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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 100 124
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -22
Contract jobs citing Google 397 342 374
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.81% 2.44% 2.06%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 5.55% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 189 254
10th Percentile £325 £293 £203
25th Percentile £445 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £675
90th Percentile £819 £775 £759
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 12
10th Percentile £29.76 £30.33 £15.56
25th Percentile £35.50 £32.38 £16.79
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +100.00% -38.57%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.30 £61.28 -
England median hourly rate £33.09 £43.08 £32.32
% change year-on-year -23.19% +33.28% -7.66%

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 6,554 6,163 7,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.46% 43.89% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,284 3,821 5,012
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 68 116
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £14.99
25th Percentile £21.23 £23.80 £20.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.42 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% -5.50% +33.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £53.31
90th Percentile £67.70 £84.28 £86.38
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -20.58% -31.63% +46.27%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +32 80 £556 -5.32% 49
West London 0 19 £600 +53.85% 12
South London -5 2 £155 -73.04% 3
East London -9 2 £200 -66.67% 8
North London - 1 - - 2
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 18 (4.53%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.02%) Confluence
4 10 (2.52%) Apache
5 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.51%) CMS
7 4 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.76%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.76%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.76%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.50%) SAS
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Drupal
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Luigi
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.01%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.76%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.76%) Trello
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Maya
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.25%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 238 (59.95%) GCP
2 106 (26.70%) Azure
3 72 (18.14%) AWS
3 72 (18.14%) GitHub
4 52 (13.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 40 (10.08%) Google Workspace
6 35 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 33 (8.31%) Cloud Run
8 27 (6.80%) Google Analytics
9 25 (6.30%) SaaS
10 23 (5.79%) Google Gemini
11 20 (5.04%) Vertex AI
12 18 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (3.78%) Entra ID
14 14 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (3.53%) Cloud Functions
14 14 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (3.27%) Slack
15 13 (3.27%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.55%) Firewall
2 9 (2.27%) DNS
2 9 (2.27%) Network Security
3 5 (1.26%) HTTP
4 4 (1.01%) VPN
5 3 (0.76%) Intranet
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.76%) Wireless
6 2 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.50%) Broadband
6 2 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.50%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) LAN
6 2 (0.50%) SMTP
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) VLAN
6 2 (0.50%) VRRP
7 1 (0.25%) SMS
7 1 (0.25%) VoIP
7 1 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (14.86%) BigQuery
2 29 (7.30%) Power BI
3 23 (5.79%) Tableau
4 14 (3.53%) Mixpanel
5 13 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.77%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.52%) Looker
9 9 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.02%) Big Data
10 8 (2.02%) OLAP
10 8 (2.02%) OLTP
10 8 (2.02%) Redis
11 7 (1.76%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.51%) Metadata
12 6 (1.51%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.26%) MySQL
14 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (13.35%) Jenkins
2 39 (9.82%) Git
3 24 (6.05%) JIRA
4 21 (5.29%) GitLab
5 11 (2.77%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.76%) Gradle
8 6 (1.51%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.26%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.26%) JUnit
10 4 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (1.01%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.01%) Mockito
11 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.76%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.76%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.76%) Maven
11 3 (0.76%) Xcode
12 2 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 114 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.40%) Finance
3 60 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.33%) Banking
4 41 (10.33%) Marketing
