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 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 99 92
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 437 339 468
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 2.81% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 5.69% 6.16% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 210 341
10th Percentile £300 £275 £305
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £675
90th Percentile £688 £744 £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 £29.50 £26.97
% change year-on-year +20.34% +9.38% -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 7,675 5,506 7,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 45.57% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,066 3,579 4,913
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £521 £518
% change year-on-year -3.07% +0.68% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 99 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.56% +21.28% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.56 £42.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £64.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £22.50
% change year-on-year +24.14% +16.36% -41.56%

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 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 28 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 28 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 +8 65 £504 +0.75% 40
West London -13 17 £603 +7.11% 4
South London -8 8 £575 -14.81% 4
East London -3 7 £520 -20.00% 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 26 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.81%) Apache
3 19 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.52%) Confluence
5 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.14%) CMS
8 2 (0.46%) Drupal
8 2 (0.46%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.29%) Chatbot
3 10 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.92%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.46%) Maya
7 2 (0.46%) Trello
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.23%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 256 (58.58%) GCP
2 106 (24.26%) Azure
3 103 (23.57%) AWS
4 89 (20.37%) Google Workspace
5 40 (9.15%) Power Platform
6 39 (8.92%) GitHub
7 37 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (8.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 27 (6.18%) Slack
10 26 (5.95%) Amazon S3
11 25 (5.72%) Cloud Run
12 24 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (5.49%) SaaS
13 21 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (4.81%) Vertex AI
14 20 (4.58%) Google Analytics
14 20 (4.58%) Google Drive
15 18 (4.12%) Google Ads
16 17 (3.89%) Google Sheets
17 16 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.49%) DNS
2 22 (5.03%) Firewall
3 15 (3.43%) VPN
4 13 (2.97%) Network Security
5 8 (1.83%) DKIM
5 8 (1.83%) DMARC
6 7 (1.60%) Internet
7 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.92%) DHCP
8 4 (0.92%) VoIP
9 3 (0.69%) VLAN
9 3 (0.69%) Wireless
10 2 (0.46%) BGP
10 2 (0.46%) HTTP
10 2 (0.46%) IPv4
10 2 (0.46%) IPv6
10 2 (0.46%) NGFW
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
11 1 (0.23%) SMTP
11 1 (0.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.10%) BigQuery
2 35 (8.01%) Power BI
3 25 (5.72%) Tableau
4 24 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.12%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.89%) OLAP
7 15 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.43%) Mixpanel
8 14 (3.20%) OLTP
9 11 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.29%) Looker
10 10 (2.29%) Metadata
11 7 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.60%) Redis
11 7 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.37%) Big Data
12 6 (1.37%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.37%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.14%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.09%) JIRA
2 28 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.81%) Git
4 18 (4.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.69%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.69%) ERwin
6 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.46%) webpack
7 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) Gradle
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Mocha
7 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 115 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 85 (19.45%) Finance
3 58 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.07%) Marketing
5 40 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.32%) Banking
7 28 (6.41%) Retail
8 14 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.75%) Advertising
10 10 (2.29%) Publishing
10 10 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.06%) Legal
11 9 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.60%) Military
12 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.14%) Games
14 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.92%) Billing
15 4 (0.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 61 (13.96%) GCP Engineer
2 48 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
3 46 (10.53%) Lead
4 44 (10.07%) Data Engineer
4 44 (10.07%) Senior
5 43 (9.84%) Architect
6 31 (7.09%) Analyst
7 19 (4.35%) Developer
8 16 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (3.43%) Administrator
9 15 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.20%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (2.97%) Software Engineer
12 12 (2.75%) Consultant
12 12 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.75%) Principal Data Engineer
12 12 (2.75%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.18%) Kafka
2 21 (4.81%) React
3 19 (4.35%) OAuth
4 17 (3.89%) REST
5 15 (3.43%) Great Expectations
5 15 (3.43%) LangChain
6 13 (2.97%) Node.js
6 13 (2.97%) Spring
6 13 (2.97%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.75%) AngularJS
7 12 (2.75%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.52%) SAML
9 9 (2.06%) .NET
9 9 (2.06%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.60%) HTML
10 7 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (1.60%) Pandas
11 6 (1.37%) CSS
11 6 (1.37%) OpenID
11 6 (1.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.12%) Virtual Team
3 17 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.20%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.97%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.29%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.83%) Life Science
11 7 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.60%) Social Media
12 6 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.37%) Clustering
12 6 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.14%) Derivative
13 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.66%) Android
1 16 (3.66%) Windows
2 13 (2.97%) Apple iOS
2 13 (2.97%) Linux
2 13 (2.97%) Mac OS
3 10 (2.29%) VMS
4 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Solaris
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 102 (23.34%) AI
3 88 (20.14%) Analytics
4 87 (19.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 85 (19.45%) DevOps
6 68 (15.56%) Migration
7 58 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (12.59%) Observability
9 53 (12.13%) Agile
10 50 (11.44%) Machine Learning
10 50 (11.44%) Software Engineering
11 46 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (10.53%) Data Engineering
12 45 (10.30%) Decision-Making
13 44 (10.07%) Data Modelling
14 43 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (9.15%) Data Governance
16 37 (8.47%) LLM
17 36 (8.24%) ETL
18 35 (8.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (28.38%) Python
2 84 (19.22%) SQL
3 41 (9.38%) Java
4 21 (4.81%) C#
5 20 (4.58%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.06%) Bash
8 9 (2.06%) Go
9 8 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.60%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (1.60%) Scala
11 4 (0.92%) Ruby
12 3 (0.69%) Korn
12 3 (0.69%) LookML
12 3 (0.69%) Rust
13 2 (0.46%) Bicep
13 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.46%) PHP
13 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.55%) Degree
4 16 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.83%) CISSP
8 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.92%) CISM
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.92%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.69%) CCSP
11 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.46%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.09%) GDPR
3 19 (4.35%) QA
4 13 (2.97%) NIST
5 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.92%) NCSC
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
8 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.46%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.23%) PERC
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 36 (8.24%) Docker
2 19 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.46%) 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
1 101 (23.11%) Terraform
2 66 (15.10%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.43%) Ansible
4 13 (2.97%) Grafana
4 13 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.06%) Istio
6 8 (1.83%) Argo
6 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.46%) SCCM
11 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (0.23%) Puppet
11 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 63 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.49%) Databricks
3 22 (5.03%) Apple
4 15 (3.43%) Oracle
5 14 (3.20%) Adobe
5 14 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.29%) Okta
7 9 (2.06%) Splunk
8 8 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.83%) TikTok
9 7 (1.60%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.37%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.14%) Facebook
12 4 (0.92%) Cisco
12 4 (0.92%) IBM
12 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.69%) Informatica
13 3 (0.69%) Red Hat