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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 95 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Google 460 370 489
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 2.91% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 5.82% 6.43% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 218 358
10th Percentile £300 £275 £323
25th Percentile £413 £400 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% -10.83%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £768
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 15
10th Percentile £26.25 £29.20 £21.10
25th Percentile £31.68 £36.25 £23.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +81.68% -61.47%
75th Percentile £36.05 £53.71 £32.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £71.80 £43.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +39.22% -32.00% -5.24%

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 7,906 5,758 7,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.35% 45.35% 41.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,197 3,736 5,031
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £537
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.78% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
England median daily rate £507 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.07% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 110 130
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.60 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -12.66%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.45 £24.50
% change year-on-year +32.33% +7.96% -34.67%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +4 67 £550 +10.00% 32
West London -16 10 £603 -3.60% 6
South London -2 8 £575 -14.81% 3
East London +4 7 £523 -19.62% 4
North London - 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 22 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.70%) Apache
4 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (2.39%) Confluence
6 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Drupal
8 2 (0.43%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.17%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.43%) Maya
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 262 (56.96%) GCP
2 107 (23.26%) AWS
3 101 (21.96%) Azure
4 94 (20.43%) Google Workspace
5 46 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (7.39%) Power Platform
7 33 (7.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 31 (6.74%) GitHub
9 27 (5.87%) Slack
10 24 (5.22%) Google Drive
10 24 (5.22%) SaaS
11 22 (4.78%) Vertex AI
12 20 (4.35%) Cloud Run
13 19 (4.13%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.91%) Google Ads
14 18 (3.91%) Google Analytics
15 17 (3.70%) Entra ID
15 17 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (3.48%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.30%) DNS
2 23 (5.00%) Firewall
3 20 (4.35%) VPN
4 14 (3.04%) Network Security
5 9 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.74%) DKIM
6 8 (1.74%) DMARC
7 7 (1.52%) DHCP
7 7 (1.52%) Internet
8 5 (1.09%) SMTP
9 4 (0.87%) VoIP
10 3 (0.65%) HTTP
10 3 (0.65%) VLAN
11 2 (0.43%) BGP
11 2 (0.43%) IPv4
11 2 (0.43%) IPv6
11 2 (0.43%) NGFW
11 2 (0.43%) OSPF
11 2 (0.43%) Wireless
12 1 (0.22%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (11.52%) BigQuery
2 29 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (6.30%) Power BI
3 21 (4.57%) Tableau
4 16 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.61%) OLAP
7 10 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (2.17%) Metadata
7 10 (2.17%) Mixpanel
7 10 (2.17%) OLTP
8 9 (1.96%) Big Data
8 9 (1.96%) Looker
8 9 (1.96%) Redis
9 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
10 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.30%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.09%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (6.52%) JIRA
2 21 (4.57%) Git
2 21 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.04%) GitLab
4 3 (0.65%) ERwin
5 2 (0.43%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.43%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (0.43%) Maven
5 2 (0.43%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) Ant
6 1 (0.22%) Gradle
6 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.22%) Mocha
6 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.22%) Subversion
6 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 128 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 94 (20.43%) Finance
3 61 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.78%) Marketing
5 43 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.96%) Banking
6 32 (6.96%) Retail
7 17 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.83%) Advertising
9 11 (2.39%) Publishing
10 10 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.74%) Legal
11 8 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.52%) Military
12 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.09%) Billing
13 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.09%) Games
14 4 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (12.61%) GCP Engineer
2 47 (10.22%) Architect
2 47 (10.22%) Lead
3 43 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (8.91%) Data Engineer
4 41 (8.91%) Senior
5 33 (7.17%) Analyst
6 29 (6.30%) Developer
7 15 (3.26%) Administrator
7 15 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (2.61%) Consultant
8 12 (2.61%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (2.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (2.39%) Security Engineer
9 11 (2.39%) Software Engineer
9 11 (2.39%) Support Engineer
10 10 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.65%) Kafka
1 26 (5.65%) REST
2 20 (4.35%) OAuth
3 18 (3.91%) React
4 13 (2.83%) SAML
4 13 (2.83%) Spring
4 13 (2.83%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.17%) Great Expectations
6 9 (1.96%) .NET
6 9 (1.96%) JSON
7 8 (1.74%) Node.js
7 8 (1.74%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.52%) Apache Beam
8 7 (1.52%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.30%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.30%) Middleware
9 6 (1.30%) Next.js
9 6 (1.30%) OpenID
9 6 (1.30%) PySpark
9 6 (1.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 65 (14.13%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.13%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.13%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.91%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.96%) Clustering
8 8 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.52%) Social Media
10 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.30%) Life Science
11 5 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.09%) Derivative
11 5 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.65%) Windows
2 21 (4.57%) Linux
3 15 (3.26%) Android
4 13 (2.83%) Mac OS
5 12 (2.61%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.17%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.09%) VMS
9 4 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.65%) Unix
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (23.70%) CI/CD
2 96 (20.87%) AI
3 84 (18.26%) Analytics
4 83 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (17.17%) DevOps
5 79 (17.17%) Migration
6 72 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (15.43%) Agile
8 49 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (10.22%) Decision-Making
9 47 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 45 (9.78%) Observability
12 42 (9.13%) Software Engineering
13 41 (8.91%) Machine Learning
14 37 (8.04%) Data Engineering
14 37 (8.04%) Data Governance
14 37 (8.04%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (7.83%) Roadmaps
16 35 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 122 (26.52%) Python
2 87 (18.91%) SQL
3 50 (10.87%) Java
4 22 (4.78%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.13%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.48%) C#
7 15 (3.26%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.61%) Go
9 10 (2.17%) Bash
10 8 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
10 8 (1.74%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.74%) Scala
11 5 (1.09%) Bicep
11 5 (1.09%) SOQL
12 4 (0.87%) Ruby
13 3 (0.65%) Korn
13 3 (0.65%) LookML
13 3 (0.65%) Rust
14 2 (0.43%) Groovy
14 2 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 71 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.57%) Degree
4 21 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.17%) CISSP
8 9 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.09%) CISM
13 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.87%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.65%) CRISC
14 3 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.65%) OSCP
14 3 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.09%) GDPR
3 23 (5.00%) QA
4 14 (3.04%) NIST
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.09%) NCSC
9 4 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.43%) PMO
11 2 (0.43%) PSD2
11 2 (0.43%) SLA
11 2 (0.43%) WCAG
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 33 (7.17%) Docker
2 22 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.87%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.87%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 97 (21.09%) Terraform
2 66 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.26%) Ansible
4 13 (2.83%) Grafana
5 12 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.87%) Istio
8 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.87%) Puppet
8 4 (0.87%) SCCM
8 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.87%) vMotion
9 3 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.43%) Argo
10 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.43%) WSUS
11 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 77 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.57%) Apple
3 17 (3.70%) Databricks
3 17 (3.70%) Oracle
4 15 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.04%) Okta
5 14 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.83%) Adobe
6 13 (2.83%) Splunk
7 12 (2.61%) TikTok
8 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.74%) Rapid7
9 7 (1.52%) Citrix
10 6 (1.30%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.09%) Cisco
11 5 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.09%) VMware
12 4 (0.87%) Tenable
12 4 (0.87%) UiPath