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 16 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
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 95 118
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Google 435 379 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.03% 2.50% 2.14%
As % of the Vendors category 6.44% 5.65% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 216 269
10th Percentile £325 £263 £206
25th Percentile £446 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.08% -7.16%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 9
10th Percentile £29.93 £30.57 -
25th Percentile £35.75 £36.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +56.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £59.38 £57.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.55 £61.20 £39.00
England median hourly rate £31.75 £56.38 £32.32
% change year-on-year -43.68% +74.43% -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 6,759 6,706 7,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.06% 44.29% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 4,201 5,329
10th Percentile £338 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £763
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 67 107
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.37 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £23.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -8.27% +48.41%
75th Percentile £42.98 £64.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £66.34 £85.45 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.43% +73.88%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +31 83 £600 +4.35% 27
West London -1 19 £572 +46.67% 4
South London -2 3 £215 -62.61% 9
North London - 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 17 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.76%) Confluence
4 11 (2.53%) Apache
5 10 (2.30%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.61%) CMS
7 4 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.69%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.69%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.46%) SAS
9 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.46%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Luigi
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.46%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.46%) Trello
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Maya
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
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 (59.77%) GCP
2 113 (25.98%) Azure
3 82 (18.85%) AWS
4 64 (14.71%) GitHub
5 54 (12.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 42 (9.66%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.82%) Power Platform
8 31 (7.13%) Google Analytics
9 29 (6.67%) SaaS
10 28 (6.44%) Cloud Run
11 26 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (4.14%) Google Gemini
12 18 (4.14%) Vertex AI
13 16 (3.68%) Cloud Functions
14 15 (3.45%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.22%) Google Sheets
15 14 (3.22%) IaaS
16 13 (2.99%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.21%) Firewall
2 18 (4.14%) DNS
3 9 (2.07%) 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 63 (14.48%) BigQuery
2 28 (6.44%) Power BI
3 19 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (4.37%) Tableau
4 15 (3.45%) Big Data
5 12 (2.76%) Looker
5 12 (2.76%) Mixpanel
6 11 (2.53%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.61%) Metadata
9 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.38%) OLAP
10 6 (1.38%) OLTP
11 5 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.15%) MySQL
11 5 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 41 (9.43%) Git
3 27 (6.21%) JIRA
4 18 (4.14%) GitLab
5 13 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.84%) Gradle
6 8 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (1.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.15%) JUnit
9 5 (1.15%) Maven
9 5 (1.15%) Selenium
10 4 (0.92%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.92%) Mockito
10 4 (0.92%) webpack
11 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.69%) Xcode
General
1 124 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 100 (22.99%) Finance
3 67 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.80%) Banking
4 47 (10.80%) Marketing
5 21 (4.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (3.91%) Advertising
7 16 (3.68%) Public Sector
8 12 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.76%) Retail
9 10 (2.30%) Legal
10 8 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.84%) Publishing
10 8 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.92%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 50 (11.49%) Senior
2 44 (10.11%) Architect
3 43 (9.89%) Developer
3 43 (9.89%) GCP Engineer
4 36 (8.28%) Analyst
5 25 (5.75%) Lead
6 24 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.29%) Data Engineer
8 19 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (4.37%) Data Scientist
8 19 (4.37%) Security Engineer
9 17 (3.91%) GCP DevOps
9 17 (3.91%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.68%) Software Engineer
10 16 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.22%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.76%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.76%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.30%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.36%) RESTful
2 26 (5.98%) React
3 25 (5.75%) FastAPI
4 22 (5.06%) HTML
4 22 (5.06%) LangGraph
5 19 (4.37%) CSS
5 19 (4.37%) Kafka
6 18 (4.14%) OAuth
6 18 (4.14%) PyTorch
7 17 (3.91%) LangChain
7 17 (3.91%) Spring
7 17 (3.91%) TensorFlow
8 15 (3.45%) Pandas
8 15 (3.45%) pytest
8 15 (3.45%) scikit-learn
9 13 (2.99%) Node.js
9 13 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.53%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.53%) Hugging Face
11 10 (2.30%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.06%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.37%) Life Science
5 16 (3.68%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.68%) Genomics
6 13 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.53%) Social Media
9 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.38%) Digital Media
13 6 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.37%) Android
2 16 (3.68%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.22%) Linux
4 9 (2.07%) Windows
5 6 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.38%) Unix
6 4 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (31.03%) DevOps
2 126 (28.97%) CI/CD
3 105 (24.14%) Agile
3 105 (24.14%) AI
4 99 (22.76%) Analytics
5 80 (18.39%) Containerisation
6 79 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (17.47%) Machine Learning
8 71 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 60 (13.79%) Migration
10 42 (9.66%) User Experience
11 38 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (8.51%) Microservices
12 37 (8.51%) Software Engineering
13 36 (8.28%) Generative AI
14 35 (8.05%) LLM
14 35 (8.05%) Test Automation
15 34 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (7.82%) Data Engineering
15 34 (7.82%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 147 (33.79%) Python
2 76 (17.47%) SQL
3 48 (11.03%) Java
4 43 (9.89%) JavaScript
5 29 (6.67%) Bash
6 27 (6.21%) PowerShell
7 24 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.30%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.84%) Go
10 7 (1.61%) C#
11 6 (1.38%) Bicep
11 6 (1.38%) R
11 6 (1.38%) Ruby
12 5 (1.15%) Shell Script
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 50 (11.49%) Degree
2 27 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.30%) CISSP
5 10 (2.30%) MCP
6 9 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.38%) CCSP
8 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.92%) CCNA
10 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.92%) GCIH
10 4 (0.92%) OSCP
11 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.69%) CEH
11 3 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.28%) GDPR
2 24 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.53%) QA
6 7 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.61%) NCSC
7 6 (1.38%) NIST
7 6 (1.38%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.92%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) WCAG
10 2 (0.46%) DICOM
10 2 (0.46%) PMO
10 2 (0.46%) SLA
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.23%) HL7
11 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 99 (22.76%) Docker
2 15 (3.45%) 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 97 (22.30%) Kubernetes
2 85 (19.54%) Terraform
3 19 (4.37%) Ansible
4 12 (2.76%) Grafana
5 11 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (2.30%) Argo
7 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.61%) Istio
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%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.46%) QRadar
Vendors
1 61 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.83%) Databricks
3 20 (4.60%) Splunk
4 18 (4.14%) Adobe
5 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 14 (3.22%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.99%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.76%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (2.53%) Apple
9 11 (2.53%) Cisco
10 10 (2.30%) Optimizely
10 10 (2.30%) Oracle
11 9 (2.07%) Amplitude
11 9 (2.07%) OneTrust
12 8 (1.84%) Hotjar
12 8 (1.84%) Okta
12 8 (1.84%) Qualys
12 8 (1.84%) SAP
13 7 (1.61%) HubSpot
14 6 (1.38%) CyberArk