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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 100 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Google 415 337 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.67% 2.51% 2.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.94% 5.69% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 194 286
10th Percentile £300 £268 £211
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £748
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 18
10th Percentile £31.25 £29.04 £15.95
25th Percentile £35.25 £41.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% +96.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £47.06 £59.75 £32.19
90th Percentile £55.25 £63.35 £35.50
England median hourly rate £32.75 £43.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.97% +65.67% -25.71%

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 6,981 5,926 7,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.93% 44.19% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,606 3,704 5,013
10th Percentile £350 £318 £280
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 £650 £673
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 145
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.34 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £35.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +35.71% +3.16%
75th Percentile £42.14 £61.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +33 86 £550 -4.35% 53
West London +1 22 £603 +54.49% 5
East London +3 5 £525 -4.55% 7
South London -13 2 £155 -73.04% 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 26 (6.27%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.58%) Apache
3 13 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.65%) Confluence
5 8 (1.93%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.69%) CMS
7 4 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.72%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.72%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.72%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.48%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.24%) Drupal
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.96%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.72%) Trello
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Maya
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 249 (60.00%) GCP
2 112 (26.99%) Azure
3 86 (20.72%) AWS
4 71 (17.11%) GitHub
5 69 (16.63%) Google Workspace
6 47 (11.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 44 (10.60%) Power Platform
8 37 (8.92%) Cloud Run
9 33 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.27%) SaaS
11 24 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (5.78%) Google Analytics
11 24 (5.78%) Google Gemini
12 22 (5.30%) Amazon S3
12 22 (5.30%) Slack
13 20 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (4.82%) Vertex AI
14 16 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (3.61%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.58%) Firewall
2 13 (3.13%) DNS
3 9 (2.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.69%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) DHCP
5 3 (0.72%) HTTP
5 3 (0.72%) Internet
5 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) Wireless
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.48%) Intranet
6 2 (0.48%) LAN
6 2 (0.48%) VoIP
7 1 (0.24%) BGP
7 1 (0.24%) Extranet
7 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.24%) SMTP
7 1 (0.24%) VRRP
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.07%) BigQuery
2 34 (8.19%) Power BI
3 24 (5.78%) Tableau
4 21 (5.06%) Mixpanel
5 18 (4.34%) Data Lake
6 17 (4.10%) OLAP
7 15 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (3.37%) OLTP
9 13 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.41%) Looker
11 10 (2.41%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.93%) Metadata
12 8 (1.93%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.69%) Redis
14 5 (1.20%) MySQL
15 4 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
16 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.72%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 44 (10.60%) Git
2 42 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 25 (6.02%) JIRA
4 17 (4.10%) GitLab
5 6 (1.45%) JUnit
5 6 (1.45%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 4 (0.96%) Android Studio
6 4 (0.96%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.96%) Gradle
6 4 (0.96%) Mockito
7 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.72%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.72%) ERwin
7 3 (0.72%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.48%) Ant
8 2 (0.48%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.48%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 2 (0.48%) Xcode
General
1 120 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.00%) Finance
3 67 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.67%) Marketing
5 31 (7.47%) Banking
5 31 (7.47%) Retail
6 24 (5.78%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (4.34%) Advertising
9 11 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.17%) Publishing
11 7 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.69%) Legal
12 5 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Electronics
13 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (10.84%) Senior
2 41 (9.88%) GCP Engineer
3 40 (9.64%) Architect
4 38 (9.16%) Data Engineer
5 34 (8.19%) Analyst
6 33 (7.95%) Developer
6 33 (7.95%) Lead
7 27 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (5.06%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.86%) Data Scientist
11 13 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.13%) Consultant
11 13 (3.13%) GCP Architect
11 13 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (2.89%) Principal Data Engineer
13 10 (2.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.75%) React
2 23 (5.54%) Kafka
3 21 (5.06%) Spring
4 20 (4.82%) FastAPI
4 20 (4.82%) LangChain
4 20 (4.82%) RESTful
5 19 (4.58%) HTML
5 19 (4.58%) LangGraph
6 18 (4.34%) OAuth
6 18 (4.34%) PyTorch
6 18 (4.34%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.86%) CSS
7 16 (3.86%) REST
8 15 (3.61%) AngularJS
8 15 (3.61%) Great Expectations
8 15 (3.61%) Node.js
9 13 (3.13%) pytest
10 12 (2.89%) Pandas
10 12 (2.89%) scikit-learn
10 12 (2.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.58%) Life Science
4 17 (4.10%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.37%) Genomics
6 12 (2.89%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.93%) Social Media
10 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.69%) Digital Media
10 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.30%) Android
2 20 (4.82%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.86%) Mac OS
4 14 (3.37%) Windows
5 10 (2.41%) VMS
6 5 (1.20%) Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (30.60%) CI/CD
2 122 (29.40%) DevOps
3 118 (28.43%) AI
4 90 (21.69%) Analytics
5 81 (19.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (17.83%) Agile
8 71 (17.11%) Machine Learning
9 64 (15.42%) Containerisation
10 56 (13.49%) Observability
11 50 (12.05%) Migration
12 45 (10.84%) Software Engineering
13 43 (10.36%) LLM
14 42 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (9.88%) Generative AI
16 38 (9.16%) Data Engineering
17 37 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (8.67%) User Experience
19 35 (8.43%) Data Governance
19 35 (8.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (33.25%) Python
2 72 (17.35%) SQL
3 36 (8.67%) Java
4 32 (7.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.82%) Bash
6 19 (4.58%) PowerShell
7 18 (4.34%) C#
7 18 (4.34%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.89%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.93%) Go
10 6 (1.45%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.96%) Ruby
12 3 (0.72%) VBA
13 2 (0.48%) Bicep
13 2 (0.48%) C++
13 2 (0.48%) Groovy
13 2 (0.48%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.48%) Rust
13 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (9.88%) Degree
2 40 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.69%) CISSP
7 7 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.96%) CCSP
10 4 (0.96%) OSCP
11 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.72%) PhD
11 3 (0.72%) SANS
12 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.88%) GDPR
2 29 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.86%) QA
4 11 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.69%) NCSC
6 7 (1.69%) NIST
7 6 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.96%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) PERC
11 1 (0.24%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (18.31%) Docker
2 14 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) Snort
3 3 (0.72%) Squid
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (22.41%) Terraform
2 92 (22.17%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.58%) Ansible
4 16 (3.86%) Grafana
5 13 (3.13%) Istio
6 11 (2.65%) Argo
7 9 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.93%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.72%) Nessus
11 3 (0.72%) Nexpose
11 3 (0.72%) SCCM
11 3 (0.72%) Suricata
12 2 (0.48%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.48%) Karpenter
12 2 (0.48%) Knative
12 2 (0.48%) logstash
12 2 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.99%) Databricks
3 19 (4.58%) Adobe
4 18 (4.34%) Splunk
5 17 (4.10%) Apple
6 15 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 10 (2.41%) Oracle
8 8 (1.93%) Amplitude
8 8 (1.93%) Hotjar
8 8 (1.93%) IBM
8 8 (1.93%) Okta
8 8 (1.93%) Optimizely
8 8 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.69%) Cisco
9 7 (1.69%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.45%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.45%) OneTrust
10 6 (1.45%) SAP