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 3 months leading up to 8 April 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.

3 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 63 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Google 40 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.16% 2.24% 2.18%
As % of the Vendors category 7.65% 4.91% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 20
10th Percentile £269 £315 £207
25th Percentile £433 £406 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +2.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £591
90th Percentile £775 £696 £875
London median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.92% +89.42% -65.33%

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 523 468 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.38% 45.57% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 286 410
10th Percentile £400 £335 £278
25th Percentile £448 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% - -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £18.37 £28.28 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £29.07 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.83 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +143.15% -46.00%
75th Percentile £25.77 £72.81 £14.25
90th Percentile £33.38 £126.25 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £21.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +38.43% -16.00%

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 3 months to 8 April 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 3 months to 8 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 39 £550 +10.00% 86
West End of London 0 1 £210 -50.59%
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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) CMS
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Trello
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 56 (63.64%) GCP
2 16 (18.18%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) AWS
3 14 (15.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.23%) Google Workspace
6 6 (6.82%) GitHub
7 5 (5.68%) Google Analytics
7 5 (5.68%) Google Gemini
7 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (5.68%) SaaS
7 5 (5.68%) Slack
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (4.55%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.41%) Anthos
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.41%) Cloud Run
9 3 (3.41%) IBM Watson
9 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) Tableau
2 9 (10.23%) BigQuery
3 7 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (7.95%) Power BI
4 3 (3.41%) MySQL
4 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.27%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.14%) Looker
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) OLAP
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) JIRA
2 7 (7.95%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.41%) GitLab
4 3 (3.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.27%) Mockito
6 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.14%) CocoaPods
6 1 (1.14%) Crashlytics
6 1 (1.14%) ERwin
6 1 (1.14%) fastlane
6 1 (1.14%) Xcode
General
1 21 (23.86%) Finance
2 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.50%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Retail
6 7 (7.95%) Marketing
7 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.41%) Advertising
8 3 (3.41%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) German Language
10 1 (1.14%) Military
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (20.45%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (11.36%) Architect
2 10 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (11.36%) Senior
3 8 (9.09%) Developer
4 6 (6.82%) Data Scientist
4 6 (6.82%) Lead
5 5 (5.68%) Analyst
5 5 (5.68%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (5.68%) Consultant
5 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Administrator
6 4 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 4 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (3.41%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.41%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) HTML
2 4 (4.55%) CSS
2 4 (4.55%) React
3 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.41%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.41%) Kafka
3 3 (3.41%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.41%) NumPy
3 3 (3.41%) Pandas
3 3 (3.41%) RESTful
3 3 (3.41%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.41%) Seaborn
3 3 (3.41%) Spring
4 2 (2.27%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (2.27%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (2.27%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.27%) PySpark
4 2 (2.27%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.41%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) Life Science
5 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.27%) Social Media
7 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.14%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Android
1 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) AI
2 26 (29.55%) Analytics
3 24 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 23 (26.14%) DevOps
5 18 (20.45%) Agile
6 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (12.50%) Data Science
8 11 (12.50%) Generative AI
9 10 (11.36%) Cloud Security
10 9 (10.23%) Decision-Making
11 8 (9.09%) Migration
11 8 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (7.95%) ETL
12 7 (7.95%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) Python
2 17 (19.32%) SQL
3 7 (7.95%) Java
4 3 (3.41%) Bash
4 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.14%) Elixir
6 1 (1.14%) Go
6 1 (1.14%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.14%) Ruby
6 1 (1.14%) Swift
6 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.27%) CISSP
5 2 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.27%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) CCSP
6 1 (1.14%) CISM
6 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) CRISC
6 1 (1.14%) OSCP
6 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) NCSC
2 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.55%) GRC
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.55%) NIST
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (10.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.32%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 2 (2.27%) Argo
4 2 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.55%) Adobe
2 4 (4.55%) Apple
2 4 (4.55%) IBM
2 4 (4.55%) Splunk
3 3 (3.41%) Cognos
3 3 (3.41%) Sage
4 2 (2.27%) Ahrefs
4 2 (2.27%) Informatica
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.14%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.14%) iManage
5 1 (1.14%) Meraki
5 1 (1.14%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.14%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow