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 18 June 2026, 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 78 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 67 48 57
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.57% 2.50% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 6.39% 5.54% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 40
10th Percentile £355 £317 £313
25th Percentile £466 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £644
90th Percentile £680 £792 £707
London median daily rate £510 £500 £544
% change year-on-year +2.00% -8.05% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £24.22 £43.14 -
25th Percentile £25.81 £45.99 -
Median hourly rate £30.33 £51.44 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.04% - -
75th Percentile £36.73 £76.08 -
90th Percentile £39.44 £90.43 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -62.86%

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 1,049 867 1,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.18% 45.16% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 542 764
10th Percentile £350 £304 £329
25th Percentile £446 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
London median daily rate £525 £536 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.37% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 9
10th Percentile - £22.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.68 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.71 £30.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +33.49% -40.00%
75th Percentile £41.69 £55.06 £27.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £82.79 £51.35
London median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -12.66%

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 18 June 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in Central London over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in Central London

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 18 June 2026. 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 -1 64 £550 +10.00% 26
West End of London -6 1 £210 -50.59% 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 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) Drupal
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.49%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 44 (65.67%) GCP
2 14 (20.90%) AWS
3 11 (16.42%) Azure
4 10 (14.93%) Google Workspace
5 9 (13.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (7.46%) Slack
7 5 (7.46%) Vertex AI
8 4 (5.97%) Google Analytics
8 4 (5.97%) Google Docs
9 3 (4.48%) Anthos
9 3 (4.48%) Google Sheets
9 3 (4.48%) IaaS
9 3 (4.48%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.48%) PaaS
9 3 (4.48%) SaaS
9 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.99%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
2 4 (5.97%) VPN
3 3 (4.48%) DHCP
3 3 (4.48%) SMTP
4 2 (2.99%) Network Security
5 1 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (10.45%) Tableau
2 5 (7.46%) Power BI
3 4 (5.97%) Big Data
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.49%) Looker
6 1 (1.49%) Metadata
6 1 (1.49%) OLAP
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.49%) ERwin
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.43%) Banking
3 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 9 (13.43%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.45%) Retail
5 6 (8.96%) Marketing
6 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) German Language
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Consultant
5 4 (5.97%) Lead
5 4 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Senior
5 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.48%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) OAuth
2 2 (2.99%) PySpark
2 2 (2.99%) React
2 2 (2.99%) SAML
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.49%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.49%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.49%) JWT
3 1 (1.49%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.49%) MicroProfile
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) Pandas
3 1 (1.49%) Phoenix
3 1 (1.49%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (1.49%) Playwright
3 1 (1.49%) Quarkus
3 1 (1.49%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.49%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Cloud Native
1 7 (10.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) Clustering
3 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.48%) PKI
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Life Science
5 1 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Social Media
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
1 4 (5.97%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.49%) SUSE
3 1 (1.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) AI
2 18 (26.87%) Analytics
3 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
4 13 (19.40%) Agile
5 11 (16.42%) DevOps
6 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
6 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.43%) Migration
8 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.45%) ETL
9 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.45%) Workflow
10 6 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.96%) Data Modelling
10 6 (8.96%) Data Science
10 6 (8.96%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (8.96%) Visualisation
11 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 8 (11.94%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) Java
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.99%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.49%) Elixir
5 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) Korn
5 1 (1.49%) Ruby
5 1 (1.49%) SOQL
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.99%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.99%) NCSC
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.49%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.49%) PMO
3 1 (1.49%) PSD2
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.48%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.48%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 15 (22.39%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Nagios
4 3 (4.48%) Puppet
4 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.48%) vMotion
5 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.48%) Apple
3 3 (4.48%) Citrix
3 3 (4.48%) HP
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) Symantec
3 3 (4.48%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) Adobe
4 2 (2.99%) IBM
4 2 (2.99%) Informatica
4 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.99%) TikTok
5 1 (1.49%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.49%) Meraki
5 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.49%) PayPal
5 1 (1.49%) Pinterest
5 1 (1.49%) Snapchat