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 9 August 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 83 92
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Google 543 428 438
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.68% 3.13% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 6.35% 6.83% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 263 294
10th Percentile £313 £275 £321
25th Percentile £407 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £702
90th Percentile £675 £750 £788
England median daily rate £515 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +7.29% -12.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 14
10th Percentile £21.80 £29.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £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 £36.35 £58.75 £41.38
90th Percentile £50.15 £68.50 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.95% -68.69% +116.58%

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 8,547 6,266 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.18% 45.84% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,552 4,078 4,731
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.41%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 123 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.70 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -5.23% -20.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.48 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -18.92%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +5 82 £525 -4.55% 135
West London -13 13 £614 +16.90% 17
South London -5 12 £575 +21.05% 3
East London - 3 £410 - 9
North London -2 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 25 (4.60%) Apache
2 20 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 18 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.31%) CMS
5 17 (3.13%) Confluence
6 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (1.47%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.74%) WordPress
10 3 (0.55%) Drupal
11 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.18%) Luigi
12 1 (0.18%) Mendix
12 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.18%) InDesign
7 1 (0.18%) Maya
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Shopify
2 4 (0.74%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.18%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 313 (57.64%) GCP
2 124 (22.84%) AWS
3 120 (22.10%) Azure
4 83 (15.29%) Google Workspace
5 41 (7.55%) GitHub
5 41 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (6.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 31 (5.71%) Google Analytics
8 28 (5.16%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.42%) SaaS
10 23 (4.24%) Google Drive
11 22 (4.05%) dbt
12 21 (3.87%) Google Sheets
13 20 (3.68%) Vertex AI
14 19 (3.50%) Adobe Analytics
14 19 (3.50%) Cloud Run
14 19 (3.50%) Entra ID
14 19 (3.50%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.31%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.89%) DNS
2 24 (4.42%) Firewall
3 23 (4.24%) VPN
4 10 (1.84%) Internet
5 8 (1.47%) DKIM
5 8 (1.47%) DMARC
5 8 (1.47%) Network Security
5 8 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.10%) DHCP
7 5 (0.92%) SMTP
8 4 (0.74%) WAN
8 4 (0.74%) WebEx
8 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.55%) HTTP
9 3 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.55%) Telepresence
9 3 (0.55%) VLAN
9 3 (0.55%) VoIP
10 2 (0.37%) NFC
10 2 (0.37%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.23%) BigQuery
2 38 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (4.79%) Power BI
4 18 (3.31%) Looker
4 18 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (2.95%) Tableau
6 15 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.39%) Big Data
8 10 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.84%) Metadata
9 8 (1.47%) Redis
10 7 (1.29%) Flink
10 7 (1.29%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.10%) MySQL
11 6 (1.10%) OLTP
11 6 (1.10%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.92%) OLAP
12 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (6.08%) JIRA
2 32 (5.89%) Git
3 27 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.24%) GitLab
5 4 (0.74%) Gradle
5 4 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.37%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.37%) Gatling
7 2 (0.37%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.37%) JMeter
7 2 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.37%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) webpack
7 2 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 143 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 99 (18.23%) Finance
3 74 (13.63%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 55 (10.13%) Marketing
6 37 (6.81%) Retail
7 28 (5.16%) Banking
8 21 (3.87%) Advertising
9 18 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.39%) Publishing
11 11 (2.03%) Legal
11 11 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Games
15 6 (1.10%) Law
16 5 (0.92%) Billing
16 5 (0.92%) Local Government
16 5 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (12.89%) GCP Engineer
2 59 (10.87%) Architect
3 53 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 52 (9.58%) Senior
5 46 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (7.92%) Lead
7 41 (7.55%) Developer
8 38 (7.00%) Analyst
9 19 (3.50%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (2.76%) GCP Data Engineer
12 15 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.58%) Administrator
13 14 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.58%) Security Architect
14 13 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (2.21%) Java Developer
16 11 (2.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.73%) REST
2 27 (4.97%) Kafka
3 19 (3.50%) JSON
4 18 (3.31%) OAuth
4 18 (3.31%) React
4 18 (3.31%) RESTful
5 17 (3.13%) Spring
5 17 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.95%) HTML
7 14 (2.58%) LangChain
7 14 (2.58%) LangGraph
8 13 (2.39%) CSS
9 11 (2.03%) Apache Beam
9 11 (2.03%) SAML
10 8 (1.47%) .NET
10 8 (1.47%) JWT
10 8 (1.47%) Node.js
10 8 (1.47%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.29%) Middleware
11 7 (1.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.26%) AI Agents
3 21 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.95%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.66%) Clustering
10 9 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.10%) Life Science
13 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.34%) Windows
2 26 (4.79%) Linux
3 13 (2.39%) Android
3 13 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.84%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.55%) Unix
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE
9 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (26.15%) CI/CD
2 121 (22.28%) AI
3 118 (21.73%) Agile
4 102 (18.78%) Analytics
5 94 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 93 (17.13%) DevOps
7 87 (16.02%) Migration
8 79 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 55 (10.13%) Software Engineering
12 54 (9.94%) Machine Learning
13 52 (9.58%) Data Modelling
14 51 (9.39%) Decision-Making
15 49 (9.02%) Observability
15 49 (9.02%) Roadmaps
16 48 (8.84%) Data Pipeline
17 43 (7.92%) LLM
17 43 (7.92%) Microservices
18 42 (7.73%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (27.62%) Python
2 110 (20.26%) SQL
3 69 (12.71%) Java
4 33 (6.08%) PowerShell
5 28 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.05%) Bash
7 19 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.31%) Scala
9 14 (2.58%) C#
9 14 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 13 (2.39%) Go
11 8 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
12 6 (1.10%) Bicep
12 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.92%) SOQL
14 4 (0.74%) Groovy
14 4 (0.74%) Ruby
15 3 (0.55%) Korn
15 3 (0.55%) PHP
15 3 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.21%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.39%) Degree
4 28 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.31%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.84%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.66%) CISSP
11 6 (1.10%) PhD
11 6 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.92%) CISM
12 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.74%) PMP
14 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.55%) CRISC
14 3 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.63%) QA
3 18 (3.31%) GDPR
4 13 (2.39%) NIST
5 11 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.10%) PMO
8 4 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.74%) NCSC
9 3 (0.55%) GRC
9 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.37%) PSD2
10 2 (0.37%) SLA
10 2 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (9.76%) Docker
2 19 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.74%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.74%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.18%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 96 (17.68%) Terraform
2 85 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.50%) Grafana
4 16 (2.95%) Ansible
5 14 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.29%) Puppet
8 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.74%) Istio
9 4 (0.74%) SCCM
9 4 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.74%) vMotion
10 3 (0.55%) Nagios
11 2 (0.37%) Argo
11 2 (0.37%) WSUS
12 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 94 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.24%) Adobe
3 21 (3.87%) Splunk
4 20 (3.68%) OpenAI
5 19 (3.50%) Oracle
6 18 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.31%) TikTok
7 16 (2.95%) Databricks
8 15 (2.76%) Apple
8 15 (2.76%) Okta
9 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.84%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.66%) Cisco
11 9 (1.66%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.66%) Optimizely
12 8 (1.47%) SAP
12 8 (1.47%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.47%) Tealium
13 7 (1.29%) Citrix
13 7 (1.29%) New Relic