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 4 May 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
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 100 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 437 341 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.47% 2.71% 2.49%
As % of the Vendors category 5.79% 5.98% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 212 317
10th Percentile £300 £264 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.13% -7.65%
75th Percentile £606 £657 £660
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 16
10th Percentile £26.75 £26.47 £15.82
25th Percentile £33.13 £31.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -67.50%
75th Percentile £39.25 £55.25 £28.90
90th Percentile £49.58 £68.95 £43.13
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -35.00%

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 7,545 5,705 7,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.70% 45.39% 40.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 3,750 4,947
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 93 138
10th Percentile £18.48 £15.97 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.60 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +22.62% -17.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.69
90th Percentile £70.67 £67.00 £58.63
England median hourly rate £30.96 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.15% +20.56% -43.75%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +22 78 £525 +5.00% 88
West London -5 21 £603 +7.11% 9
East London -1 7 £520 -20.00% 11
South London -9 7 £606 -10.22% 3
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 25 (5.72%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.35%) Apache
3 16 (3.66%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.52%) Confluence
5 10 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.37%) CMS
8 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.46%) Drupal
9 2 (0.46%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.69%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.69%) Trello
8 2 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.46%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 251 (57.44%) GCP
2 114 (26.09%) Azure
3 94 (21.51%) AWS
4 87 (19.91%) Google Workspace
5 47 (10.76%) GitHub
6 44 (10.07%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (7.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 26 (5.95%) Amazon S3
9 26 (5.95%) Slack
10 25 (5.72%) Google Analytics
11 24 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.49%) SaaS
11 24 (5.49%) Vertex AI
12 23 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (5.03%) Cloud Run
14 18 (4.12%) Google Ads
14 18 (4.12%) Google Gemini
14 18 (4.12%) Google Sheets
15 17 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.49%) DNS
2 21 (4.81%) Firewall
3 13 (2.97%) VPN
4 10 (2.29%) Network Security
5 7 (1.60%) DKIM
5 7 (1.60%) DMARC
6 6 (1.37%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.92%) DHCP
7 4 (0.92%) Internet
8 3 (0.69%) VoIP
8 3 (0.69%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) BGP
9 2 (0.46%) HTTP
9 2 (0.46%) IPv4
9 2 (0.46%) IPv6
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) Broadband
10 1 (0.23%) LAN
10 1 (0.23%) SMTP
10 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (16.02%) BigQuery
2 35 (8.01%) Power BI
3 26 (5.95%) Tableau
4 22 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.12%) OLAP
7 16 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.66%) Mixpanel
8 15 (3.43%) OLTP
9 12 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.29%) Metadata
10 10 (2.29%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.06%) Looker
12 7 (1.60%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.37%) Big Data
13 6 (1.37%) MySQL
13 6 (1.37%) Redis
13 6 (1.37%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.14%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 31 (7.09%) JIRA
2 30 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.64%) Git
4 15 (3.43%) GitLab
5 5 (1.14%) JUnit
6 4 (0.92%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.69%) ERwin
7 3 (0.69%) Mockito
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.46%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.46%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Vite
9 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 124 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 76 (17.39%) Finance
3 72 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.98%) Marketing
5 35 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.09%) Banking
7 30 (6.86%) Retail
8 15 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.20%) Advertising
10 11 (2.52%) Legal
11 10 (2.29%) Publishing
11 10 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.37%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.14%) Military
17 4 (0.92%) German Language
17 4 (0.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (12.59%) GCP Engineer
2 44 (10.07%) Data Engineer
3 43 (9.84%) Lead
4 42 (9.61%) Senior
5 41 (9.38%) Architect
5 41 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.78%) Analyst
7 21 (4.81%) Developer
8 16 (3.66%) Administrator
8 16 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (3.43%) Data Scientist
9 15 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) Consultant
10 13 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) Principal Data Engineer
11 12 (2.75%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.75%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.29%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.64%) Kafka
2 19 (4.35%) LangChain
2 19 (4.35%) OAuth
2 19 (4.35%) React
3 17 (3.89%) PyTorch
3 17 (3.89%) REST
4 16 (3.66%) Great Expectations
5 15 (3.43%) Spring
6 14 (3.20%) Spring Boot
7 13 (2.97%) HTML
7 13 (2.97%) Pandas
8 12 (2.75%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.75%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.52%) LangGraph
9 11 (2.52%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.29%) CSS
10 10 (2.29%) Node.js
10 10 (2.29%) NumPy
10 10 (2.29%) RESTful
10 10 (2.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.43%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.97%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.06%) Life Science
7 9 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.06%) Social Media
8 8 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.37%) Clustering
11 5 (1.14%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.89%) Android
2 15 (3.43%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.20%) Windows
4 13 (2.97%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.29%) VMS
6 8 (1.83%) Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (26.09%) AI
2 113 (25.86%) CI/CD
3 99 (22.65%) Analytics
4 87 (19.91%) DevOps
5 81 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (14.42%) Machine Learning
8 58 (13.27%) Observability
9 56 (12.81%) Migration
10 55 (12.59%) Agile
11 51 (11.67%) Software Engineering
12 48 (10.98%) Data Engineering
13 45 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.07%) Data Modelling
14 44 (10.07%) Decision-Making
15 43 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (9.84%) Data Governance
16 42 (9.61%) LLM
17 38 (8.70%) Containerisation
18 37 (8.47%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 124 (28.38%) Python
2 83 (18.99%) SQL
3 37 (8.47%) Java
4 27 (6.18%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.58%) C#
6 17 (3.89%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.52%) Bash
7 11 (2.52%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.60%) Google Apps Script
8 7 (1.60%) Scala
9 6 (1.37%) Go
10 4 (0.92%) Ruby
11 3 (0.69%) LookML
11 3 (0.69%) Rust
12 2 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.46%) Korn
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 59 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.70%) Degree
4 16 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.92%) CISSP
9 4 (0.92%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.69%) CCSP
10 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.69%) OSCP
10 3 (0.69%) PhD
10 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.70%) GDPR
2 35 (8.01%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.81%) QA
4 10 (2.29%) NIST
5 9 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.92%) NCSC
9 3 (0.69%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.46%) SLA
10 2 (0.46%) WCAG
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.23%) PERC
11 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (10.30%) Docker
2 17 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) Snort
4 1 (0.23%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (21.51%) Terraform
2 67 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.20%) Ansible
4 13 (2.97%) Grafana
5 10 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.06%) Istio
7 8 (1.83%) Argo
7 8 (1.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.69%) SCCM
12 2 (0.46%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.46%) Knative
12 2 (0.46%) logstash
12 2 (0.46%) QRadar
13 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.23%) Oracle ZFS
13 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 57 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.18%) Databricks
3 18 (4.12%) Adobe
4 17 (3.89%) Apple
5 16 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.43%) Oracle
7 12 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.52%) Splunk
9 7 (1.60%) IBM
10 6 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.14%) Cisco
11 5 (1.14%) Facebook
11 5 (1.14%) OneTrust
11 5 (1.14%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.92%) Okta
12 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.92%) SAP
12 4 (0.92%) Tealium