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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 85 91
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 512 425 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.54% 3.18% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.94% 6.89% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 252 294
10th Percentile £325 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £399 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £700
90th Percentile £675 £749 £786
England median daily rate £510 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 13
10th Percentile £18.65 £30.97 £25.40
25th Percentile £24.71 £31.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +30.77% -51.85%
75th Percentile £36.05 £62.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £43.97 £70.25 £44.35
England median hourly rate £31.25 £20.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +52.44% -70.71% +87.79%

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 8,619 6,166 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.77% 46.13% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,606 3,991 4,677
10th Percentile £348 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 124 84
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -10.09% -22.00%
75th Percentile £63.25 £39.06 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £75.88
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -10 71 £516 -6.14% 166
South London -3 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -16 12 £550 +4.76% 153
East London - 3 £410 - 12
North London 0 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 22 (4.30%) Apache
2 21 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.71%) CMS
4 17 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.32%) Confluence
5 16 (3.13%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (1.56%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.78%) WordPress
10 3 (0.59%) Drupal
11 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.20%) Luigi
12 1 (0.20%) Mendix
12 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.20%) InDesign
7 1 (0.20%) Maya
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Shopify
2 4 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.78%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) iTrent
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 297 (58.01%) GCP
2 128 (25.00%) AWS
3 125 (24.41%) Azure
4 65 (12.70%) Google Workspace
5 43 (8.40%) GitHub
6 37 (7.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 36 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (6.25%) Google Analytics
9 27 (5.27%) dbt
10 26 (5.08%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.69%) SaaS
12 23 (4.49%) Entra ID
13 22 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (4.10%) Google Drive
15 20 (3.91%) Vertex AI
16 19 (3.71%) Snowflake
17 18 (3.52%) Adobe Analytics
17 18 (3.52%) Google Sheets
18 16 (3.13%) Google Ads
19 15 (2.93%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.66%) DNS
2 21 (4.10%) Firewall
2 21 (4.10%) VPN
3 10 (1.95%) Internet
4 9 (1.76%) Network Security
5 8 (1.56%) DKIM
5 8 (1.56%) DMARC
6 7 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.17%) DHCP
8 5 (0.98%) SMTP
8 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.78%) WAN
9 4 (0.78%) WebEx
10 3 (0.59%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.59%) Telepresence
10 3 (0.59%) VLAN
10 3 (0.59%) VoIP
11 2 (0.39%) LAN
11 2 (0.39%) NFC
11 2 (0.39%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.35%) BigQuery
2 36 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.69%) Power BI
4 17 (3.32%) Looker
4 17 (3.32%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.93%) Big Data
6 15 (2.93%) Tableau
7 13 (2.54%) Metadata
8 10 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.37%) Flink
9 7 (1.37%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.37%) Redis
10 6 (1.17%) MySQL
10 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.98%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.98%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (6.45%) JIRA
2 32 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.66%) Git
4 27 (5.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.98%) Gradle
6 4 (0.78%) Maven
6 4 (0.78%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.59%) JUnit
7 3 (0.59%) Selenium
7 3 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.39%) Gatling
8 2 (0.39%) JMeter
8 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.39%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.39%) webpack
8 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 89 (17.38%) Finance
3 72 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.91%) Public Sector
5 57 (11.13%) Marketing
6 30 (5.86%) Retail
7 27 (5.27%) Banking
8 19 (3.71%) Advertising
9 12 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.34%) Publishing
10 11 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.15%) Legal
10 11 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.17%) Games
12 6 (1.17%) Law
12 6 (1.17%) Military
12 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.98%) Billing
13 5 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (13.28%) Architect
2 63 (12.30%) GCP Engineer
3 51 (9.96%) Senior
4 50 (9.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (8.79%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.42%) Developer
7 36 (7.03%) Lead
8 34 (6.64%) Analyst
9 19 (3.71%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.32%) Security Architect
12 15 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.73%) Administrator
13 14 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (2.54%) Java Developer
15 12 (2.34%) GCP Data Engineer
16 11 (2.15%) Senior Architect
17 10 (1.95%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (18.36%) Terraform
2 37 (7.23%) REST
3 28 (5.47%) Kafka
4 20 (3.91%) JSON
5 18 (3.52%) OAuth
5 18 (3.52%) React
5 18 (3.52%) RESTful
6 17 (3.32%) HTML
7 15 (2.93%) LangChain
7 15 (2.93%) LangGraph
8 14 (2.73%) CSS
9 13 (2.54%) Spring
9 13 (2.54%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.15%) Apache Beam
10 11 (2.15%) SAML
11 10 (1.95%) JWT
11 10 (1.95%) Node.js
11 10 (1.95%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.76%) Middleware
13 8 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.84%) AI Agents
3 23 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.34%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.56%) Clustering
10 8 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.37%) PKI
12 6 (1.17%) Replication
13 5 (0.98%) CMDB
13 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.25%) Windows
2 31 (6.05%) Linux
3 14 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.54%) Android
5 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.37%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.59%) Unix
10 2 (0.39%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 115 (22.46%) Agile
3 113 (22.07%) AI
4 100 (19.53%) Analytics
5 93 (18.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 92 (17.97%) DevOps
7 81 (15.82%) Migration
8 71 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 60 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (9.96%) Machine Learning
11 51 (9.96%) Software Engineering
12 50 (9.77%) Roadmaps
13 47 (9.18%) Data Modelling
13 47 (9.18%) Observability
14 45 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
14 45 (8.79%) Microservices
15 41 (8.01%) Containerisation
15 41 (8.01%) Decision-Making
15 41 (8.01%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 150 (29.30%) Python
2 105 (20.51%) SQL
3 62 (12.11%) Java
4 35 (6.84%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.69%) Bash
7 18 (3.52%) Scala
7 18 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.13%) Go
9 11 (2.15%) C#
10 9 (1.76%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.17%) Bicep
13 5 (0.98%) R
13 5 (0.98%) SOQL
14 4 (0.78%) Groovy
15 3 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.59%) LookML
15 3 (0.59%) PHP
16 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 114 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 95 (18.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.77%) Degree
4 27 (5.27%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.76%) CISSP
11 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.17%) PhD
12 5 (0.98%) CISM
13 4 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.78%) PMP
13 4 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.05%) QA
3 16 (3.13%) GDPR
4 15 (2.93%) NIST
5 14 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.17%) PMO
7 5 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.98%) NCSC
7 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.59%) GRC
9 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.39%) PSD2
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
11 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 61 (11.91%) Docker
2 20 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.78%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.78%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.20%) Varnish
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (18.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.10%) Ansible
3 18 (3.52%) Grafana
4 17 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.56%) Puppet
8 5 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.78%) Istio
9 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.78%) vMotion
10 3 (0.59%) Argo
10 3 (0.59%) Nagios
11 2 (0.39%) Cilium
11 2 (0.39%) WSUS
12 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.49%) Adobe
3 22 (4.30%) Oracle
4 20 (3.91%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.52%) Splunk
5 18 (3.52%) TikTok
6 17 (3.32%) Databricks
6 17 (3.32%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.73%) Okta
8 13 (2.54%) Apple
9 11 (2.15%) Amplitude
9 11 (2.15%) Dynatrace
9 11 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.95%) Cisco
11 9 (1.76%) Optimizely
11 9 (1.76%) SAP
12 8 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.56%) New Relic
12 8 (1.56%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.56%) Tealium