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 14 April 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
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 95 96
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 436 346 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 2.73% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 5.77% 6.06% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 205 298
10th Percentile £288 £263 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +1.23% -7.74%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £766 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 15
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.24 £15.76
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -65.33%
75th Percentile £42.50 £58.25 £29.85
90th Percentile £50.08 £66.10 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% +22.62% -34.26%

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 7,556 5,706 7,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.83% 45.10% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,976 3,746 4,921
10th Percentile £350 £323 £281
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £767 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 142
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £13.46
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.35 £16.86
Median hourly rate £32.00 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +21.13% -6.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £51.88 £39.77
90th Percentile £68.12 £67.88 £67.70
England median hourly rate £27.80 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.32% +27.78% -41.56%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +29 81 £538 +7.50% 84
West London 0 25 £603 +7.11% 6
East London 0 7 £520 -20.00% 3
South London -7 7 £637 - 2
North London - 1 £225 - 5
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 27 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.82%) Apache
3 14 (3.21%) Confluence
4 11 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.38%) CMS
7 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.23%) Drupal
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.29%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.15%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.69%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.69%) Trello
8 2 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.46%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
2 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 252 (57.80%) GCP
2 117 (26.83%) Azure
3 95 (21.79%) AWS
4 78 (17.89%) Google Workspace
5 53 (12.16%) GitHub
6 46 (10.55%) Power Platform
7 38 (8.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 29 (6.65%) Amazon S3
9 28 (6.42%) Google Analytics
10 27 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (5.73%) Slack
13 24 (5.50%) Cloud Run
13 24 (5.50%) Vertex AI
14 20 (4.59%) SaaS
15 19 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (4.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (4.36%) Google Gemini
16 18 (4.13%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.05%) Firewall
2 19 (4.36%) DNS
3 14 (3.21%) VPN
4 11 (2.52%) Network Security
5 7 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.15%) DHCP
7 4 (0.92%) Internet
8 3 (0.69%) BGP
8 3 (0.69%) HTTP
8 3 (0.69%) VoIP
8 3 (0.69%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.46%) IPv4
9 2 (0.46%) IPv6
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) SMTP
9 2 (0.46%) VLAN
10 1 (0.23%) Intranet
10 1 (0.23%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (16.06%) BigQuery
2 37 (8.49%) Power BI
3 26 (5.96%) Tableau
4 21 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 21 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.59%) OLAP
6 18 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.13%) Mixpanel
7 17 (3.90%) OLTP
8 12 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.29%) Metadata
10 9 (2.06%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.83%) Looker
12 7 (1.61%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.38%) Big Data
13 6 (1.38%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Redis
13 6 (1.38%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (7.57%) Jenkins
2 32 (7.34%) Git
3 30 (6.88%) JIRA
4 16 (3.67%) GitLab
5 6 (1.38%) JUnit
6 5 (1.15%) Charles Proxy
7 4 (0.92%) Mockito
8 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.69%) ERwin
8 3 (0.69%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.46%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.46%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.46%) Gradle
9 2 (0.46%) MLflow
10 1 (0.23%) Babel
10 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.23%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.23%) fastlane
General
1 125 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 78 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (17.89%) Finance
3 48 (11.01%) Marketing
4 35 (8.03%) Banking
5 31 (7.11%) Retail
6 30 (6.88%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.13%) Advertising
8 13 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.52%) Legal
10 10 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.29%) Publishing
10 10 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Electronics
14 4 (0.92%) German Language
14 4 (0.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 56 (12.84%) GCP Engineer
2 44 (10.09%) Data Engineer
2 44 (10.09%) Lead
3 43 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (9.86%) Senior
4 40 (9.17%) Architect
5 36 (8.26%) Analyst
6 25 (5.73%) Developer
7 17 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (3.67%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (3.67%) Data Scientist
9 15 (3.44%) Principal Data Engineer
10 14 (3.21%) Consultant
10 14 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (3.21%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.75%) Security Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.29%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.11%) Kafka
2 20 (4.59%) LangChain
3 18 (4.13%) Great Expectations
3 18 (4.13%) React
3 18 (4.13%) REST
4 17 (3.90%) PyTorch
5 16 (3.67%) Spring
6 15 (3.44%) OAuth
6 15 (3.44%) Spring Boot
7 14 (3.21%) HTML
7 14 (3.21%) Pandas
8 13 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 13 (2.98%) RESTful
8 13 (2.98%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.52%) CSS
9 11 (2.52%) LangGraph
9 11 (2.52%) Node.js
9 11 (2.52%) TensorFlow
10 10 (2.29%) NumPy
11 9 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.44%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.98%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.29%) Life Science
8 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.83%) Social Media
9 7 (1.61%) Clustering
9 7 (1.61%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.13%) Android
2 17 (3.90%) Apple iOS
3 15 (3.44%) Windows
4 14 (3.21%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.29%) VMS
6 8 (1.83%) Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (27.29%) CI/CD
2 117 (26.83%) AI
3 103 (23.62%) Analytics
4 95 (21.79%) DevOps
5 86 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (15.83%) Machine Learning
8 61 (13.99%) Observability
9 60 (13.76%) Agile
10 53 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 49 (11.24%) Data Engineering
11 49 (11.24%) Migration
12 45 (10.32%) Data Governance
12 45 (10.32%) LLM
13 44 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (10.09%) Data Modelling
14 43 (9.86%) Decision-Making
15 41 (9.40%) Containerisation
16 40 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (30.96%) Python
2 84 (19.27%) SQL
3 39 (8.94%) Java
4 28 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.05%) C#
6 17 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.21%) Bash
8 11 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.29%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.83%) Google Apps Script
11 7 (1.61%) Go
12 5 (1.15%) Scala
13 4 (0.92%) Ruby
14 3 (0.69%) LookML
14 3 (0.69%) Rust
14 3 (0.69%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) C++
15 2 (0.46%) Korn
15 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 42 (9.63%) Degree
2 42 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.15%) CISSP
8 4 (0.92%) CCSP
8 4 (0.92%) OSCP
8 4 (0.92%) SnowPro
8 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.69%) CCNP
9 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.69%) PhD
9 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.32%) GDPR
2 36 (8.26%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.36%) QA
4 11 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.29%) NIST
6 7 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.15%) NCSC
9 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.69%) GRC
11 2 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.46%) WCAG
12 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.23%) PERC
12 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (11.01%) Docker
2 15 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) Snort
4 1 (0.23%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 103 (23.62%) Terraform
2 74 (16.97%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.67%) Ansible
3 16 (3.67%) Grafana
4 11 (2.52%) Istio
5 9 (2.06%) Argo
5 9 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (1.61%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.69%) SCCM
10 2 (0.46%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.46%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.46%) Knative
10 2 (0.46%) logstash
10 2 (0.46%) QRadar
11 1 (0.23%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.23%) vMotion
Vendors
1 57 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.42%) Databricks
3 20 (4.59%) Adobe
4 19 (4.36%) Apple
5 16 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.44%) Oracle
7 13 (2.98%) Splunk
8 12 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.61%) IBM
10 6 (1.38%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.38%) Okta
10 6 (1.38%) OneTrust
10 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.15%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.15%) Facebook
11 5 (1.15%) Marketo
11 5 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.15%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.15%) Tealium