Google Contracts in Central London

Google
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2025, 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Google 38 51 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.90% 2.09% 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 4.22% 4.91% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 65
10th Percentile £275 £219 £285
25th Percentile £388 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £597 £660
90th Percentile £730 £806 £893
London median daily rate £525 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £47.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.94 - £50.25
Median hourly rate £71.25 - £51.50
75th Percentile £85.94 - £52.75
90th Percentile £94.38 - -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £26.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +88.46% -67.50% +106.45%

All Vendors
Central London

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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 900 1,039 1,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.98% 42.63% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 765 1,018
10th Percentile £312 £300 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.65 £30.38
% change year-on-year +22.62% -22.14% -13.21%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Central London

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Central London

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Central London

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Central London

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in Central London

Google
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
City of London -7 33 £525 +2.44% 65
City of Westminster - 2 £538 -
West End of London -2 1 £425 -15.00% 10
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
Southwark - 1 - -
Google
London

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Mule
3 1 (2.63%) SAS
3 1 (2.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (71.05%) GCP
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 7 (18.42%) Azure
4 5 (13.16%) Google Workspace
4 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub
5 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.26%) dbt
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.63%) Google Docs
7 1 (2.63%) Google Sheets
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.63%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DHCP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) VoIP
2 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.63%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.79%) Tableau
3 5 (13.16%) Looker
3 5 (13.16%) Power BI
4 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.26%) Big Data
5 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.63%) Base SAS
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.63%) Flink
6 1 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (2.63%) Parquet
6 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
1 5 (13.16%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.63%) Snyk
3 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Advertising
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Publishing
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Architect
2 4 (10.53%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
2 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) IT Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Lead
3 3 (7.89%) Security Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
3 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Developer
4 2 (5.26%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Integration Architect
4 2 (5.26%) IT Support
4 2 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Spring
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Beam
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (2.63%) .NET
3 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.63%) CSS
3 1 (2.63%) HTML
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) JWT
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Next.js
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
1 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (5.26%) Smartphone
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.63%) Derivative
2 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.26%) Android
4 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (15.79%) Analytics
4 6 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (15.79%) Microservices
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 5 (13.16%) Agile
6 4 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 4 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Data Governance
6 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (7.89%) Data Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Decision-Making
7 3 (7.89%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) Java
2 6 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.63%) DataWeave
4 1 (2.63%) Groovy
4 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.63%) PROC SQL
4 1 (2.63%) Scala
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CISM
5 1 (2.63%) CISSP
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.63%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.26%) GDPR
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.26%) Lustre
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) CASB
3 2 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.26%) Karpenter
3 2 (5.26%) Podman
3 2 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) Argo
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) Okta
2 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.26%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.63%) Marketo
4 1 (2.63%) New Relic
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.63%) Progress
4 1 (2.63%) Screaming Frog
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) VMware