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 22 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
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 84 92
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 538 415 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 3.13% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 6.22% 6.73% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 236 284
10th Percentile £323 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -12.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £682 £750 £781
England median daily rate £510 £495 £535
% change year-on-year +3.03% -7.48% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £29.76 £25.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.06 £25.99
Median hourly rate £34.23 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +14.29% +62.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.00 £43.44
90th Percentile £46.97 £69.53 £44.58
England median hourly rate £29.07 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.86% -67.77% +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 8,649 6,163 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.76% 46.43% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,633 3,987 4,512
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 119 77
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -15.16% -17.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £64.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -28.14% -20.27%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -10 76 £513 -6.82% 186
South London -1 11 £550 +15.79% 2
West London -19 10 £469 -10.71% 86
East London - 1 - - 15
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 (4.65%) Apache
2 23 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.72%) Confluence
4 19 (3.53%) SharePoint
5 18 (3.35%) CMS
6 13 (2.42%) Apache Spark
7 9 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (1.49%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.74%) WordPress
10 3 (0.56%) Drupal
11 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.19%) Camunda
12 1 (0.19%) Luigi
12 1 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
Applications
1 16 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
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 (0.93%) Shopify
2 4 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.56%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) Sprinklr
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
1 316 (58.74%) GCP
2 139 (25.84%) AWS
3 138 (25.65%) Azure
4 66 (12.27%) Google Workspace
5 48 (8.92%) GitHub
6 44 (8.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 35 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (5.95%) dbt
9 30 (5.58%) Google Analytics
10 29 (5.39%) Entra ID
11 27 (5.02%) Vertex AI
12 26 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (4.65%) SaaS
14 23 (4.28%) Power Platform
15 22 (4.09%) Google Drive
16 19 (3.53%) Snowflake
17 18 (3.35%) Adobe Analytics
17 18 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (3.35%) Google Gemini
17 18 (3.35%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.65%) DNS
2 17 (3.16%) Firewall
3 16 (2.97%) VPN
4 10 (1.86%) Network Security
5 9 (1.67%) Internet
6 8 (1.49%) DKIM
6 8 (1.49%) DMARC
7 7 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.12%) DHCP
8 6 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.74%) SMTP
9 4 (0.74%) VoIP
9 4 (0.74%) WAN
9 4 (0.74%) WebEx
10 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.56%) Telepresence
11 2 (0.37%) 4G
11 2 (0.37%) 5G
11 2 (0.37%) NGFW
11 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.45%) BigQuery
2 39 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.90%) Looker
5 20 (3.72%) Power BI
6 19 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.97%) Metadata
8 14 (2.60%) Big Data
9 11 (2.04%) Tableau
10 9 (1.67%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 8 (1.49%) MySQL
12 7 (1.30%) Flink
12 7 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
12 7 (1.30%) Redis
13 6 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (8.18%) Git
2 40 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.32%) JIRA
4 33 (6.13%) GitLab
5 8 (1.49%) Gradle
6 7 (1.30%) JUnit
7 6 (1.12%) Maven
8 5 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.74%) Selenium
9 4 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
10 3 (0.56%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.37%) Charles Proxy
11 2 (0.37%) Gatling
General
1 147 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 105 (19.52%) Finance
3 77 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.48%) Marketing
6 32 (5.95%) Retail
7 31 (5.76%) Banking
8 17 (3.16%) Advertising
9 12 (2.23%) Legal
9 12 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.04%) Publishing
11 10 (1.86%) Games
12 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.49%) Military
14 7 (1.30%) Law
14 7 (1.30%) Local Government
14 7 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 75 (13.94%) Architect
2 62 (11.52%) GCP Engineer
3 56 (10.41%) Senior
4 45 (8.36%) Data Engineer
5 44 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (7.62%) Developer
7 39 (7.25%) Analyst
8 37 (6.88%) Lead
9 19 (3.53%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (2.97%) GCP Data Engineer
11 16 (2.97%) Security Architect
11 16 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.79%) Java Developer
13 14 (2.60%) Administrator
13 14 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (2.23%) GCP DevOps
14 12 (2.23%) Senior Architect
15 11 (2.04%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (19.14%) Terraform
2 44 (8.18%) REST
3 24 (4.46%) Kafka
4 20 (3.72%) RESTful
5 19 (3.53%) JSON
5 19 (3.53%) React
6 18 (3.35%) HTML
6 18 (3.35%) LangGraph
6 18 (3.35%) OAuth
7 17 (3.16%) Spring
8 16 (2.97%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.79%) LangChain
10 14 (2.60%) CSS
11 13 (2.42%) Apache Beam
11 13 (2.42%) Node.js
12 11 (2.04%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.86%) Middleware
13 10 (1.86%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.86%) SAML
13 10 (1.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.25%) AI Agents
3 24 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.23%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.23%) Security Posture
9 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.86%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.67%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.49%) Replication
13 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.30%) Clustering
13 7 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.30%) PKI
14 6 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.51%) Linux
2 34 (6.32%) Windows
3 15 (2.79%) Android
4 13 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.86%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.93%) Unix
9 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
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
1 162 (30.11%) CI/CD
2 123 (22.86%) Agile
2 123 (22.86%) AI
3 103 (19.14%) DevOps
4 102 (18.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 97 (18.03%) Analytics
6 92 (17.10%) Migration
7 85 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 81 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (10.97%) Roadmaps
10 58 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (10.04%) Containerisation
12 54 (10.04%) Observability
13 53 (9.85%) Microservices
13 53 (9.85%) Software Engineering
14 52 (9.67%) Machine Learning
15 47 (8.74%) Event-Driven
16 46 (8.55%) Data Modelling
17 43 (7.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.55%) Python
2 114 (21.19%) SQL
3 69 (12.83%) Java
4 33 (6.13%) PowerShell
5 31 (5.76%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.83%) Bash
7 24 (4.46%) Go
8 19 (3.53%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.16%) Scala
10 11 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.67%) C#
12 8 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.12%) Bicep
13 6 (1.12%) LookML
14 5 (0.93%) Groovy
14 5 (0.93%) R
14 5 (0.93%) SOQL
15 3 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.56%) PHP
16 2 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 117 (21.75%) Security Cleared
2 99 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.48%) Degree
4 29 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.35%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (2.60%) CISSP
9 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.49%) CISM
11 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.12%) PhD
12 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.74%) PMP
13 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.13%) QA
3 16 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.97%) NIST
4 12 (2.23%) GDPR
5 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.12%) PMO
6 5 (0.93%) NCSC
7 4 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.56%) GRC
8 3 (0.56%) PSD2
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (13.01%) Docker
2 19 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.56%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.39%) Ansible
3 19 (3.53%) Grafana
4 18 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (1.49%) Puppet
7 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.74%) Argo
9 3 (0.56%) Cilium
9 3 (0.56%) Istio
9 3 (0.56%) Nagios
9 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.56%) vMotion
10 2 (0.37%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.02%) OpenAI
3 24 (4.46%) Oracle
4 23 (4.28%) Adobe
5 19 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.53%) Splunk
6 18 (3.35%) Databricks
7 17 (3.16%) TikTok
8 15 (2.79%) Okta
9 13 (2.42%) Dynatrace
10 12 (2.23%) Amplitude
10 12 (2.23%) Apple
10 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.86%) Cisco
11 10 (1.86%) IBM
11 10 (1.86%) SAP
12 9 (1.67%) Optimizely
12 9 (1.67%) UiPath
13 8 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (1.49%) Tealium