Google Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Google
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 30 November 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
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Google 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.55% 1.85% -
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 3.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £533
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.98% -11.25%

All Vendors
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22 27 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 50.00% 50.00% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 15
10th Percentile £429 £361 £163
25th Percentile £463 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -10.23% +29.41%
75th Percentile £625 £734 £713
90th Percentile £795 £838 £940
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.59 - -
Median hourly rate £18.94 - -
75th Percentile £19.34 - -
90th Percentile £19.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.03% +163.16% -7.32%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Google job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Paddington -3 1 £475 +11.76%
Westminster - 1 - - 1
Google
Central London

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Edge Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk