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 10 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 100 100
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 399 338 408
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 2.51% 2.20%
As % of the Vendors category 5.83% 5.69% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 188 292
10th Percentile £300 £263 £210
25th Percentile £440 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £645
90th Percentile £800 £758 £744
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 15
10th Percentile £30.11 £30.46 £15.76
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £36.65 £48.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +84.63% -39.88%
75th Percentile £46.19 £60.94 £31.88
90th Percentile £56.13 £63.50 £32.50
England median hourly rate £32.25 £44.79 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.99% +72.26% -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 6,848 5,943 7,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.65% 44.16% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,514 3,660 5,124
10th Percentile £350 £313 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -0.86% -3.34%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £755 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 72 148
10th Percentile £17.84 £21.58 £13.72
25th Percentile £21.12 £24.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.84% +32.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £41.75 £61.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.94 £80.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £27.14
% change year-on-year -21.76% +12.20% -16.49%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +32 82 £550 -6.38% 64
West London +2 22 £603 +54.49% 16
East London -4 5 £525 -19.23% 14
South London -7 2 £155 -73.04% 8
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 24 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.01%) Apache
3 12 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.51%) Confluence
5 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.50%) CMS
7 4 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.75%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.75%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.75%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.50%) SAS
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.25%) Drupal
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.00%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.75%) Trello
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.50%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.50%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) InDesign
7 1 (0.25%) Maya
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.50%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 241 (60.40%) GCP
2 115 (28.82%) Azure
3 86 (21.55%) AWS
4 72 (18.05%) GitHub
5 58 (14.54%) Google Workspace
6 46 (11.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 42 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 37 (9.27%) Cloud Run
9 35 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (6.52%) SaaS
11 25 (6.27%) Google Gemini
12 24 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (5.76%) Google Analytics
14 22 (5.51%) Vertex AI
15 21 (5.26%) Slack
16 20 (5.01%) Amazon S3
17 19 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
19 15 (3.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.51%) Firewall
2 11 (2.76%) DNS
3 10 (2.51%) Network Security
4 7 (1.75%) VPN
5 3 (0.75%) DHCP
5 3 (0.75%) HTTP
5 3 (0.75%) Internet
5 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.75%) Wireless
6 2 (0.50%) BGP
6 2 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
6 2 (0.50%) Intranet
6 2 (0.50%) LAN
6 2 (0.50%) SSL
6 2 (0.50%) VLAN
6 2 (0.50%) VoIP
6 2 (0.50%) VRRP
7 1 (0.25%) Extranet
7 1 (0.25%) HSRP
7 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.04%) BigQuery
2 33 (8.27%) Power BI
3 22 (5.51%) Tableau
4 20 (5.01%) Mixpanel
5 17 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.01%) OLAP
7 14 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (3.26%) OLTP
9 11 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.26%) Looker
10 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.01%) Metadata
11 8 (2.01%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.75%) Redis
13 5 (1.25%) MySQL
14 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.00%) Big Data
14 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 44 (11.03%) Jenkins
2 40 (10.03%) Git
3 24 (6.02%) JIRA
4 16 (4.01%) GitLab
5 6 (1.50%) JUnit
5 6 (1.50%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 4 (1.00%) Android Studio
6 4 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.00%) Gradle
6 4 (1.00%) Mockito
7 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.75%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.75%) ERwin
7 3 (0.75%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.50%) Ant
8 2 (0.50%) CocoaPods
8 2 (0.50%) webpack
8 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 117 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 80 (20.05%) Finance
3 66 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.02%) Banking
4 36 (9.02%) Marketing
5 25 (6.27%) Retail
6 21 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 16 (4.01%) Advertising
9 9 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.01%) Legal
10 8 (2.01%) Publishing
11 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Electronics
12 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (11.78%) Senior
2 44 (11.03%) Architect
3 37 (9.27%) GCP Engineer
4 35 (8.77%) Developer
5 31 (7.77%) Analyst
6 29 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 29 (7.27%) Lead
7 27 (6.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.51%) Data Scientist
10 14 (3.51%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (3.26%) GCP Architect
11 13 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (3.01%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.76%) GCP DevOps
13 11 (2.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.02%) React
2 24 (6.02%) RESTful
3 23 (5.76%) Kafka
4 22 (5.51%) LangChain
5 21 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 20 (5.01%) Spring
7 19 (4.76%) HTML
7 19 (4.76%) LangGraph
7 19 (4.76%) OAuth
8 17 (4.26%) PyTorch
8 17 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 16 (4.01%) CSS
10 15 (3.76%) Node.js
11 14 (3.51%) AngularJS
11 14 (3.51%) Great Expectations
12 13 (3.26%) Pandas
12 13 (3.26%) pytest
12 13 (3.26%) REST
12 13 (3.26%) scikit-learn
12 13 (3.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.54%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.02%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.51%) Life Science
3 18 (4.51%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.51%) AI Agents
4 14 (3.51%) Genomics
5 12 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.51%) Social Media
7 8 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.50%) Digital Media
9 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.02%) Android
2 21 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.76%) Mac OS
4 14 (3.51%) Windows
5 10 (2.51%) VMS
6 6 (1.50%) Linux
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (31.58%) DevOps
2 123 (30.83%) CI/CD
3 117 (29.32%) AI
4 84 (21.05%) Analytics
5 80 (20.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (18.30%) Agile
6 73 (18.30%) Machine Learning
7 72 (18.05%) Containerisation
7 72 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (13.28%) Migration
9 52 (13.03%) Observability
10 43 (10.78%) Software Engineering
11 42 (10.53%) LLM
12 40 (10.03%) Generative AI
13 39 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.52%) Microservices
15 37 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (8.77%) Test Automation
16 35 (8.77%) User Experience
17 33 (8.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (34.09%) Python
2 65 (16.29%) SQL
3 36 (9.02%) Java
4 34 (8.52%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.01%) Bash
5 20 (5.01%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.76%) C#
8 10 (2.51%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.01%) Go
10 7 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.00%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.75%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.75%) Ruby
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) Groovy
13 2 (0.50%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.50%) Rust
13 2 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (10.03%) Degree
2 37 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.50%) CISSP
7 6 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.00%) CCSP
8 4 (1.00%) OSCP
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.75%) PhD
9 3 (0.75%) SANS
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.03%) GDPR
2 25 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.51%) QA
4 13 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.01%) NIST
7 7 (1.75%) NCSC
8 6 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.00%) GRC
11 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.50%) SLA
13 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.25%) MiFID
13 1 (0.25%) PMO
13 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 83 (20.80%) Docker
2 14 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.25%) Squid
4 4 (1.00%) Snort
5 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (24.81%) Kubernetes
2 90 (22.56%) Terraform
3 20 (5.01%) Ansible
4 14 (3.51%) Grafana
5 13 (3.26%) Istio
6 11 (2.76%) Argo
7 9 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.00%) Nessus
9 4 (1.00%) Nexpose
9 4 (1.00%) Suricata
10 3 (0.75%) SCCM
11 2 (0.50%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.50%) Knative
11 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.50%) logstash
11 2 (0.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.02%) Databricks
3 18 (4.51%) Apple
4 17 (4.26%) Adobe
5 16 (4.01%) Splunk
6 14 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.01%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.76%) Oracle
8 11 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.51%) Cisco
10 9 (2.26%) Optimizely
11 8 (2.01%) Hotjar
11 8 (2.01%) IBM
11 8 (2.01%) Okta
11 8 (2.01%) OneTrust
11 8 (2.01%) SAP
11 8 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.75%) Amplitude
12 7 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.50%) HubSpot