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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 89 94
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 515 424 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.56% 3.17% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 5.98% 6.85% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 250 293
10th Percentile £324 £275 £313
25th Percentile £405 £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 £781
England median daily rate £510 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 13
10th Percentile £18.48 £30.97 £25.40
25th Percentile £23.93 £31.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +30.77% -16.13%
75th Percentile £36.20 £62.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £44.09 £70.25 £44.35
England median hourly rate £30.00 £19.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +52.59% -71.91% +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 8,613 6,190 7,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.90% 46.24% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 4,014 4,669
10th Percentile £345 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.46%
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 129 126 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -12.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.69 £63.22
90th Percentile £85.04 £63.75 £78.25
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -5 72 £508 -7.73% 200
South London -7 12 £575 +21.05% 5
West London -14 11 £550 +4.76% 153
East London - 3 £410 - 13
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 21 (4.08%) Apache
1 21 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.88%) CMS
3 18 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.30%) Confluence
5 15 (2.91%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.78%) WordPress
10 3 (0.58%) Drupal
11 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.19%) Luigi
12 1 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Shopify
2 4 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.58%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) iTrent
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 298 (57.86%) GCP
2 127 (24.66%) AWS
3 126 (24.47%) Azure
4 66 (12.82%) Google Workspace
5 42 (8.16%) GitHub
6 39 (7.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 36 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (6.02%) Google Analytics
9 28 (5.44%) dbt
10 24 (4.66%) SaaS
11 23 (4.47%) Power Platform
12 22 (4.27%) Entra ID
12 22 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.27%) Google Drive
13 20 (3.88%) Snowflake
13 20 (3.88%) Vertex AI
14 19 (3.69%) Google Sheets
15 18 (3.50%) Adobe Analytics
16 16 (3.11%) Google Ads
17 15 (2.91%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.24%) DNS
2 21 (4.08%) Firewall
2 21 (4.08%) VPN
3 9 (1.75%) Internet
3 9 (1.75%) Network Security
4 8 (1.55%) DKIM
4 8 (1.55%) DMARC
5 7 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.17%) DHCP
6 6 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.97%) SMTP
8 4 (0.78%) WAN
8 4 (0.78%) WebEx
9 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.58%) Telepresence
9 3 (0.58%) VLAN
9 3 (0.58%) VoIP
10 2 (0.39%) LAN
10 2 (0.39%) NFC
10 2 (0.39%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.29%) BigQuery
2 37 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (4.08%) Power BI
4 17 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.11%) Looker
6 15 (2.91%) Big Data
7 14 (2.72%) Metadata
7 14 (2.72%) Tableau
8 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.36%) Flink
9 7 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.36%) Redis
10 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.17%) MySQL
10 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.97%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (6.41%) JIRA
2 32 (6.21%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.63%) Git
4 27 (5.24%) GitLab
5 5 (0.97%) Gradle
6 4 (0.78%) Maven
6 4 (0.78%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.58%) JUnit
7 3 (0.58%) Selenium
7 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
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
1 137 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.48%) Finance
3 72 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 56 (10.87%) Marketing
6 31 (6.02%) Retail
7 28 (5.44%) Banking
8 18 (3.50%) Advertising
9 12 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.33%) Publishing
10 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.14%) Legal
10 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.36%) Games
11 7 (1.36%) Law
12 6 (1.17%) Billing
12 6 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.17%) Military
12 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (13.20%) Architect
2 63 (12.23%) GCP Engineer
3 51 (9.90%) Senior
4 50 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 44 (8.54%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.38%) Developer
7 35 (6.80%) Lead
8 33 (6.41%) Analyst
9 19 (3.69%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.30%) Security Architect
12 14 (2.72%) Administrator
12 14 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (2.52%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.33%) GCP Data Engineer
15 11 (2.14%) Senior Architect
16 10 (1.94%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (18.45%) Terraform
2 37 (7.18%) REST
3 27 (5.24%) Kafka
4 20 (3.88%) JSON
5 18 (3.50%) OAuth
5 18 (3.50%) React
5 18 (3.50%) RESTful
6 17 (3.30%) HTML
7 15 (2.91%) LangChain
7 15 (2.91%) LangGraph
8 14 (2.72%) CSS
9 13 (2.52%) Spring
9 13 (2.52%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.14%) Apache Beam
10 11 (2.14%) SAML
11 10 (1.94%) JWT
11 10 (1.94%) Node.js
11 10 (1.94%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.75%) Middleware
13 8 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.80%) AI Agents
3 24 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.55%) Clustering
11 8 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.36%) PKI
12 7 (1.36%) Replication
13 6 (1.17%) Genomics
14 5 (0.97%) CMDB
14 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.41%) Windows
2 31 (6.02%) Linux
3 14 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.52%) Android
5 10 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.58%) Unix
10 2 (0.39%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (28.35%) CI/CD
2 117 (22.72%) Agile
3 114 (22.14%) AI
4 100 (19.42%) Analytics
5 93 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 92 (17.86%) DevOps
7 82 (15.92%) Migration
8 72 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 61 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (10.29%) Machine Learning
11 53 (10.29%) Software Engineering
12 50 (9.71%) Roadmaps
13 48 (9.32%) Observability
14 47 (9.13%) Data Modelling
15 45 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
16 44 (8.54%) Microservices
17 43 (8.35%) Containerisation
18 40 (7.77%) Decision-Making
18 40 (7.77%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 153 (29.71%) Python
2 106 (20.58%) SQL
3 62 (12.04%) Java
4 34 (6.60%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.66%) Bash
7 18 (3.50%) Scala
7 18 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.11%) Go
9 10 (1.94%) C#
10 9 (1.75%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.17%) Bicep
13 5 (0.97%) R
13 5 (0.97%) SOQL
14 4 (0.78%) Groovy
15 3 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.58%) LookML
15 3 (0.58%) PHP
16 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 114 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 95 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.90%) Degree
4 28 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.52%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.75%) CISSP
11 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.17%) PhD
12 5 (0.97%) CISM
13 4 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.78%) PMP
13 4 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.58%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.83%) QA
3 15 (2.91%) GDPR
3 15 (2.91%) NIST
4 14 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.17%) PMO
6 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.78%) NCSC
8 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 61 (11.84%) Docker
2 19 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.08%) Ansible
3 18 (3.50%) Grafana
4 17 (3.30%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.55%) Puppet
8 6 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.78%) Istio
10 4 (0.78%) SCCM
10 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.78%) vMotion
11 3 (0.58%) Argo
11 3 (0.58%) Nagios
12 2 (0.39%) Cilium
12 2 (0.39%) WSUS
13 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.47%) Adobe
3 22 (4.27%) Oracle
4 20 (3.88%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.50%) Splunk
5 18 (3.50%) TikTok
6 17 (3.30%) Databricks
6 17 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.72%) Apple
7 14 (2.72%) Okta
8 11 (2.14%) Amplitude
8 11 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 11 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.94%) Cisco
10 9 (1.75%) Optimizely
10 9 (1.75%) SAP
11 8 (1.55%) Informatica
11 8 (1.55%) New Relic
11 8 (1.55%) Sitecore
11 8 (1.55%) Tealium