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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 97 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 442 348 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.55% 2.75% 2.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.83% 6.08% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 206 304
10th Percentile £296 £263 £252
25th Percentile £413 £400 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +0.09% -7.83%
75th Percentile £614 £674 £650
90th Percentile £759 £763 £762
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 15
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.24 £15.76
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -65.33%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.25 £29.85
90th Percentile £50.08 £66.10 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% +22.62% -34.26%

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 7,581 5,720 7,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 45.16% 40.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,751 4,960
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £769 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 143
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.84 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.35 £16.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +18.65% -4.71%
75th Percentile £45.75 £51.88 £40.29
90th Percentile £68.75 £67.88 £69.20
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -41.56%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 83 £550 +10.00% 88
West London -4 25 £603 +7.11% 8
East London 0 7 £520 -20.00% 4
South London -10 7 £637 - 1
North London - 1 £225 - 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 27 (6.11%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.75%) Apache
3 13 (2.94%) Confluence
4 12 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 11 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.36%) CMS
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.26%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.68%) Trello
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.45%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 257 (58.14%) GCP
2 117 (26.47%) Azure
3 94 (21.27%) AWS
4 82 (18.55%) Google Workspace
5 54 (12.22%) GitHub
6 46 (10.41%) Power Platform
7 37 (8.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 32 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (6.33%) Amazon S3
10 27 (6.11%) Google Analytics
11 26 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (5.66%) Cloud Run
12 25 (5.66%) Slack
12 25 (5.66%) Vertex AI
13 24 (5.43%) SaaS
14 19 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (4.30%) Google Gemini
15 18 (4.07%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.20%) DNS
2 22 (4.98%) Firewall
3 14 (3.17%) VPN
4 11 (2.49%) Network Security
5 7 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.13%) DHCP
6 5 (1.13%) DKIM
6 5 (1.13%) DMARC
7 4 (0.90%) Internet
8 3 (0.68%) BGP
8 3 (0.68%) HTTP
8 3 (0.68%) VoIP
8 3 (0.68%) Wireless
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.45%) IPv4
9 2 (0.45%) IPv6
9 2 (0.45%) LAN
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.45%) SMTP
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (15.84%) BigQuery
2 37 (8.37%) Power BI
3 26 (5.88%) Tableau
4 21 (4.75%) Data Lake
4 21 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.52%) OLAP
6 18 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.07%) Mixpanel
7 17 (3.85%) OLTP
8 12 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.26%) Metadata
10 9 (2.04%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.81%) Looker
12 7 (1.58%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.36%) Big Data
13 6 (1.36%) MySQL
13 6 (1.36%) Redis
13 6 (1.36%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.47%) Git
1 33 (7.47%) Jenkins
1 33 (7.47%) JIRA
2 15 (3.39%) GitLab
3 6 (1.36%) JUnit
4 5 (1.13%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (0.90%) Mockito
6 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.68%) ERwin
6 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.45%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) Gradle
7 2 (0.45%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Ant
8 1 (0.23%) Maven
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 124 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.65%) Finance
3 77 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.63%) Marketing
5 34 (7.69%) Banking
6 33 (7.47%) Public Sector
7 32 (7.24%) Retail
8 17 (3.85%) Advertising
9 13 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.49%) Legal
10 11 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.26%) Publishing
11 10 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.13%) Military
16 4 (0.90%) Electronics
16 4 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 57 (12.90%) GCP Engineer
2 44 (9.95%) Data Engineer
2 44 (9.95%) Lead
2 44 (9.95%) Senior
3 42 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (9.05%) Architect
5 36 (8.14%) Analyst
6 25 (5.66%) Developer
7 17 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (3.62%) Data Scientist
9 15 (3.39%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (3.39%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.17%) Consultant
10 14 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (2.94%) Administrator
12 12 (2.71%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.26%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.01%) Kafka
2 20 (4.52%) LangChain
2 20 (4.52%) React
3 18 (4.07%) Great Expectations
3 18 (4.07%) OAuth
3 18 (4.07%) REST
4 17 (3.85%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.62%) Spring
6 15 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.17%) HTML
7 14 (3.17%) Pandas
8 13 (2.94%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.94%) LangGraph
8 13 (2.94%) RESTful
8 13 (2.94%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.49%) CSS
9 11 (2.49%) Node.js
9 11 (2.49%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.26%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.26%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.71%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.49%) Life Science
8 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.81%) Social Media
9 7 (1.58%) Clustering
9 7 (1.58%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.36%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.13%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.07%) Android
2 17 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.39%) Windows
4 14 (3.17%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.26%) VMS
6 8 (1.81%) Linux
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (26.92%) AI
2 118 (26.70%) CI/CD
3 102 (23.08%) Analytics
4 95 (21.49%) DevOps
5 85 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (15.84%) Machine Learning
8 61 (13.80%) Agile
8 61 (13.80%) Observability
9 55 (12.44%) Migration
10 54 (12.22%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.09%) Data Engineering
12 46 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (10.18%) Data Governance
13 45 (10.18%) LLM
14 44 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (9.95%) Data Modelling
15 43 (9.73%) Decision-Making
16 41 (9.28%) Containerisation
17 40 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (30.54%) Python
2 84 (19.00%) SQL
3 39 (8.82%) Java
4 30 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.98%) C#
6 17 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.94%) Bash
7 13 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.49%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.81%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (1.58%) Go
11 5 (1.13%) Scala
12 4 (0.90%) Ruby
13 3 (0.68%) LookML
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
13 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 2 (0.45%) C++
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 56 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.73%) Degree
4 17 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.13%) CISSP
9 4 (0.90%) CCSP
9 4 (0.90%) OSCP
9 4 (0.90%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.68%) CCNP
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.68%) PhD
10 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.73%) GDPR
2 36 (8.14%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.30%) QA
4 11 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.26%) NIST
6 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.13%) NCSC
9 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.68%) GRC
10 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.45%) WCAG
12 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.23%) PERC
12 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (10.86%) Docker
2 19 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) Snort
4 1 (0.23%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 101 (22.85%) Terraform
2 72 (16.29%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.62%) Ansible
4 15 (3.39%) Grafana
5 12 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.49%) Istio
7 8 (1.81%) Argo
7 8 (1.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (1.58%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.68%) SCCM
11 2 (0.45%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.45%) Knative
11 2 (0.45%) logstash
11 2 (0.45%) QRadar
12 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.23%) Suricata
12 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.33%) Databricks
3 20 (4.52%) Adobe
4 19 (4.30%) Apple
5 16 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.39%) Oracle
7 12 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.71%) Splunk
8 7 (1.58%) IBM
9 6 (1.36%) Okta
9 6 (1.36%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.13%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.13%) Facebook
10 5 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.13%) Tealium
11 4 (0.90%) Cisco