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 4 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 88 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 527 426 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 3.13% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 6.28% 6.82% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 260 309
10th Percentile £313 £275 £324
25th Percentile £407 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £700
90th Percentile £675 £750 £784
England median daily rate £510 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +5.15% -11.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 14
10th Percentile £21.80 £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% -55.93%
75th Percentile £36.35 £62.50 £41.38
90th Percentile £50.15 £67.63 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +57.36% -67.77% +105.88%

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 8,398 6,245 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 45.85% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,477 4,075 4,770
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £511 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 121 86
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.60
25th Percentile £20.60 £22.50 £20.69
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £58.57 £43.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.63
England median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.27% -13.28% -26.77%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +9 76 £525 -2.33% 120
South London -6 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -17 11 £603 +14.76% 17
East London - 3 £410 - 8
North London -2 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 25 (4.74%) Apache
2 20 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.42%) CMS
4 15 (2.85%) Confluence
5 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.71%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
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%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) iTrent
4 2 (0.38%) 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%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (58.06%) GCP
2 121 (22.96%) AWS
3 115 (21.82%) Azure
4 82 (15.56%) Google Workspace
5 39 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (6.83%) GitHub
7 35 (6.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 29 (5.50%) Google Analytics
9 27 (5.12%) Power Platform
10 24 (4.55%) SaaS
11 23 (4.36%) Google Drive
12 22 (4.17%) dbt
13 20 (3.80%) Vertex AI
14 19 (3.61%) Google Sheets
14 19 (3.61%) Snowflake
15 18 (3.42%) Adobe Analytics
15 18 (3.42%) Cloud Run
15 18 (3.42%) Google Ads
16 17 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (3.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.88%) DNS
2 22 (4.17%) Firewall
3 20 (3.80%) VPN
4 9 (1.71%) Internet
5 8 (1.52%) DKIM
5 8 (1.52%) DMARC
5 8 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.95%) DHCP
7 5 (0.95%) SMTP
8 4 (0.76%) VoIP
8 4 (0.76%) WebEx
9 3 (0.57%) HTTP
9 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
9 3 (0.57%) VLAN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.39%) BigQuery
2 38 (7.21%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.74%) Power BI
4 18 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.23%) Looker
6 15 (2.85%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.85%) Tableau
7 12 (2.28%) Big Data
8 9 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.71%) Metadata
9 8 (1.52%) Redis
10 7 (1.33%) Flink
10 7 (1.33%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.33%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.14%) MySQL
11 6 (1.14%) OLTP
11 6 (1.14%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.95%) OLAP
12 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (5.88%) JIRA
2 29 (5.50%) Git
3 26 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.76%) Gradle
5 4 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 3 (0.57%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) Gatling
7 2 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 138 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.22%) Finance
3 73 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 54 (10.25%) Marketing
6 34 (6.45%) Retail
7 26 (4.93%) Banking
8 19 (3.61%) Advertising
9 17 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.47%) Publishing
11 11 (2.09%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.90%) Legal
13 8 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.14%) Games
15 6 (1.14%) Law
15 6 (1.14%) Military
16 5 (0.95%) Billing
16 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (13.09%) GCP Engineer
2 53 (10.06%) Data Engineer
3 52 (9.87%) Architect
4 50 (9.49%) Senior
5 45 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (8.54%) Lead
6 40 (7.59%) Developer
7 38 (7.21%) Analyst
8 17 (3.23%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (2.85%) GCP Data Engineer
11 14 (2.66%) Administrator
11 14 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.47%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.47%) Security Architect
13 12 (2.28%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (2.28%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.78%) REST
2 26 (4.93%) Kafka
3 19 (3.61%) JSON
4 17 (3.23%) OAuth
4 17 (3.23%) Spring
4 17 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.04%) React
6 15 (2.85%) HTML
7 14 (2.66%) RESTful
8 13 (2.47%) LangChain
8 13 (2.47%) LangGraph
9 12 (2.28%) CSS
10 11 (2.09%) Apache Beam
10 11 (2.09%) SAML
11 8 (1.52%) .NET
11 8 (1.52%) Node.js
12 7 (1.33%) Middleware
12 7 (1.33%) Next.js
12 7 (1.33%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.47%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.26%) AI Agents
3 21 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.42%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.66%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.71%) Clustering
8 9 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.33%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.14%) Life Science
12 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.95%) PKI
12 5 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.12%) Windows
2 26 (4.93%) Linux
3 14 (2.66%) Android
4 13 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.76%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.57%) Unix
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (25.62%) CI/CD
2 115 (21.82%) AI
3 114 (21.63%) Agile
4 98 (18.60%) Analytics
5 88 (16.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (16.32%) DevOps
7 85 (16.13%) Migration
8 78 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 51 (9.68%) Data Modelling
10 51 (9.68%) Software Engineering
11 50 (9.49%) Machine Learning
12 49 (9.30%) Decision-Making
13 47 (8.92%) Observability
13 47 (8.92%) Roadmaps
14 45 (8.54%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (7.78%) Data Engineering
16 40 (7.59%) ETL
16 40 (7.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 142 (26.94%) Python
2 107 (20.30%) SQL
3 68 (12.90%) Java
4 31 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 27 (5.12%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.80%) Bash
7 18 (3.42%) Scala
7 18 (3.42%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.66%) Kotlin
9 13 (2.47%) C#
9 13 (2.47%) Go
10 8 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
11 6 (1.14%) Bicep
11 6 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.95%) SOQL
13 4 (0.76%) Groovy
13 4 (0.76%) Ruby
14 3 (0.57%) Korn
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.68%) Degree
4 27 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.42%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.71%) CISSP
10 6 (1.14%) PhD
10 6 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.95%) CISM
11 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.76%) PMP
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.57%) CRISC
13 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.64%) QA
3 18 (3.42%) GDPR
4 13 (2.47%) NIST
5 11 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.76%) NCSC
8 4 (0.76%) PMO
9 3 (0.57%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
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%) PSD2
10 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (9.30%) Docker
2 19 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.76%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.76%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.76%) 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 90 (17.08%) Terraform
2 81 (15.37%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.42%) Grafana
4 16 (3.04%) Ansible
5 13 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.33%) Puppet
9 6 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.76%) Istio
11 4 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.76%) SCCM
11 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.76%) vMotion
12 3 (0.57%) Nagios
13 2 (0.38%) Argo
13 2 (0.38%) WSUS
14 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 86 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.17%) Adobe
3 21 (3.98%) Splunk
4 19 (3.61%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.23%) Oracle
5 17 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.04%) TikTok
7 15 (2.85%) Databricks
8 14 (2.66%) Okta
9 13 (2.47%) Apple
10 11 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.71%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.71%) Cisco
11 9 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.71%) Optimizely
12 8 (1.52%) Sitecore
12 8 (1.52%) Tealium
13 7 (1.33%) Citrix
13 7 (1.33%) New Relic
13 7 (1.33%) SAP