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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 87 89
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 535 421 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 3.13% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 6.16% 6.71% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 241 289
10th Percentile £328 £275 £313
25th Percentile £403 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £682 £775 £777
England median daily rate £510 £495 £535
% change year-on-year +3.03% -7.48% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile £17.25 £29.59 £25.54
25th Percentile £20.75 £31.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +13.33% +56.25%
75th Percentile £43.06 £63.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £70.35 £44.57
England median hourly rate £27.54 £24.89 £70.00
% change year-on-year +10.65% -64.45% +105.88%

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 8,680 6,276 7,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.71% 46.59% 43.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,653 4,079 4,520
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 120 79
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £26.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.49% -21.94% -5.98%
75th Percentile £64.69 £37.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.34% -28.14% -20.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -15 73 £500 -13.04% 221
West London -19 11 £470 -10.48% 92
South London -3 10 £550 +15.79% 5
East London - 1 - - 13
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 27 (5.05%) Apache
2 25 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.55%) Confluence
3 19 (3.55%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.36%) CMS
5 12 (2.24%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.75%) WordPress
9 3 (0.56%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
Applications
1 16 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Shopify
2 4 (0.75%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.56%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 315 (58.88%) GCP
2 139 (25.98%) AWS
3 137 (25.61%) Azure
4 70 (13.08%) Google Workspace
5 49 (9.16%) GitHub
6 44 (8.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 39 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (5.98%) dbt
9 30 (5.61%) Entra ID
10 28 (5.23%) Google Analytics
11 27 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (4.86%) SaaS
12 26 (4.86%) Vertex AI
13 21 (3.93%) Google Drive
13 21 (3.93%) Power Platform
14 19 (3.55%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.36%) Google Gemini
15 18 (3.36%) Google Sheets
16 17 (3.18%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.67%) DNS
2 17 (3.18%) Firewall
3 16 (2.99%) VPN
4 10 (1.87%) Network Security
5 9 (1.68%) Internet
6 8 (1.50%) DKIM
6 8 (1.50%) DMARC
7 6 (1.12%) DHCP
7 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.75%) SMTP
8 4 (0.75%) VoIP
8 4 (0.75%) WAN
8 4 (0.75%) WebEx
9 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.56%) Telepresence
10 2 (0.37%) 4G
10 2 (0.37%) 5G
10 2 (0.37%) NGFW
10 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.90%) BigQuery
2 39 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.55%) Looker
5 18 (3.36%) Power BI
5 18 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.99%) Metadata
7 14 (2.62%) Big Data
8 11 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.68%) MySQL
9 9 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.68%) Tableau
10 8 (1.50%) Redis
11 7 (1.31%) Flink
11 7 (1.31%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 46 (8.60%) Git
2 41 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.36%) GitLab
4 32 (5.98%) JIRA
5 8 (1.50%) Gradle
6 7 (1.31%) JUnit
7 6 (1.12%) Maven
8 5 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.75%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
10 3 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Gatling
11 2 (0.37%) TestRail
11 2 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 145 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.63%) Finance
3 74 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.22%) Marketing
6 33 (6.17%) Banking
7 32 (5.98%) Retail
8 16 (2.99%) Advertising
9 12 (2.24%) Legal
9 12 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.06%) Publishing
11 10 (1.87%) Games
12 9 (1.68%) Military
13 8 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.31%) Law
14 7 (1.31%) Local Government
14 7 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.12%) Billing
15 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 74 (13.83%) Architect
2 63 (11.78%) GCP Engineer
3 56 (10.47%) Senior
4 48 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 42 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (7.66%) Developer
7 39 (7.29%) Analyst
8 35 (6.54%) Lead
9 19 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.18%) GCP Data Engineer
12 16 (2.99%) Security Architect
13 15 (2.80%) Administrator
13 15 (2.80%) Java Developer
13 15 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 13 (2.43%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (2.43%) GCP DevOps
16 12 (2.24%) GCP DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.24%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (19.81%) Terraform
2 44 (8.22%) REST
3 25 (4.67%) Kafka
4 21 (3.93%) RESTful
5 19 (3.55%) JSON
5 19 (3.55%) OAuth
5 19 (3.55%) React
6 18 (3.36%) LangGraph
7 17 (3.18%) Spring
8 16 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.80%) HTML
9 15 (2.80%) LangChain
10 13 (2.43%) Apache Beam
10 13 (2.43%) Node.js
11 12 (2.24%) CSS
12 11 (2.06%) GraphQL
12 11 (2.06%) JWT
12 11 (2.06%) Middleware
12 11 (2.06%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.87%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.45%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.29%) AI Agents
3 26 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.43%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.24%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.87%) Clustering
10 10 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.68%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.50%) Replication
13 7 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.31%) PKI
14 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.73%) Linux
2 35 (6.54%) Windows
3 15 (2.80%) Android
4 14 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.87%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.12%) Unix
8 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (30.84%) CI/CD
2 123 (22.99%) AI
3 121 (22.62%) Agile
4 104 (19.44%) DevOps
4 104 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (18.13%) Migration
6 93 (17.38%) Analytics
7 86 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 83 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (11.21%) Roadmaps
10 56 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (10.28%) Observability
12 54 (10.09%) Containerisation
13 53 (9.91%) Machine Learning
13 53 (9.91%) Software Engineering
14 52 (9.72%) Microservices
15 48 (8.97%) Event-Driven
16 46 (8.60%) Data Modelling
17 44 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 155 (28.97%) Python
2 113 (21.12%) SQL
3 67 (12.52%) Java
4 37 (6.92%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 27 (5.05%) Bash
7 25 (4.67%) Go
8 19 (3.55%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.99%) Scala
10 11 (2.06%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.68%) C#
12 8 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.31%) R
14 6 (1.12%) Bicep
15 5 (0.93%) Groovy
15 5 (0.93%) SOQL
16 4 (0.75%) LookML
16 4 (0.75%) PHP
17 3 (0.56%) Perl
18 2 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 103 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.53%) Degree
4 29 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.62%) CISSP
9 10 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.50%) CISM
11 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.12%) PhD
12 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.93%) PMP
13 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.10%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.79%) QA
3 16 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.80%) NIST
5 11 (2.06%) GDPR
6 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.12%) PMO
7 5 (0.93%) NCSC
8 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.56%) GRC
9 3 (0.56%) PSD2
9 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) GxP
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (13.27%) Docker
2 20 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.56%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.42%) Ansible
3 20 (3.74%) Grafana
4 19 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.50%) Puppet
8 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.75%) Argo
10 3 (0.56%) Cilium
10 3 (0.56%) Istio
10 3 (0.56%) Nagios
10 3 (0.56%) SCCM
10 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.56%) vMotion
11 2 (0.37%) WSUS
12 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 108 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.86%) OpenAI
3 24 (4.49%) Oracle
4 21 (3.93%) Adobe
5 20 (3.74%) Splunk
6 18 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.18%) Databricks
7 17 (3.18%) TikTok
8 15 (2.80%) Okta
9 14 (2.62%) Dynatrace
10 12 (2.24%) Amplitude
10 12 (2.24%) Apple
10 12 (2.24%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.87%) Cisco
11 10 (1.87%) IBM
11 10 (1.87%) SAP
12 9 (1.68%) Optimizely
12 9 (1.68%) UiPath
13 8 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.50%) Tealium