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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 99 116
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing Google 447 404 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 2.54% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 6.76% 5.78% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 231 304
10th Percentile £308 £263 £221
25th Percentile £425 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £700
90th Percentile £838 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.33% -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 9
10th Percentile £30.11 £32.23 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £38.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +56.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £57.94 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £61.28 £39.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -56.46% +93.38% -7.66%

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 6,616 6,987 8,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.57% 43.91% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,282 4,395 5,594
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 112
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.22 £16.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -2.22% +53.15%
75th Percentile £41.25 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £93.13 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -23.08% -27.37% +69.73%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +26 83 £600 +4.35% 31
West London -2 14 £550 +37.50% 5
South London -5 3 £215 -62.61% 4
North London - 1 - - 3
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 16 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (3.58%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.91%) Confluence
3 12 (2.68%) Apache
4 8 (1.79%) CMS
4 8 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.67%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.45%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.22%) JBoss
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) nginx
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.67%) Sketch
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
8 1 (0.22%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.22%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 268 (59.96%) GCP
2 107 (23.94%) Azure
3 82 (18.34%) AWS
4 67 (14.99%) GitHub
5 57 (12.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 41 (9.17%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.61%) Google Analytics
8 33 (7.38%) SaaS
9 31 (6.94%) Power Platform
10 30 (6.71%) Cloud Run
11 26 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.25%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (3.58%) Cloud Functions
13 16 (3.58%) Google Gemini
13 16 (3.58%) Google Play
13 16 (3.58%) Google Sheets
13 16 (3.58%) Vertex AI
14 15 (3.36%) IaaS
14 15 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.15%) Firewall
2 19 (4.25%) DNS
3 9 (2.01%) HTTP
4 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.57%) VPN
5 6 (1.34%) Network Security
6 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.67%) Intranet
6 3 (0.67%) SMTP
6 3 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.45%) DKIM
7 2 (0.45%) DMARC
7 2 (0.45%) LAN
7 2 (0.45%) VLAN
7 2 (0.45%) VRRP
8 1 (0.22%) HSRP
8 1 (0.22%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.21%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.59%) Power BI
3 23 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (4.03%) Tableau
5 17 (3.80%) Big Data
6 13 (2.91%) Looker
7 11 (2.46%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.24%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.01%) Metadata
9 9 (2.01%) Mixpanel
10 8 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.79%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.57%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.34%) MySQL
13 5 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.12%) Redis
14 4 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 46 (10.29%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.07%) Git
3 25 (5.59%) JIRA
4 19 (4.25%) GitLab
5 13 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.01%) Gradle
7 8 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.34%) JUnit
9 6 (1.34%) Maven
9 6 (1.34%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.12%) Selenium
11 4 (0.89%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.89%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.89%) Mockito
11 4 (0.89%) webpack
12 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 131 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 103 (23.04%) Finance
3 66 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.51%) Banking
5 46 (10.29%) Marketing
6 20 (4.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.58%) Advertising
9 14 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.13%) Retail
10 10 (2.24%) Legal
11 9 (2.01%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.57%) Publishing
13 6 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 51 (11.41%) Architect
1 51 (11.41%) Senior
2 45 (10.07%) Developer
3 44 (9.84%) GCP Engineer
4 40 (8.95%) Analyst
5 28 (6.26%) Lead
6 24 (5.37%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (4.70%) Data Engineer
8 19 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (3.80%) GCP DevOps
9 17 (3.80%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.80%) Security Engineer
10 16 (3.58%) Software Engineer
11 15 (3.36%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.13%) GCP Architect
13 13 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.68%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.68%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.46%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.05%) RESTful
2 29 (6.49%) React
3 24 (5.37%) HTML
4 23 (5.15%) FastAPI
5 21 (4.70%) CSS
5 21 (4.70%) Kafka
6 19 (4.25%) LangGraph
6 19 (4.25%) Node.js
7 17 (3.80%) Spring
8 16 (3.58%) OAuth
9 15 (3.36%) pytest
10 14 (3.13%) TensorFlow
11 13 (2.91%) PyTorch
11 13 (2.91%) React Native
11 13 (2.91%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.68%) LangChain
13 11 (2.46%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.46%) Next.js
13 11 (2.46%) Pandas
13 11 (2.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.59%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.03%) Life Science
5 16 (3.58%) Genomics
6 15 (3.36%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.46%) Social Media
9 10 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.01%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.57%) NHS
12 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.34%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.59%) Android
2 19 (4.25%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.36%) Linux
4 10 (2.24%) Windows
5 7 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.65%) DevOps
2 131 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 113 (25.28%) Agile
4 98 (21.92%) Analytics
5 97 (21.70%) AI
6 83 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (17.90%) Containerisation
8 68 (15.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (15.21%) Machine Learning
9 59 (13.20%) Migration
10 46 (10.29%) User Experience
11 42 (9.40%) Test Automation
12 41 (9.17%) Data Modelling
13 40 (8.95%) Microservices
14 36 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (7.83%) Cloud Security
15 35 (7.83%) Data Governance
15 35 (7.83%) ETL
15 35 (7.83%) Software Engineering
16 33 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 143 (31.99%) Python
2 78 (17.45%) SQL
3 52 (11.63%) Java
4 43 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.71%) Bash
6 26 (5.82%) TypeScript
7 24 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.91%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.79%) Go
11 6 (1.34%) Bicep
11 6 (1.34%) R
11 6 (1.34%) Ruby
12 5 (1.12%) C#
12 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.89%) Scala
13 4 (0.89%) Swift
14 3 (0.67%) C++
14 3 (0.67%) Groovy
14 3 (0.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 49 (10.96%) Degree
2 25 (5.59%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.24%) CISSP
6 9 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.79%) MCP
8 6 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.34%) CCSP
9 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.89%) CCNA
10 4 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.89%) GCIH
10 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.89%) OSCP
11 3 (0.67%) CEH
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.83%) GDPR
2 24 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.15%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.46%) QA
6 7 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.57%) NCSC
6 7 (1.57%) NIST
7 6 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.12%) WCAG
9 3 (0.67%) GRC
9 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.67%) HL7
10 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.45%) DICOM
10 2 (0.45%) PMO
10 2 (0.45%) Section 508
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (22.15%) Docker
2 13 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.34%) Squid
4 5 (1.12%) Snort
4 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 82 (18.34%) Terraform
3 16 (3.58%) Ansible
4 12 (2.68%) Grafana
5 11 (2.46%) Argo
6 9 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.79%) Istio
8 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.12%) Nessus
8 5 (1.12%) Nexpose
8 5 (1.12%) Puppet
8 5 (1.12%) Suricata
9 3 (0.67%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.67%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.67%) SCCM
9 3 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.45%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 63 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.70%) Splunk
3 17 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.58%) Adobe
5 15 (3.36%) Databricks
6 14 (3.13%) Oracle
7 13 (2.91%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.91%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (2.46%) Cisco
10 10 (2.24%) Apple
10 10 (2.24%) Optimizely
11 9 (2.01%) Amplitude
11 9 (2.01%) Okta
11 9 (2.01%) SAP
12 8 (1.79%) Hotjar
12 8 (1.79%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.79%) OneTrust
12 8 (1.79%) Qualys
13 7 (1.57%) HubSpot