Google Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Google
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of 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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 7.25% 5.77% 4.69%
As % of the Vendors category 21.74% 11.11% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £241 - -
25th Percentile £287 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £450 £438 £550
90th Percentile £473 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £50.72 £40.75
Median hourly rate - £51.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.95% -
75th Percentile - £52.16 £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £51.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year -54.98% +23.95% +29.69%

All Vendors
West End of 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 33.33% 51.92% 51.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 18
10th Percentile £224 £198 £266
25th Percentile £389 £281 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -12.62% +4.04%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £538
90th Percentile £694 £800 £551
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £549
% change year-on-year -2.82% +0.27% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £50.72 £40.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.44 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.80% +23.95% -
75th Percentile £82.50 £52.16 £42.25
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £21.75 £32.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -33.74% +21.57% +8.00%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Google job vacancy trend in West End of London

Google
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in West End of London over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in West End of London

Google
Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Westminster -6 4 £425 - 1
Google
Central London

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Google App Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft