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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 92 88
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 459 373 484
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 2.89% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 5.77% 6.38% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 219 352
10th Percentile £291 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% -10.83%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £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 £41.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.08 £37.50
% change year-on-year +41.55% -33.12% -5.18%

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 7,953 5,846 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 45.35% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,207 3,788 5,008
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.78 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% +16.70% -21.32%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.04 £24.65
% change year-on-year +34.41% +5.64% -33.38%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +9 67 £525 +5.00% 88
West London -12 10 £603 -3.60% 6
South London +1 8 £575 -14.81% 2
East London +4 7 £523 -19.62% 9
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.36%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.92%) Apache
4 12 (2.61%) Confluence
4 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.44%) Drupal
6 2 (0.44%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.18%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.44%) Maya
6 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) 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
Cloud Services
1 262 (57.08%) GCP
2 107 (23.31%) AWS
3 99 (21.57%) Azure
4 95 (20.70%) Google Workspace
5 46 (10.02%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 33 (7.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 28 (6.10%) GitHub
9 26 (5.66%) Slack
10 24 (5.23%) Google Drive
10 24 (5.23%) SaaS
11 21 (4.58%) Cloud Run
11 21 (4.58%) Vertex AI
12 20 (4.36%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.92%) Google Ads
13 18 (3.92%) Google Analytics
14 17 (3.70%) Entra ID
14 17 (3.70%) Google Sheets
15 16 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.32%) DNS
2 20 (4.36%) Firewall
2 20 (4.36%) VPN
3 12 (2.61%) Network Security
4 9 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.74%) DKIM
5 8 (1.74%) DMARC
6 7 (1.53%) DHCP
6 7 (1.53%) Internet
7 5 (1.09%) SMTP
8 4 (0.87%) VoIP
9 3 (0.65%) HTTP
9 3 (0.65%) VLAN
10 2 (0.44%) BGP
10 2 (0.44%) IPv4
10 2 (0.44%) IPv6
10 2 (0.44%) NGFW
10 2 (0.44%) OSPF
10 2 (0.44%) Wireless
11 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 30 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (6.32%) Power BI
4 20 (4.36%) Tableau
5 17 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.05%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.61%) OLAP
8 11 (2.40%) Metadata
9 10 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (2.18%) Looker
9 10 (2.18%) Mixpanel
9 10 (2.18%) OLTP
10 9 (1.96%) Big Data
11 8 (1.74%) Redis
11 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.31%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.31%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.31%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.09%) MySQL
13 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.54%) JIRA
2 20 (4.36%) Git
3 18 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.05%) GitLab
5 3 (0.65%) ERwin
6 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.44%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.44%) Maven
6 2 (0.44%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Ant
7 1 (0.22%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.22%) Gradle
7 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 127 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.04%) Finance
3 61 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (10.02%) Marketing
5 45 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 33 (7.19%) Retail
7 31 (6.75%) Banking
8 17 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.83%) Advertising
10 10 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.18%) Publishing
11 9 (1.96%) Legal
12 8 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.53%) Military
13 7 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.31%) Games
15 5 (1.09%) Billing
15 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 59 (12.85%) GCP Engineer
2 47 (10.24%) Architect
3 46 (10.02%) Lead
4 42 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (9.15%) Data Engineer
5 41 (8.93%) Senior
6 33 (7.19%) Analyst
7 30 (6.54%) Developer
8 15 (3.27%) Administrator
8 15 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
8 15 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (2.61%) Consultant
9 12 (2.61%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (2.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (2.40%) Security Engineer
10 11 (2.40%) Software Engineer
10 11 (2.40%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.66%) Kafka
1 26 (5.66%) REST
2 19 (4.14%) OAuth
3 16 (3.49%) React
4 13 (2.83%) SAML
4 13 (2.83%) Spring
4 13 (2.83%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.18%) Great Expectations
6 9 (1.96%) .NET
6 9 (1.96%) JSON
6 9 (1.96%) Node.js
7 7 (1.53%) HTML
7 7 (1.53%) LangGraph
7 7 (1.53%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.53%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.31%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.31%) Apache Beam
8 6 (1.31%) Middleware
8 6 (1.31%) Next.js
8 6 (1.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 64 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.14%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.14%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.14%) Virtual Team
3 15 (3.27%) Data Centre
3 15 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.61%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.96%) Clustering
5 9 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.74%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.53%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.53%) Social Media
8 6 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.31%) Life Science
8 6 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.09%) PKI
10 4 (0.87%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.66%) Windows
2 21 (4.58%) Linux
3 14 (3.05%) Android
4 13 (2.83%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.40%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.18%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.65%) Unix
11 2 (0.44%) VMS
12 1 (0.22%) CentOS
12 1 (0.22%) Solaris
12 1 (0.22%) SUSE
12 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (23.31%) CI/CD
2 97 (21.13%) AI
3 87 (18.95%) Analytics
4 81 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (16.78%) Migration
6 75 (16.34%) DevOps
7 73 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (15.25%) Agile
9 49 (10.68%) Decision-Making
10 47 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.24%) Data Modelling
10 47 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (9.37%) Observability
12 42 (9.15%) Machine Learning
12 42 (9.15%) Software Engineering
13 38 (8.28%) Data Governance
14 37 (8.06%) Data Engineering
14 37 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (8.06%) Roadmaps
15 35 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 123 (26.80%) Python
2 89 (19.39%) SQL
3 50 (10.89%) Java
4 22 (4.79%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.70%) C#
7 15 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.83%) Go
9 10 (2.18%) Bash
10 9 (1.96%) Google Apps Script
10 9 (1.96%) Scala
11 8 (1.74%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.09%) Bicep
12 5 (1.09%) SOQL
13 4 (0.87%) Ruby
14 3 (0.65%) Korn
14 3 (0.65%) LookML
15 2 (0.44%) Groovy
15 2 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.80%) Degree
4 21 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.18%) CISSP
9 8 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.09%) CISM
12 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.87%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.65%) CRISC
13 3 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.65%) OSCP
13 3 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.32%) GDPR
3 22 (4.79%) QA
4 14 (3.05%) NIST
5 10 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.09%) NCSC
9 4 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.65%) PMO
10 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) PSD2
11 2 (0.44%) SLA
11 2 (0.44%) WCAG
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (7.41%) Docker
2 22 (4.79%) 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 (0.44%) 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 94 (20.48%) Terraform
2 62 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.61%) Ansible
3 12 (2.61%) Grafana
3 12 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.87%) Istio
6 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.87%) Puppet
6 4 (0.87%) SCCM
6 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.87%) vMotion
7 3 (0.65%) Nagios
8 2 (0.44%) Argo
8 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.44%) WSUS
9 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 75 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.14%) Apple
3 17 (3.70%) Databricks
3 17 (3.70%) Oracle
4 14 (3.05%) Okta
4 14 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.05%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.83%) Adobe
5 13 (2.83%) Splunk
6 12 (2.61%) TikTok
7 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.74%) Rapid7
8 7 (1.53%) Citrix
9 6 (1.31%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.09%) Cisco
10 5 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.09%) VMware
11 4 (0.87%) IBM
11 4 (0.87%) Qualys