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 11 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 88 91
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 80 38 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.04% 1.75% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 8.51% 4.03% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 29
10th Percentile £394 £386 £211
25th Percentile £472 £472 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £756 £697 £647
90th Percentile £838 £774 £826
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £39.58 - -
25th Percentile £40.06 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +123.68% -
75th Percentile £46.06 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £46.93 - -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.98% +100.00% -38.57%

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 940 942 1,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.50% 43.43% 41.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 591 799
10th Percentile £336 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £451 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £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 9 9
10th Percentile £18.87 £22.57 £16.05
25th Percentile £19.98 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.04% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £33.61 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £137.50 £54.50
London median hourly rate £26.00 £31.42 £33.25
% change year-on-year -17.26% -5.50% +33.00%

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 11 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 11 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 +40 77 £569 -9.00% 39
City of Westminster +4 2 £475 +11.76%
West End of London - 1 - - 3
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 (3.75%) CMS
2 2 (2.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Trello
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 51 (63.75%) GCP
2 14 (17.50%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 12 (15.00%) GitHub
4 10 (12.50%) AWS
5 9 (11.25%) SaaS
6 8 (10.00%) Cloud Run
7 7 (8.75%) Google Gemini
7 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
8 6 (7.50%) Google Workspace
9 5 (6.25%) Firebase
9 5 (6.25%) IaaS
9 5 (6.25%) PaaS
9 5 (6.25%) Slack
10 4 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.00%) Google Analytics
10 4 (5.00%) Vertex AI
11 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 9 (11.25%) Tableau
3 5 (6.25%) Power BI
4 3 (3.75%) Looker
4 3 (3.75%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.75%) Redis
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) SQLite
6 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.25%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Git
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) GitLab
4 3 (3.75%) Gradle
4 3 (3.75%) JUnit
4 3 (3.75%) Maven
4 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.50%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.50%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.50%) fastlane
5 2 (2.50%) Mockito
5 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 2 (2.50%) Snyk
5 2 (2.50%) Xcode
6 1 (1.25%) Ant
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) Mocha
General
1 22 (27.50%) Finance
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Marketing
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Retail
6 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.50%) Advertising
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Senior
2 13 (16.25%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Developer
4 6 (7.50%) Lead
5 5 (6.25%) Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) Data Scientist
5 5 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.75%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (3.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) HTML
2 8 (10.00%) CSS
3 7 (8.75%) React
4 5 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 5 (6.25%) RESTful
5 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.00%) REST
5 4 (5.00%) Spring
6 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.75%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.75%) Node.js
6 3 (3.75%) OAuth
6 3 (3.75%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.50%) Core Animation
7 2 (2.50%) HTML5
7 2 (2.50%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.50%) NumPy
7 2 (2.50%) RxJava
7 2 (2.50%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 10 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Life Science
2 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.50%) Animation
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.25%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) DevOps
2 26 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.00%) Agile
3 20 (25.00%) Analytics
4 18 (22.50%) AI
5 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.75%) Cloud Security
8 11 (13.75%) Machine Learning
8 11 (13.75%) Migration
9 10 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.50%) Generative AI
10 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (11.25%) User Experience
10 9 (11.25%) Visualisation
11 8 (10.00%) LLM
11 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
12 7 (8.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 15 (18.75%) SQL
3 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.75%) Java
5 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.50%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.50%) Swift
8 1 (1.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.25%) Go
8 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.25%) LookML
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (2.50%) CISSP
3 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.25%) CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.25%) MCP
4 1 (1.25%) OSCP
4 1 (1.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (10.00%) GDPR
3 6 (7.50%) NCSC
4 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.75%) GRC
4 3 (3.75%) NIST
5 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.50%) QA
5 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.25%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.25%) MiFID
6 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (21.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Argo
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Istio
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.50%) Puppet
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Adobe
2 6 (7.50%) Splunk
3 4 (5.00%) Apple
3 4 (5.00%) Hotjar
3 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.00%) Optimizely
3 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.75%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.75%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.75%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco
5 2 (2.50%) Cognos
5 2 (2.50%) New Relic
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.50%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.50%) Sage
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 2 (2.50%) Screaming Frog