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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Google 399 336 378
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.74% 2.42% 2.08%
As % of the Vendors category 5.92% 5.54% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 191 267
10th Percentile £348 £300 £206
25th Percentile £446 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £660
90th Percentile £806 £775 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 14
10th Percentile £29.59 £30.35 £15.69
25th Percentile £35.25 £34.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +72.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £56.50 £57.25 £32.19
90th Percentile £63.45 £61.20 £32.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.04 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.48% +43.46% -14.29%

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 6,737 6,062 7,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.21% 43.67% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 3,755 5,007
10th Percentile £343 £313 £295
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £764
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 67 136
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.40 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £31.38
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +0.40% +25.50%
75th Percentile £42.55 £59.75 £48.83
90th Percentile £67.81 £80.75 £80.38
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -15.49% +9.23%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 +36 85 £550 -6.38% 58
West London 0 21 £600 +53.85% 10
South London -5 2 £155 -73.04% 5
East London -9 2 £200 -66.67% 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 20 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.01%) Apache
4 10 (2.51%) Confluence
5 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.50%) CMS
7 4 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.75%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.75%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.50%) SAS
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Drupal
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Luigi
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.75%) Trello
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Maya
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.25%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 246 (61.65%) GCP
2 112 (28.07%) Azure
3 81 (20.30%) AWS
4 76 (19.05%) GitHub
5 54 (13.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 41 (10.28%) Power Platform
7 36 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (9.02%) Google Workspace
8 33 (8.27%) Cloud Run
9 27 (6.77%) SaaS
10 26 (6.52%) Google Analytics
11 23 (5.76%) Google Gemini
12 21 (5.26%) Vertex AI
13 19 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (4.01%) Entra ID
15 14 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
15 14 (3.51%) IaaS
16 13 (3.26%) Google Tag Manager
16 13 (3.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.52%) Firewall
2 9 (2.26%) Network Security
3 8 (2.01%) DNS
4 5 (1.25%) HTTP
5 4 (1.00%) VPN
6 3 (0.75%) Internet
6 3 (0.75%) Intranet
6 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.75%) Wireless
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Broadband
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.50%) LAN
7 2 (0.50%) SMTP
7 2 (0.50%) SSL
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) VRRP
8 1 (0.25%) SMS
8 1 (0.25%) VoIP
8 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.04%) BigQuery
2 33 (8.27%) Power BI
3 24 (6.02%) Tableau
4 16 (4.01%) Mixpanel
5 15 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.26%) OLAP
7 12 (3.01%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.51%) Looker
8 10 (2.51%) OLTP
9 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.01%) Metadata
10 8 (2.01%) MySQL
10 8 (2.01%) Redis
11 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.50%) Big Data
13 5 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (13.28%) Jenkins
2 42 (10.53%) Git
3 22 (5.51%) JIRA
4 21 (5.26%) GitLab
5 11 (2.76%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.75%) Gradle
8 6 (1.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.25%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.25%) JUnit
10 4 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.00%) ERwin
10 4 (1.00%) Mockito
11 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.75%) Maven
11 3 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 112 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.80%) Finance
3 64 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.53%) Banking
4 42 (10.53%) Marketing
5 21 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.01%) Retail
8 15 (3.76%) Advertising
9 12 (3.01%) Publishing
10 9 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.26%) Legal
11 8 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 50 (12.53%) Senior
2 45 (11.28%) GCP Engineer
3 41 (10.28%) Developer
4 34 (8.52%) Analyst
4 34 (8.52%) Architect
5 29 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 25 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (6.02%) Lead
9 18 (4.51%) Data Scientist
9 18 (4.51%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.26%) GCP DevOps
10 17 (4.26%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.26%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.26%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.76%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Python Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.27%) RESTful
2 28 (7.02%) React
3 25 (6.27%) FastAPI
4 22 (5.51%) LangGraph
5 21 (5.26%) Kafka
5 21 (5.26%) LangChain
6 20 (5.01%) HTML
6 20 (5.01%) Spring
7 19 (4.76%) Node.js
8 18 (4.51%) OAuth
9 17 (4.26%) CSS
10 16 (4.01%) PyTorch
10 16 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 15 (3.76%) pytest
12 14 (3.51%) AngularJS
12 14 (3.51%) Pandas
12 14 (3.51%) scikit-learn
13 13 (3.26%) TensorFlow
14 11 (2.76%) OAuth2
15 10 (2.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.54%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.76%) Life Science
4 17 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 17 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.01%) Genomics
6 11 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.51%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.51%) Social Media
8 9 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.50%) Digital Media
11 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.26%) Android
2 17 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.51%) VMS
4 9 (2.26%) Linux
4 9 (2.26%) Windows
5 7 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (33.83%) DevOps
2 128 (32.08%) CI/CD
3 115 (28.82%) AI
4 85 (21.30%) Analytics
5 84 (21.05%) Agile
6 82 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 79 (19.80%) Containerisation
8 74 (18.55%) Machine Learning
9 71 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (14.54%) Migration
11 44 (11.03%) Microservices
12 43 (10.78%) Observability
13 42 (10.53%) Software Engineering
14 41 (10.28%) Generative AI
15 39 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (9.52%) LLM
17 37 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (9.27%) Test Automation
18 36 (9.02%) User Experience
19 31 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (35.84%) Python
2 66 (16.54%) SQL
3 39 (9.77%) Java
3 39 (9.77%) JavaScript
4 23 (5.76%) Bash
5 22 (5.51%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.01%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.76%) C#
8 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.50%) Go
10 6 (1.50%) Ruby
11 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.75%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Groovy
12 3 (0.75%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.75%) Scala
12 3 (0.75%) Swift
13 2 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (11.53%) Degree
2 31 (7.77%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.76%) MCP
6 10 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.01%) CISSP
8 7 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.75%) CCSP
8 7 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.25%) OSCP
11 3 (0.75%) CCNA
11 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.75%) GCIH
11 3 (0.75%) PhD
11 3 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.52%) GDPR
2 24 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.01%) QA
4 11 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.01%) NIST
6 7 (1.75%) NCSC
7 6 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.00%) GRC
9 4 (1.00%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.25%) MiFID
12 1 (0.25%) PMO
12 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (24.31%) Docker
2 13 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.25%) Squid
4 4 (1.00%) Snort
5 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (26.57%) Kubernetes
2 93 (23.31%) Terraform
3 25 (6.27%) Ansible
4 13 (3.26%) Grafana
5 12 (3.01%) Argo
5 12 (3.01%) Istio
6 9 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.00%) Nessus
9 4 (1.00%) Nexpose
9 4 (1.00%) Puppet
9 4 (1.00%) Suricata
10 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.75%) SCCM
11 2 (0.50%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.50%) Knative
11 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.50%) logstash
11 2 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.76%) Databricks
3 19 (4.76%) Adobe
3 19 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.76%) Splunk
4 18 (4.51%) Apple
5 13 (3.26%) Oracle
6 12 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.01%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.51%) Cisco
8 9 (2.26%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (2.26%) Optimizely
9 8 (2.01%) Hotjar
9 8 (2.01%) Okta
9 8 (2.01%) OneTrust
9 8 (2.01%) SAP
10 7 (1.75%) Amplitude
10 7 (1.75%) HubSpot
10 7 (1.75%) IBM
11 6 (1.50%) Qualys