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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 93 94
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 542 416 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 3.09% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 6.24% 6.65% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 244 281
10th Percentile £350 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -12.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £700
90th Percentile £684 £775 £775
England median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 13
10th Percentile £17.25 £30.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £20.75 £34.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.97 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.81% +17.43% +66.67%
75th Percentile £43.06 £63.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £71.18 £44.59
England median hourly rate £29.07 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.62% -68.69% +112.12%

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 8,682 6,256 6,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.68% 46.45% 43.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,643 4,064 4,437
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £761
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 115 78
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £37.00 £25.15 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.12% -26.57% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £38.13 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.18%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -20 73 £513 -6.82% 164
West London -15 12 £504 -4.05% 47
South London 0 9 £550 +15.79% 5
East London - 1 - - 11
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 (4.98%) Apache
2 26 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.51%) CMS
3 19 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.32%) Confluence
5 12 (2.21%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.48%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.74%) WordPress
9 3 (0.55%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
11 1 (0.18%) Luigi
11 1 (0.18%) Mendix
11 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 14 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) InDesign
6 1 (0.18%) Maya
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.11%) Shopify
2 4 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.55%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (59.96%) GCP
2 146 (26.94%) AWS
3 144 (26.57%) Azure
4 68 (12.55%) Google Workspace
5 49 (9.04%) GitHub
6 45 (8.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 40 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (6.09%) Entra ID
9 32 (5.90%) dbt
10 28 (5.17%) Vertex AI
11 27 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (4.98%) Google Analytics
12 26 (4.80%) SaaS
13 21 (3.87%) Google Drive
13 21 (3.87%) Google Gemini
13 21 (3.87%) Power Platform
14 19 (3.51%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
16 17 (3.14%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.80%) DNS
2 18 (3.32%) Firewall
3 16 (2.95%) VPN
4 10 (1.85%) Network Security
5 9 (1.66%) Internet
6 8 (1.48%) DKIM
6 8 (1.48%) DMARC
7 7 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.11%) DHCP
8 6 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.74%) SMTP
9 4 (0.74%) VoIP
9 4 (0.74%) WAN
9 4 (0.74%) WebEx
10 3 (0.55%) HTTP
10 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.55%) Telepresence
11 2 (0.37%) 4G
11 2 (0.37%) 5G
11 2 (0.37%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.10%) BigQuery
2 39 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.69%) Looker
5 18 (3.32%) Power BI
5 18 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.95%) Metadata
7 14 (2.58%) Big Data
8 11 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.66%) MySQL
9 9 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.66%) Tableau
10 8 (1.48%) Redis
11 7 (1.29%) Flink
11 7 (1.29%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 47 (8.67%) Git
2 42 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.46%) GitLab
4 31 (5.72%) JIRA
5 8 (1.48%) Gradle
6 7 (1.29%) JUnit
6 7 (1.29%) Maven
7 6 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.55%) Gemini Tracker
10 3 (0.55%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.37%) Gatling
11 2 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 145 (26.75%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.00%) Finance
3 74 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.28%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.93%) Marketing
6 34 (6.27%) Banking
7 33 (6.09%) Retail
8 16 (2.95%) Advertising
9 13 (2.40%) Legal
10 12 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.03%) Publishing
12 10 (1.85%) Games
13 9 (1.66%) Military
14 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.29%) Law
15 7 (1.29%) Local Government
15 7 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.92%) Billing
Job Titles
1 78 (14.39%) Architect
2 62 (11.44%) GCP Engineer
3 58 (10.70%) Senior
4 50 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 41 (7.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (7.56%) Developer
6 39 (7.20%) Analyst
7 33 (6.09%) Lead
8 19 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.32%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.14%) Administrator
10 17 (3.14%) GCP Data Engineer
10 17 (3.14%) Security Architect
11 16 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (2.77%) Java Developer
13 14 (2.58%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (2.58%) GCP DevOps
14 12 (2.21%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.21%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (19.93%) Terraform
2 44 (8.12%) REST
3 27 (4.98%) Kafka
4 21 (3.87%) RESTful
5 20 (3.69%) OAuth
6 19 (3.51%) JSON
6 19 (3.51%) LangGraph
6 19 (3.51%) React
7 17 (3.14%) Spring
8 16 (2.95%) Spring Boot
9 15 (2.77%) HTML
9 15 (2.77%) LangChain
10 13 (2.40%) Apache Beam
10 13 (2.40%) Node.js
11 12 (2.21%) CSS
12 11 (2.03%) GraphQL
12 11 (2.03%) JWT
12 11 (2.03%) Middleware
12 11 (2.03%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.85%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 40 (7.38%) AI Agents
3 27 (4.98%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.21%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.85%) Clustering
11 10 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.48%) Replication
13 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.29%) PKI
14 6 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (7.38%) Linux
2 37 (6.83%) Windows
3 16 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.77%) Android
5 12 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.29%) Unix
8 6 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.37%) CentOS
11 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.37%) VMS
12 1 (0.18%) SUSE
12 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (31.18%) CI/CD
2 127 (23.43%) AI
3 122 (22.51%) Agile
4 107 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 106 (19.56%) DevOps
6 98 (18.08%) Migration
7 94 (17.34%) Analytics
8 85 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (11.44%) Roadmaps
11 60 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
12 56 (10.33%) Containerisation
12 56 (10.33%) Observability
13 55 (10.15%) Machine Learning
14 54 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (9.78%) Microservices
15 53 (9.78%) Software Engineering
16 49 (9.04%) Event-Driven
17 47 (8.67%) Cloud Security
18 46 (8.49%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 161 (29.70%) Python
2 114 (21.03%) SQL
3 68 (12.55%) Java
4 37 (6.83%) PowerShell
5 30 (5.54%) Bash
6 29 (5.35%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.80%) Go
8 19 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.95%) Scala
10 11 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.66%) C#
11 9 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.29%) R
13 6 (1.11%) Bicep
13 6 (1.11%) Groovy
14 5 (0.92%) SOQL
15 4 (0.74%) LookML
15 4 (0.74%) PHP
16 3 (0.55%) Perl
17 2 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 125 (23.06%) Security Cleared
2 106 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.78%) Degree
4 29 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.80%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.69%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.77%) CISSP
9 13 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.66%) CISM
12 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (1.11%) PhD
15 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.92%) PMP
16 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.90%) QA
3 17 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.14%) NIST
4 12 (2.21%) GDPR
5 6 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.11%) EU AI Act
5 6 (1.11%) NCSC
5 6 (1.11%) PMO
6 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.74%) GRC
7 4 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.55%) PSD2
8 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 72 (13.28%) Docker
2 22 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.55%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.55%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 31 (5.72%) Ansible
3 22 (4.06%) Grafana
4 20 (3.69%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.48%) Puppet
8 5 (0.92%) Argo
8 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.55%) Cilium
9 3 (0.55%) Istio
9 3 (0.55%) Nagios
9 3 (0.55%) SCCM
9 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.55%) vMotion
10 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 2 (0.37%) WSUS
11 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 112 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.35%) OpenAI
3 22 (4.06%) Adobe
3 22 (4.06%) Oracle
3 22 (4.06%) Splunk
4 18 (3.32%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.14%) Databricks
5 17 (3.14%) TikTok
6 16 (2.95%) Okta
7 14 (2.58%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.21%) Amplitude
8 12 (2.21%) Apple
9 11 (2.03%) Cisco
9 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.85%) IBM
10 10 (1.85%) SAP
11 9 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (1.66%) Optimizely
11 9 (1.66%) UiPath
12 8 (1.48%) Tealium