Google Contracts 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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 90 88
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Google 397 491 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.99% 2.79% 2.80%
As % of the Vendors category 6.56% 6.62% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 353 536
10th Percentile £275 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -10.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £768 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 6
10th Percentile £29.20 £21.10 £31.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £23.63 £53.94
Median hourly rate £49.00 £26.97 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.68% -60.04% +59.76%
75th Percentile £53.71 £32.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.80 £41.00 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.08 £36.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year -30.81% -8.34% +13.00%

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 6,048 7,419 10,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.54% 42.11% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,917 5,079 7,361
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -0.30%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 128 121
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.04 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +2.00% -22.60% +50.23%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Google in London

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in London.

Daily rate trend for Google in London

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in London

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in London.

Hourly rate trend for Google in London

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 -1 50 £525 +5.00% 360
West London +9 6 £575 +76.92% 51
South London -15 3 £675 +42.11% 14
East London +14 2 £650 +441.67% 16
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.78%) Confluence
2 10 (2.52%) Apache
3 9 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.76%) CMS
5 5 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.76%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) Sketch
5 1 (0.25%) Maya
5 1 (0.25%) Notion
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.76%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) assyst
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) iTrent
4 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.25%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 241 (60.71%) GCP
2 135 (34.01%) AWS
3 130 (32.75%) Azure
4 40 (10.08%) Google Workspace
5 31 (7.81%) GitHub
6 28 (7.05%) Power Platform
7 24 (6.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 21 (5.29%) Google Analytics
8 21 (5.29%) SaaS
9 19 (4.79%) Google Sheets
9 19 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (3.78%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.53%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.77%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.77%) dbt
12 11 (2.77%) PaaS
12 11 (2.77%) Serverless
12 11 (2.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.30%) Firewall
2 24 (6.05%) DNS
3 15 (3.78%) VPN
4 12 (3.02%) HTTP
5 10 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.02%) Network Security
7 7 (1.76%) DHCP
8 4 (1.01%) Intranet
8 4 (1.01%) SMTP
8 4 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.76%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.76%) VoIP
10 2 (0.50%) SNMP
10 2 (0.50%) VLAN
10 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.25%) Internet
11 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.25%) SSL
11 1 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.62%) BigQuery
2 31 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (6.55%) Power BI
4 22 (5.54%) Tableau
5 21 (5.29%) Big Data
6 19 (4.79%) Data Lake
7 16 (4.03%) Looker
7 16 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.27%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.02%) Metadata
10 8 (2.02%) MySQL
10 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.51%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.26%) Redis
14 4 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.05%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.55%) JIRA
3 19 (4.79%) Git
4 13 (3.27%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.51%) Gradle
5 6 (1.51%) Maven
6 5 (1.26%) JUnit
7 4 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.01%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.01%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.01%) ERwin
7 4 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.01%) TestNG
7 4 (1.01%) Vite
7 4 (1.01%) webpack
8 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.76%) Mockito
8 3 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 111 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.44%) Finance
3 63 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.34%) Banking
5 43 (10.83%) Marketing
6 24 (6.05%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.03%) Advertising
7 16 (4.03%) Retail
8 12 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.77%) Legal
9 11 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.27%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Military
14 3 (0.76%) Billing
14 3 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (22.17%) Architect
2 51 (12.85%) Senior
3 45 (11.34%) Developer
4 42 (10.58%) Analyst
5 27 (6.80%) GCP Engineer
6 23 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (5.54%) Data Analyst
7 22 (5.54%) Lead
8 21 (5.29%) GCP Architect
9 19 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.53%) Cloud Architect
11 17 (4.28%) Consultant
11 17 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.03%) Data Architect
12 16 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
13 14 (3.53%) Project Manager
14 12 (3.02%) Security Engineer
15 11 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.77%) Security Architect
16 10 (2.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.54%) Node.js
2 20 (5.04%) React
3 16 (4.03%) Kafka
3 16 (4.03%) RESTful
4 15 (3.78%) REST
5 14 (3.53%) React Native
6 11 (2.77%) Next.js
6 11 (2.77%) Redux
6 11 (2.77%) Spring
7 10 (2.52%) CSS
7 10 (2.52%) Jest
8 9 (2.27%) HTML
9 7 (1.76%) HTML5
9 7 (1.76%) Hugging Face
9 7 (1.76%) LangChain
9 7 (1.76%) OAuth
9 7 (1.76%) Sass
9 7 (1.76%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.51%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.02%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.77%) Social Media
6 10 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.02%) NHS
9 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.01%) PKI
12 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.80%) Windows
2 22 (5.54%) Linux
3 15 (3.78%) Android
4 11 (2.77%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.76%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.51%) Unix
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.50%) Rocky
9 2 (0.50%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.50%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.25%) AIX
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.25%) VMS
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (20.91%) CI/CD
1 83 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (19.40%) DevOps
3 71 (17.88%) Agile
3 71 (17.88%) Analytics
4 54 (13.60%) Migration
5 53 (13.35%) ETL
6 50 (12.59%) Containerisation
7 49 (12.34%) Data Modelling
8 48 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 45 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (10.08%) Data Integration
11 39 (9.82%) Machine Learning
12 34 (8.56%) Data Governance
13 33 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (8.31%) Microservices
14 32 (8.06%) Cloud Security
14 32 (8.06%) Project Management
14 32 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (7.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (26.45%) Python
2 75 (18.89%) SQL
3 38 (9.57%) Java
4 31 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.05%) TypeScript
6 23 (5.79%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.79%) Bash
8 8 (2.02%) Bicep
8 8 (2.02%) Go
9 5 (1.26%) C++
9 5 (1.26%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.26%) R
10 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.01%) Scala
10 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.76%) C#
11 3 (0.76%) Groovy
11 3 (0.76%) Perl
12 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (9.57%) Degree
2 29 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.27%) CISSP
6 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.51%) CEH
9 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.26%) OSCP
10 3 (0.76%) CCNA
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.76%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.76%) PMP
10 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.76%) VCAP
11 2 (0.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.30%) GDPR
3 18 (4.53%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.02%) QA
5 11 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.02%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.51%) NIST
7 6 (1.51%) WCAG
8 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.76%) NCSC
10 3 (0.76%) PMO
11 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.50%) HL7
11 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.50%) Section 508
11 2 (0.50%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) COSO
12 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (11.08%) Docker
2 19 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.76%) Lustre
6 3 (0.76%) vSphere
7 2 (0.50%) Firmware
7 2 (0.50%) XenApp
8 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.25%) Snort
8 1 (0.25%) Squid
8 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (17.38%) Kubernetes
2 66 (16.62%) Terraform
3 18 (4.53%) Ansible
4 13 (3.27%) Grafana
5 11 (2.77%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (2.27%) Puppet
7 6 (1.51%) Argo
8 5 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.01%) Istio
9 4 (1.01%) PowerCLI
10 3 (0.76%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.76%) Podman
10 3 (0.76%) vRealize
11 2 (0.50%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.50%) Nessus
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 79 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.03%) Oracle
3 14 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.02%) Adobe
5 11 (2.77%) VMware
6 10 (2.52%) SAP
7 9 (2.27%) Databricks
8 8 (2.02%) Apple
8 8 (2.02%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.51%) Cisco
10 6 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.51%) IBM
10 6 (1.51%) Informatica
10 6 (1.51%) Splunk
11 5 (1.26%) Amplitude
11 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.26%) Okta