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 17 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.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 95 95
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 443 347 428
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.55% 2.74% 2.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.85% 6.07% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 206 305
10th Percentile £296 £263 £253
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -7.83%
75th Percentile £614 £674 £658
90th Percentile £748 £763 £772
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 16
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.24 £15.82
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.13 £19.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -65.33%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.25 £28.90
90th Percentile £50.08 £66.10 £37.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.26%

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 7,570 5,716 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.66% 45.13% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,990 3,747 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £767 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 146
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +17.80% -4.02%
75th Percentile £45.75 £52.50 £39.77
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £29.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +2.61% +27.78% -41.56%

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 17 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 6 months to 17 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 6 months to 17 April 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 +32 83 £550 +10.00% 80
West London -3 25 £603 +7.11% 7
East London -1 7 £520 -20.00% 8
South London -8 7 £637 - 1
North London - 1 £225 - 4
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 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.74%) Apache
3 13 (2.93%) Confluence
3 13 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.13%) CMS
7 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.26%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.68%) Trello
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.45%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.45%) 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
1 257 (58.01%) GCP
2 117 (26.41%) Azure
3 94 (21.22%) AWS
4 83 (18.74%) Google Workspace
5 54 (12.19%) GitHub
6 46 (10.38%) Power Platform
7 37 (8.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 32 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (6.32%) Amazon S3
10 26 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (5.87%) Google Analytics
11 25 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (5.64%) Cloud Run
11 25 (5.64%) Slack
11 25 (5.64%) Vertex AI
12 24 (5.42%) SaaS
13 19 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (4.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (4.29%) Google Gemini
14 18 (4.06%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.42%) DNS
2 22 (4.97%) Firewall
3 14 (3.16%) VPN
4 11 (2.48%) Network Security
5 7 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.35%) DKIM
6 6 (1.35%) DMARC
7 5 (1.13%) DHCP
8 4 (0.90%) Internet
9 3 (0.68%) BGP
9 3 (0.68%) HTTP
9 3 (0.68%) VoIP
9 3 (0.68%) Wireless
10 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.45%) IPv4
10 2 (0.45%) IPv6
10 2 (0.45%) LAN
10 2 (0.45%) OSPF
10 2 (0.45%) SMTP
10 2 (0.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (16.03%) BigQuery
2 37 (8.35%) Power BI
3 27 (6.09%) Tableau
4 21 (4.74%) Data Lake
4 21 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.51%) OLAP
6 18 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.06%) Mixpanel
7 17 (3.84%) OLTP
8 12 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.26%) Metadata
10 9 (2.03%) Looker
10 9 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.58%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.35%) Big Data
12 6 (1.35%) MySQL
12 6 (1.35%) Redis
12 6 (1.35%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.45%) Git
1 33 (7.45%) Jenkins
1 33 (7.45%) JIRA
2 15 (3.39%) GitLab
3 6 (1.35%) JUnit
4 5 (1.13%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (0.90%) Mockito
6 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.68%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.68%) ERwin
6 3 (0.68%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.45%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.45%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.45%) Gradle
7 2 (0.45%) MLflow
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.23%) Xcode
General
1 124 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (17.16%) Finance
4 46 (10.38%) Marketing
5 34 (7.67%) Banking
5 34 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.22%) Retail
7 17 (3.84%) Advertising
8 13 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.48%) Legal
9 11 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.26%) Publishing
10 10 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.13%) Military
15 4 (0.90%) German Language
15 4 (0.90%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 57 (12.87%) GCP Engineer
2 44 (9.93%) Data Engineer
2 44 (9.93%) Lead
2 44 (9.93%) Senior
3 42 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (9.03%) Architect
5 37 (8.35%) Analyst
6 25 (5.64%) Developer
7 17 (3.84%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (3.61%) Data Scientist
9 15 (3.39%) Principal Data Engineer
9 15 (3.39%) Software Engineer
10 14 (3.16%) Consultant
10 14 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (2.93%) Administrator
12 12 (2.71%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.26%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.00%) Kafka
2 20 (4.51%) LangChain
2 20 (4.51%) React
3 18 (4.06%) Great Expectations
3 18 (4.06%) OAuth
3 18 (4.06%) REST
4 17 (3.84%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.61%) Spring
6 15 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.16%) HTML
7 14 (3.16%) Pandas
8 13 (2.93%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.93%) LangGraph
8 13 (2.93%) RESTful
8 13 (2.93%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.48%) CSS
9 11 (2.48%) Node.js
9 11 (2.48%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.26%) FastAPI
10 10 (2.26%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.96%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.93%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.71%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.48%) Life Science
8 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.81%) Social Media
9 7 (1.58%) Digital Media
9 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.35%) Clustering
10 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.13%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.06%) Android
2 17 (3.84%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.39%) Windows
4 14 (3.16%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.26%) VMS
6 7 (1.58%) Linux
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (26.86%) AI
2 118 (26.64%) CI/CD
3 101 (22.80%) Analytics
4 95 (21.44%) DevOps
5 85 (19.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (15.80%) Machine Learning
6 70 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (13.77%) Agile
7 61 (13.77%) Observability
8 56 (12.64%) Migration
9 54 (12.19%) Software Engineering
10 49 (11.06%) Data Engineering
11 46 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (10.38%) Data Governance
12 45 (10.16%) LLM
13 44 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (9.93%) Data Modelling
14 43 (9.71%) Decision-Making
15 41 (9.26%) Containerisation
16 39 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (30.47%) Python
2 85 (19.19%) SQL
3 39 (8.80%) Java
4 30 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.97%) C#
6 17 (3.84%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.93%) Bash
7 13 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.81%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (1.58%) Go
11 5 (1.13%) Scala
12 4 (0.90%) Ruby
13 3 (0.68%) LookML
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
13 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 2 (0.45%) C++
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 57 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.48%) Degree
4 17 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.81%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.13%) CISSP
8 4 (0.90%) CCSP
8 4 (0.90%) OSCP
8 4 (0.90%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.68%) CCNP
9 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.68%) PhD
9 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.71%) GDPR
2 37 (8.35%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.29%) QA
4 10 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.26%) NIST
5 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.13%) NCSC
8 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.68%) GRC
9 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.45%) 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 48 (10.84%) Docker
2 19 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.45%) 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
1 101 (22.80%) Terraform
2 72 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.61%) Ansible
4 15 (3.39%) Grafana
5 12 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.48%) Istio
7 8 (1.81%) Argo
7 8 (1.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 7 (1.58%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.68%) SCCM
11 2 (0.45%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.45%) Knative
11 2 (0.45%) logstash
11 2 (0.45%) QRadar
12 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.23%) Suricata
12 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.55%) Databricks
3 20 (4.51%) Adobe
4 19 (4.29%) Apple
5 16 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.39%) Oracle
7 12 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.71%) Splunk
8 7 (1.58%) IBM
9 6 (1.35%) Okta
9 6 (1.35%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.13%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.13%) Facebook
10 5 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.13%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.13%) Tealium
11 4 (0.90%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.90%) Marketo