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 10 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 89 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Google 552 426 427
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.73% 3.18% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 6.37% 6.85% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 250 269
10th Percentile £350 £275 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -13.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £685 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £17.43 £30.96 £25.99
25th Percentile £21.63 £33.25 £30.38
Median hourly rate £28.89 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% +6.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £42.16 £62.75 £44.13
90th Percentile £47.24 £63.75 £53.10
England median hourly rate £25.64 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.95% -68.69% +116.58%

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 8,668 6,220 7,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 46.42% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,648 4,043 4,439
10th Percentile £341 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £750
England median daily rate £515 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 118 80
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.42
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -26.03% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £38.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £81.93
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 74 £500 -13.04% 203
West London -12 12 £504 -4.05% 29
South London -10 8 £550 +15.79% 6
East London - 3 £631 - 6
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 28 (5.07%) Apache
2 26 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.62%) CMS
4 18 (3.26%) SharePoint
5 17 (3.08%) Confluence
6 12 (2.17%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (1.45%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.72%) WordPress
11 3 (0.54%) Drupal
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.18%) Camunda
12 1 (0.18%) IIS
12 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.18%) Mendix
12 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.36%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.18%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) InDesign
6 1 (0.18%) Maya
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Shopify
2 4 (0.72%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) iTrent
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
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
1 327 (59.24%) GCP
2 159 (28.80%) AWS
3 149 (26.99%) Azure
4 67 (12.14%) Google Workspace
5 52 (9.42%) GitHub
6 46 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 38 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (6.34%) Entra ID
9 32 (5.80%) dbt
10 29 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (5.07%) Google Gemini
12 27 (4.89%) Google Analytics
12 27 (4.89%) SaaS
13 24 (4.35%) Vertex AI
14 23 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
14 23 (4.17%) Snowflake
15 22 (3.99%) Power Platform
16 20 (3.62%) Google Drive
16 20 (3.62%) Google Sheets
17 19 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.89%) DNS
2 21 (3.80%) Firewall
3 18 (3.26%) VPN
4 14 (2.54%) Network Security
5 11 (1.99%) Internet
6 8 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.27%) DKIM
7 7 (1.27%) DMARC
8 6 (1.09%) DHCP
8 6 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.91%) WAN
10 4 (0.72%) HTTP
10 4 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.72%) SMTP
10 4 (0.72%) VoIP
10 4 (0.72%) WebEx
11 3 (0.54%) NGFW
11 3 (0.54%) Telepresence
12 2 (0.36%) 4G
12 2 (0.36%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.96%) BigQuery
2 38 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.62%) Looker
5 19 (3.44%) Power BI
5 19 (3.44%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.90%) Big Data
7 15 (2.72%) Metadata
8 13 (2.36%) Tableau
9 11 (1.99%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.99%) MySQL
10 9 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.45%) Redis
12 7 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
13 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.09%) Flink
13 6 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (9.06%) Git
2 46 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 37 (6.70%) GitLab
4 30 (5.43%) JIRA
5 10 (1.81%) Gradle
6 9 (1.63%) JUnit
6 9 (1.63%) Maven
7 7 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.72%) Mockito
9 4 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.72%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.54%) Gemini Tracker
10 3 (0.54%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
General
1 143 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.38%) Finance
3 74 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.70%) Marketing
6 40 (7.25%) Banking
7 34 (6.16%) Retail
8 17 (3.08%) Advertising
9 15 (2.72%) Legal
10 14 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.99%) Games
11 11 (1.99%) Publishing
12 10 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.63%) Military
14 8 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.27%) Law
