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 27 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 91 93
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Google 517 422 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.60% 3.09% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 6.21% 6.71% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 256 309
10th Percentile £303 £275 £324
25th Percentile £402 £399 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £618 £688
90th Percentile £673 £750 £775
England median daily rate £509 £495 £536
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.56% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £23.16 £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 £36.05 £57.25 £41.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £70.38 £42.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -64.77% +87.79%

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 8,321 6,288 7,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 46.00% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,438 4,095 4,853
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% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 120 93
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £22.10 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% -4.33% -14.06%
75th Percentile £57.86 £47.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £74.25
England median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +5 75 £508 -5.58% 57
South London -5 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -14 11 £603 +14.76% 11
East London +6 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 23 (4.45%) Apache
2 20 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 20 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.90%) Confluence
4 14 (2.71%) CMS
5 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.58%) Drupal
8 3 (0.58%) WordPress
9 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.19%) Luigi
10 1 (0.19%) Mendix
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.13%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.39%) 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
1 301 (58.22%) GCP
2 117 (22.63%) AWS
3 109 (21.08%) Azure
4 92 (17.79%) Google Workspace
5 43 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (6.77%) GitHub
6 35 (6.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 27 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 24 (4.64%) Google Analytics
8 24 (4.64%) Google Drive
9 22 (4.26%) SaaS
9 22 (4.26%) Slack
10 21 (4.06%) Vertex AI
11 19 (3.68%) dbt
12 18 (3.48%) Cloud Run
12 18 (3.48%) Google Sheets
12 18 (3.48%) Snowflake
13 17 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.29%) Google Ads
14 16 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.00%) DNS
2 23 (4.45%) VPN
3 20 (3.87%) Firewall
4 10 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.55%) DKIM
5 8 (1.55%) DMARC
5 8 (1.55%) Internet
6 7 (1.35%) DHCP
6 7 (1.35%) Network Security
7 5 (0.97%) SMTP
8 4 (0.77%) VoIP
9 3 (0.58%) HTTP
9 3 (0.58%) VLAN
10 2 (0.39%) 4G
10 2 (0.39%) 5G
10 2 (0.39%) NFC
10 2 (0.39%) NGFW
10 2 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (0.39%) Telepresence
10 2 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.80%) BigQuery
2 37 (7.16%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.84%) Power BI
4 18 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.90%) Looker
6 14 (2.71%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.71%) Tableau
7 12 (2.32%) Big Data
8 10 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.74%) Metadata
10 8 (1.55%) Redis
11 7 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.35%) OLTP
12 6 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.16%) Mixpanel
12 6 (1.16%) MySQL
12 6 (1.16%) OLAP
12 6 (1.16%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.97%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 31 (6.00%) JIRA
2 26 (5.03%) Git
3 23 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.06%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) Gradle
5 4 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.39%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.39%) Gatling
6 2 (0.39%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.39%) JMeter
6 2 (0.39%) JUnit
6 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.39%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.39%) webpack
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 136 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 100 (19.34%) Finance
3 68 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.86%) Marketing
6 34 (6.58%) Retail
7 27 (5.22%) Banking
8 18 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.29%) Advertising
10 11 (2.13%) Publishing
10 11 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.93%) Legal
12 8 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.35%) Military
14 6 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.16%) Games
14 6 (1.16%) Law
15 5 (0.97%) Billing
16 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (12.96%) GCP Engineer
2 51 (9.86%) Data Engineer
3 50 (9.67%) Architect
4 49 (9.48%) Senior
5 48 (9.28%) Lead
6 43 (8.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (7.74%) Analyst
8 39 (7.54%) Developer
9 17 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (2.71%) Administrator
10 14 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.51%) GCP Data Engineer
11 13 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (2.51%) Security Architect
11 13 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.51%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (2.32%) Java Developer
13 11 (2.13%) Backend Developer
13 11 (2.13%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.12%) REST
2 27 (5.22%) Kafka
3 19 (3.68%) JSON
4 17 (3.29%) OAuth
4 17 (3.29%) Spring
4 17 (3.29%) Spring Boot
5 15 (2.90%) React
6 13 (2.51%) RESTful
7 12 (2.32%) HTML
7 12 (2.32%) LangChain
7 12 (2.32%) LangGraph
8 11 (2.13%) SAML
9 9 (1.74%) Apache Beam
9 9 (1.74%) CSS
10 8 (1.55%) .NET
10 8 (1.55%) Middleware
10 8 (1.55%) Node.js
11 7 (1.35%) Next.js
11 7 (1.35%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.42%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.68%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.71%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.74%) Clustering
7 9 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.16%) Life Science
10 6 (1.16%) Social Media
11 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.42%) Windows
2 22 (4.26%) Linux
3 17 (3.29%) Android
4 11 (2.13%) Mac OS
4 11 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.97%) 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
1 130 (25.15%) CI/CD
2 110 (21.28%) AI
3 106 (20.50%) Agile
4 98 (18.96%) Analytics
5 86 (16.63%) DevOps
5 86 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 86 (16.63%) Migration
6 79 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (9.67%) Data Modelling
9 50 (9.67%) Decision-Making
10 49 (9.48%) Software Engineering
11 48 (9.28%) Machine Learning
12 46 (8.90%) Observability
13 45 (8.70%) Roadmaps
14 42 (8.12%) Data Engineering
15 41 (7.93%) ETL
15 41 (7.93%) Microservices
16 39 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 136 (26.31%) Python
2 103 (19.92%) SQL
3 68 (13.15%) Java
4 28 (5.42%) PowerShell
5 24 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.29%) Bash
6 17 (3.29%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.09%) Scala
8 14 (2.71%) C#
8 14 (2.71%) Kotlin
9 12 (2.32%) Go
10 9 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
11 6 (1.16%) Bicep
12 5 (0.97%) SOQL
13 4 (0.77%) Korn
13 4 (0.77%) Ruby
13 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.58%) Groovy
14 3 (0.58%) PHP
14 3 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (18.76%) Security Cleared
2 82 (15.86%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.86%) Degree
4 25 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.48%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.74%) CISSP
10 6 (1.16%) PhD
10 6 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.97%) CISM
11 5 (0.97%) 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%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.19%) Data Quality
1 32 (6.19%) QA
2 20 (3.87%) GDPR
3 13 (2.51%) NIST
4 11 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.77%) NCSC
7 4 (0.77%) PMO
8 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 3 (0.58%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (8.51%) Docker
2 22 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) 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 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 87 (16.83%) Terraform
2 75 (14.51%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.29%) Grafana
4 13 (2.51%) Ansible
5 12 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.35%) Puppet
8 7 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.77%) Istio
10 4 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.77%) SCCM
10 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.77%) vMotion
11 3 (0.58%) Nagios
12 2 (0.39%) Argo
12 2 (0.39%) WSUS
13 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 84 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.68%) OpenAI
3 18 (3.48%) Splunk
4 17 (3.29%) Adobe
5 16 (3.09%) Oracle
6 15 (2.90%) Databricks
6 15 (2.90%) TikTok
7 14 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.51%) Apple
8 13 (2.51%) Okta
9 11 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.35%) Cisco
10 7 (1.35%) Citrix
10 7 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.16%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.16%) SAP
12 5 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.97%) New Relic
12 5 (0.97%) Optimizely