Google Contracts in the City of London

Google
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 76 74 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +45
Contract jobs citing Google 46 52 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.53% 2.44% 2.58%
As % of the Vendors category 5.46% 5.46% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 39 56
10th Percentile £317 £343 £250
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.30%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £695
90th Percentile £720 £771 £881
Central London median daily rate £525 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% +2.22%
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
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 - £32.00
% change year-on-year - - +88.24%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 843 953 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.37% 44.68% 40.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 692 952
10th Percentile £313 £339 £263
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -1.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £22.53 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.91 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £38.58 £20.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +92.88% -44.83% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £89.67 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £32.83 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +64.13% -20.00% -24.24%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in the City of London

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Google in the City of London

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the City of London

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Google in the City of London

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the City of London

Google
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Google
Central London

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (80.43%) GCP
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (13.04%) Cloud Functions
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (6.52%) dbt
6 2 (4.35%) Apigee
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Google Analytics
6 2 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (4.35%) Google Play
6 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Stackdriver
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Boomi
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) VoIP
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) BigQuery
2 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.04%) Big Data
3 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 6 (13.04%) Tableau
4 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.70%) Looker
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Parquet
7 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.17%) Base SAS
7 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.17%) Flink
7 1 (2.17%) Metadata
7 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Gradle
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Maven
3 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Marketing
5 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Retail
7 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.17%) Military
8 1 (2.17%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
3 7 (15.22%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Data Product Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) IT Support
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Marketing Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Node.js
1 3 (6.52%) RESTful
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Avro
2 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.35%) React
2 2 (4.35%) Redux
2 2 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) JWT
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) Next.js
3 1 (2.17%) React Native
3 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.35%) IVR
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (28.26%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Analytics
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
5 10 (21.74%) Data Modelling
6 8 (17.39%) Data Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
7 7 (15.22%) Microservices
7 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (13.04%) Data Analytics
8 6 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (10.87%) Data Integration
9 5 (10.87%) Migration
10 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) SQL
2 11 (23.91%) Python
3 7 (15.22%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) CodeQL
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) PROC SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) CISSP
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CEH
4 1 (2.17%) CISM
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.17%) OSCP
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
4 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Lustre
2 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Istio
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) CASB
4 2 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.17%) Podman
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco
2 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
2 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.52%) Splunk
3 2 (4.35%) Adobe
3 2 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.17%) Kony
4 1 (2.17%) Marketo
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) VMware