15 7 (1.27%) Local Government
15 7 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.09%) Billing
17 5 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 79 (14.31%) Architect
2 65 (11.78%) GCP Engineer
3 60 (10.87%) Senior
4 51 (9.24%) Data Engineer
5 44 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 44 (7.97%) Developer
6 42 (7.61%) Analyst
7 31 (5.62%) Lead
8 25 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (3.44%) GCP Data Engineer
9 19 (3.44%) GCP DevOps
10 17 (3.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.08%) Java Developer
11 16 (2.90%) Administrator
11 16 (2.90%) Security Architect
11 16 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (2.90%) Support Engineer
12 15 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (20.11%) Terraform
2 44 (7.97%) REST
3 31 (5.62%) Kafka
4 23 (4.17%) RESTful
5 21 (3.80%) LangGraph
6 20 (3.62%) JSON
6 20 (3.62%) OAuth
6 20 (3.62%) React
7 19 (3.44%) Spring
8 18 (3.26%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.90%) HTML
10 15 (2.72%) LangChain
11 14 (2.54%) Node.js
12 13 (2.36%) CSS
13 12 (2.17%) Apache Beam
13 12 (2.17%) SOAP
13 12 (2.17%) XML
14 11 (1.99%) JWT
14 11 (1.99%) Middleware
14 11 (1.99%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 96 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 41 (7.43%) AI Agents
3 30 (5.43%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 12 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 10 (1.81%) Clustering
12 10 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.45%) Replication
14 7 (1.27%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.15%) Linux
2 39 (7.07%) Windows
3 16 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.72%) Android
5 12 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.63%) Unix
8 6 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.54%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.36%) CentOS
12 2 (0.36%) VMS
13 1 (0.18%) SUSE
13 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (32.07%) CI/CD
2 136 (24.64%) AI
3 122 (22.10%) Agile
4 116 (21.01%) DevOps
5 112 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 98 (17.75%) Migration
7 94 (17.03%) Analytics
8 85 (15.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (11.59%) Roadmaps
11 62 (11.23%) Observability
12 61 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
13 60 (10.87%) Containerisation
14 56 (10.14%) Machine Learning
14 56 (10.14%) Microservices
15 55 (9.96%) Software Engineering
16 53 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (9.24%) Event-Driven
18 49 (8.88%) Cloud Security
19 48 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 160 (28.99%) Python
2 117 (21.20%) SQL
3 70 (12.68%) Java
4 37 (6.70%) PowerShell
5 34 (6.16%) Bash
6 27 (4.89%) Go
6 27 (4.89%) JavaScript
7 20 (3.62%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 15 (2.72%) Scala
9 10 (1.81%) C#
10 9 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.27%) Bicep
12 6 (1.09%) Groovy
12 6 (1.09%) R
13 5 (0.91%) SOQL
14 4 (0.72%) LookML
14 4 (0.72%) PHP
15 3 (0.54%) Perl
16 2 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 125 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 106 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.51%) Degree
4 31 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.62%) Azure Certification
8 16 (2.90%) CISSP
9 13 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (1.63%) CISM
12 7 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.09%) PhD
14 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.91%) PMP
15 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.97%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.80%) QA
3 18 (3.26%) NIST
4 17 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.17%) GDPR
6 7 (1.27%) NCSC
7 6 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.09%) EU AI Act
7 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.09%) PMO
8 4 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.54%) GRC
9 3 (0.54%) PSD2
9 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 77 (13.95%) Docker
2 23 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.54%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.54%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 124 (22.46%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.34%) Ansible
3 23 (4.17%) Grafana
4 21 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.63%) Puppet
7 8 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.09%) Argo
10 3 (0.54%) Cilium
10 3 (0.54%) Istio
10 3 (0.54%) Kibana
10 3 (0.54%) Nagios
10 3 (0.54%) SCCM
10 3 (0.54%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.54%) vMotion
11 2 (0.36%) logstash
11 2 (0.36%) WSUS
12 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 119 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.80%) OpenAI
3 25 (4.53%) Oracle
4 24 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 23 (4.17%) Adobe
6 22 (3.99%) Splunk
7 18 (3.26%) Databricks
8 17 (3.08%) TikTok
9 16 (2.90%) Okta
10 14 (2.54%) Dynatrace
11 12 (2.17%) Amplitude
11 12 (2.17%) Apple
12 10 (1.81%) Cisco
12 10 (1.81%) IBM
12 10 (1.81%) SAP
12 10 (1.81%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.63%) Optimizely
13 9 (1.63%) UiPath
14 8 (1.45%) Tealium