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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 102 101
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Google 441 393 491
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.13% 2.50% 2.45%
As % of the Vendors category 6.74% 5.70% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 223 335
10th Percentile £302 £302 £250
25th Percentile £420 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -2.92%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile £30.99 £30.73 £16.53
25th Percentile £34.25 £36.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £42.75 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +66.02% -18.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £52.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.70 £60.15 £35.75
England median hourly rate £22.53 £62.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -63.95% +93.38% -7.66%

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 6,545 6,890 8,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.50% 43.81% 41.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,228 4,338 5,757
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 65 119
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.80 £16.97
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -12.35% +62.00%
75th Percentile £38.13 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.35 £97.00 £83.85
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +73.08%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +21 76 £600 +3.23% 241
West London -3 11 £525 +31.25% 19
South London -2 2 £275 -52.17% 4
North London - 1 - - 2
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 16 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.95%) Confluence
3 12 (2.72%) Apache
4 7 (1.59%) CMS
4 7 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.68%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.68%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.45%) SAS
7 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.45%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.68%) Sketch
7 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.23%) InDesign
8 1 (0.23%) Maya
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 268 (60.77%) GCP
2 104 (23.58%) Azure
3 84 (19.05%) AWS
4 64 (14.51%) GitHub
5 56 (12.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 38 (8.62%) Google Workspace
7 33 (7.48%) Google Analytics
8 32 (7.26%) SaaS
9 30 (6.80%) Power Platform
10 29 (6.58%) Cloud Run
11 27 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (3.85%) Vertex AI
14 16 (3.63%) Google Gemini
14 16 (3.63%) Google Sheets
15 15 (3.40%) Cloud Functions
15 15 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (3.17%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.17%) Google Play
16 14 (3.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.54%) DNS
1 20 (4.54%) Firewall
2 10 (2.27%) HTTP
3 8 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.59%) VPN
5 6 (1.36%) Network Security
6 3 (0.68%) Bluetooth
6 3 (0.68%) Intranet
6 3 (0.68%) SMTP
6 3 (0.68%) SSL
6 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.45%) BGP
7 2 (0.45%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) DKIM
7 2 (0.45%) DMARC
7 2 (0.45%) LAN
7 2 (0.45%) VLAN
7 2 (0.45%) VRRP
8 1 (0.23%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.65%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (5.44%) Power BI
3 19 (4.31%) Tableau
4 17 (3.85%) Big Data
5 14 (3.17%) Looker
6 10 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.04%) Metadata
7 9 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.81%) Mixpanel
8 8 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.59%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.91%) MySQL
11 4 (0.91%) Redis
11 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (10.66%) Jenkins
2 42 (9.52%) Git
3 22 (4.99%) JIRA
4 19 (4.31%) GitLab
5 14 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.04%) Gradle
7 8 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.59%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.36%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (1.36%) Maven
9 6 (1.36%) Selenium
9 6 (1.36%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.91%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.91%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.91%) Vite
10 4 (0.91%) webpack
11 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.68%) JUnit
11 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 107 (24.26%) Finance
3 66 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.34%) Banking
5 49 (11.11%) Marketing
6 20 (4.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.85%) Advertising
7 17 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.40%) Retail
9 14 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.95%) Legal
11 9 (2.04%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.36%) Publishing
15 3 (0.68%) Electronics
15 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (12.47%) Architect
2 51 (11.56%) Senior
3 44 (9.98%) GCP Engineer
4 42 (9.52%) Analyst
5 41 (9.30%) Developer
