.53%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £688
90th Percentile £688 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 20
10th Percentile £23.38 - £16.41
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £39.60 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% +17.33% +3.85%
75th Percentile £26.50 £53.75 £52.06
90th Percentile £34.50 £58.75 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £26.49 £39.60 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.12% +13.14% +32.08%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,247 10,646 17,395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.32% 43.21% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 7,170 11,845
10th Percentile £325 £330 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £743 £720
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 244 256
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.96%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £56.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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 18 May 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 18 May 2024.

Google hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 14 (5.05%) Confluence
2 7 (2.53%) Apache Solr
2 7 (2.53%) WordPress
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.17%) nginx
4 5 (1.81%) Drupal
4 5 (1.81%) SAS
5 4 (1.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.17%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.36%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.36%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (1.08%) FastStats
1 3 (1.08%) Shopify
1 3 (1.08%) Unica
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.98%) GCP
2 73 (26.35%) AWS
3 69 (24.91%) Azure
4 43 (15.52%) Google Analytics
5 26 (9.39%) Google Workspace
6 25 (9.03%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.22%) SaaS
8 17 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (5.05%) IaaS
9 14 (5.05%) PaaS
10 12 (4.33%) GitHub
10 12 (4.33%) Google Sheets
11 10 (3.61%) dbt
12 9 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.25%) Serverless
13 8 (2.89%) Apigee
14 7 (2.53%) Twilio
15 6 (2.17%) Adobe Analytics
16 5 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (1.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.97%) Firewall
3 9 (3.25%) HTTP
3 9 (3.25%) VoIP
4 7 (2.53%) CTI
4 7 (2.53%) DNS
5 5 (1.81%) WAN
6 4 (1.44%) DHCP
6 4 (1.44%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (1.44%) IPsec
6 4 (1.44%) LAN
6 4 (1.44%) SSL
6 4 (1.44%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.44%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.08%) Multicast
7 3 (1.08%) Network Security
7 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.69%) BigQuery
2 25 (9.03%) Power BI
3 18 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (6.14%) Looker
5 14 (5.05%) MySQL
5 14 (5.05%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.33%) Tableau
7 11 (3.97%) Big Data
8 8 (2.89%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.81%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.81%) GIS
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.44%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.08%) Bigtable
12 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (9.39%) Git
2 23 (8.30%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.50%) JIRA
4 8 (2.89%) GitLab
5 7 (2.53%) Maven
6 6 (2.17%) Postman
7 4 (1.44%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.44%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.72%) Appium
8 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.72%) gulp
8 2 (0.72%) JMeter
8 2 (0.72%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.72%) webpack
9 1 (0.36%) Darcs
9 1 (0.36%) ESLint
9 1 (0.36%) Lerna
9 1 (0.36%) Storybook
9 1 (0.36%) Travis CI
General
1 71 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.25%) Finance
3 35 (12.64%) Retail
4 31 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.66%) Banking
6 19 (6.86%) Legal
7 18 (6.50%) Public Sector
8 17 (6.14%) Marketing
9 8 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.89%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.53%) Advertising
11 5 (1.81%) Back Office
11 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.08%) Electronics
14 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Law
14 2 (0.72%) Publishing
14 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (22.02%) Developer
2 50 (18.05%) Architect
3 27 (9.75%) Senior
4 24 (8.66%) Analyst
5 21 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (6.86%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.05%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
9 11 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 11 (3.97%) GCP Developer
9 11 (3.97%) Lead
9 11 (3.97%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.25%) Consultant
11 8 (2.89%) Business Analyst
11 8 (2.89%) Data Analyst
11 8 (2.89%) Data Engineer
11 8 (2.89%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.53%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.53%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.66%) REST
2 19 (6.86%) Node.js
2 19 (6.86%) SAML
3 18 (6.50%) CSS
4 16 (5.78%) Spring
5 14 (5.05%) AngularJS
5 14 (5.05%) HTML
5 14 (5.05%) React
6 12 (4.33%) RESTful
6 12 (4.33%) Restlet
6 12 (4.33%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.97%) GWT
7 11 (3.97%) JSON
7 11 (3.97%) Web Services
8 10 (3.61%) JAX-RS
8 10 (3.61%) Middleware
8 10 (3.61%) Swagger
9 9 (3.25%) jQuery
10 7 (2.53%) OAuth
10 7 (2.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.66%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.78%) Virtual Team
3 15 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.89%) IVR
6 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.17%) Educational Technology
7 6 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.44%) YARA
10 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.86%) Linux
2 14 (5.05%) Windows
3 8 (2.89%) Unix
4 4 (1.44%) Android
4 4 (1.44%) CentOS
5 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (25.99%) Analytics
2 62 (22.38%) Agile
3 52 (18.77%) DevOps
4 44 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.36%) CI/CD
6 34 (12.27%) Migration
7 26 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (9.03%) Data Modelling
9 24 (8.66%) Computer Science
10 22 (7.94%) Containerisation
10 22 (7.94%) ETL
11 21 (7.58%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.22%) Machine Learning
13 19 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (6.50%) Data Engineering
14 18 (6.50%) Software Engineering
15 16 (5.78%) Data Analysis
15 16 (5.78%) Mentoring
15 16 (5.78%) Microservices
15 16 (5.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.02%) Python
2 44 (15.88%) Java
3 43 (15.52%) SQL
4 37 (13.36%) JavaScript
5 18 (6.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.89%) PHP
7 7 (2.53%) Bash
7 7 (2.53%) Go
8 5 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.44%) C#
10 3 (1.08%) Groovy
10 3 (1.08%) Rust
10 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.72%) C++
11 2 (0.72%) R
11 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
12 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (14.80%) Degree
2 17 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.78%) Security Cleared
4 15 (5.42%) PMI Certification
4 15 (5.42%) PMP
4 15 (5.42%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.69%) APMP
6 10 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CISSP
10 2 (0.72%) OCP
10 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) PhD
11 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.86%) GDPR
2 17 (6.14%) QA
3 11 (3.97%) HIPAA
4 10 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.61%) NIST
5 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.17%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.44%) WCAG
8 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.72%) SLA
10 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (11.19%) Docker
2 9 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.44%) Snort
4 3 (1.08%) zsh
5 2 (0.72%) Firmware
5 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (11.91%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.66%) Terraform
3 17 (6.14%) Ansible
4 14 (5.05%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.17%) Kibana
6 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.08%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Grafana
7 2 (0.72%) logstash
7 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.72%) Salt
7 2 (0.72%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Packer
8 1 (0.36%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 54 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.30%) Salesforce
3 20 (7.22%) Oracle
4 13 (4.69%) Adobe
5 11 (3.97%) Cisco
5 11 (3.97%) Genesys
6 7 (2.53%) Avaya
7 6 (2.17%) Databricks
7 6 (2.17%) Splunk
8 5 (1.81%) Facebook
8 5 (1.81%) Monetate
8 5 (1.81%) Optimizely
8 5 (1.81%) SAP
9 4 (1.44%) Ensighten
9 4 (1.44%) F5
9 4 (1.44%) Omniture
9 4 (1.44%) Tealium
10 3 (1.08%) Apple
10 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.08%) Snapchat