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 26 February 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 103 108
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Google 425 341 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.68% 2.53% 2.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.97% 5.73% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 198 282
10th Percentile £300 £276 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £750
England median daily rate £524 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% - -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 18
10th Percentile £31.25 £29.04 £15.95
25th Percentile £35.25 £41.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% +96.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £46.63 £59.75 £32.19
90th Percentile £54.75 £63.35 £35.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £43.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.39% +65.67% -25.71%

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 7,115 5,949 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.92% 44.19% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,746 4,941
10th Percentile £350 £319 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 79 143
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.42 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +37.25% +2.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £61.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.75 £69.60
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +44 88 £550 -4.35% 45
West London +1 22 £603 +48.22% 6
East London -2 5 £525 -4.55% 7
South London -13 2 £155 -73.04% 2
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 26 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.47%) Apache
3 14 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.59%) Confluence
5 8 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.65%) CMS
7 4 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.71%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.71%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.47%) SAS
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.24%) Drupal
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) nginx
10 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.35%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.94%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.71%) Trello
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.47%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Maya
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 256 (60.24%) GCP
2 113 (26.59%) Azure
3 88 (20.71%) AWS
4 72 (16.94%) GitHub
5 71 (16.71%) Google Workspace
6 48 (11.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 43 (10.12%) Power Platform
8 38 (8.94%) Cloud Run
9 33 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.12%) SaaS
11 25 (5.88%) Google Gemini
12 24 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (5.65%) Google Analytics
13 22 (5.18%) Amazon S3
13 22 (5.18%) Slack
13 22 (5.18%) Vertex AI
14 21 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.76%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.71%) Firewall
2 14 (3.29%) DNS
3 9 (2.12%) Network Security
4 8 (1.88%) VPN
5 3 (0.71%) DHCP
5 3 (0.71%) HTTP
5 3 (0.71%) Internet
5 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.71%) Wireless
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.47%) Intranet
6 2 (0.47%) LAN
6 2 (0.47%) VoIP
7 1 (0.24%) Broadband
7 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.24%) SMTP
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.88%) BigQuery
2 33 (7.76%) Power BI
3 23 (5.41%) Tableau
4 21 (4.94%) Mixpanel
5 18 (4.24%) Data Lake
6 17 (4.00%) OLAP
7 15 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (3.29%) OLTP
9 10 (2.35%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.12%) Looker
11 8 (1.88%) Metadata
11 8 (1.88%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.88%) Redis
12 6 (1.41%) MySQL
13 4 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.71%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 46 (10.82%) Git
2 43 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.88%) JIRA
4 17 (4.00%) GitLab
5 6 (1.41%) JUnit
5 6 (1.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 4 (0.94%) Android Studio
6 4 (0.94%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.94%) Gradle
6 4 (0.94%) Mockito
7 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.71%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
7 3 (0.71%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.47%) Ant
8 2 (0.47%) MLflow
8 2 (0.47%) Snyk
8 2 (0.47%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.47%) Xcode
General
1 120 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 86 (20.24%) Finance
3 68 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.71%) Marketing
5 32 (7.53%) Retail
6 31 (7.29%) Banking
7 24 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (4.47%) Advertising
10 12 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.12%) Publishing
12 8 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.65%) Legal
14 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.94%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.94%) Wearables
16 3 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (10.59%) Senior
2 44 (10.35%) GCP Engineer
3 40 (9.41%) Architect
4 38 (8.94%) Data Engineer
5 35 (8.24%) Developer
6 34 (8.00%) Analyst
7 32 (7.53%) Lead
8 28 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.76%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (3.06%) Consultant
13 13 (3.06%) GCP Architect
13 13 (3.06%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.82%) Principal Data Engineer
15 11 (2.59%) GCP DevOps
15 11 (2.59%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.82%) React
2 25 (5.88%) Kafka
3 21 (4.94%) RESTful
3 21 (4.94%) Spring
4 20 (4.71%) FastAPI
4 20 (4.71%) LangChain
5 19 (4.47%) HTML
5 19 (4.47%) LangGraph
6 18 (4.24%) OAuth
6 18 (4.24%) PyTorch
6 18 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 17 (4.00%) REST
8 16 (3.76%) CSS
9 15 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.53%) Great Expectations
9 15 (3.53%) Node.js
10 13 (3.06%) pytest
11 12 (2.82%) Pandas
11 12 (2.82%) scikit-learn
11 12 (2.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.59%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.71%) Life Science
4 16 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.29%) Genomics
6 13 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.35%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.88%) Social Media
10 7 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.65%) Digital Media
10 7 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.94%) Android
2 19 (4.47%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.76%) Mac OS
4 14 (3.29%) Windows
5 10 (2.35%) VMS
6 5 (1.18%) Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (30.35%) CI/CD
2 124 (29.18%) DevOps
3 121 (28.47%) AI
4 91 (21.41%) Analytics
5 82 (19.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (17.65%) Agile
6 75 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (17.18%) Machine Learning
8 63 (14.82%) Containerisation
9 57 (13.41%) Observability
10 52 (12.24%) Migration
11 47 (11.06%) Software Engineering
12 44 (10.35%) LLM
13 42 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (9.65%) Data Engineering
14 41 (9.65%) Generative AI
15 37 (8.71%) Microservices
15 37 (8.71%) User Experience
16 36 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
16 36 (8.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 142 (33.41%) Python
2 72 (16.94%) SQL
3 39 (9.18%) Java
4 33 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.94%) Bash
6 19 (4.47%) PowerShell
6 19 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.24%) C#
8 12 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.88%) Go
10 7 (1.65%) Google Apps Script
11 6 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.18%) Ruby
13 3 (0.71%) Rust
13 3 (0.71%) VBA
14 2 (0.47%) C++
14 2 (0.47%) Groovy
14 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 2 (0.47%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (10.12%) Degree
2 41 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.65%) CISSP
7 7 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.94%) CCSP
10 4 (0.94%) OSCP
11 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.71%) PhD
11 3 (0.71%) SANS
11 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.41%) GDPR
2 29 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.00%) QA
4 11 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.65%) NCSC
5 7 (1.65%) NIST
6 6 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.94%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (17.65%) Docker
2 14 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) Snort
3 3 (0.71%) Squid
4 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (22.12%) Terraform
2 91 (21.41%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.47%) Ansible
4 17 (4.00%) Grafana
5 13 (3.06%) Istio
6 11 (2.59%) Argo
7 9 (2.12%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.71%) Nessus
11 3 (0.71%) Nexpose
11 3 (0.71%) SCCM
11 3 (0.71%) Suricata
12 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.47%) Knative
12 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.47%) logstash
12 2 (0.47%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.59%) Databricks
3 19 (4.47%) Adobe
4 18 (4.24%) Splunk
5 17 (4.00%) Apple
6 15 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.12%) Oracle
9 8 (1.88%) Amplitude
9 8 (1.88%) Hotjar
9 8 (1.88%) IBM
9 8 (1.88%) Okta
9 8 (1.88%) Optimizely
9 8 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.65%) Cisco
10 7 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.41%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.41%) OneTrust
12 5 (1.18%) Tealium