5 21 (5.29%) Pharmaceutical
6 16 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.78%) Advertising
8 13 (3.27%) Retail
9 11 (2.77%) Publishing
10 10 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.02%) Legal
13 6 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.26%) Electronics
14 5 (1.26%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (12.59%) Senior
2 43 (10.83%) GCP Engineer
3 38 (9.57%) Developer
4 35 (8.82%) Analyst
5 33 (8.31%) Architect
6 26 (6.55%) Lead
7 25 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.05%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.28%) Data Scientist
9 17 (4.28%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.03%) GCP DevOps
10 16 (4.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.78%) Security Engineer
12 14 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.27%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.52%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.52%) Java Developer
15 10 (2.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.05%) RESTful
2 26 (6.55%) React
3 24 (6.05%) FastAPI
4 22 (5.54%) LangGraph
5 21 (5.29%) Kafka
5 21 (5.29%) LangChain
6 20 (5.04%) HTML
6 20 (5.04%) Spring
7 17 (4.28%) CSS
7 17 (4.28%) Node.js
7 17 (4.28%) OAuth
8 16 (4.03%) PyTorch
8 16 (4.03%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.78%) pytest
10 13 (3.27%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.27%) Pandas
10 13 (3.27%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.27%) TensorFlow
11 10 (2.52%) OAuth2
11 10 (2.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.79%) Life Science
4 17 (4.28%) Mobile App
5 16 (4.03%) AI Agents
5 16 (4.03%) Genomics
6 10 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.27%) Social Media
8 8 (2.02%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.51%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.79%) Android
2 15 (3.78%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.77%) Linux
4 10 (2.52%) VMS
5 8 (2.02%) Windows
6 6 (1.51%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.26%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (32.75%) DevOps
2 119 (29.97%) CI/CD
3 108 (27.20%) AI
4 87 (21.91%) Agile
5 85 (21.41%) Analytics
6 75 (18.89%) Containerisation
6 75 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (17.88%) Machine Learning
8 70 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (14.61%) Migration
10 41 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (10.33%) Generative AI
10 41 (10.33%) Microservices
10 41 (10.33%) Software Engineering
11 39 (9.82%) User Experience
12 38 (9.57%) Observability
13 36 (9.07%) LLM
14 35 (8.82%) Test Automation
15 33 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (34.26%) Python
2 67 (16.88%) SQL
3 37 (9.32%) Java
3 37 (9.32%) JavaScript
4 23 (5.79%) Bash
5 22 (5.54%) PowerShell
6 19 (4.79%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.52%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.02%) C#
8 8 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.51%) Go
9 6 (1.51%) Ruby
10 5 (1.26%) R
10 5 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.01%) Bicep
12 3 (0.76%) C++
12 3 (0.76%) Groovy
12 3 (0.76%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.76%) Scala
12 3 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (10.83%) Degree
2 31 (7.81%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.77%) MCP
6 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.76%) CISSP
8 6 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.26%) CCSP
9 5 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.76%) CCNA
10 3 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.76%) GCIH
10 3 (0.76%) OSCP
10 3 (0.76%) PhD
11 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.31%) GDPR
2 21 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.02%) QA
5 8 (2.02%) NCSC
6 6 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.26%) NIST
8 4 (1.01%) GRC
8 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.50%) DICOM
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (23.68%) Docker
2 13 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) Squid
4 4 (1.01%) Snort
5 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 101 (25.44%) Kubernetes
2 87 (21.91%) Terraform
3 24 (6.05%) Ansible
4 13 (3.27%) Grafana
5 12 (3.02%) Argo
5 12 (3.02%) Istio
6 9 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.01%) Nessus
9 4 (1.01%) Nexpose
9 4 (1.01%) Puppet
9 4 (1.01%) Suricata
10 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.76%) SCCM
11 2 (0.50%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.50%) Knative
11 2 (0.50%) logstash
11 2 (0.50%) QRadar
11 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 58 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.04%) Adobe
2 20 (5.04%) Databricks
2 20 (5.04%) Salesforce
3 19 (4.79%) Splunk
4 16 (4.03%) Apple
5 12 (3.02%) OpenAI
5 12 (3.02%) Palo Alto
6 10 (2.52%) Cisco
6 10 (2.52%) Oracle
7 9 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (2.27%) Optimizely
8 8 (2.02%) Hotjar
8 8 (2.02%) Okta
8 8 (2.02%) OneTrust
8 8 (2.02%) SAP
9 7 (1.76%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.76%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.51%) IBM
10 6 (1.51%) Qualys