Google Contract Job Trends in London

Google
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 92 90
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 451 356 474
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.42% 2.91% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 5.85% 6.40% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 211 343
10th Percentile £300 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £675
90th Percentile £684 £738 £774
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 17
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.09 £15.88
25th Percentile £31.68 £30.92 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £47.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +83.65% -62.86%
75th Percentile £36.05 £52.25 £31.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £70.38 £43.00
England median hourly rate £34.87 £27.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +26.78% -16.67% -16.56%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,704 5,561 7,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.35% 45.42% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,065 3,594 5,002
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 103 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.39 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -11.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £23.80
% change year-on-year +19.82% +13.97% -39.82%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Google job vacancy trend in London

Google
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in London over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in London

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in London over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in London

Google
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Central London +9 68 £508 +2.01% 62
West London -14 13 £603 -3.60% 4
South London -6 8 £575 -14.81% 2
East London +1 7 £520 -20.00% 8
North London - 1 £225 - 1
Google
England

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 25 (5.54%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.43%) Apache
3 19 (4.21%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.44%) Confluence
4 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Drupal
7 2 (0.44%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.22%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.89%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.44%) Maya
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 260 (57.65%) GCP
2 105 (23.28%) AWS
3 104 (23.06%) Azure
4 96 (21.29%) Google Workspace
5 43 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (8.65%) GitHub
7 37 (8.20%) Power Platform
8 35 (7.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 30 (6.65%) Slack
10 26 (5.76%) Cloud Run
11 25 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (5.54%) SaaS
12 24 (5.32%) Amazon S3
13 23 (5.10%) Google Drive
14 21 (4.66%) Vertex AI
15 19 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (3.99%) Entra ID
16 18 (3.99%) Google Ads
16 18 (3.99%) Google Analytics
17 16 (3.55%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.99%) DNS
2 26 (5.76%) Firewall
3 19 (4.21%) VPN
4 13 (2.88%) Network Security
5 8 (1.77%) DKIM
5 8 (1.77%) DMARC
5 8 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.55%) Internet
7 6 (1.33%) DHCP
8 4 (0.89%) VoIP
9 3 (0.67%) SMTP
9 3 (0.67%) VLAN
9 3 (0.67%) Wireless
10 2 (0.44%) BGP
10 2 (0.44%) HTTP
10 2 (0.44%) IPv4
10 2 (0.44%) IPv6
10 2 (0.44%) NGFW
10 2 (0.44%) OSPF
11 1 (0.22%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (13.97%) BigQuery
2 32 (7.10%) Power BI
3 26 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.10%) Tableau
5 17 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.33%) OLAP
7 13 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (2.88%) Mixpanel
7 13 (2.88%) OLTP
7 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.00%) Looker
8 9 (2.00%) Metadata
9 8 (1.77%) Big Data
10 7 (1.55%) Redis
10 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.33%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.33%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.11%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.11%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (6.87%) JIRA
2 27 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.21%) Git
4 18 (3.99%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) ERwin
6 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.44%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.22%) Ant
7 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.22%) Gradle
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.22%) Maven
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 125 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.51%) Finance
3 62 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (9.76%) Marketing
5 42 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.54%) Retail
7 32 (7.10%) Banking
8 17 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.66%) Advertising
10 11 (2.44%) Publishing
11 10 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.00%) Legal
12 9 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.55%) Military
14 7 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.11%) Billing
15 5 (1.11%) Games
15 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (13.53%) GCP Engineer
2 48 (10.64%) Architect
3 47 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 44 (9.76%) Lead
5 43 (9.53%) Senior
6 32 (7.10%) Analyst
7 20 (4.43%) Developer
8 15 (3.33%) Administrator
8 15 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (2.88%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (2.88%) Software Engineer
10 12 (2.66%) Consultant
10 12 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (2.44%) Principal Data Engineer
11 11 (2.44%) Security Engineer
11 11 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.76%) Kafka
2 21 (4.66%) OAuth
2 21 (4.66%) React
3 20 (4.43%) REST
4 14 (3.10%) Spring
4 14 (3.10%) Spring Boot
5 13 (2.88%) Great Expectations
5 13 (2.88%) Node.js
5 13 (2.88%) SAML
6 11 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.44%) LangChain
7 9 (2.00%) .NET
8 8 (1.77%) LangGraph
8 8 (1.77%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.55%) Apache Beam
9 7 (1.55%) OAuth2
9 7 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.33%) HTML
10 6 (1.33%) Next.js
10 6 (1.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 65 (14.41%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.21%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.77%) Clustering
10 7 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.55%) Social Media
11 6 (1.33%) Life Science
12 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.11%) Derivative
12 5 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.88%) Windows
2 16 (3.55%) Android
2 16 (3.55%) Linux
3 13 (2.88%) Apple iOS
3 13 (2.88%) Mac OS
4 10 (2.22%) VMS
5 8 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.89%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (25.72%) CI/CD
2 101 (22.39%) AI
3 90 (19.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (18.85%) Analytics
4 85 (18.85%) DevOps
5 73 (16.19%) Migration
6 66 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (12.42%) Agile
8 53 (11.75%) Observability
9 48 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 46 (10.20%) Decision-Making
11 46 (10.20%) Machine Learning
12 45 (9.98%) Data Modelling
13 42 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (9.09%) Data Engineering
15 40 (8.87%) Data Governance
16 39 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
18 34 (7.54%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 119 (26.39%) Python
2 83 (18.40%) SQL
3 41 (9.09%) Java
4 21 (4.66%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.21%) C#
5 19 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.22%) Go
8 8 (1.77%) Bash
8 8 (1.77%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.55%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (1.33%) Scala
11 4 (0.89%) Bicep
11 4 (0.89%) Ruby
12 3 (0.67%) Korn
12 3 (0.67%) LookML
12 3 (0.67%) Rust
13 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.44%) R
13 2 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 72 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.43%) Degree
4 16 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.77%) CISSP
9 7 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.89%) CISM
11 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.89%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.67%) CCSP
12 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.44%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.44%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.21%) GDPR
3 19 (4.21%) QA
4 13 (2.88%) NIST
5 7 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.55%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.89%) NCSC
8 3 (0.67%) GRC
8 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.44%) WCAG
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.22%) PMO
10 1 (0.22%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (7.98%) Docker
2 21 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.67%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 104 (23.06%) Terraform
2 66 (14.63%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.21%) Ansible
4 13 (2.88%) Grafana
4 13 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.00%) Istio
6 8 (1.77%) Argo
6 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.33%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.89%) SCCM
10 3 (0.67%) Puppet
10 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.67%) vMotion
11 2 (0.44%) Nagios
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.44%) WSUS
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 76 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.88%) Apple
3 20 (4.43%) Databricks
4 17 (3.77%) Oracle
4 17 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.66%) Adobe
6 12 (2.66%) Okta
7 11 (2.44%) Splunk
8 9 (2.00%) TikTok
9 8 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.77%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.55%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.33%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.33%) Citrix
12 5 (1.11%) Cisco
12 5 (1.11%) SAP
13 4 (0.89%) Facebook
13 4 (0.89%) Qualys
13 4 (0.89%) VMware