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 19 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 91 96
Rank change year-on-year +41 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Google 83 38 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.13% 1.79% 1.76%
As % of the Vendors category 8.64% 4.17% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 24 29
10th Percentile £401 £386 £211
25th Percentile £469 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -7.95%
75th Percentile £744 £699 £647
90th Percentile £808 £774 £826
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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% -63.11%
75th Percentile £46.06 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £46.93 - -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -5.81% +79.17% -31.43%

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 961 912 1,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.79% 42.88% 41.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 574 783
10th Percentile £341 £313 £312
25th Percentile £420 £455 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £669 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% -1.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 9
10th Percentile £18.96 £18.32 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.08 £29.36 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £29.77 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.92 £124.75 £54.50
London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.35 £32.00
% change year-on-year -17.79% -2.05% +28.00%

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 19 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 19 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 +38 80 £550 -12.00% 54
City of Westminster +2 2 £475 +11.76%
West End of London +9 1 - - 5
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 (3.61%) CMS
2 2 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Trello
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.20%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 54 (65.06%) GCP
2 15 (18.07%) Azure
3 14 (16.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (14.46%) GitHub
5 11 (13.25%) AWS
6 8 (9.64%) Cloud Run
6 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.64%) SaaS
7 7 (8.43%) Google Gemini
8 6 (7.23%) Google Workspace
9 5 (6.02%) Firebase
9 5 (6.02%) Slack
10 4 (4.82%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.82%) Google Analytics
10 4 (4.82%) IaaS
10 4 (4.82%) PaaS
10 4 (4.82%) Vertex AI
11 3 (3.61%) Figma
11 3 (3.61%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) DNS
2 2 (2.41%) Internet
3 1 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) HTTP
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.25%) BigQuery
2 10 (12.05%) Tableau
3 6 (7.23%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) Looker
4 3 (3.61%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Redis
5 2 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.41%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.41%) SQLite
6 1 (1.20%) Big Data
6 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Gradle
4 3 (3.61%) JUnit
4 3 (3.61%) Maven
4 3 (3.61%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.41%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.41%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.41%) fastlane
5 2 (2.41%) Mockito
5 2 (2.41%) Selenium
5 2 (2.41%) Snyk
5 2 (2.41%) Xcode
6 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.20%) ERwin
6 1 (1.20%) Mocha
General
1 22 (26.51%) Finance
1 22 (26.51%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.05%) Banking
4 9 (10.84%) Marketing
5 6 (7.23%) Retail
6 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.41%) Advertising
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) GCP Engineer
1 13 (15.66%) Senior
2 10 (12.05%) Developer
3 6 (7.23%) Consultant
3 6 (7.23%) Lead
4 5 (6.02%) Analyst
4 5 (6.02%) Architect
4 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (6.02%) Data Scientist
4 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
5 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) GCP DevOps
5 4 (4.82%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.61%) Backend Developer
6 3 (3.61%) Conversion Specialist
6 3 (3.61%) GCP Architect
6 3 (3.61%) iOS Developer
6 3 (3.61%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) HTML
2 8 (9.64%) CSS
3 7 (8.43%) React
4 5 (6.02%) FastAPI
4 5 (6.02%) RESTful
5 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.82%) REST
5 4 (4.82%) Spring
6 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.61%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.61%) Node.js
6 3 (3.61%) OAuth
6 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.61%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.41%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (2.41%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.41%) JWT
7 2 (2.41%) LangChain
7 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.41%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
1 10 (12.05%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.82%) Life Science
2 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.41%) Animation
4 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.20%) IVR
5 1 (1.20%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.20%) Social Media
5 1 (1.20%) Video Editing
5 1 (1.20%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.41%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) DevOps
2 25 (30.12%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.10%) Agile
3 20 (24.10%) Analytics
4 19 (22.89%) AI
5 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.66%) Containerisation
7 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (14.46%) Migration
8 11 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.05%) Cloud Security
9 10 (12.05%) Generative AI
9 10 (12.05%) Machine Learning
9 10 (12.05%) Visualisation
10 9 (10.84%) User Experience
11 8 (9.64%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (9.64%) LLM
11 8 (9.64%) Roadmaps
11 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (8.43%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.30%) Python
2 15 (18.07%) SQL
3 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.43%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.61%) Bash
7 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.41%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.41%) Swift
8 1 (1.20%) Go
8 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.20%) LookML
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.02%) Degree
3 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) MCP
4 1 (1.20%) OSCP
4 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.43%) GDPR
3 6 (7.23%) NCSC
4 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.61%) GRC
4 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 2 (2.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.41%) QA
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.20%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.20%) MiFID
6 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (19.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (21.69%) Terraform
3 6 (7.23%) Ansible
4 4 (4.82%) Argo
5 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (3.61%) Istio
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.41%) Puppet
6 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.20%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Adobe
2 6 (7.23%) Splunk
3 4 (4.82%) Apple
3 4 (4.82%) Databricks
3 4 (4.82%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.82%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.82%) Optimizely
3 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.61%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.61%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco
5 2 (2.41%) Cognos
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) New Relic
5 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.41%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) Screaming Frog