Google Contract Job Trends in East London

Google
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 4 February 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 12 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 -1
Contract jobs citing Google 5 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in East London 5.00% 8.85% 2.55%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 16.39% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £550 -
25th Percentile £190 £569 £108
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £120
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +441.67% -80.65%
75th Percentile £540 - £373
90th Percentile £543 £663 £550
London median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -12.50%

All Vendors
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 61 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 55.00% 53.98% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 48 104
10th Percentile £286 £353 £400
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -7.87% +27.06%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £631
90th Percentile £860 £675 £714
London median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.58% -1.00% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £25.05 -
25th Percentile - £25.65 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.63 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +122.85% -46.85%
75th Percentile - £27.62 £13.62
90th Percentile - £28.21 £15.52
London median hourly rate £25.77 £34.25 £26.25
% change year-on-year -24.76% +30.48% +5.00%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Google job vacancy trend in East London

Google
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in East London over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in East London

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Tower Hamlets -6 3 £540 -16.92%
Google
London

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Functions
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Run
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) Compliance Audit
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Key Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Apple
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow