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 31 December 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 105 117
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Google 429 361 388
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.98% 2.45% 2.13%
As % of the Vendors category 6.32% 5.53% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 200 258
10th Percentile £308 £300 £206
25th Percentile £446 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £681
90th Percentile £819 £775 £754
England median daily rate £508 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.19% -0.47% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 12
10th Percentile £29.93 £30.35 £16.23
25th Percentile £35.75 £34.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +66.99% -20.77%
75th Percentile £59.38 £57.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.55 £61.20 £51.40
England median hourly rate £33.32 £43.04 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.59% +30.42% -5.71%

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 6,783 6,528 7,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.11% 44.29% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 4,079 5,043
10th Percentile £350 £313 £298
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £646 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 70 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.80 £16.63
25th Percentile £21.73 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% -12.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £42.35 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.54 £81.93 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £46.12
% change year-on-year -20.83% -34.95% +69.24%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +34 85 £569 -1.09% 112
West London +1 20 £597 +53.08% 8
South London -6 3 £215 -62.61% 5
East London -6 1 £200 -66.67% 10
North London - 1 - - 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 20 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.03%) Apache
3 13 (3.03%) Confluence
4 9 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.63%) CMS
6 4 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.70%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.70%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.47%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.70%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.70%) Trello
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.47%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Maya
7 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.23%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 251 (58.51%) GCP
2 109 (25.41%) Azure
3 81 (18.88%) AWS
4 72 (16.78%) GitHub
5 54 (12.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 44 (10.26%) Google Workspace
7 35 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 34 (7.93%) Cloud Run
8 34 (7.93%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (6.99%) Google Analytics
10 27 (6.29%) SaaS
11 23 (5.36%) Google Gemini
12 20 (4.66%) Vertex AI
13 17 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
14 16 (3.73%) Cloud Functions
15 15 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.50%) Entra ID
16 14 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (3.03%) Figma
17 13 (3.03%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.29%) Firewall
2 15 (3.50%) DNS
3 8 (1.86%) HTTP
4 7 (1.63%) Network Security
5 6 (1.40%) VPN
6 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.70%) Intranet
7 3 (0.70%) SMTP
7 3 (0.70%) SSL
8 2 (0.47%) BGP
8 2 (0.47%) Broadband
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.47%) Internet
8 2 (0.47%) LAN
8 2 (0.47%) VLAN
8 2 (0.47%) VRRP
8 2 (0.47%) Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) IPsec
9 1 (0.23%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.62%) BigQuery
2 29 (6.76%) Power BI
3 22 (5.13%) Tableau
4 18 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.26%) Mixpanel
6 12 (2.80%) Big Data
6 12 (2.80%) Looker
6 12 (2.80%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.86%) OLAP
10 8 (1.86%) OLTP
11 7 (1.63%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.63%) Redis
12 6 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.40%) Metadata
12 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 40 (9.32%) Git
3 25 (5.83%) JIRA
4 23 (5.36%) GitLab
5 12 (2.80%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.86%) Gradle
6 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.63%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.17%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.17%) JUnit
10 4 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.93%) Maven
10 4 (0.93%) Mockito
11 3 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.70%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.70%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.70%) Selenium
11 3 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 125 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.75%) Finance
3 68 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.19%) Marketing
5 41 (9.56%) Banking
6 21 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (3.96%) Advertising
7 17 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.73%) Retail
9 13 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.33%) Legal
10 10 (2.33%) Publishing
11 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Electronics
14 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (11.89%) Senior
2 45 (10.49%) GCP Engineer
3 43 (10.02%) Developer
4 36 (8.39%) Analyst
5 35 (8.16%) Architect
6 26 (6.06%) Lead
7 25 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (4.43%) Data Scientist
10 18 (4.20%) Security Engineer
10 18 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 16 (3.73%) GCP DevOps
11 16 (3.73%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.03%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.80%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.56%) Business Analyst
15 11 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.23%) React
1 31 (7.23%) RESTful
2 25 (5.83%) FastAPI
3 22 (5.13%) Kafka
3 22 (5.13%) LangGraph
4 21 (4.90%) HTML
4 21 (4.90%) LangChain
5 20 (4.66%) Spring
6 18 (4.20%) CSS
7 17 (3.96%) Node.js
7 17 (3.96%) OAuth
7 17 (3.96%) PyTorch
8 16 (3.73%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.50%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.50%) Pandas
9 15 (3.50%) pytest
9 15 (3.50%) scikit-learn
9 15 (3.50%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.10%) OAuth2
10 9 (2.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.90%) Mobile App
4 19 (4.43%) Life Science
5 16 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.73%) Genomics
6 13 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.56%) Social Media
8 9 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.86%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.86%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.40%) Digital Media
11 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.43%) Android
2 15 (3.50%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.56%) Linux
4 9 (2.10%) Windows
5 8 (1.86%) VMS
6 6 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (32.17%) DevOps
2 128 (29.84%) CI/CD
3 113 (26.34%) AI
4 100 (23.31%) Agile
5 98 (22.84%) Analytics
6 79 (18.41%) Machine Learning
7 77 (17.95%) Containerisation
7 77 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (14.45%) Migration
10 43 (10.02%) Software Engineering
10 43 (10.02%) User Experience
11 41 (9.56%) Generative AI
11 41 (9.56%) Microservices
12 39 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (8.86%) Observability
14 36 (8.39%) LLM
15 35 (8.16%) Data Modelling
15 35 (8.16%) Test Automation
16 34 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (33.80%) Python
2 75 (17.48%) SQL
3 43 (10.02%) Java
4 42 (9.79%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.83%) Bash
6 23 (5.36%) PowerShell
6 23 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (1.86%) C#
10 7 (1.63%) Go
11 6 (1.40%) Ruby
12 5 (1.17%) R
12 5 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.93%) Bicep
14 3 (0.70%) C++
14 3 (0.70%) Groovy
14 3 (0.70%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.70%) Scala
14 3 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (11.42%) Degree
2 29 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.56%) MCP
6 9 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.10%) CISSP
7 8 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.40%) CCSP
10 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.93%) CCNA
11 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.93%) GCIH
11 4 (0.93%) OSCP
12 3 (0.70%) CEH
12 3 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.93%) GDPR
2 22 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.73%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.80%) QA
5 7 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.63%) NCSC
6 5 (1.17%) NIST
7 4 (0.93%) GRC
7 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.47%) DICOM
9 2 (0.47%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) WCAG
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (22.84%) Docker
2 14 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.17%) Squid
4 4 (0.93%) Snort
5 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.23%) KVM
6 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (23.78%) Kubernetes
2 88 (20.51%) Terraform
3 24 (5.59%) Ansible
4 13 (3.03%) Argo
4 13 (3.03%) Grafana
5 12 (2.80%) Istio
6 9 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.93%) Nessus
8 4 (0.93%) Nexpose
8 4 (0.93%) Puppet
8 4 (0.93%) Suricata
9 3 (0.70%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.70%) SCCM
9 3 (0.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) QRadar
Vendors
1 61 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.90%) Databricks
3 20 (4.66%) Adobe
3 20 (4.66%) Salesforce
3 20 (4.66%) Splunk
4 15 (3.50%) Apple
5 13 (3.03%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.80%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (2.33%) Cisco
8 10 (2.33%) Optimizely
9 9 (2.10%) OneTrust
9 9 (2.10%) SAP
10 8 (1.86%) Amplitude
10 8 (1.86%) Hotjar
10 8 (1.86%) Okta
10 8 (1.86%) Oracle
11 7 (1.63%) HubSpot
11 7 (1.63%) Qualys
12 6 (1.40%) IBM