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 5 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
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 97 115
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -8
Contract jobs citing Google 446 404 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.10% 2.56% 2.18%
As % of the Vendors category 6.67% 5.78% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 234 284
10th Percentile £296 £263 £213
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £700
90th Percentile £838 £763 £771
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 9
10th Percentile £30.11 £32.23 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £38.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +56.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £57.94 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £61.28 £39.00
England median hourly rate £28.86 £60.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -52.50% +87.96% -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 6,688 6,986 7,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.55% 44.23% 40.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 4,403 5,468
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £766
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 63 108
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.79 £16.96
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -7.68% +52.29%
75th Percentile £41.75 £65.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.32 £90.15 £86.33
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -27.80% +71.15%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +27 85 £600 +4.35% 35
West London -4 17 £550 +39.24% 4
South London -3 3 £215 -62.61% 11
North London - 1 - - 3
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 18 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.91%) Apache
3 13 (2.91%) Confluence
4 10 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.79%) CMS
6 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.67%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) SAS
8 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.45%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) Luigi
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.45%) Sketch
6 2 (0.45%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.22%) InDesign
7 1 (0.22%) Maya
7 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.22%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 262 (58.74%) GCP
2 111 (24.89%) Azure
3 86 (19.28%) AWS
4 64 (14.35%) GitHub
5 55 (12.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 42 (9.42%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.62%) Google Analytics
8 33 (7.40%) Power Platform
9 32 (7.17%) SaaS
10 29 (6.50%) Cloud Run
11 23 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (4.04%) Vertex AI
13 17 (3.81%) Google Gemini
13 17 (3.81%) Google Sheets
14 16 (3.59%) Cloud Functions
14 16 (3.59%) Google Play
14 16 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (3.36%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.16%) Firewall
2 19 (4.26%) DNS
3 9 (2.02%) HTTP
4 7 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.57%) VPN
5 6 (1.35%) Network Security
6 3 (0.67%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.67%) Intranet
6 3 (0.67%) SMTP
6 3 (0.67%) SSL
6 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Broadband
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 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.80%) BigQuery
2 27 (6.05%) Power BI
3 21 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.26%) Tableau
5 17 (3.81%) Big Data
6 12 (2.69%) Looker
6 12 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.47%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.47%) Mixpanel
7 11 (2.47%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.02%) Metadata
10 8 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.79%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.57%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.35%) MySQL
12 6 (1.35%) Redis
13 5 (1.12%) OLAP
13 5 (1.12%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 45 (10.09%) Git
2 43 (9.64%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.83%) JIRA
4 18 (4.04%) GitLab
5 13 (2.91%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.79%) Gradle
6 8 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.35%) JUnit
8 6 (1.35%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.12%) Maven
9 5 (1.12%) Selenium
10 4 (0.90%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.90%) Mockito
10 4 (0.90%) webpack
11 3 (0.67%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.67%) Vite
11 3 (0.67%) Xcode
General
1 128 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 104 (23.32%) Finance
3 65 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.76%) Banking
5 47 (10.54%) Marketing
6 20 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.59%) Advertising
9 14 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.91%) Retail
11 10 (2.24%) Legal
12 9 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.79%) Publishing
14 6 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (11.66%) Senior
2 46 (10.31%) Architect
3 44 (9.87%) Developer
4 43 (9.64%) GCP Engineer
5 38 (8.52%) Analyst
6 28 (6.28%) Lead
7 23 (5.16%) Data Engineer
7 23 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (4.04%) Data Scientist
8 18 (4.04%) Security Engineer
9 17 (3.81%) GCP DevOps
9 17 (3.81%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 15 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.91%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.69%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.69%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.47%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.40%) RESTful
2 30 (6.73%) React
3 25 (5.61%) HTML
4 24 (5.38%) FastAPI
5 22 (4.93%) CSS
6 21 (4.71%) Kafka
6 21 (4.71%) LangGraph
7 18 (4.04%) Node.js
8 17 (3.81%) PyTorch
8 17 (3.81%) Spring
9 16 (3.59%) LangChain
9 16 (3.59%) OAuth
9 16 (3.59%) TensorFlow
10 15 (3.36%) pytest
11 14 (3.14%) Pandas
11 14 (3.14%) scikit-learn
12 13 (2.91%) Spring Boot
13 12 (2.69%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.69%) React Native
14 11 (2.47%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.61%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.26%) Life Science
5 16 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.59%) Genomics
6 12 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.47%) Social Media
8 10 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.35%) Digital Media
12 6 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.16%) Android
2 19 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.59%) Linux
4 10 (2.24%) Windows
5 7 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (30.04%) DevOps
2 127 (28.48%) CI/CD
3 111 (24.89%) Agile
4 103 (23.09%) AI
5 100 (22.42%) Analytics
6 81 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (17.94%) Containerisation
8 74 (16.59%) Machine Learning
9 68 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (13.45%) Migration
11 45 (10.09%) User Experience
12 39 (8.74%) Data Modelling
12 39 (8.74%) Microservices
12 39 (8.74%) Test Automation
13 36 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (7.85%) Data Governance
14 35 (7.85%) Generative AI
14 35 (7.85%) Software Engineering
15 34 (7.62%) Cloud Security
16 33 (7.40%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 147 (32.96%) Python
2 79 (17.71%) SQL
3 49 (10.99%) Java
4 44 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.73%) Bash
6 26 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 26 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.47%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.79%) Go
10 6 (1.35%) Bicep
10 6 (1.35%) C#
10 6 (1.35%) R
10 6 (1.35%) Ruby
11 5 (1.12%) Scala
11 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.90%) Swift
13 3 (0.67%) C++
13 3 (0.67%) Groovy
13 3 (0.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 50 (11.21%) Degree
2 24 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.24%) CISSP
5 10 (2.24%) MCP
6 9 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (1.35%) CCSP
8 5 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.90%) CCNA
9 4 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.90%) GCIH
9 4 (0.90%) OSCP
10 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.67%) CEH
10 3 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.30%) GDPR
2 24 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.93%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.47%) QA
6 7 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.57%) NCSC
6 7 (1.57%) NIST
7 6 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.90%) WCAG
9 3 (0.67%) GRC
10 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.45%) DICOM
10 2 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.45%) HL7
10 2 (0.45%) PMO
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
11 1 (0.22%) COSO
11 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 100 (22.42%) Docker
2 14 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.35%) Squid
4 5 (1.12%) Snort
4 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (21.30%) Kubernetes
2 81 (18.16%) Terraform
3 15 (3.36%) Ansible
4 12 (2.69%) Grafana
5 10 (2.24%) Argo
5 10 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.57%) Istio
8 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.12%) Nessus
8 5 (1.12%) Nexpose
8 5 (1.12%) Suricata
9 4 (0.90%) Puppet
10 3 (0.67%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.67%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.67%) SCCM
10 3 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.45%) Knative
11 2 (0.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 63 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.48%) Databricks
2 20 (4.48%) Splunk
3 17 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.59%) Adobe
5 14 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 13 (2.91%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
8 11 (2.47%) Apple
8 11 (2.47%) Cisco
8 11 (2.47%) Oracle
9 10 (2.24%) Optimizely
10 9 (2.02%) Amplitude
10 9 (2.02%) Okta
10 9 (2.02%) SAP
11 8 (1.79%) Hotjar
11 8 (1.79%) OneTrust
11 8 (1.79%) Qualys
12 7 (1.57%) HubSpot
13 6 (1.35%) IBM