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 26 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
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 67 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Google 69 60 60
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.72% 2.59% 1.96%
As % of the Vendors category 7.52% 5.92% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 36
10th Percentile £421 £408 £199
25th Percentile £475 £463 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% +0.66% -4.79%
75th Percentile £744 £688 £695
90th Percentile £838 £757 £794
London median daily rate £504 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -12.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £43.32 £40.80 £13.68
25th Percentile £44.56 £40.88 £15.81
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +121.05% -
75th Percentile £51.00 £43.38 £21.00
90th Percentile £51.69 £43.60 -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £42.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +75.00% -23.81%

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 918 1,014 1,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 49.49% 43.73% 41.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 647 899
10th Percentile £325 £313 £286
25th Percentile £414 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -0.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £680
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile £18.96 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.99 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -46.03% +140.96% -12.34%
75th Percentile £53.31 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £63.05 £137.50 £55.45
London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -34.68% -0.65% +55.00%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +16 66 £610 +6.09% 200
West End of London +6 2 - - 4
City of Westminster 0 1 £475 +11.76%
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 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) Apache
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (75.36%) GCP
2 15 (21.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 12 (17.39%) GitHub
4 11 (15.94%) Azure
5 9 (13.04%) AWS
5 9 (13.04%) Cloud Functions
6 7 (10.14%) Cloud Run
6 7 (10.14%) SaaS
7 5 (7.25%) Google Analytics
7 5 (7.25%) IaaS
7 5 (7.25%) PaaS
8 4 (5.80%) Firebase
8 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.80%) Slack
8 4 (5.80%) Stackdriver
9 3 (4.35%) Apigee
9 3 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.09%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.25%) Big Data
3 4 (5.80%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
4 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.35%) Looker
4 3 (4.35%) Mixpanel
4 3 (4.35%) Redis
4 3 (4.35%) Tableau
5 2 (2.90%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.90%) SQLite
6 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) Parquet
6 1 (1.45%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) GitLab
2 7 (10.14%) Gradle
2 7 (10.14%) Maven
3 5 (7.25%) Git
3 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.25%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.80%) JIRA
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
5 3 (4.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (2.90%) CocoaPods
6 2 (2.90%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.90%) fastlane
6 2 (2.90%) Snyk
6 2 (2.90%) Xcode
7 1 (1.45%) Ant
7 1 (1.45%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.45%) Mocha
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 12 (17.39%) Marketing
4 8 (11.59%) Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.90%) Advertising
8 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.90%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Back Office
9 1 (1.45%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.45%) Military
9 1 (1.45%) Portuguese Language
9 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) GCP Engineer
1 16 (23.19%) Senior
2 9 (13.04%) Developer
3 8 (11.59%) Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Marketing Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Senior Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Consultant
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Marketing Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (4.35%) GCP Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) CSS
1 6 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 6 (8.70%) HTML
2 5 (7.25%) React
2 5 (7.25%) RESTful
3 4 (5.80%) Node.js
3 4 (5.80%) Redux
4 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.35%) LangGraph
4 3 (4.35%) Next.js
4 3 (4.35%) OAuth
4 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.90%) AVFoundation
5 2 (2.90%) Core Data
5 2 (2.90%) JWT
5 2 (2.90%) RxSwift
5 2 (2.90%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (2.90%) UIKit
5 2 (2.90%) WebSockets
5 2 (2.90%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.59%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.80%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) IVR
5 2 (2.90%) Animation
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Blog
6 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.45%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Genomics
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) CI/CD
1 26 (37.68%) DevOps
2 21 (30.43%) Analytics
3 17 (24.64%) Agile
4 13 (18.84%) Cloud Security
5 12 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (15.94%) AI
6 11 (15.94%) Migration
7 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
9 8 (11.59%) Design Patterns
9 8 (11.59%) E-Commerce
10 7 (10.14%) Business Case
10 7 (10.14%) Business Strategy
10 7 (10.14%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.14%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 10 (14.49%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.14%) Java
5 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.90%) Bicep
6 2 (2.90%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.90%) Swift
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) CodeQL
7 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.45%) LookML
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) CISSP
1 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.45%) CEH
4 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.45%) MCP
4 1 (1.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.70%) GDPR
3 4 (5.80%) NCSC
4 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.35%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.90%) NIST
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.45%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.45%) GRC
6 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.45%) MiFID
6 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 15 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (30.43%) Terraform
2 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.25%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Argo
4 4 (5.80%) Puppet
5 3 (4.35%) Istio
6 2 (2.90%) Grafana
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Splunk
3 5 (7.25%) Adobe
4 4 (5.80%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.35%) Amplitude
5 3 (4.35%) Databricks
5 3 (4.35%) Hotjar
5 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.35%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.90%) Apple
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.90%) New Relic
6 2 (2.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.90%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Ahrefs
7 1 (1.45%) Kony
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle
7 1 (1.45%) YouTube