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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 83 88
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Google 43 52 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.28% 2.17% 2.46%
As % of the Vendors category 5.01% 5.03% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 63
10th Percentile £309 £256 £255
25th Percentile £406 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £659 £664
90th Percentile £730 £806 £823
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £47.13 - £16.05
25th Percentile £55.94 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £71.25 - £32.00
75th Percentile £85.94 - £42.75
90th Percentile £94.38 - £48.75
London median hourly rate £47.75 £26.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +83.65% -62.86% +154.55%

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 859 1,034 1,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.52% 43.12% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 763 992
10th Percentile £311 £300 £246
25th Percentile £424 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £750 £785 £788
London median daily rate £545 £538 £570
% change year-on-year +1.35% -5.66% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile £22.53 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.53 £13.56 £19.32
Median hourly rate £29.07 £19.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.19% -14.13% -13.21%
75th Percentile £41.48 £23.75 £52.56
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.38 £53.05
London median hourly rate £28.50 £23.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +21.28% -11.32% -24.29%

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 29 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 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in Central London

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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 29 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 +6 40 £500 -6.98% 35
West End of London +1 2 £425 -15.00% 4
City of Westminster - 2 £538 - 1
Southwark - 1 - - 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 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Mule
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (79.07%) GCP
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.63%) Cloud Functions
5 5 (11.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (6.98%) dbt
7 3 (6.98%) Google Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.33%) Apigee
9 1 (2.33%) Datadog
9 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) VoIP
3 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) BigQuery
2 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.95%) Power BI
3 6 (13.95%) Tableau
4 5 (11.63%) Looker
5 4 (9.30%) Big Data
6 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.65%) Parquet
8 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.33%) Base SAS
8 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.33%) Flink
8 1 (2.33%) Metadata
8 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Gradle
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) Snyk
4 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Marketing
5 3 (6.98%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Advertising
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Publishing
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Analyst
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
2 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Data Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Developer
6 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Product Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (4.65%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) IT Support
7 2 (4.65%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
1 2 (4.65%) Apache Beam
1 2 (4.65%) Kafka
1 2 (4.65%) Node.js
1 2 (4.65%) Spring
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.33%) JSON
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
1 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) IVR
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) DevOps
2 10 (23.26%) Analytics
2 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
3 9 (20.93%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (18.60%) Data Modelling
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Data Engineering
5 7 (16.28%) Migration
6 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.95%) Data Visualisation
6 6 (13.95%) Microservices
6 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.95%) Visualisation
7 5 (11.63%) Data Analytics
7 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (9.30%) Business Strategy
8 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
8 4 (9.30%) Data Transformation
8 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) Bash
4 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) DataWeave
5 1 (2.33%) Groovy
5 1 (2.33%) Perl
5 1 (2.33%) PROC SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Scala
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.65%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CCNA
4 1 (2.33%) CEH
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.33%) OSCP
4 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) PMP
4 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Lustre
2 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) CASB
3 2 (4.65%) Istio
4 1 (2.33%) Argo
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Karpenter
4 1 (2.33%) Podman
4 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.65%) Adobe
4 2 (4.65%) Okta
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.33%) Marketo
5 1 (2.33%) New Relic
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.33%) Progress
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) YouTube