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 22 May 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
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 91
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 421 348 460
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 2.84% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% 6.22% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 216 338
10th Percentile £300 £269 £279
25th Percentile £413 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £675
90th Percentile £692 £747 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 17
10th Percentile £30.75 £26.09 £15.88
25th Percentile £32.52 £30.92 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £47.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +83.65% -65.33%
75th Percentile £36.20 £52.25 £31.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £70.38 £43.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £26.49
% change year-on-year +18.33% +13.27% -33.03%

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 7,568 5,595 7,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 45.73% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,001 3,643 4,887
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £657
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 97 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £78.55 £65.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 66 £508 +1.50% 36
West London -13 18 £603 +7.11% 6
East London -2 7 £520 -20.00% 4
South London -15 6 £637 -5.63% 3
North London - 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 26 (6.18%) Apache Spark
2 21 (4.99%) Apache
3 18 (4.28%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.61%) Confluence
5 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.43%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.48%) Drupal
8 2 (0.48%) WordPress
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.38%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.95%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.48%) Maya
7 2 (0.48%) Trello
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) SAP SRM
2 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 244 (57.96%) GCP
2 102 (24.23%) Azure
3 92 (21.85%) AWS
4 87 (20.67%) Google Workspace
5 40 (9.50%) GitHub
6 39 (9.26%) Power Platform
7 36 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (8.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 28 (6.65%) Slack
10 27 (6.41%) Amazon S3
11 24 (5.70%) Cloud Run
11 24 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.70%) SaaS
12 21 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (4.99%) Vertex AI
13 20 (4.75%) Google Analytics
14 19 (4.51%) Google Drive
15 18 (4.28%) Google Ads
15 18 (4.28%) Google Sheets
16 17 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.94%) DNS
2 21 (4.99%) Firewall
3 14 (3.33%) VPN
4 12 (2.85%) Network Security
5 8 (1.90%) DKIM
5 8 (1.90%) DMARC
6 6 (1.43%) Internet
6 6 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.95%) DHCP
7 4 (0.95%) VoIP
8 3 (0.71%) VLAN
8 3 (0.71%) Wireless
9 2 (0.48%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) HTTP
9 2 (0.48%) IPv4
9 2 (0.48%) IPv6
9 2 (0.48%) NGFW
9 2 (0.48%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) SSL
10 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.91%) BigQuery
2 34 (8.08%) Power BI
3 24 (5.70%) Tableau
4 22 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.51%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.28%) OLAP
7 16 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.80%) Mixpanel
8 15 (3.56%) OLTP
9 10 (2.38%) Metadata
9 10 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.14%) Looker
11 8 (1.90%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.66%) Redis
13 6 (1.43%) Big Data
13 6 (1.43%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.43%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
15 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.95%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (7.36%) JIRA
2 28 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.99%) Git
4 18 (4.28%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.71%) ERwin
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) JUnit
7 1 (0.24%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 114 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.29%) Finance
3 59 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.21%) Marketing
5 34 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.13%) Banking
7 28 (6.65%) Retail
8 14 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.61%) Advertising
9 11 (2.61%) Publishing
10 10 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.14%) Legal
11 9 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.66%) Military
12 7 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.19%) Games
14 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.95%) Wearables
16 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (14.01%) GCP Engineer
2 45 (10.69%) Lead
3 44 (10.45%) Data Engineer
4 43 (10.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (10.21%) Senior
5 40 (9.50%) Architect
6 30 (7.13%) Analyst
7 17 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (3.80%) Administrator
9 15 (3.56%) Developer
9 15 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Consultant
10 14 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.09%) Principal Data Engineer
11 13 (3.09%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 10 (2.38%) Data Scientist
13 10 (2.38%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.41%) Kafka
2 19 (4.51%) OAuth
3 17 (4.04%) LangChain
3 17 (4.04%) React
4 16 (3.80%) Great Expectations
5 14 (3.33%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.09%) REST
7 12 (2.85%) Spring
7 12 (2.85%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.61%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.38%) HTML
9 10 (2.38%) SAML
10 9 (2.14%) LangGraph
10 9 (2.14%) Node.js
11 8 (1.90%) CSS
11 8 (1.90%) Pandas
12 7 (1.66%) .NET
12 7 (1.66%) NumPy
12 7 (1.66%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.56%) Virtual Team
4 13 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 13 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.85%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.90%) Life Science
9 7 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.66%) Social Media
10 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.43%) Clustering
10 6 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.56%) Android
2 14 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.09%) Mac OS
3 13 (3.09%) Windows
4 11 (2.61%) Linux
5 10 (2.38%) VMS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (25.42%) CI/CD
2 104 (24.70%) AI
3 89 (21.14%) Analytics
4 82 (19.48%) DevOps
5 81 (19.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (15.20%) Migration
7 56 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (13.06%) Observability
9 53 (12.59%) Machine Learning
10 48 (11.40%) Data Engineering
11 46 (10.93%) Agile
11 46 (10.93%) Software Engineering
12 44 (10.45%) Data Modelling
13 43 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (9.98%) Decision-Making
15 41 (9.74%) Data Governance
16 39 (9.26%) LLM
17 37 (8.79%) ETL
18 33 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (27.32%) Python
2 83 (19.71%) SQL
3 33 (7.84%) Java
4 21 (4.99%) C#
4 21 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.38%) Bash
7 9 (2.14%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.66%) Google Apps Script
8 7 (1.66%) Scala
9 6 (1.43%) Go
10 4 (0.95%) Ruby
11 3 (0.71%) Korn
11 3 (0.71%) LookML
11 3 (0.71%) Rust
12 2 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.48%) R
12 2 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.13%) Degree
4 14 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.19%) CISSP
9 5 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.95%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.71%) CCSP
11 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.71%) PhD
12 2 (0.48%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.60%) GDPR
3 19 (4.51%) QA
4 11 (2.61%) NIST
5 6 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.95%) NCSC
8 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.48%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.24%) PERC
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (8.79%) Docker
2 19 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.24%) Snort
4 1 (0.24%) Squid
4 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.24%) Varnish
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (22.09%) Terraform
2 62 (14.73%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.09%) Ansible
3 13 (3.09%) Grafana
4 12 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.14%) Istio
6 8 (1.90%) Argo
7 7 (1.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.48%) Knative
10 2 (0.48%) SCCM
11 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.24%) Nessus
11 1 (0.24%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (0.24%) Suricata
11 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.41%) Databricks
3 20 (4.75%) Apple
4 15 (3.56%) Adobe
4 15 (3.56%) Oracle
5 14 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.90%) Splunk
8 7 (1.66%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.66%) Okta
9 6 (1.43%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.43%) TikTok
10 5 (1.19%) Cisco
10 5 (1.19%) Facebook
10 5 (1.19%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.95%) IBM
11 4 (0.95%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.95%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.71%) Botify