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 3 months leading up to 9 April 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.

3 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 86 81
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Google 256 198 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.62% 2.92% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 6.22% 6.41% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 121 186
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +2.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £671
90th Percentile £676 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 9
10th Percentile £31.25 £28.30 £19.50
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +89.42% -65.33%
75th Percentile £35.75 £57.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £76.08 £33.90
England median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.41% +11.54% -34.67%

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 4,116 3,091 4,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.14% 45.64% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 2,002 2,760
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% -4.89%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 57 84
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £15.88
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +38.43% -16.00%
75th Percentile £44.38 £51.25 £31.75
90th Percentile £68.44 £68.00 £42.13
England median hourly rate £35.50 £28.75 £21.42
% change year-on-year +23.48% +34.25% -45.85%

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 3 months to 9 April 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 3 months to 9 April 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 3 months to 9 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 40 £538 +7.50% 92
West London -5 10 £603 -3.60% 2
East London +1 5 £525 -19.23% 5
South London -11 5 £744 - 3
North London - 1 £225 - 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 27 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.01%) Apache
3 13 (2.96%) Confluence
4 12 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.37%) CMS
7 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.28%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.68%) 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 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
2 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 257 (58.54%) GCP
2 115 (26.20%) Azure
3 94 (21.41%) AWS
4 77 (17.54%) Google Workspace
5 54 (12.30%) GitHub
6 46 (10.48%) Power Platform
7 39 (8.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 29 (6.61%) Amazon S3
9 27 (6.15%) Google Analytics
9 27 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (5.69%) Cloud Run
11 25 (5.69%) Slack
12 24 (5.47%) Vertex AI
13 20 (4.56%) SaaS
14 19 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (4.33%) Google Gemini
15 18 (4.10%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.01%) DNS
1 22 (5.01%) Firewall
2 14 (3.19%) VPN
3 11 (2.51%) Network Security
4 7 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.14%) DHCP
6 4 (0.91%) Internet
7 3 (0.68%) BGP
7 3 (0.68%) HTTP
7 3 (0.68%) VoIP
7 3 (0.68%) Wireless
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.46%) IPv4
8 2 (0.46%) IPv6
8 2 (0.46%) LAN
8 2 (0.46%) OSPF
8 2 (0.46%) SMTP
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
9 1 (0.23%) Broadband
9 1 (0.23%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (17.08%) BigQuery
2 37 (8.43%) Power BI
3 26 (5.92%) Tableau
4 20 (4.56%) Data Lake
4 20 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.56%) OLAP
5 18 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (4.10%) Mixpanel
6 17 (3.87%) OLTP
7 12 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.05%) Looker
8 9 (2.05%) Metadata
8 9 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.82%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.37%) Big Data
10 6 (1.37%) MySQL
10 6 (1.37%) Redis
10 6 (1.37%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.52%) Git
1 33 (7.52%) Jenkins
2 29 (6.61%) JIRA
3 16 (3.64%) GitLab
4 6 (1.37%) JUnit
5 5 (1.14%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (0.91%) Mockito
7 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.68%) ERwin
7 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.46%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.46%) Gradle
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 123 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.91%) Finance
3 75 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.16%) Marketing
5 35 (7.97%) Banking
6 31 (7.06%) Retail
7 28 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.33%) Advertising
9 13 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.51%) Legal
11 10 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (2.28%) Publishing
11 10 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.91%) Electronics
15 4 (0.91%) German Language
15 4 (0.91%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 60 (13.67%) GCP Engineer
2 45 (10.25%) Data Engineer
3 44 (10.02%) Senior
4 43 (9.79%) Lead
5 42 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (9.34%) Architect
7 36 (8.20%) Analyst
8 25 (5.69%) Developer
9 17 (3.87%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (3.64%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (3.42%) Data Scientist
11 15 (3.42%) Principal Data Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Security Engineer
12 14 (3.19%) Consultant
12 14 (3.19%) Software Engineer
13 13 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.73%) GCP Architect
15 11 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.06%) Kafka
2 20 (4.56%) LangChain
3 18 (4.10%) Great Expectations
3 18 (4.10%) React
3 18 (4.10%) REST
4 17 (3.87%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.64%) Spring
6 15 (3.42%) OAuth
6 15 (3.42%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.19%) HTML
7 14 (3.19%) Pandas
8 13 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.96%) RESTful
8 13 (2.96%) scikit-learn
9 12 (2.73%) LangGraph
10 11 (2.51%) CSS
10 11 (2.51%) Node.js
10 11 (2.51%) TensorFlow
11 10 (2.28%) NumPy
12 9 (2.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.42%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.96%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.28%) Life Science
8 8 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.82%) Social Media
9 7 (1.59%) Clustering
9 7 (1.59%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.37%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.10%) Android
2 17 (3.87%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.42%) Windows
4 14 (3.19%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.28%) VMS
6 8 (1.82%) Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (27.33%) CI/CD
2 118 (26.88%) AI
3 102 (23.23%) Analytics
4 98 (22.32%) DevOps
5 85 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (15.95%) Machine Learning
8 61 (13.90%) Observability
9 57 (12.98%) Agile
10 52 (11.85%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.16%) Migration
12 48 (10.93%) Data Engineering
13 46 (10.48%) LLM
14 44 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.02%) Data Governance
15 42 (9.57%) Data Modelling
15 42 (9.57%) Decision-Making
16 41 (9.34%) Containerisation
17 39 (8.88%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 133 (30.30%) Python
2 84 (19.13%) SQL
3 38 (8.66%) Java
4 26 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.01%) C#
6 17 (3.87%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.19%) Bash
8 11 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.28%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.82%) Google Apps Script
11 7 (1.59%) Go
12 4 (0.91%) Ruby
12 4 (0.91%) Scala
13 3 (0.68%) LookML
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
13 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 2 (0.46%) C++
14 2 (0.46%) Korn
14 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 50 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.57%) Degree
3 40 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.14%) CISSP
9 4 (0.91%) CCSP
9 4 (0.91%) OSCP
9 4 (0.91%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.68%) CCNP
10 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.68%) PhD
10 3 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.25%) GDPR
2 35 (7.97%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.33%) QA
4 11 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.28%) NIST
6 7 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.59%) NCSC
6 7 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) PERC
10 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (10.93%) Docker
2 15 (3.42%) 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
1 103 (23.46%) Terraform
2 74 (16.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.64%) Ansible
3 16 (3.64%) Grafana
4 11 (2.51%) Istio
5 9 (2.05%) Argo
5 9 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.68%) SCCM
10 2 (0.46%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.46%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.46%) Knative
10 2 (0.46%) logstash
10 2 (0.46%) QRadar
11 1 (0.23%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 57 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.38%) Databricks
3 21 (4.78%) Adobe
4 19 (4.33%) Apple
5 16 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.64%) Splunk
6 15 (3.42%) Oracle
7 12 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.59%) IBM
9 6 (1.37%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.37%) Okta
9 6 (1.37%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.14%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.14%) Facebook
10 5 (1.14%) Marketo
10 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.14%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.14%) Tealium