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 3 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
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 87 92
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Google 526 430 452
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.62% 3.13% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 6.24% 6.84% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 265 309
10th Percentile £313 £275 £324
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £700
90th Percentile £675 £750 £784
England median daily rate £510 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +5.15% -11.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £22.50 £29.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +65.55% -55.93%
75th Percentile £36.05 £62.50 £41.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £67.63 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £23.61 £70.00
% change year-on-year +50.36% -66.27% +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 8,425 6,291 6,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.92% 45.83% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 4,105 4,770
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £752 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 122 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.86 £43.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -27.50%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +6 76 £525 -2.33% 111
South London -3 12 £575 +21.05% 3
West London -15 11 £603 +14.76% 12
East London +3 3 £410 -36.92% 8
North London -2 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 (4.75%) Apache
2 20 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.42%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.04%) CMS
5 15 (2.85%) Confluence
6 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.57%) Drupal
9 3 (0.57%) WordPress
10 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.90%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.19%) InDesign
8 1 (0.19%) Maya
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) iTrent
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (57.98%) GCP
2 119 (22.62%) AWS
3 114 (21.67%) Azure
4 86 (16.35%) Google Workspace
5 39 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (6.84%) GitHub
7 35 (6.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 27 (5.13%) Google Analytics
8 27 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.56%) SaaS
10 23 (4.37%) Google Drive
11 22 (4.18%) dbt
12 20 (3.80%) Vertex AI
13 19 (3.61%) Google Sheets
13 19 (3.61%) Snowflake
14 18 (3.42%) Cloud Run
15 17 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.23%) Google Ads
15 17 (3.23%) Slack
16 16 (3.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.89%) DNS
2 22 (4.18%) Firewall
3 20 (3.80%) VPN
4 9 (1.71%) Internet
5 8 (1.52%) DKIM
5 8 (1.52%) DMARC
5 8 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.95%) DHCP
7 5 (0.95%) SMTP
8 4 (0.76%) VoIP
8 4 (0.76%) WebEx
9 3 (0.57%) HTTP
9 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
9 3 (0.57%) VLAN
10 2 (0.38%) BGP
10 2 (0.38%) IPv4
10 2 (0.38%) IPv6
10 2 (0.38%) NFC
10 2 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.60%) BigQuery
2 38 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.75%) Power BI
4 18 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.23%) Looker
6 15 (2.85%) Tableau
7 14 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.28%) Big Data
9 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.71%) Metadata
10 8 (1.52%) Redis
11 7 (1.33%) Flink
11 7 (1.33%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (1.33%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.14%) MySQL
12 6 (1.14%) OLTP
12 6 (1.14%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.95%) OLAP
13 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (5.89%) JIRA
2 28 (5.32%) Git
3 26 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.37%) GitLab
5 4 (0.76%) Gradle
6 3 (0.57%) Maven
6 3 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) Gatling
7 2 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 137 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 94 (17.87%) Finance
3 70 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 53 (10.08%) Marketing
6 35 (6.65%) Retail
7 25 (4.75%) Banking
8 19 (3.61%) Advertising
9 18 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.28%) Publishing
11 11 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.90%) Legal
13 8 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.14%) Games
15 6 (1.14%) Law
15 6 (1.14%) Military
16 5 (0.95%) Billing
16 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (12.93%) GCP Engineer
2 52 (9.89%) Data Engineer
3 51 (9.70%) Architect
4 50 (9.51%) Senior
5 45 (8.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (8.56%) Lead
6 39 (7.41%) Analyst
6 39 (7.41%) Developer
7 17 (3.23%) Support Engineer
8 16 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (2.66%) Administrator
9 14 (2.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.66%) GCP Data Engineer
10 13 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.47%) Security Architect
10 13 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.28%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (2.28%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.09%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.79%) REST
2 26 (4.94%) Kafka
3 19 (3.61%) JSON
4 17 (3.23%) OAuth
4 17 (3.23%) Spring
4 17 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.85%) React
6 14 (2.66%) HTML
7 13 (2.47%) LangChain
7 13 (2.47%) LangGraph
7 13 (2.47%) RESTful
8 11 (2.09%) Apache Beam
8 11 (2.09%) CSS
8 11 (2.09%) SAML
9 8 (1.52%) .NET
9 8 (1.52%) Node.js
10 7 (1.33%) Middleware
10 7 (1.33%) Next.js
10 7 (1.33%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.08%) AI Agents
3 21 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.42%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.66%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.71%) Clustering
8 9 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.14%) Life Science
11 6 (1.14%) Social Media
12 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.13%) Windows
2 25 (4.75%) Linux
3 14 (2.66%) Android
4 13 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.57%) Unix
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (25.48%) CI/CD
2 116 (22.05%) AI
3 111 (21.10%) Agile
4 96 (18.25%) Analytics
5 88 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.35%) DevOps
6 86 (16.35%) Migration
7 77 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (9.70%) Data Modelling
11 50 (9.51%) Machine Learning
12 49 (9.32%) Decision-Making
12 49 (9.32%) Software Engineering
13 47 (8.94%) Observability
14 45 (8.56%) Roadmaps
15 43 (8.17%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (7.60%) Data Engineering
16 40 (7.60%) Microservices
17 39 (7.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 140 (26.62%) Python
2 105 (19.96%) SQL
3 68 (12.93%) Java
4 31 (5.89%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.75%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.80%) Bash
7 18 (3.42%) Scala
8 17 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 14 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.47%) C#
10 13 (2.47%) Go
11 9 (1.71%) Google Apps Script
12 6 (1.14%) Bicep
12 6 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.95%) SOQL
14 4 (0.76%) Groovy
14 4 (0.76%) Ruby
15 3 (0.57%) Korn
15 3 (0.57%) PHP
15 3 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.70%) Degree
4 27 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.71%) CISSP
10 6 (1.14%) PhD
10 6 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.95%) CISM
11 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.76%) PMP
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.57%) CRISC
13 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.46%) QA
3 18 (3.42%) GDPR
4 13 (2.47%) NIST
5 11 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.76%) NCSC
8 4 (0.76%) PMO
9 3 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.57%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (9.13%) Docker
2 19 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.76%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.76%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 90 (17.11%) Terraform
2 80 (15.21%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.42%) Grafana
4 16 (3.04%) Ansible
5 13 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.33%) Puppet
9 6 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.76%) Istio
11 4 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.76%) SCCM
11 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.76%) vMotion
12 3 (0.57%) Nagios
13 2 (0.38%) Argo
13 2 (0.38%) WSUS
14 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 87 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.99%) Splunk
3 20 (3.80%) Adobe
4 18 (3.42%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.23%) Oracle
6 16 (3.04%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.04%) TikTok
7 15 (2.85%) Databricks
8 14 (2.66%) Okta
9 13 (2.47%) Apple
10 11 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.71%) Cisco
11 9 (1.71%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.33%) Amplitude
12 7 (1.33%) Citrix
12 7 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.33%) New Relic
12 7 (1.33%) Optimizely
12 7 (1.33%) SAP
13 6 (1.14%) Tealium