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 16 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 107 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Google 403 340 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.80% 2.42% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 6.04% 5.52% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 189 253
10th Percentile £325 £296 £201
25th Percentile £447 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £819 £775 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 12
10th Percentile £29.59 £30.35 £15.56
25th Percentile £35.25 £34.09 £16.79
Median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +100.00% -29.33%
75th Percentile £56.50 £57.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.45 £61.20 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £46.50 £33.66
% change year-on-year -30.11% +38.15% -3.83%

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 6,672 6,154 7,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.35% 43.85% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,385 3,821 4,945
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 68 115
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.32
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.17 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -8.32% +36.00%
75th Percentile £42.55 £59.25 £53.38
90th Percentile £67.81 £80.75 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.67% -31.56% +34.88%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 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
Central London +41 83 £550 -8.33% 49
West London -2 20 £600 +53.85% 11
South London -3 2 £155 -73.04% 4
East London -9 2 £200 -66.67% 9
North London - 1 - - 4
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 19 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.73%) Apache
3 11 (2.73%) Confluence
4 8 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.49%) CMS
6 4 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.74%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.74%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) Drupal
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) Luigi
9 1 (0.25%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.99%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.74%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.74%) Trello
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Maya
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.25%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 247 (61.29%) GCP
2 112 (27.79%) Azure
3 77 (19.11%) AWS
4 76 (18.86%) GitHub
5 53 (13.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 38 (9.43%) Google Workspace
7 37 (9.18%) Power Platform
8 36 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (8.19%) Cloud Run
10 28 (6.95%) SaaS
11 26 (6.45%) Google Analytics
12 23 (5.71%) Google Gemini
13 20 (4.96%) Vertex AI
14 18 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.47%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (3.97%) Entra ID
16 15 (3.72%) IaaS
17 14 (3.47%) Cloud Functions
18 13 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
18 13 (3.23%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.45%) Firewall
2 9 (2.23%) Network Security
3 8 (1.99%) DNS
4 5 (1.24%) HTTP
5 4 (0.99%) VPN
6 3 (0.74%) Internet
6 3 (0.74%) Intranet
6 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.74%) Wireless
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Broadband
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.50%) LAN
7 2 (0.50%) SMTP
7 2 (0.50%) SSL
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) VRRP
8 1 (0.25%) SMS
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
8 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.64%) BigQuery
2 30 (7.44%) Power BI
3 22 (5.46%) Tableau
4 15 (3.72%) Mixpanel
5 13 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.98%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.48%) Looker
7 10 (2.48%) OLAP
7 10 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (2.23%) OLTP
9 8 (1.99%) Redis
10 7 (1.74%) Metadata
10 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.49%) Big Data
11 6 (1.49%) MySQL
12 5 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (13.15%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.42%) Git
3 23 (5.71%) JIRA
4 21 (5.21%) GitLab
5 11 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.74%) Gradle
8 6 (1.49%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.24%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.24%) JUnit
10 4 (0.99%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.99%) Mockito
11 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.74%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.74%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.74%) Maven
11 3 (0.74%) Xcode
12 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
General
1 113 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.85%) Finance
3 65 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.92%) Banking
5 42 (10.42%) Marketing
6 21 (5.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (4.22%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.72%) Advertising
9 14 (3.47%) Retail
10 12 (2.98%) Publishing
11 10 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.23%) Legal
13 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.24%) Electronics
14 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.99%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (12.41%) Senior
2 43 (10.67%) GCP Engineer
3 39 (9.68%) Developer
4 36 (8.93%) Architect
5 35 (8.68%) Analyst
6 29 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.20%) Data Engineer
7 25 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (5.71%) Lead
9 18 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.22%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.22%) GCP DevOps
10 17 (4.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.22%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.23%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.48%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.48%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.48%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.20%) RESTful
2 27 (6.70%) React
3 24 (5.96%) FastAPI
4 22 (5.46%) LangGraph
5 21 (5.21%) Kafka
5 21 (5.21%) LangChain
6 20 (4.96%) HTML
6 20 (4.96%) Spring
7 18 (4.47%) Node.js
7 18 (4.47%) OAuth
8 17 (4.22%) CSS
9 16 (3.97%) PyTorch
9 16 (3.97%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.72%) pytest
11 13 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.23%) Pandas
11 13 (3.23%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.23%) TensorFlow
12 11 (2.73%) OAuth2
13 10 (2.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.95%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.71%) Life Science
4 17 (4.22%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.97%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.97%) Genomics
6 10 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.48%) Social Media
7 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.49%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.21%) Android
2 17 (4.22%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.48%) Linux
3 10 (2.48%) VMS
4 9 (2.23%) Windows
5 7 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.99%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (33.00%) DevOps
2 125 (31.02%) CI/CD
3 113 (28.04%) AI
4 86 (21.34%) Agile
5 85 (21.09%) Analytics
6 79 (19.60%) Containerisation
6 79 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (17.62%) Machine Learning
8 70 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (14.14%) Migration
10 44 (10.92%) Microservices
11 42 (10.42%) Software Engineering
12 41 (10.17%) Generative AI
12 41 (10.17%) Observability
13 39 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.43%) User Experience
15 37 (9.18%) LLM
15 37 (9.18%) Test Automation
16 34 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (34.49%) Python
2 65 (16.13%) SQL
3 39 (9.68%) Java
4 38 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.71%) Bash
6 22 (5.46%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.23%) C#
10 8 (1.99%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.49%) Go
11 6 (1.49%) Ruby
12 5 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.99%) Bicep
13 4 (0.99%) R
14 3 (0.74%) C++
14 3 (0.74%) Groovy
14 3 (0.74%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.74%) Scala
14 3 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (11.17%) Degree
2 30 (7.44%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.73%) MCP
6 10 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.99%) CISSP
8 7 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (1.74%) CCSP
8 7 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.24%) OSCP
11 4 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.74%) CCNA
12 3 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.74%) GCIH
12 3 (0.74%) PhD
12 3 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.18%) GDPR
2 23 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.98%) QA
5 8 (1.99%) NIST
6 7 (1.74%) NCSC
7 6 (1.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.99%) GRC
9 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.99%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.50%) DICOM
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) HL7
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.25%) MiFID
11 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (24.32%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.24%) Squid
4 4 (0.99%) Snort
5 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (26.30%) Kubernetes
2 91 (22.58%) Terraform
3 25 (6.20%) Ansible
4 13 (3.23%) Grafana
5 12 (2.98%) Argo
5 12 (2.98%) Istio
6 9 (2.23%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.99%) Nessus
9 4 (0.99%) Nexpose
9 4 (0.99%) Puppet
9 4 (0.99%) Suricata
10 3 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.74%) SCCM
11 2 (0.50%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.50%) Knative
11 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.50%) logstash
11 2 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.46%) Databricks
3 20 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.71%) Adobe
4 19 (4.71%) Splunk
5 18 (4.47%) Apple
6 12 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.73%) Oracle
8 10 (2.48%) Cisco
9 9 (2.23%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (2.23%) Optimizely
10 8 (1.99%) Hotjar
10 8 (1.99%) Okta
10 8 (1.99%) OneTrust
10 8 (1.99%) SAP
11 7 (1.74%) Amplitude
11 7 (1.74%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.49%) IBM
12 6 (1.49%) Qualys