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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 86 89
Rank change year-on-year -30 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 527 424 449
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.16% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 6.05% 6.83% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 243 288
10th Percentile £321 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £675 £770 £784
England median daily rate £510 £480 £536
% change year-on-year +6.25% -10.36% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £29.59 £25.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £34.23 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +7.14% +62.79%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £43.44
90th Percentile £46.97 £70.25 £44.58
England median hourly rate £29.07 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.86% -67.77% +112.12%

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 8,715 6,204 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 46.19% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,667 4,017 4,543
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 120 78
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.30 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -14.60% -17.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £83.50 £63.88 £79.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -12 78 £513 -2.38% 200
South London -2 10 £550 +15.79% 4
West London -18 10 £469 -10.71% 88
East London - 2 £300 - 14
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 (4.74%) Apache
2 24 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.61%) Confluence
3 19 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.42%) CMS
5 13 (2.47%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.52%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.76%) WordPress
9 3 (0.57%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
Applications
1 16 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.95%) Shopify
2 4 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) iTrent
3 3 (0.57%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 307 (58.25%) GCP
2 128 (24.29%) Azure
3 125 (23.72%) AWS
4 67 (12.71%) Google Workspace
5 46 (8.73%) GitHub
6 45 (8.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 36 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (6.26%) dbt
9 31 (5.88%) Google Analytics
10 27 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (4.74%) SaaS
12 24 (4.55%) Vertex AI
13 23 (4.36%) Entra ID
14 22 (4.17%) Google Drive
14 22 (4.17%) Power Platform
15 20 (3.80%) Snowflake
16 19 (3.61%) Adobe Analytics
17 18 (3.42%) Google Sheets
18 16 (3.04%) Cloud Run
18 16 (3.04%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.74%) DNS
2 18 (3.42%) Firewall
3 17 (3.23%) VPN
4 10 (1.90%) Network Security
5 9 (1.71%) Internet
6 8 (1.52%) DKIM
6 8 (1.52%) DMARC
6 8 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.14%) DHCP
7 6 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.76%) SMTP
8 4 (0.76%) VoIP
8 4 (0.76%) WAN
8 4 (0.76%) WebEx
9 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
10 2 (0.38%) 4G
10 2 (0.38%) 5G
10 2 (0.38%) NFC
10 2 (0.38%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.52%) BigQuery
2 40 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.80%) Looker
4 20 (3.80%) Power BI
5 18 (3.42%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.04%) Metadata
7 14 (2.66%) Big Data
8 12 (2.28%) Tableau
9 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.33%) Flink
10 7 (1.33%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.33%) MySQL
10 7 (1.33%) Redis
11 6 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.95%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 39 (7.40%) Git
2 38 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.64%) JIRA
4 32 (6.07%) GitLab
5 7 (1.33%) Gradle
6 5 (0.95%) Maven
7 4 (0.76%) JUnit
7 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 3 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.57%) Gemini Tracker
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.57%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 140 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 100 (18.98%) Finance
3 75 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.87%) Marketing
6 32 (6.07%) Retail
7 30 (5.69%) Banking
8 18 (3.42%) Advertising
9 12 (2.28%) Legal
9 12 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.09%) Publishing
11 9 (1.71%) Games
11 9 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.33%) Law
12 7 (1.33%) Local Government
12 7 (1.33%) Military
12 7 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.14%) Billing
13 6 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (13.47%) Architect
2 64 (12.14%) GCP Engineer
3 55 (10.44%) Senior
4 46 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (8.73%) Data Engineer
5 41 (7.78%) Developer
6 39 (7.40%) Analyst
7 36 (6.83%) Lead
8 19 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.61%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.04%) GCP Data Engineer
9 16 (3.04%) Security Architect
9 16 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.66%) Administrator
10 14 (2.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (2.66%) Java Developer
11 13 (2.47%) GCP DevOps
12 12 (2.28%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.28%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (17.84%) Terraform
2 40 (7.59%) REST
3 24 (4.55%) Kafka
4 20 (3.80%) JSON
5 19 (3.61%) React
5 19 (3.61%) RESTful
6 18 (3.42%) OAuth
7 17 (3.23%) HTML
7 17 (3.23%) LangGraph
8 16 (3.04%) Spring
9 15 (2.85%) LangChain
9 15 (2.85%) Spring Boot
10 14 (2.66%) CSS
11 13 (2.47%) Apache Beam
12 12 (2.28%) Node.js
13 10 (1.90%) JWT
13 10 (1.90%) OAuth2
13 10 (1.90%) SAML
14 9 (1.71%) XML
15 8 (1.52%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.83%) AI Agents
3 25 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.66%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.52%) Clustering
11 8 (1.52%) Replication
12 7 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.33%) PKI
13 6 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.64%) Linux
2 34 (6.45%) Windows
3 15 (2.85%) Android
4 13 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.76%) Unix
10 2 (0.38%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (29.79%) CI/CD
2 124 (23.53%) Agile
3 119 (22.58%) AI
4 100 (18.98%) Analytics
5 99 (18.79%) DevOps
6 96 (18.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 92 (17.46%) Migration
8 80 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 76 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (10.25%) Roadmaps
13 53 (10.06%) Machine Learning
13 53 (10.06%) Observability
14 52 (9.87%) Software Engineering
15 51 (9.68%) Microservices
16 50 (9.49%) Containerisation
17 47 (8.92%) Data Modelling
18 44 (8.35%) Event-Driven
19 40 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 155 (29.41%) Python
2 112 (21.25%) SQL
3 63 (11.95%) Java
4 34 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.93%) Bash
7 21 (3.98%) Go
8 17 (3.23%) Scala
8 17 (3.23%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.52%) C#
10 8 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.14%) Bicep
11 6 (1.14%) LookML
12 5 (0.95%) R
12 5 (0.95%) SOQL
13 4 (0.76%) Groovy
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
15 2 (0.38%) Korn
15 2 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 99 (18.79%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.92%) Degree
4 28 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.71%) CISSP
8 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.14%) PhD
10 5 (0.95%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.76%) PMP
11 4 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.57%) CRISC
12 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.07%) QA
3 12 (2.28%) GDPR
3 12 (2.28%) NIST
4 11 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.14%) PMO
6 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.95%) NCSC
7 4 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.57%) GRC
8 3 (0.57%) PSD2
8 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 66 (12.52%) Docker
2 17 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.57%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.55%) Ansible
3 19 (3.61%) Grafana
4 17 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.52%) Puppet
8 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.76%) SCCM
10 3 (0.57%) Argo
10 3 (0.57%) Cilium
10 3 (0.57%) Istio
10 3 (0.57%) Nagios
10 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.57%) vMotion
11 2 (0.38%) WSUS
12 1 (0.19%) Kibana
12 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.55%) Adobe
2 24 (4.55%) Oracle
3 22 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.42%) Databricks
5 18 (3.42%) Splunk
6 17 (3.23%) TikTok
7 16 (3.04%) Okta
8 12 (2.28%) Amplitude
8 12 (2.28%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.09%) Apple
10 10 (1.90%) Cisco
10 10 (1.90%) SAP
11 9 (1.71%) Optimizely
12 8 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (1.52%) New Relic
12 8 (1.52%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.52%) Tealium