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 15 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 92 91
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Google 524 419 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.16% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 6.04% 6.85% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 240 285
10th Percentile £321 £275 £313
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £675 £775 £780
England median daily rate £510 £492 £535
% change year-on-year +3.66% -8.04% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 14
10th Percentile £17.78 £29.76 £25.47
25th Percentile £22.67 £31.06 £25.99
Median hourly rate £34.87 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +14.29% +45.83%
75th Percentile £43.13 £59.73 £43.44
90th Percentile £46.71 £69.38 £44.58
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -63.17% +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 8,673 6,115 6,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.82% 46.18% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,644 3,956 4,532
10th Percentile £335 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 122 78
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.30 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -14.60% -17.88%
75th Percentile £64.69 £38.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £83.88 £63.75 £79.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -11 75 £525 - 195
South London -4 10 £550 +15.79% 3
West London -14 10 £475 -9.52% 90
East London - 2 £300 - 14
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 26 (4.96%) Apache
2 25 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.44%) CMS
4 18 (3.44%) Confluence
5 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.76%) WordPress
9 3 (0.57%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
Applications
1 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
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 (0.95%) Shopify
2 4 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) iTrent
3 3 (0.57%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.38%) 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
1 304 (58.02%) GCP
2 128 (24.43%) Azure
3 125 (23.85%) AWS
4 67 (12.79%) Google Workspace
5 46 (8.78%) GitHub
6 44 (8.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 36 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (6.49%) dbt
9 30 (5.73%) Google Analytics
10 26 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (4.77%) SaaS
12 24 (4.58%) Entra ID
12 24 (4.58%) Vertex AI
13 23 (4.39%) Power Platform
14 22 (4.20%) Google Drive
15 21 (4.01%) Snowflake
16 18 (3.44%) Adobe Analytics
16 18 (3.44%) Google Sheets
17 16 (3.05%) Google Gemini
18 15 (2.86%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.96%) DNS
2 18 (3.44%) Firewall
2 18 (3.44%) VPN
3 10 (1.91%) Network Security
4 9 (1.72%) Internet
5 8 (1.53%) DKIM
5 8 (1.53%) DMARC
5 8 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.15%) DHCP
6 6 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.76%) SMTP
7 4 (0.76%) VoIP
7 4 (0.76%) WAN
7 4 (0.76%) WebEx
8 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
9 2 (0.38%) 4G
9 2 (0.38%) 5G
9 2 (0.38%) NGFW
9 2 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.40%) BigQuery
2 40 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (4.01%) Power BI
4 20 (3.82%) Looker
4 20 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.67%) Big Data
6 14 (2.67%) Metadata
7 12 (2.29%) Tableau
8 9 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.72%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.34%) Flink
9 7 (1.34%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.34%) MySQL
9 7 (1.34%) Redis
10 6 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (7.25%) Git
2 35 (6.68%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.30%) JIRA
4 29 (5.53%) GitLab
5 7 (1.34%) Gradle
6 5 (0.95%) Maven
7 4 (0.76%) JUnit
7 4 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
9 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.38%) JMeter
9 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 139 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 97 (18.51%) Finance
3 73 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.92%) Marketing
6 32 (6.11%) Retail
7 30 (5.73%) Banking
8 18 (3.44%) Advertising
9 12 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.10%) Legal
10 11 (2.10%) Publishing
11 9 (1.72%) Games
11 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.34%) Law
12 7 (1.34%) Military
12 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.15%) Billing
13 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (13.55%) Architect
2 64 (12.21%) GCP Engineer
3 55 (10.50%) Senior
4 47 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 46 (8.78%) Data Engineer
6 41 (7.82%) Developer
7 38 (7.25%) Analyst
8 36 (6.87%) Lead
9 19 (3.63%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.05%) Security Architect
11 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.67%) Administrator
12 14 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (2.67%) GCP Data Engineer
12 14 (2.67%) Java Developer
13 13 (2.48%) GCP DevOps
14 12 (2.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (18.13%) Terraform
2 39 (7.44%) REST
3 26 (4.96%) Kafka
4 20 (3.82%) JSON
5 19 (3.63%) React
5 19 (3.63%) RESTful
6 18 (3.44%) OAuth
7 17 (3.24%) HTML
7 17 (3.24%) LangGraph
8 15 (2.86%) LangChain
8 15 (2.86%) Spring
8 15 (2.86%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.67%) CSS
10 13 (2.48%) Apache Beam
11 12 (2.29%) Node.js
12 10 (1.91%) JWT
12 10 (1.91%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.91%) SAML
13 9 (1.72%) XML
14 8 (1.53%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 84 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.87%) AI Agents
3 25 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.29%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.72%) Clustering
10 9 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.72%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.53%) Replication
12 7 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.34%) PKI
13 6 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.15%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.30%) Linux
1 33 (6.30%) Windows
2 15 (2.86%) Android
3 13 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.91%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.76%) Unix
8 2 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (29.58%) CI/CD
2 123 (23.47%) Agile
3 119 (22.71%) AI
4 100 (19.08%) DevOps
5 99 (18.89%) Analytics
6 95 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (17.18%) Migration
8 76 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (10.50%) Data Pipeline
12 54 (10.31%) Machine Learning
13 53 (10.11%) Observability
13 53 (10.11%) Roadmaps
14 51 (9.73%) Software Engineering
15 49 (9.35%) Microservices
16 48 (9.16%) Containerisation
16 48 (9.16%) Data Modelling
17 43 (8.21%) Event-Driven
18 39 (7.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 154 (29.39%) Python
2 112 (21.37%) SQL
3 61 (11.64%) Java
4 33 (6.30%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.58%) Bash
7 18 (3.44%) Go
8 17 (3.24%) Scala
8 17 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.10%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.72%) C#
11 8 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.15%) Bicep
12 6 (1.15%) LookML
13 5 (0.95%) R
13 5 (0.95%) SOQL
14 3 (0.57%) Groovy
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
15 2 (0.38%) Korn
15 2 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 98 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.97%) Degree
4 28 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.72%) CISSP
8 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.15%) PhD
10 5 (0.95%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.57%) PMP
12 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.92%) QA
3 12 (2.29%) NIST
4 11 (2.10%) GDPR
4 11 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.15%) PMO
6 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.76%) NCSC
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.57%) PSD2
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (12.21%) Docker
2 18 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.57%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (19.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.20%) Ansible
3 18 (3.44%) Grafana
4 16 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.53%) Puppet
8 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.76%) SCCM
10 3 (0.57%) Argo
10 3 (0.57%) Cilium
10 3 (0.57%) Istio
10 3 (0.57%) Nagios
10 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.57%) vMotion
11 2 (0.38%) WSUS
12 1 (0.19%) Control-M
12 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.58%) Oracle
3 23 (4.39%) Adobe
4 22 (4.20%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.63%) Databricks
5 19 (3.63%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.24%) Splunk
6 17 (3.24%) TikTok
7 16 (3.05%) Okta
8 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.10%) Amplitude
9 11 (2.10%) Apple
9 11 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.91%) Cisco
10 10 (1.91%) SAP
11 9 (1.72%) Optimizely
12 8 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.53%) New Relic
12 8 (1.53%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.53%) Tealium