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 6 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 102 115
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 390 346 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 2.52% 2.11%
As % of the Vendors category 5.70% 5.72% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 191 286
10th Percentile £300 £263 £206
25th Percentile £440 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £650
90th Percentile £801 £775 £748
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 15
10th Percentile £29.93 £30.46 £15.76
25th Percentile £31.25 £41.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £48.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +84.63% -39.88%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.94 £31.88
90th Percentile £52.90 £63.50 £32.50
England median hourly rate £32.25 £46.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -30.65% +78.85% -25.71%

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 6,840 6,045 7,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.82% 44.06% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,505 3,726 5,131
10th Percentile £350 £313 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 73 150
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.65 £13.81
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.18 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +31.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £41.75 £61.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.35% -6.12%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +35 80 £538 -10.42% 81
West London -2 21 £603 +54.49% 8
East London -3 5 £525 -19.23% 4
South London -8 2 £155 -73.04% 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 23 (5.90%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.85%) Apache
3 12 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.56%) Confluence
5 8 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.54%) CMS
7 4 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.77%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.77%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.77%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.51%) SAS
9 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.26%) Drupal
10 1 (0.26%) JBoss
10 1 (0.26%) nginx
10 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.54%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.77%) Trello
6 2 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.51%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.26%) InDesign
7 1 (0.26%) Maya
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.26%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 237 (60.77%) GCP
2 113 (28.97%) Azure
3 85 (21.79%) AWS
4 74 (18.97%) GitHub
5 50 (12.82%) Google Workspace
6 48 (12.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 40 (10.26%) Power Platform
8 37 (9.49%) Cloud Run
9 36 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (6.41%) SaaS
11 24 (6.15%) Google Gemini
12 23 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (5.90%) Google Analytics
13 21 (5.38%) Vertex AI
14 19 (4.87%) Amazon S3
14 19 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (4.62%) Cloud Functions
16 17 (4.36%) Slack
17 15 (3.85%) Entra ID
17 15 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.64%) Firewall
2 11 (2.82%) DNS
2 11 (2.82%) Network Security
3 7 (1.79%) VPN
4 3 (0.77%) DHCP
4 3 (0.77%) HTTP
4 3 (0.77%) Internet
4 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.77%) Wireless
5 2 (0.51%) BGP
5 2 (0.51%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.51%) Intranet
5 2 (0.51%) LAN
5 2 (0.51%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) VLAN
5 2 (0.51%) VRRP
6 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.26%) VoIP
6 1 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.92%) BigQuery
2 31 (7.95%) Power BI
3 21 (5.38%) Tableau
4 19 (4.87%) Mixpanel
5 16 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.85%) OLAP
7 13 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (3.08%) OLTP
9 11 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 8 (2.05%) Looker
11 8 (2.05%) Metadata
12 7 (1.79%) Redis
13 5 (1.28%) MySQL
14 4 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.03%) Big Data
14 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.03%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 45 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 41 (10.51%) Git
3 24 (6.15%) JIRA
4 17 (4.36%) GitLab
5 6 (1.54%) JUnit
5 6 (1.54%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.03%) Android Studio
7 4 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.03%) Gradle
7 4 (1.03%) Mockito
8 3 (0.77%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.77%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.77%) ERwin
8 3 (0.77%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.51%) Ant
9 2 (0.51%) MLflow
9 2 (0.51%) Snyk
9 2 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 112 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 78 (20.00%) Finance
3 65 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.49%) Banking
5 36 (9.23%) Marketing
6 21 (5.38%) Retail
7 19 (4.87%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 15 (3.85%) Advertising
10 9 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.05%) Legal
11 8 (2.05%) Publishing
12 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Electronics
12 5 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.77%) German Language
Job Titles
1 48 (12.31%) Senior
2 44 (11.28%) Architect
3 37 (9.49%) Developer
4 36 (9.23%) GCP Engineer
5 30 (7.69%) Analyst
6 29 (7.44%) Lead
7 28 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (6.92%) Data Engineer
9 18 (4.62%) Data Scientist
9 18 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.85%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (3.33%) GCP Architect
11 13 (3.33%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.56%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.56%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.18%) React
2 25 (6.41%) RESTful
3 22 (5.64%) FastAPI
3 22 (5.64%) Kafka
3 22 (5.64%) LangChain
4 20 (5.13%) LangGraph
5 19 (4.87%) HTML
5 19 (4.87%) Spring
6 18 (4.62%) OAuth
7 17 (4.36%) PyTorch
8 16 (4.10%) CSS
8 16 (4.10%) Node.js
8 16 (4.10%) Spring Boot
9 14 (3.59%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.59%) pytest
10 13 (3.33%) Great Expectations
10 13 (3.33%) Pandas
10 13 (3.33%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.33%) TensorFlow
11 11 (2.82%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.62%) Life Science
4 16 (4.10%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 15 (3.85%) Genomics
6 12 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.56%) Social Media
8 8 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.54%) Digital Media
10 6 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.90%) Android
2 19 (4.87%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.33%) Windows
4 12 (3.08%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.56%) VMS
6 6 (1.54%) Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Unix
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (32.05%) DevOps
2 121 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 117 (30.00%) AI
4 82 (21.03%) Analytics
5 78 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (19.49%) Agile
7 75 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 74 (18.97%) Machine Learning
9 70 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (13.08%) Migration
11 49 (12.56%) Observability
12 42 (10.77%) LLM
12 42 (10.77%) Software Engineering
13 40 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.26%) Generative AI
13 40 (10.26%) Microservices
14 36 (9.23%) Test Automation
15 35 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (8.46%) User Experience
17 32 (8.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (34.87%) Python
2 65 (16.67%) SQL
3 35 (8.97%) Java
4 34 (8.72%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.13%) Bash
5 20 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.59%) C#
8 8 (2.05%) Go
8 8 (2.05%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.77%) Bicep
11 3 (0.77%) Ruby
12 2 (0.51%) C++
12 2 (0.51%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.51%) Groovy
12 2 (0.51%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.51%) Swift
12 2 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (10.00%) Degree
2 35 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.79%) CISSP
5 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.03%) CCSP
7 4 (1.03%) OSCP
8 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.77%) PhD
8 3 (0.77%) SANS
9 2 (0.51%) CCNP
9 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.03%) GDPR
2 23 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.08%) QA
4 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.05%) NIST
6 7 (1.79%) NCSC
7 6 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.03%) GRC
10 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.51%) SLA
12 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.26%) MiFID
12 1 (0.26%) PMO
12 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (22.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) Squid
4 4 (1.03%) Snort
5 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.26%) KVM
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 90 (23.08%) Terraform
3 21 (5.38%) Ansible
4 13 (3.33%) Istio
5 12 (3.08%) Grafana
6 11 (2.82%) Argo
7 9 (2.31%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.03%) Nessus
9 4 (1.03%) Nexpose
9 4 (1.03%) Suricata
9 4 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.77%) SCCM
11 2 (0.51%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.51%) Knative
11 2 (0.51%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.51%) logstash
11 2 (0.51%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.67%) Databricks
3 17 (4.36%) Adobe
3 17 (4.36%) Apple
4 16 (4.10%) Splunk
5 14 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.08%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.82%) Oracle
8 10 (2.56%) Cisco
9 9 (2.31%) Optimizely
10 8 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (2.05%) Hotjar
10 8 (2.05%) IBM
10 8 (2.05%) OneTrust
10 8 (2.05%) SAP
10 8 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.79%) Amplitude
11 7 (1.79%) Okta
12 6 (1.54%) HubSpot