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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 83 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 67 46 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.54% 2.33% 2.45%
As % of the Vendors category 6.26% 5.13% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 42
10th Percentile £377 £309 £351
25th Percentile £456 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £684
90th Percentile £670 £740 £768
London median daily rate £510 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.63% -10.75%
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 £26.97
% change year-on-year -27.55% +81.68% -61.47%

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 1,071 896 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.60% 45.46% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 561 767
10th Percentile £350 £310 £324
25th Percentile £450 £424 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 8
10th Percentile - £23.05 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £22.08 £31.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.77% +42.53% -13.00%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.34 £63.53
London median hourly rate £35.50 £28.15 £23.99
% change year-on-year +26.11% +17.34% -21.34%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +3 64 £550 +10.00% 81
West End of London -6 1 £210 -50.59% 6
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%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
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%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.49%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 45 (67.16%) 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%) Vertex AI
8 4 (5.97%) Google Analytics
8 4 (5.97%) Slack
9 3 (4.48%) Anthos
9 3 (4.48%) Google Docs
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%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.99%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.99%) Google App Engine
10 2 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
2 4 (5.97%) VPN
3 3 (4.48%) DHCP
3 3 (4.48%) Network Security
3 3 (4.48%) SMTP
4 1 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.96%) Tableau
3 5 (7.46%) Power BI
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.48%) Big Data
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 5 (7.46%) 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 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.43%) Banking
5 8 (11.94%) Finance
6 6 (8.96%) Retail
7 5 (7.46%) Marketing
8 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.99%) Legal
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Advertising
9 1 (1.49%) German Language
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Military
9 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (14.93%) Architect
2 10 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (5.97%) Analyst
4 4 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Consultant
4 4 (5.97%) Lead
4 4 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (5.97%) Senior
4 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Kafka
2 2 (2.99%) OAuth
2 2 (2.99%) PySpark
2 2 (2.99%) SAML
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%) React
3 1 (1.49%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.49%) Seaborn
3 1 (1.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.96%) Clustering
4 3 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.48%) PKI
5 2 (2.99%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.49%) BYOD
6 1 (1.49%) Genomics
6 1 (1.49%) Life Science
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Social Media
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 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
4 12 (17.91%) Agile
5 10 (14.93%) DevOps
5 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (14.93%) Machine Learning
5 10 (14.93%) Migration
5 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (10.45%) ETL
7 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.96%) Cloud Security
8 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
8 6 (8.96%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.96%) Data Science
8 6 (8.96%) Workflow
9 5 (7.46%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (7.46%) Decision-Making
9 5 (7.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.91%) SQL
2 7 (10.45%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.49%) Elixir
6 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) Korn
6 1 (1.49%) Ruby
6 1 (1.49%) SOQL
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (19.40%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
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
7 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
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%) Actionable Recommendations
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 14 (20.90%) 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%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.48%) vMotion
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.48%) Apple
2 3 (4.48%) Citrix
2 3 (4.48%) HP
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle
2 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.48%) Symantec
2 3 (4.48%) VMware
3 2 (2.99%) Adobe
3 2 (2.99%) IBM
3 2 (2.99%) Informatica
3 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.99%) TikTok
4 1 (1.49%) Ahrefs
4 1 (1.49%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.49%) Klarna
4 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.49%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.49%) PayPal
4 1 (1.49%) Pinterest