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 18 November 2025, 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 96 107
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Google 435 389 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.11% 2.51% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 6.72% 5.73% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 219 323
10th Percentile £325 £300 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.95% -2.45%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 9
10th Percentile £29.76 £32.23 -
25th Percentile £32.25 £38.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +56.36% -12.70%
75th Percentile £60.81 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.60 £61.28 £39.00
England median hourly rate £26.86 £62.50 £32.66
% change year-on-year -57.03% +91.37% -6.69%

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 6,477 6,790 8,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.35% 43.79% 41.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,183 4,261 5,758
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £766
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 65 117
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -7.41% +58.82%
75th Percentile £38.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.30 £97.00 £84.45
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -22.22% +74.55%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +20 75 £600 +4.35% 228
West London -8 12 £538 +34.38% 14
South London -6 2 £275 -52.17% 4
North London - 1 - - 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 16 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.99%) Confluence
4 11 (2.53%) Apache
5 7 (1.61%) CMS
5 7 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.69%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.69%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.46%) SAS
8 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.46%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.69%) Sketch
6 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Maya
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 265 (60.92%) GCP
2 106 (24.37%) Azure
3 84 (19.31%) AWS
4 65 (14.94%) GitHub
5 55 (12.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 37 (8.51%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.82%) SaaS
8 32 (7.36%) Google Analytics
9 30 (6.90%) Cloud Run
9 30 (6.90%) Power Platform
10 26 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (3.91%) Vertex AI
13 16 (3.68%) Cloud Functions
14 15 (3.45%) Google Gemini
14 15 (3.45%) Google Sheets
14 15 (3.45%) IaaS
15 14 (3.22%) Entra ID
15 14 (3.22%) Google Play
15 14 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.83%) Firewall
2 18 (4.14%) DNS
3 9 (2.07%) HTTP
4 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.61%) VPN
5 6 (1.38%) Network Security
6 3 (0.69%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.69%) Intranet
6 3 (0.69%) SMTP
6 3 (0.69%) SSL
6 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.46%) BGP
7 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.46%) DKIM
7 2 (0.46%) DMARC
7 2 (0.46%) LAN
7 2 (0.46%) VLAN
7 2 (0.46%) VoIP
7 2 (0.46%) VRRP
8 1 (0.23%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.17%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.52%) Power BI
3 22 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.37%) Tableau
5 17 (3.91%) Big Data
6 14 (3.22%) Looker
7 11 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.07%) Metadata
10 8 (1.84%) Mixpanel
10 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.38%) MySQL
13 5 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.92%) Redis
14 4 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (10.57%) Jenkins
2 44 (10.11%) Git
3 22 (5.06%) JIRA
4 19 (4.37%) GitLab
5 13 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.07%) Gradle
7 8 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.38%) Maven
9 6 (1.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.15%) Selenium
11 4 (0.92%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.92%) JUnit
11 4 (0.92%) webpack
12 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.69%) Mockito
12 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.69%) Xcode
General
1 128 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.14%) Finance
3 63 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.26%) Banking
5 47 (10.80%) Marketing
6 20 (4.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.91%) Advertising
7 17 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.45%) Retail
9 13 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.99%) Legal
10 9 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.84%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Publishing
14 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (11.95%) Architect
2 49 (11.26%) Senior
3 45 (10.34%) GCP Engineer
4 42 (9.66%) Developer
5 41 (9.43%) Analyst
6 28 (6.44%) Lead
7 25 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.14%) GCP DevOps
10 18 (4.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 17 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (3.91%) Security Engineer
12 15 (3.45%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.22%) Data Scientist
13 14 (3.22%) GCP Architect
14 13 (2.99%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.30%) Java Developer
15 10 (2.30%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.05%) RESTful
2 29 (6.67%) React
3 22 (5.06%) FastAPI
4 21 (4.83%) HTML
5 20 (4.60%) Kafka
5 20 (4.60%) Node.js
6 19 (4.37%) CSS
7 18 (4.14%) LangGraph
8 17 (3.91%) Spring
9 16 (3.68%) pytest
10 15 (3.45%) OAuth
11 13 (2.99%) React Native
11 13 (2.99%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.76%) LangChain
12 12 (2.76%) TensorFlow
13 11 (2.53%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.53%) REST
14 10 (2.30%) Next.js
14 10 (2.30%) Redux
14 10 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.52%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.14%) Life Science
5 16 (3.68%) Genomics
6 15 (3.45%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.53%) Social Media
9 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.61%) NHS
13 6 (1.38%) Digital Media
13 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.29%) Android
2 18 (4.14%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.22%) Linux
4 11 (2.53%) Windows
5 8 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (30.80%) DevOps
2 125 (28.74%) CI/CD
3 107 (24.60%) Agile
4 92 (21.15%) Analytics
5 91 (20.92%) AI
6 80 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (17.70%) Containerisation
8 64 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 64 (14.71%) Machine Learning
9 56 (12.87%) Migration
10 44 (10.11%) User Experience
11 42 (9.66%) Test Automation
12 40 (9.20%) Data Modelling
13 39 (8.97%) Microservices
14 35 (8.05%) Cloud Security
14 35 (8.05%) Data Governance
14 35 (8.05%) ETL
14 35 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (7.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (31.72%) Python
2 76 (17.47%) SQL
3 49 (11.26%) Java
4 41 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.44%) Bash
6 27 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.30%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.84%) Go
11 6 (1.38%) Bicep
11 6 (1.38%) R
11 6 (1.38%) Ruby
12 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.92%) C#
13 4 (0.92%) Scala
13 4 (0.92%) Swift
14 3 (0.69%) Groovy
14 3 (0.69%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (10.80%) Degree
2 24 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.30%) CISSP
6 8 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.61%) MCP
8 6 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.38%) CCSP
9 5 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.92%) CCNA
10 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.92%) GCIH
10 4 (0.92%) OSCP
11 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.69%) CEH
11 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.82%) GDPR
2 24 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 22 (5.06%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.76%) QA
6 8 (1.84%) NIST
7 7 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.38%) NCSC
8 6 (1.38%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.15%) WCAG
10 3 (0.69%) GRC
10 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.69%) HL7
11 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.46%) DICOM
11 2 (0.46%) PMO
11 2 (0.46%) Section 508
11 2 (0.46%) SLA
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 94 (21.61%) Docker
2 12 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.15%) Squid
4 4 (0.92%) Snort
4 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 90 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 80 (18.39%) Terraform
3 15 (3.45%) Ansible
4 13 (2.99%) Argo
5 12 (2.76%) Grafana
6 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.61%) Istio
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.15%) Puppet
9 4 (0.92%) Nessus
9 4 (0.92%) Nexpose
9 4 (0.92%) Suricata
10 3 (0.69%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.69%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.69%) SCCM
10 3 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.46%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.46%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.60%) Splunk
3 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.45%) Adobe
5 14 (3.22%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.99%) Oracle
7 12 (2.76%) Databricks
8 11 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (2.53%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.30%) Apple
10 9 (2.07%) Amplitude
10 9 (2.07%) Cisco
10 9 (2.07%) Okta
10 9 (2.07%) Optimizely
10 9 (2.07%) SAP
11 8 (1.84%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.84%) OneTrust
12 7 (1.61%) Hotjar
12 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.61%) Qualys