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 6 August 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 77 59 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.96% 2.88% 2.53%
As % of the Vendors category 6.97% 6.09% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 40
10th Percentile £340 £365 £358
25th Percentile £431 £460 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £678
90th Percentile £643 £740 £768
London median daily rate £505 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +0.95% -13.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £22.63 £43.14 -
25th Percentile £22.83 £45.99 £40.75
Median hourly rate £23.16 £51.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.98% +23.95% +232.00%
75th Percentile £32.21 £76.08 £42.25
90th Percentile £37.63 £90.43 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £29.75
% change year-on-year -27.55% +64.71% -55.93%

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 1,104 969 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.45% 47.25% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 625 710
10th Percentile £336 £315 £349
25th Percentile £447 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 12
10th Percentile - £23.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £62.00 £103.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.90 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +8 71 £550 - 75
City of Westminster 0 9 £425 -24.44% 44
West End of London -5 6 £325 - 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 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) WordPress
3 2 (2.60%) Apache
3 2 (2.60%) CMS
3 2 (2.60%) Drupal
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) iTrent
2 1 (1.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (68.83%) GCP
2 17 (22.08%) AWS
3 14 (18.18%) Azure
4 13 (16.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (11.69%) Google Workspace
6 6 (7.79%) Vertex AI
7 5 (6.49%) Cloud Functions
7 5 (6.49%) Google Analytics
7 5 (6.49%) Google App Engine
7 5 (6.49%) Google Sheets
7 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.19%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.90%) Google Docs
9 3 (3.90%) IaaS
9 3 (3.90%) PaaS
9 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) DNS
1 8 (10.39%) Firewall
2 5 (6.49%) VPN
3 4 (5.19%) Internet
4 3 (3.90%) DHCP
4 3 (3.90%) Network Security
4 3 (3.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.90%) Big Data
3 3 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.90%) Power BI
3 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (3.90%) Tableau
4 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.30%) Looker
5 1 (1.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) GitLab
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.30%) Gatling
4 1 (1.30%) JMeter
4 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.30%) NeoLoad
General
1 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Finance
4 6 (7.79%) Marketing
4 6 (7.79%) Retail
5 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) German Language
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
1 14 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
2 11 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Lead
4 5 (6.49%) Senior
5 4 (5.19%) Analyst
5 4 (5.19%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.19%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.90%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (3.90%) Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Product Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) OAuth
2 3 (3.90%) Kafka
2 3 (3.90%) SAML
3 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.60%) JSON
3 2 (2.60%) JWT
3 2 (2.60%) Middleware
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (2.60%) PySpark
3 2 (2.60%) React
3 2 (2.60%) REST
3 2 (2.60%) SOAP
3 2 (2.60%) XML
3 2 (2.60%) XSLT
4 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.30%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.30%) Phoenix
4 1 (1.30%) Quarkus
4 1 (1.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 6 (7.79%) Clustering
4 5 (6.49%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.90%) PKI
7 2 (2.60%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.60%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.30%) Genomics
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) SUSE
3 1 (1.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) AI
1 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
2 18 (23.38%) Analytics
3 16 (20.78%) Migration
4 14 (18.18%) Agile
5 13 (16.88%) DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.99%) Machine Learning
7 10 (12.99%) Observability
7 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 7 (9.09%) Microservices
10 6 (7.79%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.79%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.79%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (7.79%) Runbook
10 6 (7.79%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) Python
3 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.90%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.60%) Korn
5 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) Elixir
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) Degree
5 3 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CISM
7 1 (1.30%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) CRISC
7 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.30%) PMP
7 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.90%) NIST
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.60%) NCSC
4 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.60%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.30%) PSD2
5 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.90%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.90%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 20 (25.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Terraform
3 5 (6.49%) Ansible
4 3 (3.90%) Nagios
4 3 (3.90%) Puppet
4 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.90%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.90%) vMotion
5 2 (2.60%) Istio
6 1 (1.30%) Grafana
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.90%) Apple
3 3 (3.90%) Citrix
3 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.90%) HP
3 3 (3.90%) OpenAI
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
3 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.90%) Symantec
3 3 (3.90%) VMware
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
4 2 (2.60%) TikTok
4 2 (2.60%) Workday
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco
5 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) Zoho