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 26 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 91 91
Rank change year-on-year +36 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Google 82 37 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.01% 1.75% 1.77%
As % of the Vendors category 8.39% 4.05% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 30
10th Percentile £394 £386 £215
25th Percentile £463 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £541
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.85% -9.79%
75th Percentile £756 £699 £645
90th Percentile £819 £774 £826
London median daily rate £530 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.04% -11.04%
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 £43.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% +65.67% -39.88%

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 977 913 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.73% 43.09% 41.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 578 805
10th Percentile £340 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £451 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £662 £650 £675
90th Percentile £757 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £18.96 £16.91 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -7.78%
75th Percentile £29.77 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.92 - £51.63
London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.87% +3.33% +20.00%

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 26 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 26 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 +46 80 £550 -12.00% 44
West End of London +10 1 - - 4
City of Westminster +2 1 - - 1
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 (3.66%) 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
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%) MS Visio
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%) Azure
3 14 (17.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 12 (14.63%) AWS
5 11 (13.41%) GitHub
6 9 (10.98%) Power Platform
7 8 (9.76%) Cloud Run
7 8 (9.76%) SaaS
8 7 (8.54%) Google Gemini
9 6 (7.32%) Google Workspace
10 5 (6.10%) Firebase
11 4 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.88%) Google Analytics
11 4 (4.88%) IaaS
11 4 (4.88%) PaaS
11 4 (4.88%) Slack
11 4 (4.88%) Vertex AI
12 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.66%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) 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 11 (13.41%) BigQuery
1 11 (13.41%) Tableau
2 7 (8.54%) Power BI
3 3 (3.66%) Looker
3 3 (3.66%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.44%) Couchbase
4 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
4 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.44%) Redis
4 2 (2.44%) SQLite
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) OLAP
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Git
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 6 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.88%) GitLab
4 3 (3.66%) JUnit
4 3 (3.66%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.44%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.44%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.44%) fastlane
5 2 (2.44%) Gradle
5 2 (2.44%) Maven
5 2 (2.44%) Mockito
5 2 (2.44%) Snyk
5 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.44%) Xcode
6 1 (1.22%) Ant
6 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.22%) ERwin
6 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 23 (28.05%) Finance
1 23 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 9 (10.98%) Marketing
5 6 (7.32%) Retail
6 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.44%) Advertising
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) GCP Engineer
1 13 (15.85%) Senior
2 10 (12.20%) Developer
3 6 (7.32%) Consultant
3 6 (7.32%) Data Scientist
3 6 (7.32%) Lead
4 5 (6.10%) Analyst
4 5 (6.10%) Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
5 4 (4.88%) Administrator
5 4 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Backend Developer
6 3 (3.66%) Conversion Specialist
6 3 (3.66%) iOS Developer
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
5 4 (4.88%) REST
5 4 (4.88%) RESTful
5 4 (4.88%) Spring
6 3 (3.66%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.66%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.66%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.66%) NumPy
6 3 (3.66%) Pandas
6 3 (3.66%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.66%) Seaborn
6 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.44%) AVFoundation
7 2 (2.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.44%) LangChain
7 2 (2.44%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.88%) Life Science
3 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Animation
5 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
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%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.44%) Android
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) DevOps
2 24 (29.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (26.83%) AI
4 21 (25.61%) Analytics
5 18 (21.95%) Agile
6 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (13.41%) Actionable Insight
8 11 (13.41%) Containerisation
8 11 (13.41%) Generative AI
8 11 (13.41%) Machine Learning
8 11 (13.41%) Visualisation
9 10 (12.20%) Cloud Security
9 10 (12.20%) Migration
10 9 (10.98%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (10.98%) LLM
10 9 (10.98%) User Experience
11 7 (8.54%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.54%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) Python
2 15 (18.29%) SQL
3 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.32%) 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%) Go
8 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.22%) LookML
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
1 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.10%) Degree
3 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.22%) CCSP
5 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.22%) CISSP
5 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.22%) MCP
5 1 (1.22%) OSCP
5 1 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.54%) GDPR
3 6 (7.32%) NCSC
4 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.66%) GRC
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.44%) QA
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.22%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.22%) MiFID
6 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (17.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.73%) Terraform
3 5 (6.10%) Ansible
4 3 (3.66%) Argo
4 3 (3.66%) Istio
5 2 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.22%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Adobe
3 5 (6.10%) Splunk
4 4 (4.88%) Apple
4 4 (4.88%) Databricks
4 4 (4.88%) Hotjar
4 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.88%) Optimizely
4 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.66%) Ahrefs
5 3 (3.66%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.66%) Cognos
5 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 3 (3.66%) Sage
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle
6 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.44%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 2 (2.44%) Screaming Frog