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 25 November 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
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 102 109
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 442 397 461
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.14% 2.53% 2.32%
As % of the Vendors category 6.74% 5.78% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 228 313
10th Percentile £325 £263 £226
25th Percentile £425 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -6.97%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £838 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.45% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 9
10th Percentile £29.93 £32.23 -
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.31 £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 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.55 £61.28 £39.00
England median hourly rate £27.21 £62.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -56.46% +93.38% -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 6,562 6,868 8,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.55% 43.73% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,244 4,320 5,662
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 65 112
10th Percentile £17.74 £20.17 £16.87
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -4.76% +53.15%
75th Percentile £40.88 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £87.80 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -24.24% -26.26% +72.12%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +29 82 £600 +4.35% 35
West London -1 13 £550 +37.50% 12
South London -2 3 £215 -62.61% 4
North London - 1 - - 5
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 16 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.94%) Confluence
4 11 (2.49%) Apache
5 8 (1.81%) CMS
5 8 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.68%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.68%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) SAS
8 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.45%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.68%) Sketch
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.23%) InDesign
8 1 (0.23%) Maya
8 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 267 (60.41%) GCP
2 104 (23.53%) Azure
3 82 (18.55%) AWS
4 67 (15.16%) GitHub
5 58 (13.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 40 (9.05%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.69%) Google Analytics
7 34 (7.69%) SaaS
8 31 (7.01%) Power Platform
9 30 (6.79%) Cloud Run
10 26 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (3.62%) Cloud Functions
12 16 (3.62%) Google Gemini
12 16 (3.62%) Google Play
12 16 (3.62%) Vertex AI
13 15 (3.39%) Google Sheets
13 15 (3.39%) IaaS
13 15 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.98%) Firewall
2 19 (4.30%) DNS
3 9 (2.04%) HTTP
4 7 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.58%) VPN
5 6 (1.36%) Network Security
6 3 (0.68%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.68%) Intranet
6 3 (0.68%) SMTP
6 3 (0.68%) SSL
6 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.45%) DKIM
7 2 (0.45%) DMARC
7 2 (0.45%) LAN
7 2 (0.45%) VLAN
7 2 (0.45%) VRRP
8 1 (0.23%) HSRP
8 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.16%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.43%) Power BI
3 23 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (4.07%) Tableau
5 17 (3.85%) Big Data
6 13 (2.94%) Looker
7 11 (2.49%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.04%) Metadata
10 8 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.81%) Mixpanel
10 8 (1.81%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.58%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.36%) MySQL
13 5 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.13%) Redis
14 4 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (10.86%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.18%) Git
3 24 (5.43%) JIRA
4 19 (4.30%) GitLab
5 13 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.04%) Gradle
7 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.58%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.36%) JUnit
9 6 (1.36%) Maven
9 6 (1.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.13%) Selenium
11 4 (0.90%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.90%) Mockito
11 4 (0.90%) webpack
12 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.68%) Xcode
General
1 130 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 104 (23.53%) Finance
3 64 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.86%) Banking
5 47 (10.63%) Marketing
6 20 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.85%) Advertising
7 17 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.39%) Retail
9 14 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.26%) Legal
11 9 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.58%) Publishing
14 6 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (11.76%) Architect
2 50 (11.31%) Senior
3 46 (10.41%) GCP Engineer
4 44 (9.95%) Developer
5 39 (8.82%) Analyst
6 28 (6.33%) Lead
7 26 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.30%) GCP DevOps
10 19 (4.30%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 17 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (3.85%) Security Engineer
12 15 (3.39%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 13 (2.94%) GCP Architect
15 12 (2.71%) Business Analyst
16 11 (2.49%) Java Developer
16 11 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.14%) RESTful
2 29 (6.56%) React
3 24 (5.43%) HTML
4 23 (5.20%) FastAPI
5 21 (4.75%) CSS
6 20 (4.52%) Kafka
7 19 (4.30%) Node.js
8 18 (4.07%) LangGraph
9 17 (3.85%) Spring
10 15 (3.39%) OAuth
10 15 (3.39%) pytest
11 13 (2.94%) React Native
11 13 (2.94%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.94%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.71%) PyTorch
13 11 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.49%) LangChain
13 11 (2.49%) REST
14 10 (2.26%) Pandas
14 10 (2.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.66%) Mobile App
4 18 (4.07%) Life Science
5 16 (3.62%) Genomics
6 15 (3.39%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.49%) Social Media
9 10 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.58%) NHS
12 7 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.36%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.43%) Android
2 18 (4.07%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.39%) Linux
4 10 (2.26%) Windows
5 7 (1.58%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.00%) DevOps
2 130 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 112 (25.34%) Agile
4 94 (21.27%) Analytics
5 93 (21.04%) AI
6 82 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (18.10%) Containerisation
8 66 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 66 (14.93%) Machine Learning
9 58 (13.12%) Migration
10 46 (10.41%) User Experience
11 43 (9.73%) Test Automation
12 41 (9.28%) Microservices
13 40 (9.05%) Data Modelling
14 35 (7.92%) Cloud Security
14 35 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (7.69%) Data Governance
15 34 (7.69%) ETL
15 34 (7.69%) Software Engineering
16 33 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 140 (31.67%) Python
2 76 (17.19%) SQL
3 51 (11.54%) Java
4 42 (9.50%) JavaScript
5 29 (6.56%) Bash
6 26 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.20%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.71%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.81%) Go
11 6 (1.36%) Bicep
11 6 (1.36%) R
11 6 (1.36%) Ruby
12 5 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.90%) C#
13 4 (0.90%) Scala
13 4 (0.90%) Swift
14 3 (0.68%) Groovy
14 3 (0.68%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 49 (11.09%) Degree
2 24 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.20%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.26%) CISSP
6 9 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.58%) MCP
8 6 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.36%) CCSP
9 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.90%) CCNA
10 4 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.90%) GCIH
10 4 (0.90%) OSCP
11 3 (0.68%) CEH
11 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.69%) GDPR
2 23 (5.20%) Accessibility
2 23 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.49%) QA
5 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.58%) NIST
6 6 (1.36%) NCSC
6 6 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.13%) WCAG
8 3 (0.68%) GRC
8 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.68%) HL7
9 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.45%) DICOM
9 2 (0.45%) PMO
9 2 (0.45%) Section 508
9 2 (0.45%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 98 (22.17%) Docker
2 13 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.13%) Squid
3 5 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.90%) Snort
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
6 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (21.27%) Kubernetes
2 82 (18.55%) Terraform
3 16 (3.62%) Ansible
4 13 (2.94%) Argo
5 12 (2.71%) Grafana
6 9 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.81%) Istio
8 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.13%) Puppet
9 4 (0.90%) Nessus
9 4 (0.90%) Nexpose
9 4 (0.90%) Suricata
10 3 (0.68%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.68%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.68%) SCCM
10 3 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.45%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 64 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.52%) Splunk
3 17 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.39%) Adobe
5 14 (3.17%) Oracle
6 13 (2.94%) Databricks
6 13 (2.94%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.71%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.49%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (2.26%) Apple
9 10 (2.26%) Cisco
10 9 (2.04%) Amplitude
10 9 (2.04%) Okta
10 9 (2.04%) Optimizely
11 8 (1.81%) Hotjar
11 8 (1.81%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.81%) OneTrust
11 8 (1.81%) SAP
12 7 (1.58%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.58%) Qualys