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 20 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
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 97 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 442 392 467
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.13% 2.49% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 6.75% 5.71% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 221 317
10th Percentile £311 £300 £241
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% -4.84%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.33% -6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 9
10th Percentile £29.76 £32.23 -
25th Percentile £32.25 £38.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +56.36% -12.70%
75th Percentile £60.81 £58.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.60 £61.28 £39.00
England median hourly rate £26.86 £62.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -57.03% +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 6,551 6,864 8,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.34% 43.65% 41.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,233 4,319 5,657
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 65 116
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -7.41% +57.53%
75th Percentile £39.25 £65.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £63.30 £97.00 £84.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.79% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +27 78 £600 +4.35% 222
West London -6 12 £538 +34.38% 16
South London -5 3 £215 -62.61% 4
North London - 1 - - 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 17 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.94%) Confluence
4 11 (2.49%) Apache
5 8 (1.81%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.58%) CMS
7 4 (0.90%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.68%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.68%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.45%) SAS
9 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.45%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Luigi
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.68%) Sketch
6 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Maya
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 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%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 268 (60.63%) GCP
2 107 (24.21%) Azure
3 85 (19.23%) AWS
4 66 (14.93%) GitHub
5 56 (12.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 39 (8.82%) Google Workspace
7 34 (7.69%) SaaS
8 33 (7.47%) Google Analytics
9 31 (7.01%) Power Platform
10 30 (6.79%) Cloud Run
11 26 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.30%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (3.85%) Vertex AI
14 16 (3.62%) Cloud Functions
15 15 (3.39%) Google Gemini
15 15 (3.39%) Google Play
15 15 (3.39%) Google Sheets
15 15 (3.39%) IaaS
15 15 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (3.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.98%) Firewall
2 18 (4.07%) 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%) VoIP
7 2 (0.45%) VRRP
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 19 (4.30%) Tableau
5 17 (3.85%) Big Data
6 14 (3.17%) Looker
7 11 (2.49%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.26%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.04%) Metadata
10 8 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.81%) Mixpanel
10 8 (1.81%) NoSQL
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
14 4 (0.90%) Redis
14 4 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 45 (10.18%) Git
3 22 (4.98%) 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%) Maven
9 6 (1.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.13%) JUnit
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
2 105 (23.76%) Finance
3 64 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (11.09%) Banking
5 47 (10.63%) Marketing
6 20 (4.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (4.07%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.85%) Advertising
9 15 (3.39%) Retail
10 14 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.94%) Legal
12 9 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.36%) Publishing
16 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (11.99%) Architect
2 50 (11.31%) Senior
3 46 (10.41%) GCP Engineer
4 43 (9.73%) Developer
5 42 (9.50%) Analyst
6 28 (6.33%) Lead
7 25 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (4.75%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (4.07%) GCP DevOps
9 18 (4.07%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.85%) Security Engineer
11 15 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 14 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.17%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.17%) GCP Architect
13 13 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 10 (2.26%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.14%) RESTful
2 29 (6.56%) React
3 22 (4.98%) FastAPI
4 21 (4.75%) HTML
5 20 (4.52%) Kafka
5 20 (4.52%) Node.js
6 19 (4.30%) CSS
7 18 (4.07%) LangGraph
8 17 (3.85%) Spring
9 16 (3.62%) pytest
10 15 (3.39%) OAuth
11 13 (2.94%) React Native
11 13 (2.94%) Spring Boot
11 13 (2.94%) TensorFlow
12 12 (2.71%) LangChain
13 11 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.49%) PyTorch
13 11 (2.49%) REST
14 10 (2.26%) Pandas
14 10 (2.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.35%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.88%) 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%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
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%) NHS
13 6 (1.36%) Digital Media
13 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.43%) Android
2 18 (4.07%) Apple iOS
3 14 (3.17%) Linux
4 11 (2.49%) Windows
5 8 (1.81%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (30.77%) DevOps
2 128 (28.96%) CI/CD
3 109 (24.66%) Agile
4 93 (21.04%) Analytics
5 92 (20.81%) AI
6 81 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 65 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 65 (14.71%) Machine Learning
9 57 (12.90%) Migration
10 45 (10.18%) User Experience
11 42 (9.50%) Test Automation
12 40 (9.05%) Data Modelling
13 39 (8.82%) Microservices
14 36 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (7.92%) Cloud Security
15 35 (7.92%) Data Governance
15 35 (7.92%) ETL
16 33 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (7.47%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 140 (31.67%) Python
2 77 (17.42%) SQL
3 49 (11.09%) Java
4 41 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.33%) Bash
6 27 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.98%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.49%) 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 35 (7.92%) GDPR
2 24 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 23 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 17 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.71%) QA
6 8 (1.81%) NIST
7 7 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (1.36%) NCSC
8 6 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 5 (1.13%) WCAG
10 3 (0.68%) GRC
10 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.68%) HL7
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.45%) DICOM
11 2 (0.45%) PMO
11 2 (0.45%) Section 508
11 2 (0.45%) SLA
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 95 (21.49%) 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 92 (20.81%) Kubernetes
2 81 (18.33%) Terraform
3 15 (3.39%) 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 67 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.52%) Splunk
3 17 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.39%) Adobe
5 14 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 14 (3.17%) Oracle
6 12 (2.71%) Databricks
6 12 (2.71%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.49%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (2.26%) Apple
8 10 (2.26%) Cisco
9 9 (2.04%) Amplitude
9 9 (2.04%) Okta
9 9 (2.04%) Optimizely
9 9 (2.04%) SAP
10 8 (1.81%) Hotjar
10 8 (1.81%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.81%) OneTrust
11 7 (1.58%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.58%) Qualys