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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 91 99
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 522 412 441
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.60% 3.07% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 6.66% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 251 296
10th Percentile £314 £275 £316
25th Percentile £407 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £700
90th Percentile £675 £750 £788
England median daily rate £515 £489 £550
% change year-on-year +5.32% -11.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 13
10th Percentile £18.83 £30.97 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.48 £31.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +71.93% -57.78%
75th Percentile £35.90 £62.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £43.86 £70.25 £42.45
England median hourly rate £32.50 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +52.73% -69.60% +100.00%

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 8,550 6,188 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.62% 46.07% 43.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,579 4,012 4,721
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 127 87
10th Percentile £18.68 £16.24 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.95 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £59.94 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +10 78 £525 -4.55% 73
South London +3 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -18 12 £550 +4.76% 24
East London - 3 £410 - 8
North London -3 1 £225 - 1
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 22 (4.21%) Apache
2 21 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.64%) CMS
3 19 (3.64%) Confluence
4 18 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (3.07%) Apache Spark
6 11 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (1.53%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.77%) WordPress
10 3 (0.57%) Drupal
11 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.19%) Luigi
12 1 (0.19%) Mendix
12 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 16 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.96%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.77%) 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 (0.96%) Shopify
2 4 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.77%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) iTrent
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
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
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 302 (57.85%) GCP
2 129 (24.71%) AWS
3 125 (23.95%) Azure
4 69 (13.22%) Google Workspace
5 42 (8.05%) GitHub
6 38 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 32 (6.13%) Google Analytics
9 26 (4.98%) Power Platform
10 25 (4.79%) SaaS
11 24 (4.60%) dbt
12 22 (4.21%) Google Drive
13 21 (4.02%) Entra ID
13 21 (4.02%) Snowflake
14 20 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (3.83%) Google Sheets
14 20 (3.83%) Vertex AI
15 19 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
16 16 (3.07%) Cloud Functions
17 14 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.75%) DNS
2 23 (4.41%) Firewall
2 23 (4.41%) VPN
3 10 (1.92%) Internet
4 9 (1.72%) Network Security
5 8 (1.53%) DKIM
5 8 (1.53%) DMARC
5 8 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.15%) DHCP
7 5 (0.96%) SMTP
7 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.77%) WAN
8 4 (0.77%) WebEx
9 3 (0.57%) HTTP
9 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
9 3 (0.57%) VLAN
9 3 (0.57%) VoIP
10 2 (0.38%) NFC
10 2 (0.38%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.77%) BigQuery
2 37 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.60%) Power BI
4 17 (3.26%) Looker
4 17 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.87%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.87%) Tableau
6 13 (2.49%) Big Data
7 11 (2.11%) Metadata
8 8 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.53%) Redis
9 7 (1.34%) Flink
9 7 (1.34%) InterSystems Cache
9 7 (1.34%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.15%) MySQL
10 6 (1.15%) Star Schema
11 5 (0.96%) Data Hub
11 5 (0.96%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.77%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 35 (6.70%) JIRA
2 29 (5.56%) Git
3 28 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 25 (4.79%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) Gradle
5 4 (0.77%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 3 (0.57%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) Gatling
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 94 (18.01%) Finance
3 72 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.69%) Public Sector
5 52 (9.96%) Marketing
6 32 (6.13%) Retail
7 26 (4.98%) Banking
8 21 (4.02%) Advertising
9 14 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.30%) Publishing
10 12 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.11%) Legal
12 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.15%) Games
13 6 (1.15%) Law
14 5 (0.96%) Billing
14 5 (0.96%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (12.84%) Architect
2 66 (12.64%) GCP Engineer
3 53 (10.15%) Senior
4 50 (9.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 46 (8.81%) Data Engineer
6 39 (7.47%) Developer
7 37 (7.09%) Analyst
7 37 (7.09%) Lead
8 19 (3.64%) Support Engineer
9 18 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.07%) Security Architect
11 14 (2.68%) Administrator
11 14 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 14 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) GCP Data Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) Java Developer
12 12 (2.30%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.11%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (17.62%) Terraform
2 38 (7.28%) REST
3 27 (5.17%) Kafka
4 20 (3.83%) JSON
5 18 (3.45%) OAuth
5 18 (3.45%) React
5 18 (3.45%) RESTful
6 16 (3.07%) HTML
7 15 (2.87%) LangChain
7 15 (2.87%) LangGraph
8 13 (2.49%) CSS
9 12 (2.30%) Spring
9 12 (2.30%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.11%) Apache Beam
10 11 (2.11%) SAML
11 10 (1.92%) JWT
11 10 (1.92%) OAuth2
12 9 (1.72%) Middleware
13 8 (1.53%) Node.js
14 7 (1.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.70%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.87%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.68%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.49%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.72%) Clustering
11 9 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.15%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.96%) CMDB
13 5 (0.96%) Life Science
13 5 (0.96%) PKI
13 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.13%) Windows
2 30 (5.75%) Linux
3 14 (2.68%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.49%) Android
5 10 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.57%) Unix
10 2 (0.38%) CentOS
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
1 138 (26.44%) CI/CD
2 113 (21.65%) Agile
2 113 (21.65%) AI
3 98 (18.77%) Analytics
4 92 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (16.86%) DevOps
6 83 (15.90%) Migration
7 74 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (10.15%) Software Engineering
11 52 (9.96%) Machine Learning
12 47 (9.00%) Data Modelling
12 47 (9.00%) Roadmaps
13 46 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
13 46 (8.81%) Decision-Making
13 46 (8.81%) Microservices
14 45 (8.62%) Observability
15 42 (8.05%) Event-Driven
16 41 (7.85%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (27.97%) Python
2 103 (19.73%) SQL
3 64 (12.26%) Java
4 34 (6.51%) PowerShell
5 28 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.21%) Bash
7 18 (3.45%) Scala
7 18 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.68%) Go
9 10 (1.92%) C#
10 9 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.15%) Bicep
13 5 (0.96%) SOQL
14 4 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.77%) Groovy
14 4 (0.77%) R
15 3 (0.57%) Korn
15 3 (0.57%) LookML
15 3 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 110 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.58%) Degree
4 27 (5.17%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.92%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.53%) CISSP
11 6 (1.15%) PhD
12 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.77%) CISM
13 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.77%) PMP
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 3 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.13%) QA
3 16 (3.07%) GDPR
4 14 (2.68%) NIST
5 13 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.15%) PMO
7 5 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.77%) NCSC
9 3 (0.57%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) 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%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (10.92%) Docker
2 20 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.77%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (17.43%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.64%) Ansible
3 17 (3.26%) Grafana
4 16 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.53%) Puppet
8 5 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.77%) Istio
9 4 (0.77%) SCCM
9 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.77%) vMotion
10 3 (0.57%) Argo
10 3 (0.57%) Nagios
11 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.38%) WSUS
12 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.60%) Adobe
2 24 (4.60%) Oracle
3 20 (3.83%) OpenAI
4 19 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.45%) TikTok
6 17 (3.26%) Splunk
7 15 (2.87%) Databricks
8 14 (2.68%) Apple
8 14 (2.68%) Okta
9 12 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.11%) Amplitude
11 10 (1.92%) Cisco
11 10 (1.92%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.92%) SAP
12 9 (1.72%) Optimizely
13 8 (1.53%) New Relic
13 8 (1.53%) Sitecore
13 8 (1.53%) Tealium
14 7 (1.34%) Citrix