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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 87 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 520 419 462
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.62% 3.08% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 6.25% 6.69% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 254 319
10th Percentile £300 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -9.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £688
90th Percentile £675 £750 £775
England median daily rate £510 £495 £530
% change year-on-year +3.03% -6.60% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 14
10th Percentile £23.47 £29.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +65.55% -57.50%
75th Percentile £35.90 £57.25 £41.38
90th Percentile £49.49 £70.38 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -64.77% +76.99%

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 8,316 6,266 7,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.84% 46.11% 42.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,428 4,074 4,914
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £764
England median daily rate £510 £510 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 119 99
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.20
25th Percentile £22.46 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.32 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -2.52% -15.52%
75th Percentile £58.21 £48.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £35.81 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +42.39% -6.85% -29.92%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +1 75 £508 -5.58% 57
South London -5 12 £575 +21.05% 2
West London -8 12 £603 +4.78% 10
East London +4 3 £410 -36.92% 7
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (4.81%) Apache
2 22 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 21 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.88%) Confluence
5 14 (2.69%) CMS
6 12 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.58%) Drupal
9 3 (0.58%) WordPress
10 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.12%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.38%) Maya
6 2 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.38%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) iTrent
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 300 (57.69%) GCP
2 118 (22.69%) AWS
3 111 (21.35%) Azure
4 96 (18.46%) Google Workspace
5 44 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (7.12%) GitHub
7 35 (6.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 29 (5.58%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.62%) Google Drive
9 24 (4.62%) Slack
10 23 (4.42%) Google Analytics
11 22 (4.23%) SaaS
12 21 (4.04%) Vertex AI
13 20 (3.85%) Cloud Run
14 19 (3.65%) Amazon S3
14 19 (3.65%) dbt
15 18 (3.46%) Entra ID
15 18 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.46%) Google Sheets
15 18 (3.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.96%) DNS
2 23 (4.42%) VPN
3 20 (3.85%) Firewall
4 10 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.54%) DKIM
5 8 (1.54%) DMARC
5 8 (1.54%) Internet
6 7 (1.35%) DHCP
6 7 (1.35%) Network Security
7 5 (0.96%) SMTP
8 4 (0.77%) VoIP
9 3 (0.58%) HTTP
9 3 (0.58%) VLAN
10 2 (0.38%) 5G
10 2 (0.38%) BGP
10 2 (0.38%) IPv4
10 2 (0.38%) IPv6
10 2 (0.38%) NFC
10 2 (0.38%) OSPF
10 2 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.31%) BigQuery
2 36 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.19%) Power BI
4 19 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.88%) Looker
5 15 (2.88%) Tableau
6 14 (2.69%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.31%) Big Data
7 12 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.92%) Metadata
9 8 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.54%) Mixpanel
9 8 (1.54%) OLTP
9 8 (1.54%) Redis
10 7 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.35%) OLAP
11 6 (1.15%) MySQL
11 6 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (6.35%) JIRA
2 26 (5.00%) Git
3 24 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.23%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) Gradle
5 4 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.38%) Gatling
6 2 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.38%) JMeter
6 2 (0.38%) JUnit
6 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.38%) webpack
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 139 (26.73%) Social Skills
2 99 (19.04%) Finance
3 68 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.62%) Marketing
6 34 (6.54%) Retail
7 26 (5.00%) Banking
8 19 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.27%) Advertising
10 11 (2.12%) Publishing
10 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.92%) Legal
12 8 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.35%) Military
14 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.15%) Games
14 6 (1.15%) Law
15 5 (0.96%) Billing
16 4 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
2 52 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 50 (9.62%) Architect
3 50 (9.62%) Senior
4 49 (9.42%) Lead
5 44 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.50%) Analyst
6 39 (7.50%) Developer
7 15 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (2.69%) Administrator
8 14 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (2.50%) Security Architect
9 13 (2.50%) Support Engineer
10 12 (2.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (2.31%) GCP Data Engineer
10 12 (2.31%) Java Developer
10 12 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (2.12%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.88%) REST
2 28 (5.38%) Kafka
3 18 (3.46%) JSON
3 18 (3.46%) Spring
3 18 (3.46%) Spring Boot
4 16 (3.08%) OAuth
4 16 (3.08%) React
5 13 (2.50%) LangChain
6 12 (2.31%) HTML
6 12 (2.31%) LangGraph
6 12 (2.31%) RESTful
7 11 (2.12%) SAML
8 9 (1.73%) Apache Beam
8 9 (1.73%) CSS
8 9 (1.73%) Node.js
9 8 (1.54%) .NET
9 8 (1.54%) Great Expectations
9 8 (1.54%) Middleware
9 8 (1.54%) PyTorch
10 7 (1.35%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.23%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.38%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.65%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.73%) Clustering
7 9 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.15%) Life Science
10 6 (1.15%) Social Media
11 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.38%) Windows
2 22 (4.23%) Linux
3 17 (3.27%) Android
4 11 (2.12%) Mac OS
4 11 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.54%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.58%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) CentOS
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (25.19%) CI/CD
2 113 (21.73%) AI
3 104 (20.00%) Agile
4 97 (18.65%) Analytics
5 87 (16.73%) DevOps
5 87 (16.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 87 (16.73%) Migration
6 81 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (9.81%) Data Modelling
9 51 (9.81%) Machine Learning
9 51 (9.81%) Software Engineering
10 50 (9.62%) Observability
11 49 (9.42%) Decision-Making
12 44 (8.46%) Roadmaps
13 43 (8.27%) Data Engineering
14 41 (7.88%) Microservices
15 40 (7.69%) ETL
16 39 (7.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 135 (25.96%) Python
2 104 (20.00%) SQL
3 67 (12.88%) Java
4 28 (5.38%) PowerShell
5 24 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.27%) Bash
6 17 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.08%) C#
8 15 (2.88%) Scala
9 14 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 12 (2.31%) Go
11 9 (1.73%) Google Apps Script
12 6 (1.15%) Bicep
13 5 (0.96%) SOQL
14 4 (0.77%) Korn
14 4 (0.77%) Ruby
14 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.58%) Groovy
15 3 (0.58%) LookML
15 3 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 80 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.81%) Degree
4 25 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.46%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.73%) CISSP
10 6 (1.15%) PhD
10 6 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.96%) CISM
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.77%) PMP
12 4 (0.77%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.35%) QA
3 22 (4.23%) GDPR
4 13 (2.50%) NIST
5 11 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
8 4 (0.77%) PMO
9 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.58%) GRC
9 3 (0.58%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (8.85%) Docker
2 23 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.77%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 88 (16.92%) Terraform
2 75 (14.42%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.27%) Grafana
4 13 (2.50%) Ansible
5 12 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.35%) Puppet
7 7 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.96%) Istio
8 5 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.77%) SCCM
9 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.77%) vMotion
10 3 (0.58%) Argo
10 3 (0.58%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) WSUS
12 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 86 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.65%) OpenAI
3 18 (3.46%) Splunk
4 17 (3.27%) Adobe
5 16 (3.08%) Databricks
5 16 (3.08%) Oracle
6 15 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.88%) TikTok
7 14 (2.69%) Apple
7 14 (2.69%) Okta
8 12 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.35%) Cisco
9 7 (1.35%) Citrix
9 7 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.15%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.15%) SAP
11 5 (0.96%) Informatica
11 5 (0.96%) New Relic
11 5 (0.96%) Optimizely