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 3 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
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 94 95
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing Google 517 421 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.58% 3.17% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 6.01% 6.86% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 245 292
10th Percentile £319 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £700
90th Percentile £675 £733 £782
England median daily rate £510 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile £18.30 £29.76 £25.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £31.06 £25.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +23.08% -16.13%
75th Percentile £36.35 £59.73 £42.50
90th Percentile £44.20 £69.38 £44.35
England median hourly rate £33.37 £20.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +62.76% -70.71% +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 8,608 6,138 7,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.92% 46.29% 43.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,605 3,976 4,635
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.50% -4.82%
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 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.17
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 £65.00 £38.75 £61.39
90th Percentile £85.04 £63.75 £78.50
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 3 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 3 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 3 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 74 £513 -6.82% 168
South London -4 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -15 10 £550 +4.76% 148
East London - 3 £410 - 11
North London +1 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 (5.03%) Apache
2 23 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (4.06%) SharePoint
4 19 (3.68%) CMS
5 18 (3.48%) Confluence
6 17 (3.29%) Apache Spark
7 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (1.55%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.77%) WordPress
11 3 (0.58%) Drupal
12 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.19%) Luigi
13 1 (0.19%) Mendix
13 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.35%) 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 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.58%) iTrent
3 3 (0.58%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 302 (58.41%) GCP
2 131 (25.34%) AWS
3 130 (25.15%) Azure
4 65 (12.57%) Google Workspace
5 44 (8.51%) GitHub
6 38 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 35 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (6.00%) dbt
9 30 (5.80%) Google Analytics
10 24 (4.64%) SaaS
11 23 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (4.45%) Power Platform
12 22 (4.26%) Entra ID
12 22 (4.26%) Google Drive
12 22 (4.26%) Snowflake
13 20 (3.87%) Vertex AI
14 19 (3.68%) Google Sheets
15 18 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
16 16 (3.09%) Google Ads
17 15 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.22%) DNS
2 21 (4.06%) Firewall
2 21 (4.06%) VPN
3 10 (1.93%) Network Security
4 9 (1.74%) Internet
5 8 (1.55%) DKIM
5 8 (1.55%) DMARC
6 7 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.16%) DHCP
7 6 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.97%) SMTP
9 4 (0.77%) VoIP
9 4 (0.77%) WAN
9 4 (0.77%) WebEx
10 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.58%) Telepresence
10 3 (0.58%) VLAN
11 2 (0.39%) HTTP
11 2 (0.39%) NFC
11 2 (0.39%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.22%) BigQuery
2 41 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (4.06%) Power BI
4 19 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.29%) Big Data
5 17 (3.29%) Looker
5 17 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.90%) Metadata
7 14 (2.71%) Tableau
8 9 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.35%) Flink
9 7 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (1.35%) Redis
10 6 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.16%) MySQL
10 6 (1.16%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (6.58%) JIRA
2 32 (6.19%) Git
3 31 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.03%) GitLab
5 5 (0.97%) Gradle
6 4 (0.77%) Maven
6 4 (0.77%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.58%) JUnit
7 3 (0.58%) Selenium
7 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
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
1 136 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.02%) Finance
3 74 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 56 (10.83%) Marketing
6 31 (6.00%) Retail
7 25 (4.84%) Banking
8 17 (3.29%) Advertising
9 13 (2.51%) Publishing
10 12 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.13%) Legal
12 7 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.35%) Games
12 7 (1.35%) Law
13 6 (1.16%) Billing
13 6 (1.16%) Local Government
13 6 (1.16%) Military
13 6 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (13.15%) Architect
2 63 (12.19%) GCP Engineer
3 51 (9.86%) Senior
4 48 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 47 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 38 (7.35%) Developer
7 36 (6.96%) Lead
8 35 (6.77%) Analyst
9 19 (3.68%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.09%) Security Architect
12 14 (2.71%) Administrator
12 14 (2.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (2.51%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
14 12 (2.32%) GCP Data Engineer
15 11 (2.13%) Senior Architect
16 10 (1.93%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (17.99%) Terraform
2 38 (7.35%) REST
3 27 (5.22%) Kafka
4 20 (3.87%) JSON
5 18 (3.48%) React
5 18 (3.48%) RESTful
6 17 (3.29%) HTML
6 17 (3.29%) OAuth
7 15 (2.90%) LangChain
7 15 (2.90%) LangGraph
8 14 (2.71%) CSS
9 13 (2.51%) Apache Beam
9 13 (2.51%) Spring
9 13 (2.51%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.93%) JWT
10 10 (1.93%) Node.js
10 10 (1.93%) OAuth2
10 10 (1.93%) SAML
11 9 (1.74%) Middleware
12 8 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.77%) AI Agents
3 25 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.51%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.32%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.93%) Clustering
11 9 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.35%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.35%) PKI
13 7 (1.35%) Replication
14 6 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.16%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.58%) Windows
2 31 (6.00%) Linux
3 15 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.51%) Android
5 10 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.77%) 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
1 147 (28.43%) CI/CD
2 120 (23.21%) Agile
3 117 (22.63%) AI
4 101 (19.54%) Analytics
5 95 (18.38%) DevOps
6 92 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 83 (16.05%) Migration
8 69 (13.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 68 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (10.44%) Machine Learning
12 52 (10.06%) Software Engineering
13 51 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 50 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (9.48%) Roadmaps
16 47 (9.09%) Observability
17 44 (8.51%) Containerisation
17 44 (8.51%) Microservices
18 41 (7.93%) Event-Driven
19 39 (7.54%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 155 (29.98%) Python
2 107 (20.70%) SQL
3 61 (11.80%) Java
4 34 (6.58%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.64%) Bash
7 18 (3.48%) Scala
7 18 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.09%) Go
9 10 (1.93%) C#
10 9 (1.74%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.16%) Bicep
13 5 (0.97%) R
13 5 (0.97%) SOQL
14 4 (0.77%) Groovy
14 4 (0.77%) LookML
15 3 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.58%) PHP
16 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 115 (22.24%) Security Cleared
2 96 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.67%) Degree
4 28 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.74%) CISSP
8 9 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.16%) PhD
10 5 (0.97%) CISM
11 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.77%) PMP
12 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.58%) CRISC
12 3 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.80%) QA
3 17 (3.29%) GDPR
4 14 (2.71%) NIST
5 13 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.16%) PMO
7 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
9 3 (0.58%) GRC
9 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.39%) PSD2
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
11 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 61 (11.80%) Docker
2 19 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.77%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.06%) Ansible
3 19 (3.68%) Grafana
4 17 (3.29%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.55%) Puppet
8 6 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.77%) Istio
10 4 (0.77%) SCCM
10 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.77%) 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
1 100 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.45%) Adobe
2 23 (4.45%) Oracle
3 20 (3.87%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.68%) Databricks
4 19 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.29%) Splunk
5 17 (3.29%) TikTok
6 14 (2.71%) Okta
7 13 (2.51%) Apple
8 12 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.13%) Amplitude
9 11 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.93%) Cisco
11 9 (1.74%) Optimizely
11 9 (1.74%) SAP
12 8 (1.55%) Informatica
12 8 (1.55%) New Relic
12 8 (1.55%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.55%) Tealium