Google Contract Job Trends 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 10 December 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 86 97
Rank change year-on-year +34 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing Google 83 51 51
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.19% 2.13% 1.81%
As % of the Vendors category 8.57% 4.90% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 30 27
10th Percentile £413 £378 £182
25th Percentile £475 £463 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +7.98% -11.25%
75th Percentile £747 £684 £642
90th Percentile £838 £769 £845
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £39.90 £40.80 -
25th Percentile £40.88 £40.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +121.05% -
75th Percentile £49.83 £43.38 £21.00
90th Percentile £51.23 £43.60 -
London median hourly rate £42.75 £43.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -0.58% +56.36% -15.38%

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 969 1,041 1,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.94% 43.43% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 666 874
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 8
10th Percentile £19.14 £19.19 £15.58
25th Percentile £21.50 £26.60 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.03% +163.16% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £61.65 £134.95 £57.38
London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £38.45
% change year-on-year -31.10% -5.08% +50.18%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Google job vacancy trend in Central London

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Central London over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Central London

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Google

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 10 December 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 +35 79 £605 +5.22% 27
West End of London +12 2 - -
City of Westminster +2 2 £475 +11.76% 2
Google
London

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (4.82%) CMS
2 2 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 54 (65.06%) GCP
2 16 (19.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 15 (18.07%) Azure
4 11 (13.25%) AWS
4 11 (13.25%) GitHub
5 8 (9.64%) SaaS
6 7 (8.43%) Cloud Run
6 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.23%) Google Analytics
7 6 (7.23%) Google Gemini
7 6 (7.23%) IaaS
7 6 (7.23%) PaaS
8 5 (6.02%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (6.02%) Firebase
9 4 (4.82%) Google Play
9 4 (4.82%) Slack
9 4 (4.82%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.61%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.20%) Internet
2 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) BigQuery
2 7 (8.43%) Tableau
3 5 (6.02%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) Looker
4 3 (3.61%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.61%) Redis
5 2 (2.41%) Big Data
5 2 (2.41%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
5 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.41%) SQLite
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.20%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) JIRA
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.02%) Gradle
4 5 (6.02%) Maven
4 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.82%) Selenium
6 3 (3.61%) JUnit
6 3 (3.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (2.41%) CocoaPods
7 2 (2.41%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.41%) fastlane
7 2 (2.41%) Mockito
7 2 (2.41%) Snyk
7 2 (2.41%) Xcode
8 1 (1.20%) Ant
8 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.20%) Mocha
General
1 20 (24.10%) Finance
2 17 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Marketing
4 10 (12.05%) Banking
5 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Advertising
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Back Office
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (19.28%) GCP Engineer
2 14 (16.87%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) Developer
4 7 (8.43%) Architect
4 7 (8.43%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Consultant
5 5 (6.02%) Data Scientist
5 5 (6.02%) Lead
6 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Administrator
7 3 (3.61%) Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.61%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Marketing Manager
7 3 (3.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) HTML
2 8 (9.64%) CSS
3 7 (8.43%) React
3 7 (8.43%) RESTful
4 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.82%) Redux
4 4 (4.82%) REST
5 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.61%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.61%) Next.js
5 3 (3.61%) OAuth
5 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
5 3 (3.61%) Spring
6 2 (2.41%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.41%) Pandas
6 2 (2.41%) RxJava
6 2 (2.41%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.41%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.05%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.02%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.61%) Life Science
6 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.41%) Animation
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.41%) Social Media
6 2 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.20%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.41%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) DevOps
2 31 (37.35%) CI/CD
3 24 (28.92%) Analytics
4 22 (26.51%) Agile
5 17 (20.48%) AI
6 13 (15.66%) Cloud Security
6 13 (15.66%) Containerisation
6 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (15.66%) Migration
6 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.46%) Machine Learning
8 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.05%) User Experience
10 9 (10.84%) Generative AI
10 9 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (9.64%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (9.64%) LLM
11 8 (9.64%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.43%) Data Science
12 7 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.89%) Python
2 15 (18.07%) SQL
3 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.84%) Java
5 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.41%) Bicep
6 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.41%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.41%) Swift
7 1 (1.20%) Go
7 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.20%) LookML
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.02%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) CISSP
4 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) CCSP
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.20%) MCP
5 1 (1.20%) OSCP
5 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (10.84%) GDPR
3 6 (7.23%) NCSC
4 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.41%) GRC
6 2 (2.41%) QA
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.20%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.20%) MiFID
7 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (20.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (26.51%) Terraform
2 19 (22.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 4 (4.82%) Argo
4 2 (2.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.41%) Istio
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.41%) Puppet
4 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Adobe
2 5 (6.02%) Splunk
3 4 (4.82%) Apple
3 4 (4.82%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.82%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.82%) Optimizely
4 3 (3.61%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.61%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) New Relic
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.41%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.41%) Sage
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) Screaming Frog