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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Google 78 66 58
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.13% 3.39% 2.52%
As % of the Vendors category 7.03% 7.07% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 48 38
10th Percentile £313 £370 £348
25th Percentile £422 £461 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% -4.26%
75th Percentile £622 £660 £688
90th Percentile £639 £800 £768
London median daily rate £505 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +1.00% -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% +118.42%
75th Percentile £32.21 £76.08 £42.25
90th Percentile £37.63 £90.43 -
London median hourly rate £34.23 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.72% +7.14% +62.79%

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 1,110 933 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 44.56% 47.92% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 627 655
10th Percentile £313 £313 £340
25th Percentile £437 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.33 £16.50
25th Percentile £19.44 £23.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.07 £31.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.62% +16.94% +30.12%
75th Percentile £41.69 £58.50 £92.50
90th Percentile £64.38 £64.66 £137.50
London median hourly rate £37.50 £26.30 £30.80
% change year-on-year +42.59% -14.60% -17.88%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -15 73 £533 +1.43% 93
City of Westminster -1 10 £425 -24.44% 104
West End of London -7 5 £375 - 12
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) WordPress
3 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (2.56%) CMS
3 2 (2.56%) Drupal
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.28%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) iTrent
1 2 (2.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (70.51%) GCP
2 19 (24.36%) AWS
3 17 (21.79%) Azure
4 12 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (10.26%) Google Workspace
6 7 (8.97%) Google Sheets
7 6 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.41%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (6.41%) dbt
8 5 (6.41%) GitHub
8 5 (6.41%) Google App Engine
8 5 (6.41%) Google Compute Engine
8 5 (6.41%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (3.85%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.85%) Google Docs
9 3 (3.85%) Google Drive
9 3 (3.85%) IaaS
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.26%) DNS
1 8 (10.26%) Firewall
2 6 (7.69%) VPN
3 5 (6.41%) Internet
4 3 (3.85%) DHCP
4 3 (3.85%) Network Security
4 3 (3.85%) SMTP
5 1 (1.28%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.28%) RTCP
5 1 (1.28%) RTP
5 1 (1.28%) VoIP
5 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 6 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.13%) Big Data
2 4 (5.13%) Looker
3 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.56%) Power BI
4 2 (2.56%) Tableau
5 1 (1.28%) Chroma
5 1 (1.28%) Metadata
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.28%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) GitLab
3 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) Git
5 1 (1.28%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.28%) Gatling
5 1 (1.28%) JMeter
5 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.28%) NeoLoad
General
1 17 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.38%) Finance
3 11 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (6.41%) Marketing
6 5 (6.41%) Retail
7 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Front Office
9 2 (2.56%) Legal
9 2 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.28%) Advertising
10 1 (1.28%) Automotive
10 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.28%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (16.67%) Architect
2 13 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Applications Support
5 5 (6.41%) Applications Support Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Senior
6 4 (5.13%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.51%) Terraform
2 4 (5.13%) REST
3 3 (3.85%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.85%) OAuth
3 3 (3.85%) React
3 3 (3.85%) SOAP
4 2 (2.56%) .NET
4 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.56%) JSON
4 2 (2.56%) JWT
4 2 (2.56%) Kafka
4 2 (2.56%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.56%) Middleware
4 2 (2.56%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.56%) RESTful
4 2 (2.56%) SAML
4 2 (2.56%) Spring
4 2 (2.56%) XML
4 2 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.97%) AI Agents
3 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 5 (6.41%) Clustering
5 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.85%) PKI
5 3 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.56%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.56%) Genomics
6 2 (2.56%) Life Science
6 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) BYOD
7 1 (1.28%) CMDB
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
1 6 (7.69%) Windows
2 5 (6.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) SUSE
3 1 (1.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 23 (29.49%) AI
3 17 (21.79%) Migration
4 16 (20.51%) Analytics
4 16 (20.51%) DevOps
5 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (16.67%) Agile
6 13 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.10%) Machine Learning
8 11 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.82%) Observability
10 9 (11.54%) Microservices
10 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.26%) Cloud Operations
11 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
12 7 (8.97%) Cloud Security
12 7 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (8.97%) Runbook
12 7 (8.97%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) SQL
2 10 (12.82%) Python
3 6 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.41%) Java
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.85%) LookML
5 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.56%) Bash
6 2 (2.56%) Korn
7 1 (1.28%) C#
7 1 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 21 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.28%) PMP
7 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.28%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.85%) NIST
4 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.56%) NCSC
4 2 (2.56%) PMO
4 2 (2.56%) PSD2
5 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.28%) GRC
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.28%) SEPA
5 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.85%) BitLocker
3 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.85%) Terminal Services
3 3 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 21 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) Ansible
3 3 (3.85%) Nagios
3 3 (3.85%) Puppet
3 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.85%) vMotion
4 2 (2.56%) Grafana
4 2 (2.56%) Istio
4 2 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.13%) SAP
3 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.13%) VMware
4 3 (3.85%) Adobe
4 3 (3.85%) Apple
4 3 (3.85%) Citrix
4 3 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.85%) HP
4 3 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.85%) Symantec
5 2 (2.56%) IBM
5 2 (2.56%) TikTok
5 2 (2.56%) Workday
6 1 (1.28%) FIS
6 1 (1.28%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.28%) UiPath
6 1 (1.28%) WooCommerce
200 Google jobs in Central London