Google Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Google
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Richmond upon Thames 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 23 October 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
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Google 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 6.67% 5.00% 5.71%
As % of the Vendors category 8.33% 25.00% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £385 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £390 £594
Median % change year-on-year +60.26% -34.32% -
75th Percentile £638 £395 £621
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £525 £400 £558
% change year-on-year +31.25% -28.25% +59.29%

All Vendors
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12 4 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 80.00% 20.00% 52.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 36
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £204 £188 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £295 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.66% -41.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £268 £459 £610
90th Percentile £606 £574 £700
West London median daily rate £425 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.57%
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £32.75 £23.80 £62.50
% change year-on-year +37.58% -61.92% +303.23%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Google job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Google

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Mixpanel
1 1 (100.00%) OLAP
1 1 (100.00%) OLTP
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 1 (100.00%) Monte Carlo Method
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks