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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -20 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 513 422 450
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.58% 3.10% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 6.17% 6.78% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 256 307
10th Percentile £313 £275 £323
25th Percentile £407 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £700
90th Percentile £674 £750 £775
England median daily rate £510 £495 £535
% change year-on-year +3.03% -7.48% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 14
10th Percentile £23.09 £29.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £33.75 £25.43
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +64.71% -55.93%
75th Percentile £36.20 £58.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £50.08 £63.25 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +57.36% -67.77% +87.79%

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 8,313 6,223 7,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.87% 45.77% 42.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,427 4,058 4,813
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £757 £763
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 119 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.69 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -14.06%
75th Percentile £58.21 £42.25 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.99% -10.18% -29.20%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +4 74 £508 -7.73% 60
South London -10 12 £575 +21.05% 3
West London -12 11 £603 +14.76% 13
East London +5 3 £410 -36.92% 5
North London - 1 £225 - 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 23 (4.48%) Apache
2 20 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.12%) CMS
5 15 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.92%) Confluence
6 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (1.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.58%) Drupal
9 3 (0.58%) WordPress
10 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.95%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.58%) Shopify
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) iTrent
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 301 (58.67%) GCP
2 118 (23.00%) AWS
3 110 (21.44%) Azure
4 87 (16.96%) Google Workspace
5 40 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (6.82%) GitHub
6 35 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 28 (5.46%) Power Platform
8 26 (5.07%) Google Analytics
9 22 (4.29%) Google Drive
9 22 (4.29%) SaaS
10 21 (4.09%) Vertex AI
11 19 (3.70%) dbt
12 18 (3.51%) Cloud Run
12 18 (3.51%) Google Sheets
12 18 (3.51%) Slack
12 18 (3.51%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.31%) Google Ads
14 16 (3.12%) Adobe Analytics
14 16 (3.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.65%) DNS
2 21 (4.09%) VPN
3 20 (3.90%) Firewall
4 8 (1.56%) DKIM
4 8 (1.56%) DMARC
4 8 (1.56%) Internet
4 8 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.36%) Network Security
6 5 (0.97%) DHCP
6 5 (0.97%) SMTP
7 4 (0.78%) VoIP
8 3 (0.58%) HTTP
8 3 (0.58%) VLAN
8 3 (0.58%) WebEx
9 2 (0.39%) 4G
9 2 (0.39%) 5G
9 2 (0.39%) NFC
9 2 (0.39%) OSPF
9 2 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.39%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.70%) BigQuery
2 37 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.07%) Power BI
4 18 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.92%) Looker
5 15 (2.92%) Tableau
6 14 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.34%) Big Data
8 10 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.56%) Metadata
9 8 (1.56%) Redis
10 7 (1.36%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.36%) OLTP
11 6 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.17%) Mixpanel
11 6 (1.17%) MySQL
11 6 (1.17%) OLAP
11 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.97%) Flink
Development Applications
1 31 (6.04%) JIRA
2 27 (5.26%) Git
3 24 (4.68%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.29%) GitLab
5 4 (0.78%) Gradle
5 4 (0.78%) Maven
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.39%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.39%) Gatling
7 2 (0.39%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.39%) JMeter
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.39%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.39%) webpack
7 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 137 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 98 (19.10%) Finance
3 70 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 52 (10.14%) Marketing
6 33 (6.43%) Retail
7 27 (5.26%) Banking
8 18 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.31%) Advertising
10 12 (2.34%) Publishing
11 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.75%) Legal
14 8 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.17%) Games
15 6 (1.17%) Law
15 6 (1.17%) Military
16 5 (0.97%) Billing
17 4 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (12.87%) GCP Engineer
2 51 (9.94%) Data Engineer
3 48 (9.36%) Senior
4 47 (9.16%) Architect
4 47 (9.16%) Lead
5 43 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.60%) Analyst
6 39 (7.60%) Developer
7 17 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (2.73%) Administrator
8 14 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (2.73%) Support Engineer
9 13 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (2.53%) GCP Data Engineer
9 13 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (2.53%) Security Architect
10 12 (2.34%) Java Developer
10 12 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.14%) Backend Developer
11 11 (2.14%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.19%) REST
2 27 (5.26%) Kafka
3 19 (3.70%) JSON
4 17 (3.31%) OAuth
4 17 (3.31%) Spring
4 17 (3.31%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.92%) React
6 13 (2.53%) HTML
6 13 (2.53%) LangChain
6 13 (2.53%) LangGraph
6 13 (2.53%) RESTful
7 11 (2.14%) SAML
8 10 (1.95%) CSS
9 9 (1.75%) Apache Beam
10 8 (1.56%) .NET
10 8 (1.56%) Middleware
10 8 (1.56%) Node.js
10 8 (1.56%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.36%) Next.js
11 7 (1.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.65%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 17 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.56%) Clustering
9 8 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.17%) Life Science
11 6 (1.17%) Social Media
12 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.07%) Windows
2 23 (4.48%) Linux
3 14 (2.73%) Android
4 11 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.58%) Unix
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (25.34%) CI/CD
2 111 (21.64%) AI
3 110 (21.44%) Agile
4 98 (19.10%) Analytics
5 86 (16.76%) DevOps
5 86 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 85 (16.57%) Migration
7 77 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
8 58 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (9.75%) Data Modelling
11 49 (9.55%) Decision-Making
11 49 (9.55%) Machine Learning
11 49 (9.55%) Software Engineering
12 46 (8.97%) Observability
12 46 (8.97%) Roadmaps
13 41 (7.99%) Data Engineering
13 41 (7.99%) Microservices
14 40 (7.80%) Data Pipeline
14 40 (7.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 137 (26.71%) Python
2 103 (20.08%) SQL
3 68 (13.26%) Java
4 29 (5.65%) PowerShell
5 25 (4.87%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.51%) Bash
7 17 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.12%) Scala
9 14 (2.73%) C#
9 14 (2.73%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.53%) Go
11 9 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
12 6 (1.17%) Bicep
13 5 (0.97%) SOQL
14 4 (0.78%) Groovy
14 4 (0.78%) Korn
14 4 (0.78%) Ruby
14 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.58%) PHP
15 3 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 95 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 81 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.94%) Degree
4 25 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.75%) CISSP
10 6 (1.17%) PhD
10 6 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.97%) CISM
11 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.78%) PMP
13 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.58%) CRISC
13 3 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.63%) QA
2 33 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.90%) GDPR
4 13 (2.53%) NIST
5 11 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.78%) NCSC
7 4 (0.78%) PMO
8 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.58%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (8.77%) Docker
2 20 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.78%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.78%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 86 (16.76%) Terraform
2 76 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.51%) Grafana
4 14 (2.73%) Ansible
5 13 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.36%) Puppet
9 6 (1.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.78%) Istio
11 4 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.78%) SCCM
11 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.78%) vMotion
12 3 (0.58%) Nagios
13 2 (0.39%) Argo
13 2 (0.39%) WSUS
14 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 84 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.70%) Adobe
2 19 (3.70%) OpenAI
2 19 (3.70%) Splunk
3 16 (3.12%) Databricks
3 16 (3.12%) Oracle
4 15 (2.92%) TikTok
5 14 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.53%) Apple
6 13 (2.53%) Okta
7 9 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.56%) Cisco
9 7 (1.36%) Amplitude
9 7 (1.36%) Citrix
9 7 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.36%) Optimizely
10 6 (1.17%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.17%) SAP
10 6 (1.17%) Tealium