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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 76 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +38
Contract jobs citing Google 50 60 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.49% 2.53% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 5.38% 5.71% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 60
10th Percentile £325 £324 £250
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% +2.22%
75th Percentile £649 £678 £694
90th Percentile £700 £768 £836
London median daily rate £508 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -5.14% -10.83% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £43.14 - £16.05
25th Percentile £45.99 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £51.44 - £32.00
75th Percentile £76.08 - £42.75
90th Percentile £90.43 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £49.00 £26.97 £67.50
% change year-on-year +81.68% -60.04% +121.31%

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 929 1,050 1,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 46.20% 44.30% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 766 1,042
10th Percentile £310 £316 £231
25th Percentile £425 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £530 £550
% change year-on-year - -3.64% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £23.23 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.91 £15.19 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.83 £20.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.13% -20.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £75.90 £63.53 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.33 £24.18 £30.75
% change year-on-year +17.14% -21.37% -10.22%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -2 46 £525 - 271
West End of London +4 3 £425 -15.00% 25
City of Westminster - 2 £538 - 24
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 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (80.00%) GCP
2 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Azure
4 8 (16.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (14.00%) GitHub
6 6 (12.00%) Cloud Functions
6 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (6.00%) dbt
7 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Google Analytics
8 2 (4.00%) Apigee
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.00%) Google Ads
8 2 (4.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (4.00%) Google Play
8 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Stackdriver
9 1 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) VoIP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (2.00%) VLAN
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) BigQuery
2 8 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.00%) Big Data
3 6 (12.00%) Power BI
3 6 (12.00%) Tableau
4 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.00%) Looker
5 3 (6.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.00%) Parquet
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.00%) Base SAS
7 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.00%) Flink
7 1 (2.00%) Metadata
7 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Gradle
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) Maven
3 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
3 1 (2.00%) Snyk
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Marketing
5 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Retail
7 2 (4.00%) Advertising
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) GCP Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Data Product Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Support
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Node.js
1 3 (6.00%) RESTful
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.00%) React
2 2 (4.00%) Redux
2 2 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.00%) CSS
3 1 (2.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.00%) JSON
3 1 (2.00%) JWT
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Next.js
3 1 (2.00%) React Native
3 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) IVR
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (30.00%) DevOps
3 13 (26.00%) Analytics
4 12 (24.00%) Agile
5 10 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (14.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.00%) Microservices
7 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.00%) Data Analytics
8 6 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (12.00%) Migration
8 6 (12.00%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 13 (26.00%) Python
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) C++
6 1 (2.00%) CodeQL
6 1 (2.00%) Groovy
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.00%) PROC SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) CISSP
3 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.00%) CEH
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.00%) OSCP
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Lustre
2 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Ansible
3 3 (6.00%) Istio
4 2 (4.00%) CASB
4 2 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.00%) Argo
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.00%) Podman
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Cisco
2 3 (6.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) Adobe
3 2 (4.00%) Okta
4 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.00%) Kony
4 1 (2.00%) Marketo
4 1 (2.00%) New Relic
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.00%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) YouTube