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 24 December 2025, 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 103 116
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Google 436 367 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.03% 2.45% 2.15%
As % of the Vendors category 6.42% 5.54% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 206 261
10th Percentile £313 £263 £206
25th Percentile £440 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £819 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 9
10th Percentile £29.93 £30.38 -
25th Percentile £35.75 £34.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +55.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £59.38 £56.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.55 £61.13 £39.00
England median hourly rate £33.09 £43.08 £32.66
% change year-on-year -23.19% +31.89% -6.69%

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 6,795 6,628 7,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.18% 44.18% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,426 4,142 5,166
10th Percentile £340 £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 £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £758
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 69 105
10th Percentile £17.64 £19.66 £16.91
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.80 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £42.14 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £66.38 £83.10 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.69 £30.52 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.38% -33.48% +74.02%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 84 £581 +1.09% 106
West London +2 21 £597 +53.08% 13
South London -5 3 £215 -62.61% 16
North London - 1 - - 1
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 19 (4.36%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.98%) Apache
3 13 (2.98%) Confluence
4 10 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.61%) CMS
6 4 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.69%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.69%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.46%) SAS
8 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.46%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.69%) Trello
6 2 (0.46%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.46%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Maya
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 260 (59.63%) GCP
2 112 (25.69%) Azure
3 85 (19.50%) AWS
4 69 (15.83%) GitHub
5 58 (13.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 43 (9.86%) Google Workspace
7 35 (8.03%) Power Platform
8 34 (7.80%) Cloud Run
9 31 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (6.88%) Google Analytics
11 27 (6.19%) SaaS
12 23 (5.28%) Google Gemini
13 20 (4.59%) Vertex AI
14 16 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (3.67%) Cloud Functions
15 15 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.44%) Entra ID
15 15 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (2.98%) Figma
16 13 (2.98%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.42%) Firewall
2 17 (3.90%) DNS
3 8 (1.83%) HTTP
4 7 (1.61%) VPN
5 6 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.15%) Network Security
7 3 (0.69%) Intranet
7 3 (0.69%) SMTP
7 3 (0.69%) SSL
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) Broadband
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.46%) DKIM
8 2 (0.46%) DMARC
8 2 (0.46%) Internet
8 2 (0.46%) LAN
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.46%) VRRP
8 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.83%) BigQuery
2 29 (6.65%) Power BI
3 20 (4.59%) Tableau
4 18 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.21%) Mixpanel
6 12 (2.75%) Looker
6 12 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.52%) Big Data
7 11 (2.52%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.83%) MongoDB
10 8 (1.83%) OLAP
10 8 (1.83%) OLTP
10 8 (1.83%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.61%) Metadata
12 6 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.38%) Redis
13 5 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 52 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.17%) Git
3 24 (5.50%) JIRA
4 23 (5.28%) GitLab
5 12 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.83%) Gradle
6 8 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.15%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.15%) JUnit
10 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.92%) Maven
10 4 (0.92%) Mockito
11 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.69%) Selenium
11 3 (0.69%) webpack
11 3 (0.69%) Xcode
General
1 125 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.87%) Finance
3 68 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.01%) Marketing
5 43 (9.86%) Banking
6 21 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (4.13%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.13%) Retail
8 17 (3.90%) Advertising
9 14 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.52%) Legal
11 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.83%) Publishing
13 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Electronics
14 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (11.47%) Senior
2 47 (10.78%) GCP Engineer
3 44 (10.09%) Developer
4 38 (8.72%) Architect
5 36 (8.26%) Analyst
6 27 (6.19%) Lead
7 25 (5.73%) Data Engineer
7 25 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (4.36%) Data Scientist
9 19 (4.36%) Security Engineer
10 18 (4.13%) Software Engineer
11 17 (3.90%) GCP DevOps
11 17 (3.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.21%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.75%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.52%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.88%) React
1 30 (6.88%) RESTful
2 25 (5.73%) FastAPI
3 22 (5.05%) HTML
3 22 (5.05%) LangChain
3 22 (5.05%) LangGraph
4 21 (4.82%) Kafka
5 20 (4.59%) Spring
6 19 (4.36%) CSS
7 18 (4.13%) Node.js
7 18 (4.13%) PyTorch
8 16 (3.67%) OAuth
8 16 (3.67%) Spring Boot
8 16 (3.67%) TensorFlow
9 15 (3.44%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.44%) Pandas
9 15 (3.44%) pytest
9 15 (3.44%) scikit-learn
10 10 (2.29%) Hugging Face
11 9 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.05%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.36%) Life Science
5 17 (3.90%) AI Agents
6 16 (3.67%) Genomics
7 13 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.52%) Social Media
9 9 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.83%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.38%) Digital Media
12 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.36%) Android
2 15 (3.44%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.21%) Linux
4 9 (2.06%) Windows
5 6 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.38%) Unix
6 5 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (32.11%) DevOps
2 128 (29.36%) CI/CD
3 113 (25.92%) AI
4 100 (22.94%) Analytics
5 99 (22.71%) Agile
6 80 (18.35%) Containerisation
6 80 (18.35%) Machine Learning
6 80 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (17.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 61 (13.99%) Migration
9 44 (10.09%) User Experience
10 43 (9.86%) Software Engineering
11 41 (9.40%) Generative AI
11 41 (9.40%) Microservices
12 37 (8.49%) LLM
13 36 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (8.26%) Data Modelling
13 36 (8.26%) Observability
14 34 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (7.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 149 (34.17%) Python
2 75 (17.20%) SQL
3 42 (9.63%) Java
4 41 (9.40%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.88%) Bash
6 27 (6.19%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.52%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.83%) C#
10 8 (1.83%) Go
11 6 (1.38%) Ruby
12 5 (1.15%) R
12 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.92%) Bicep
13 4 (0.92%) Swift
14 3 (0.69%) C++
14 3 (0.69%) Groovy
14 3 (0.69%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (11.24%) Degree
2 29 (6.65%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.52%) MCP
6 10 (2.29%) CISSP
7 9 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.38%) CCSP
10 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.92%) CCNA
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) GCIH
12 4 (0.92%) OSCP
13 3 (0.69%) CEH
13 3 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.26%) GDPR
2 22 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.52%) QA
6 7 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.61%) NCSC
7 6 (1.38%) NIST
8 4 (0.92%) GRC
8 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.46%) DICOM
9 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (23.39%) Docker
2 15 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.38%) Squid
4 5 (1.15%) Snort
4 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) KVM
5 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 101 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 87 (19.95%) Terraform
3 21 (4.82%) Ansible
4 15 (3.44%) Argo
5 13 (2.98%) Grafana
6 12 (2.75%) Istio
7 10 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.15%) Nessus
9 5 (1.15%) Nexpose
9 5 (1.15%) Suricata
10 4 (0.92%) Puppet
11 3 (0.69%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.69%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.69%) SCCM
11 3 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.46%) Knative
12 2 (0.46%) QRadar
Vendors
1 62 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.05%) Databricks
3 21 (4.82%) Splunk
4 19 (4.36%) Adobe
5 18 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (2.52%) Apple
8 11 (2.52%) Cisco
9 10 (2.29%) Optimizely
9 10 (2.29%) Oracle
10 9 (2.06%) OneTrust
10 9 (2.06%) SAP
11 8 (1.83%) Amplitude
11 8 (1.83%) Hotjar
11 8 (1.83%) Okta
11 8 (1.83%) Qualys
12 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
13 6 (1.38%) CyberArk