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 5 January 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
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 86 96
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Google 82 41 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.07% 1.85% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 8.45% 4.28% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 24 28
10th Percentile £399 £386 £219
25th Percentile £466 £472 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £747 £697 £654
90th Percentile £838 £774 £827
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £39.58 £40.80 -
25th Percentile £40.06 £40.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £42.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +121.05% -
75th Percentile £46.06 £43.38 £21.00
90th Percentile £46.93 £43.60 -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -5.81% +79.17% -27.82%

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 970 959 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.16% 43.37% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 604 796
10th Percentile £334 £313 £295
25th Percentile £414 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £669 £657 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £18.87 £23.98 £16.05
25th Percentile £19.98 £40.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £71.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.25% +275.00% -7.32%
75th Percentile £33.61 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £137.50 £54.50
London median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +37.25%

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 5 January 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
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 5 January 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 +33 79 £569 -9.00% 102
City of Westminster +4 2 £475 +11.76% 15
West End of London +10 1 - - 9
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 (4.88%) CMS
2 2 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Trello
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 52 (63.41%) GCP
2 15 (18.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 14 (17.07%) Azure
4 12 (14.63%) GitHub
5 10 (12.20%) AWS
6 9 (10.98%) SaaS
7 8 (9.76%) Cloud Run
8 7 (8.54%) Google Gemini
8 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
9 6 (7.32%) Google Workspace
9 6 (7.32%) Slack
10 5 (6.10%) Firebase
10 5 (6.10%) Google Analytics
10 5 (6.10%) IaaS
10 5 (6.10%) PaaS
11 4 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.88%) Vertex AI
12 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.66%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Internet
3 1 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) BigQuery
2 9 (10.98%) Tableau
3 5 (6.10%) Power BI
4 3 (3.66%) Looker
4 3 (3.66%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.66%) Redis
5 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.44%) Big Data
5 2 (2.44%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.44%) SQLite
6 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.22%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 7 (8.54%) GitLab
2 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) Gradle
3 4 (4.88%) Maven
3 4 (4.88%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.66%) JUnit
4 3 (3.66%) Selenium
4 3 (3.66%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.44%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.44%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.44%) fastlane
5 2 (2.44%) Mockito
5 2 (2.44%) Snyk
5 2 (2.44%) Xcode
6 1 (1.22%) Ant
6 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) Mocha
General
1 22 (26.83%) Finance
2 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Marketing
5 9 (10.98%) Banking
6 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Retail
7 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.44%) Advertising
8 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.22%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (17.07%) GCP Engineer
1 14 (17.07%) Senior
2 10 (12.20%) Developer
3 6 (7.32%) Lead
4 5 (6.10%) Analyst
4 5 (6.10%) Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Consultant
4 5 (6.10%) Data Scientist
4 5 (6.10%) Security Engineer
4 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
5 4 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Administrator
6 3 (3.66%) Backend Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Conversion Specialist
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing Manager
6 3 (3.66%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) HTML
2 8 (9.76%) CSS
3 7 (8.54%) React
4 5 (6.10%) FastAPI
4 5 (6.10%) RESTful
5 4 (4.88%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.88%) REST
5 4 (4.88%) Spring
6 3 (3.66%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.66%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.66%) Node.js
6 3 (3.66%) OAuth
6 3 (3.66%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.44%) LangChain
7 2 (2.44%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.44%) NumPy
7 2 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.44%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.88%) Life Science
3 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Animation
5 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Social Media
5 2 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Genomics
6 1 (1.22%) IVR
6 1 (1.22%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.44%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) DevOps
2 27 (32.93%) CI/CD
3 21 (25.61%) Analytics
4 20 (24.39%) Agile
5 18 (21.95%) AI
6 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
6 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.63%) Migration
9 11 (13.41%) Cloud Security
9 11 (13.41%) Machine Learning
10 10 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (12.20%) Generative AI
10 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.20%) User Experience
11 9 (10.98%) Visualisation
12 8 (9.76%) LLM
12 8 (9.76%) Project Management
12 8 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 15 (18.29%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.76%) Java
5 4 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.66%) Bash
7 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.44%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.44%) Swift
8 1 (1.22%) Bicep
8 1 (1.22%) Go
8 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.22%) LookML
Qualifications
1 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (2.44%) CISSP
3 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CCSP
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.22%) MCP
4 1 (1.22%) OSCP
4 1 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (9.76%) GDPR
3 6 (7.32%) NCSC
4 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.66%) GRC
5 3 (3.66%) NIST
6 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.44%) QA
6 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.22%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.22%) MiFID
7 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
1 20 (24.39%) Terraform
2 5 (6.10%) Ansible
2 5 (6.10%) Argo
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
3 3 (3.66%) Istio
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.44%) Puppet
4 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.22%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Adobe
2 6 (7.32%) Splunk
3 4 (4.88%) Apple
3 4 (4.88%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.88%) Optimizely
3 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.66%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.66%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.66%) Databricks
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco
5 2 (2.44%) IBM
5 2 (2.44%) New Relic
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.44%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.44%) Sage
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) Screaming Frog