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 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 89 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 424 449 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.16% 2.78% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 6.84% 6.41% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 429
10th Percentile £275 £313 £319
25th Percentile £400 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +3.45%
75th Percentile £616 £700 £700
90th Percentile £770 £784 £775
England median daily rate £480 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -10.36% -2.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 6
10th Percentile £29.59 £25.47 £14.63
25th Percentile £31.00 £25.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +62.79% -23.89%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.44 £30.88
90th Percentile £70.25 £44.58 £48.75
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -67.77% +112.12% -5.71%

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 6,195 7,007 8,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.12% 43.39% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 4,543 6,289
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Google 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 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +7 66 £525 -6.67% 131
West London -1 7 £525 +31.25% 14
South London -2 4 £475 -17.39% 3
North London - 1 - - 4
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.30%) Confluence
2 12 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.59%) Apache
4 9 (2.12%) CMS
5 8 (1.89%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.42%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.18%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.47%) Maya
6 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.47%) Sketch
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Magento
2 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.24%) iTrent
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 264 (62.26%) GCP
2 119 (28.07%) Azure
3 112 (26.42%) AWS
4 49 (11.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 42 (9.91%) GitHub
6 39 (9.20%) Google Workspace
7 28 (6.60%) Power Platform
8 27 (6.37%) Google Analytics
8 27 (6.37%) SaaS
9 22 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (4.48%) Cloud Run
11 19 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (4.01%) PaaS
13 16 (3.77%) Cloud Functions
13 16 (3.77%) Google Sheets
13 16 (3.77%) IaaS
14 14 (3.30%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.07%) Google Ads
15 13 (3.07%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.60%) Firewall
2 23 (5.42%) DNS
3 12 (2.83%) VPN
4 10 (2.36%) HTTP
4 10 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.12%) Network Security
6 7 (1.65%) DHCP
7 3 (0.71%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.71%) Intranet
7 3 (0.71%) SMTP
7 3 (0.71%) SSL
7 3 (0.71%) VLAN
7 3 (0.71%) VoIP
8 2 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) BGP
9 1 (0.24%) DKIM
9 1 (0.24%) DMARC
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.80%) BigQuery
2 33 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (6.13%) Power BI
4 24 (5.66%) Big Data
5 23 (5.42%) Tableau
6 18 (4.25%) Looker
7 17 (4.01%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.83%) Metadata
9 11 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.89%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.42%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.18%) MySQL
14 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.90%) JIRA
3 22 (5.19%) Git
4 17 (4.01%) GitLab
5 14 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.65%) Gradle
7 7 (1.65%) Maven
8 6 (1.42%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.42%) Selenium
9 5 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.18%) Vite
9 5 (1.18%) webpack
10 4 (0.94%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.71%) ERwin
11 3 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.71%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 2 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 119 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 109 (25.71%) Finance
3 58 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.97%) Banking
5 51 (12.03%) Marketing
6 21 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.07%) Retail
7 13 (3.07%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.83%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.12%) Advertising
10 9 (2.12%) Legal
11 8 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.89%) Publishing
12 6 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.94%) Billing
13 4 (0.94%) Military
13 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (17.92%) Architect
2 52 (12.26%) Senior
3 43 (10.14%) Analyst
3 43 (10.14%) Developer
4 40 (9.43%) GCP Engineer
5 30 (7.08%) Lead
6 26 (6.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (4.25%) GCP DevOps
8 18 (4.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.01%) Data Analyst
10 16 (3.77%) Enterprise Architect
10 16 (3.77%) GCP Architect
11 15 (3.54%) Data Engineer
11 15 (3.54%) Senior Architect
12 14 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.07%) Project Manager
14 12 (2.83%) Data Architect
14 12 (2.83%) Security Engineer
15 11 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.37%) RESTful
2 23 (5.42%) React
3 21 (4.95%) Node.js
4 16 (3.77%) Kafka
5 15 (3.54%) React Native
6 14 (3.30%) CSS
6 14 (3.30%) HTML
7 13 (3.07%) Next.js
7 13 (3.07%) Redux
8 12 (2.83%) Jest
8 12 (2.83%) OAuth
9 10 (2.36%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.36%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.36%) HTML5
9 10 (2.36%) Spring
10 9 (2.12%) LangChain
10 9 (2.12%) REST
10 9 (2.12%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.89%) AngularJS
11 8 (1.89%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.01%) Mobile App
3 15 (3.54%) AI Agents
3 15 (3.54%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.36%) Social Media
6 9 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.65%) NHS
7 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.72%) Linux
2 19 (4.48%) Android
2 19 (4.48%) Windows
3 13 (3.07%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.12%) Unix
5 4 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.47%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.47%) Windows 8
6 2 (0.47%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (26.18%) CI/CD
2 105 (24.76%) DevOps
3 95 (22.41%) Agile
4 86 (20.28%) Analytics
5 79 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (16.04%) Migration
7 64 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 58 (13.68%) Containerisation
8 58 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (13.44%) Data Modelling
10 47 (11.08%) ETL
11 44 (10.38%) Machine Learning
12 42 (9.91%) Data Integration
13 40 (9.43%) Microservices
14 38 (8.96%) Cloud Security
15 37 (8.73%) Data Governance
16 36 (8.49%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (8.25%) User Experience
18 30 (7.08%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 122 (28.77%) Python
2 83 (19.58%) SQL
3 48 (11.32%) Java
4 34 (8.02%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 23 (5.42%) Bash
6 23 (5.42%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.12%) Bicep
7 9 (2.12%) Go
8 8 (1.89%) Kotlin
8 8 (1.89%) R
8 8 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.42%) Ruby
9 6 (1.42%) Scala
10 5 (1.18%) C++
10 5 (1.18%) Groovy
11 2 (0.47%) C#
11 2 (0.47%) Perl
11 2 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (8.96%) Degree
2 25 (5.90%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.83%) CISSP
6 8 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.18%) CEH
7 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.18%) OSCP
8 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.94%) CCSP
8 4 (0.94%) MCP
9 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.71%) CCNA
9 3 (0.71%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.71%) GCIH
9 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.90%) GDPR
3 23 (5.42%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.36%) QA
6 7 (1.65%) NIST
6 7 (1.65%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.65%) WCAG
7 4 (0.94%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.94%) NCSC
8 3 (0.71%) HL7
8 3 (0.71%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.47%) DICOM
9 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) Section 508
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) LOINC
System Software
1 72 (16.98%) Docker
2 18 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.94%) Squid
4 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.71%) Snort
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.47%) vSphere
6 2 (0.47%) XenApp
7 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) KVM
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (19.81%) Kubernetes
2 80 (18.87%) Terraform
3 17 (4.01%) Ansible
4 9 (2.12%) Argo
4 9 (2.12%) Puppet
5 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.65%) Grafana
6 7 (1.65%) Istio
7 6 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.94%) Nessus
8 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.71%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.71%) Nexpose
9 3 (0.71%) Suricata
10 2 (0.47%) CASB
10 2 (0.47%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.47%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 82 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.01%) OpenAI
3 16 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.54%) Adobe
5 12 (2.83%) Cisco
5 12 (2.83%) Oracle
5 12 (2.83%) Splunk
6 11 (2.59%) Apple
6 11 (2.59%) Databricks
7 10 (2.36%) SAP
8 9 (2.12%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.12%) VMware
9 8 (1.89%) Amplitude
9 8 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.89%) Informatica
9 8 (1.89%) Okta
10 6 (1.42%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.18%) Optimizely