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 17 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
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 103 104
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Google 412 340 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.68% 2.54% 2.20%
As % of the Vendors category 5.95% 5.76% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 190 292
10th Percentile £300 £263 £210
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £743
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 16
10th Percentile £31.25 £28.43 £15.82
25th Percentile £35.25 £41.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £47.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.21% +83.65% -39.88%
75th Percentile £47.06 £60.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £55.25 £63.40 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.75 £44.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -26.88% +72.26% -25.71%

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 6,927 5,904 7,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.00% 44.11% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,557 3,650 5,046
10th Percentile £350 £313 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -0.36% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 73 145
10th Percentile £18.02 £21.50 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.78
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +32.08% +6.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £61.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £26.78
% change year-on-year -22.87% +15.35% -20.06%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 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
Central London +30 84 £538 -6.52% 59
West London -1 22 £603 +54.49% 8
East London -4 5 £525 -12.50% 6
South London -11 2 £155 -73.04% 2
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 24 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.88%) Apache
3 12 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.43%) Confluence
5 8 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.70%) CMS
7 4 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.73%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.73%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.24%) Drupal
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.18%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.97%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.73%) Trello
7 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.49%) Autodesk Smoke
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Maya
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 248 (60.19%) GCP
2 115 (27.91%) Azure
3 87 (21.12%) AWS
4 72 (17.48%) GitHub
5 64 (15.53%) Google Workspace
6 46 (11.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 42 (10.19%) Power Platform
8 41 (9.95%) Cloud Run
9 35 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.31%) Google Gemini
10 26 (6.31%) SaaS
11 24 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (5.58%) Google Analytics
13 22 (5.34%) Slack
13 22 (5.34%) Vertex AI
14 21 (5.10%) Amazon S3
15 20 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
16 18 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (4.13%) Cloud Functions
18 15 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.85%) Firewall
2 11 (2.67%) DNS
3 10 (2.43%) Network Security
4 7 (1.70%) VPN
5 3 (0.73%) DHCP
5 3 (0.73%) HTTP
5 3 (0.73%) Internet
5 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.73%) Wireless
6 2 (0.49%) BGP
6 2 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
6 2 (0.49%) LAN
6 2 (0.49%) SSL
6 2 (0.49%) VLAN
6 2 (0.49%) VoIP
6 2 (0.49%) VRRP
7 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (17.48%) BigQuery
2 33 (8.01%) Power BI
3 23 (5.58%) Tableau
4 20 (4.85%) Mixpanel
5 17 (4.13%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.88%) OLAP
7 14 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.16%) OLTP
9 12 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.43%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.18%) Looker
13 8 (1.94%) Metadata
13 8 (1.94%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.70%) Redis
15 5 (1.21%) MySQL
16 4 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
16 4 (0.97%) Big Data
16 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
16 4 (0.97%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 43 (10.44%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.19%) Git
3 24 (5.83%) JIRA
4 17 (4.13%) GitLab
5 6 (1.46%) JUnit
5 6 (1.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 4 (0.97%) Android Studio
6 4 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.97%) Gradle
6 4 (0.97%) Mockito
7 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.73%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.73%) ERwin
7 3 (0.73%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.49%) Ant
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 2 (0.49%) Snyk
8 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.49%) Xcode
General
1 122 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.39%) Finance
3 68 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.47%) Marketing
5 35 (8.50%) Banking
6 28 (6.80%) Retail
7 22 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 16 (3.88%) Advertising
10 9 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Legal
11 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Publishing
12 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Electronics
13 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (11.41%) Senior
2 43 (10.44%) Architect
3 37 (8.98%) Developer
3 37 (8.98%) GCP Engineer
4 32 (7.77%) Analyst
5 31 (7.52%) Data Engineer
5 31 (7.52%) Lead
6 27 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (5.10%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.37%) Data Scientist
8 18 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
10 13 (3.16%) GCP Architect
10 13 (3.16%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (2.91%) Senior Developer
12 11 (2.67%) Principal Data Engineer
12 11 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.43%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.80%) React
2 23 (5.58%) Kafka
2 23 (5.58%) Spring
3 22 (5.34%) LangChain
3 22 (5.34%) RESTful
4 21 (5.10%) FastAPI
5 20 (4.85%) Spring Boot
6 19 (4.61%) HTML
6 19 (4.61%) LangGraph
7 18 (4.37%) OAuth
7 18 (4.37%) PyTorch
8 16 (3.88%) CSS
8 16 (3.88%) REST
9 15 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.64%) Node.js
10 14 (3.40%) Great Expectations
11 13 (3.16%) Pandas
11 13 (3.16%) pytest
11 13 (3.16%) scikit-learn
11 13 (3.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 33 (8.01%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.61%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.37%) Life Science
5 14 (3.40%) Genomics
6 13 (3.16%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.43%) Social Media
9 9 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.70%) Digital Media
11 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.70%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.46%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.46%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.83%) Android
2 21 (5.10%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.64%) Mac OS
4 14 (3.40%) Windows
5 10 (2.43%) VMS
6 6 (1.46%) Linux
7 2 (0.49%) Unix
8 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.10%) CI/CD
1 124 (30.10%) DevOps
2 120 (29.13%) AI
3 85 (20.63%) Analytics
4 79 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (18.20%) Machine Learning
6 74 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (17.48%) Agile
8 69 (16.75%) Containerisation
9 54 (13.11%) Observability
10 51 (12.38%) Migration
11 46 (11.17%) Software Engineering
12 43 (10.44%) LLM
13 42 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (9.95%) Generative AI
15 37 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (8.98%) User Experience
16 36 (8.74%) Microservices
17 35 (8.50%) Test Automation
18 34 (8.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (33.01%) Python
2 69 (16.75%) SQL
3 38 (9.22%) Java
4 34 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.61%) Bash
5 19 (4.61%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.61%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.64%) C#
7 13 (3.16%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.94%) Go
9 6 (1.46%) Google Apps Script
9 6 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.73%) Bicep
11 3 (0.73%) Ruby
11 3 (0.73%) VBA
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (9.71%) Degree
2 39 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.46%) CISSP
8 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.97%) CCSP
8 4 (0.97%) OSCP
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.73%) PhD
9 3 (0.73%) SANS
10 2 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.68%) GDPR
2 27 (6.55%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.13%) QA
4 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.94%) NIST
7 7 (1.70%) NCSC
8 6 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.97%) GRC
11 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.49%) SLA
13 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.24%) MiFID
13 1 (0.24%) PMO
13 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (19.17%) Docker
2 14 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) Squid
4 3 (0.73%) Snort
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 90 (21.84%) Terraform
3 20 (4.85%) Ansible
4 17 (4.13%) Grafana
5 13 (3.16%) Istio
6 11 (2.67%) Argo
7 9 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.73%) Nessus
11 3 (0.73%) Nexpose
11 3 (0.73%) SCCM
11 3 (0.73%) Suricata
12 2 (0.49%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.49%) Knative
12 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.49%) logstash
12 2 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.80%) Databricks
3 18 (4.37%) Adobe
3 18 (4.37%) Apple
3 18 (4.37%) Splunk
4 15 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.67%) Oracle
6 10 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.18%) Cisco
7 9 (2.18%) Optimizely
8 8 (1.94%) Hotjar
8 8 (1.94%) IBM
8 8 (1.94%) Okta
8 8 (1.94%) OneTrust
8 8 (1.94%) SAP
8 8 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.70%) Amplitude
10 6 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.46%) HubSpot