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 26 May 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 430 342 466
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 2.83% 2.67%
As % of the Vendors category 5.64% 6.18% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 210 340
10th Percentile £300 £275 £303
25th Percentile £413 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -5.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £684 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 17
10th Percentile £30.25 £26.09 £15.88
25th Percentile £32.12 £30.92 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £47.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +83.65% -62.86%
75th Percentile £35.75 £52.25 £31.75
90th Percentile £45.90 £70.38 £43.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £28.38 £26.97
% change year-on-year +25.09% +5.23% -31.81%

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 7,623 5,533 7,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 45.72% 40.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 3,601 4,902
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 97 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +21.70% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.98 £64.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -43.11%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 67 £500 - 63
West London -14 18 £603 +7.11% 6
East London -2 7 £520 -20.00% 6
South London -10 6 £637 -5.63% 4
North London - 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 27 (6.28%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.12%) Apache
3 19 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.56%) Confluence
5 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.47%) Drupal
8 2 (0.47%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.33%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.93%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.70%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.47%) Maya
8 2 (0.47%) Trello
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.23%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 250 (58.14%) GCP
2 101 (23.49%) Azure
3 96 (22.33%) AWS
4 85 (19.77%) Google Workspace
5 41 (9.53%) Power Platform
6 39 (9.07%) GitHub
7 36 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (8.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 28 (6.51%) Slack
10 27 (6.28%) Amazon S3
11 25 (5.81%) Cloud Run
12 24 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (5.58%) SaaS
13 22 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (4.65%) Google Analytics
14 20 (4.65%) Google Drive
14 20 (4.65%) Vertex AI
15 18 (4.19%) Google Ads
16 17 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (3.95%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.58%) DNS
2 21 (4.88%) Firewall
3 14 (3.26%) VPN
4 13 (3.02%) Network Security
5 8 (1.86%) DKIM
5 8 (1.86%) DMARC
6 6 (1.40%) Internet
6 6 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.93%) DHCP
7 4 (0.93%) VoIP
8 3 (0.70%) VLAN
8 3 (0.70%) Wireless
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) HTTP
9 2 (0.47%) IPv4
9 2 (0.47%) IPv6
9 2 (0.47%) NGFW
9 2 (0.47%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) SMTP
10 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.58%) BigQuery
2 36 (8.37%) Power BI
3 25 (5.81%) Tableau
4 23 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.19%) OLAP
7 16 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.72%) Mixpanel
8 15 (3.49%) OLTP
9 10 (2.33%) Looker
9 10 (2.33%) Metadata
9 10 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.63%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.40%) Big Data
11 6 (1.40%) Redis
11 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.40%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.16%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (6.74%) JIRA
2 28 (6.51%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.88%) Git
4 18 (4.19%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.70%) ERwin
6 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.47%) webpack
7 1 (0.23%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.23%) Ant
7 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) Gradle
7 1 (0.23%) JUnit
7 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 115 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.37%) Finance
3 58 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.23%) Marketing
5 37 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.44%) Banking
7 28 (6.51%) Retail
8 14 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.79%) Advertising
10 10 (2.33%) Publishing
10 10 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.09%) Legal
11 9 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.63%) Military
12 7 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.16%) Games
14 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.93%) Wearables
16 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (13.95%) GCP Engineer
2 47 (10.93%) Lead
3 46 (10.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 45 (10.47%) Data Engineer
5 43 (10.00%) Senior
6 40 (9.30%) Architect
7 31 (7.21%) Analyst
8 18 (4.19%) Developer
9 17 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (3.49%) Administrator
10 15 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (3.26%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.02%) Consultant
12 13 (3.02%) Principal Data Engineer
13 12 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.56%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.33%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) Kafka
2 20 (4.65%) OAuth
2 20 (4.65%) React
3 16 (3.72%) Great Expectations
3 16 (3.72%) LangChain
3 16 (3.72%) REST
4 13 (3.02%) PyTorch
5 12 (2.79%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.79%) Node.js
5 12 (2.79%) Spring
5 12 (2.79%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.56%) SAML
7 9 (2.09%) .NET
7 9 (2.09%) LangGraph
8 8 (1.86%) Pandas
9 7 (1.63%) HTML
9 7 (1.63%) NumPy
9 7 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.63%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.49%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.79%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.86%) Life Science
10 7 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.63%) Social Media
11 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.40%) Clustering
11 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.16%) Derivative
12 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.49%) Android
2 14 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.02%) Mac OS
3 13 (3.02%) Windows
4 10 (2.33%) Linux
4 10 (2.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Solaris
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (26.28%) CI/CD
2 102 (23.72%) AI
3 88 (20.47%) Analytics
4 85 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (19.53%) DevOps
6 63 (14.65%) Migration
7 57 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (12.56%) Observability
9 52 (12.09%) Machine Learning
10 50 (11.63%) Agile
11 49 (11.40%) Software Engineering
12 48 (11.16%) Data Engineering
13 46 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (10.47%) Data Modelling
15 44 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (10.23%) Decision-Making
16 41 (9.53%) Data Governance
17 38 (8.84%) LLM
18 37 (8.60%) ETL
19 35 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (27.67%) Python
2 85 (19.77%) SQL
3 38 (8.84%) Java
4 22 (5.12%) C#
5 20 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 13 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.09%) Go
8 9 (2.09%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.86%) Bash
10 7 (1.63%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (1.63%) Scala
11 4 (0.93%) Ruby
12 3 (0.70%) Korn
12 3 (0.70%) LookML
12 3 (0.70%) Rust
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.47%) PHP
13 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) Degree
4 14 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.16%) CISSP
9 5 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.93%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.70%) CCSP
11 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.70%) PhD
12 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.44%) GDPR
3 19 (4.42%) QA
4 11 (2.56%) NIST
5 6 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.16%) NCSC
7 4 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.70%) GRC
8 3 (0.70%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.47%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.23%) PERC
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (7.91%) Docker
2 19 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (22.79%) Terraform
2 64 (14.88%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.02%) Grafana
3 13 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (2.79%) Ansible
5 9 (2.09%) Istio
6 8 (1.86%) Argo
7 7 (1.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.47%) SCCM
11 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) Knative
11 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 60 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.05%) Databricks
3 20 (4.65%) Apple
4 15 (3.49%) Adobe
4 15 (3.49%) Oracle
5 14 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.86%) Okta
7 7 (1.63%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.63%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.63%) Splunk
7 7 (1.63%) TikTok
8 6 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.16%) Facebook
10 4 (0.93%) Cisco
10 4 (0.93%) IBM
10 4 (0.93%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.93%) Rapid7
11 3 (0.70%) iManage
11 3 (0.70%) Virgin Media