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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 102 89
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Google 444 339 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.50% 2.70% 2.50%
As % of the Vendors category 5.84% 5.95% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 207 324
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -7.83%
75th Percentile £613 £666 £658
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 16
10th Percentile £26.75 £26.85 £15.82
25th Percentile £33.13 £33.56 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -67.50%
75th Percentile £39.25 £55.63 £28.90
90th Percentile £49.58 £67.53 £37.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -43.17%

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 7,603 5,699 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.89% 45.43% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 3,740 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -2.67%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 92 138
10th Percentile £18.35 £15.91 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.26 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +20.88% -21.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.20 £36.56
90th Percentile £69.63 £67.25 £64.13
England median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +23 78 £525 +2.44% 51
West London +1 23 £603 +7.11% 6
East London -1 7 £520 -20.00% 5
South London -12 7 £606 -10.22% 2
North London - 1 £225 - 1
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 25 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.28%) Apache
3 16 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.70%) Confluence
5 11 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.45%) Drupal
9 2 (0.45%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.25%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.35%) 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 (1.35%) 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
1 255 (57.43%) GCP
2 116 (26.13%) Azure
3 95 (21.40%) AWS
4 88 (19.82%) Google Workspace
5 51 (11.49%) GitHub
6 44 (9.91%) Power Platform
7 35 (7.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 35 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (5.86%) Amazon S3
8 26 (5.86%) Slack
9 25 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.63%) Google Analytics
10 24 (5.41%) Cloud Run
10 24 (5.41%) SaaS
10 24 (5.41%) Vertex AI
11 23 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (4.05%) Google Ads
12 18 (4.05%) Google Gemini
12 18 (4.05%) Google Sheets
13 17 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.41%) DNS
2 21 (4.73%) Firewall
3 13 (2.93%) VPN
4 10 (2.25%) Network Security
5 7 (1.58%) DKIM
5 7 (1.58%) DMARC
6 6 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.90%) DHCP
7 4 (0.90%) Internet
8 3 (0.68%) VoIP
8 3 (0.68%) Wireless
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.45%) IPv4
9 2 (0.45%) IPv6
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) Broadband
10 1 (0.23%) SMTP
10 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (15.77%) BigQuery
2 35 (7.88%) Power BI
3 27 (6.08%) Tableau
4 22 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.28%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.05%) OLAP
7 16 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.60%) Mixpanel
8 15 (3.38%) OLTP
9 12 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.25%) Metadata
11 9 (2.03%) Looker
11 9 (2.03%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.58%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.35%) Big Data
13 6 (1.35%) MySQL
13 6 (1.35%) Redis
13 6 (1.35%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (6.98%) Git
1 31 (6.98%) JIRA
2 30 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.60%) GitLab
4 5 (1.13%) Charles Proxy
4 5 (1.13%) JUnit
5 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.68%) ERwin
5 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.68%) Mockito
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.45%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Ant
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 127 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.34%) Finance
3 75 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.81%) Marketing
5 35 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.43%) Banking
7 30 (6.76%) Retail
8 15 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.15%) Advertising
10 11 (2.48%) Legal
11 10 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.25%) Publishing
11 10 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.13%) Military
16 4 (0.90%) Electronics
16 4 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 55 (12.39%) GCP Engineer
2 44 (9.91%) Data Engineer
3 43 (9.68%) Lead
3 43 (9.68%) Senior
4 42 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (9.23%) Architect
6 35 (7.88%) Analyst
7 21 (4.73%) Developer
8 17 (3.83%) Administrator
9 16 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (3.38%) Data Scientist
10 15 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.93%) Consultant
12 13 (2.93%) Principal Data Engineer
12 13 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.70%) Security Engineer
14 11 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.25%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.53%) Kafka
2 20 (4.50%) React
3 19 (4.28%) LangChain
3 19 (4.28%) OAuth
4 18 (4.05%) REST
5 17 (3.83%) PyTorch
6 16 (3.60%) Great Expectations
7 15 (3.38%) Spring
8 14 (3.15%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.93%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.93%) HTML
9 13 (2.93%) Pandas
10 12 (2.70%) LangGraph
10 12 (2.70%) scikit-learn
11 11 (2.48%) Node.js
11 11 (2.48%) RESTful
11 11 (2.48%) TensorFlow
12 10 (2.25%) CSS
12 10 (2.25%) NumPy
12 10 (2.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.38%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.38%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.93%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.93%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.25%) Life Science
8 9 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.03%) Social Media
9 8 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.35%) Clustering
11 6 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.13%) Genomics
12 5 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.05%) Android
2 16 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.15%) Windows
4 13 (2.93%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.25%) VMS
6 8 (1.80%) Linux
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (26.13%) AI
2 114 (25.68%) CI/CD
3 99 (22.30%) Analytics
4 88 (19.82%) DevOps
5 82 (18.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (14.64%) Machine Learning
8 59 (13.29%) Observability
9 58 (13.06%) Agile
10 57 (12.84%) Migration
11 52 (11.71%) Software Engineering
12 48 (10.81%) Data Engineering
13 45 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (9.91%) Data Governance
15 43 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (9.68%) Data Modelling
15 43 (9.68%) Decision-Making
15 43 (9.68%) LLM
16 40 (9.01%) Containerisation
17 38 (8.56%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 127 (28.60%) Python
2 83 (18.69%) SQL
3 37 (8.33%) Java
4 29 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.50%) C#
6 17 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.48%) Bash
8 11 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.58%) Go
9 7 (1.58%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (1.35%) Scala
11 4 (0.90%) Ruby
12 3 (0.68%) LookML
12 3 (0.68%) Rust
13 2 (0.45%) C++
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
13 2 (0.45%) PHP
13 2 (0.45%) VBA
14 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 59 (13.29%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.23%) Degree
4 17 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.90%) CISSP
10 4 (0.90%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.68%) CCSP
11 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.68%) OSCP
11 3 (0.68%) PhD
11 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.01%) GDPR
2 35 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.73%) QA
4 10 (2.25%) NIST
5 9 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.58%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.68%) GRC
9 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.45%) WCAG
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.23%) PERC
11 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (10.59%) Docker
2 18 (4.05%) 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 96 (21.62%) Terraform
2 69 (15.54%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.15%) Ansible
3 14 (3.15%) Grafana
4 10 (2.25%) Istio
4 10 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.80%) Argo
5 8 (1.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.68%) SCCM
10 2 (0.45%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.45%) Knative
10 2 (0.45%) logstash
10 2 (0.45%) QRadar
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 59 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.08%) Databricks
3 19 (4.28%) Adobe
4 18 (4.05%) Apple
5 16 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.38%) Oracle
7 12 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.70%) Splunk
8 7 (1.58%) IBM
9 6 (1.35%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.13%) Cisco
10 5 (1.13%) Facebook
10 5 (1.13%) Okta
10 5 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.13%) Tealium
11 4 (0.90%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.90%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.90%) SAP