6 27 (6.12%) Lead
7 25 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (4.99%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.54%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.08%) GCP DevOps
10 18 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.63%) GCP Architect
11 16 (3.63%) Security Engineer
11 16 (3.63%) Software Engineer
12 15 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.17%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.95%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.72%) Senior Architect
16 11 (2.49%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.26%) RESTful
2 28 (6.35%) React
3 23 (5.22%) FastAPI
4 21 (4.76%) Kafka
5 20 (4.54%) HTML
6 19 (4.31%) Node.js
7 18 (4.08%) CSS
7 18 (4.08%) LangGraph
8 16 (3.63%) pytest
9 14 (3.17%) OAuth
9 14 (3.17%) React Native
9 14 (3.17%) Spring
10 12 (2.72%) LangChain
10 12 (2.72%) TensorFlow
11 11 (2.49%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.27%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.27%) Next.js
12 10 (2.27%) Pandas
12 10 (2.27%) PyTorch
12 10 (2.27%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.44%) Mobile App
2 24 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.08%) Life Science
4 16 (3.63%) AI Agents
4 16 (3.63%) Genomics
5 13 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.49%) Social Media
7 10 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.59%) NHS
11 6 (1.36%) Digital Media
11 6 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.99%) Android
2 17 (3.85%) Apple iOS
3 16 (3.63%) Linux
4 12 (2.72%) Windows
5 8 (1.81%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (29.93%) DevOps
2 125 (28.34%) CI/CD
3 111 (25.17%) Agile
4 94 (21.32%) Analytics
5 90 (20.41%) AI
6 82 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (17.46%) Containerisation
8 64 (14.51%) Machine Learning
9 63 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 59 (13.38%) Migration
11 44 (9.98%) Data Modelling
11 44 (9.98%) User Experience
12 42 (9.52%) Test Automation
13 36 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (7.94%) Cloud Security
14 35 (7.94%) Data Governance
14 35 (7.94%) ETL
14 35 (7.94%) Microservices
15 33 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 144 (32.65%) Python
2 79 (17.91%) SQL
3 47 (10.66%) Java
4 39 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.35%) Bash
6 27 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 23 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 11 (2.49%) Go
9 10 (2.27%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.36%) Bicep
12 6 (1.36%) R
12 6 (1.36%) Ruby
13 4 (0.91%) C#
13 4 (0.91%) Scala
13 4 (0.91%) Swift
14 3 (0.68%) C++
14 3 (0.68%) Groovy
14 3 (0.68%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 48 (10.88%) Degree
2 24 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.27%) CISSP
6 7 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.59%) MCP
7 5 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.13%) CCSP
8 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.91%) CCNA
8 4 (0.91%) CEH
8 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.91%) GCIH
8 4 (0.91%) OSCP
9 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.71%) GDPR
2 25 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.44%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.72%) QA
6 7 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.59%) NIST
7 6 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.36%) WCAG
8 5 (1.13%) NCSC
9 4 (0.91%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.68%) HL7
10 3 (0.68%) SLA
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.45%) DICOM
11 2 (0.45%) GRC
11 2 (0.45%) PMO
11 2 (0.45%) Section 508
12 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.23%) LOINC
System Software
1 92 (20.86%) Docker
2 12 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.13%) Squid
4 4 (0.91%) Snort
4 4 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.45%) Firmware
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 89 (20.18%) Kubernetes
2 78 (17.69%) Terraform
3 15 (3.40%) Ansible
4 13 (2.95%) Argo
5 12 (2.72%) Grafana
6 9 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.59%) Istio
8 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.13%) Puppet
9 4 (0.91%) Nessus
9 4 (0.91%) Nexpose
9 4 (0.91%) Suricata
10 3 (0.68%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.68%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.68%) SCCM
10 3 (0.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 69 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.31%) Splunk
3 18 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.63%) Adobe
5 14 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.72%) Databricks
7 11 (2.49%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (2.49%) Oracle
7 11 (2.49%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.27%) Amplitude
8 10 (2.27%) Apple
9 9 (2.04%) Cisco
9 9 (2.04%) Okta
9 9 (2.04%) Optimizely
9 9 (2.04%) SAP
10 8 (1.81%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.81%) OneTrust
11 7 (1.59%) Hotjar
11 7 (1.59%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.59%) Qualys