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 29 September 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
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 89 95
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 538 410 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 3.09% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 6.24% 6.65% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 238 280
10th Percentile £340 £275 £313
25th Percentile £407 £405 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -11.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £700
90th Percentile £682 £775 £776
England median daily rate £510 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +6.81% -9.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 13
10th Percentile £17.25 £30.99 £25.99
25th Percentile £20.75 £34.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.97 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.81% +17.43% +66.67%
75th Percentile £43.06 £63.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £71.18 £44.59
England median hourly rate £27.54 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +22.05% -67.77% +105.88%

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 8,624 6,170 6,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.65% 46.47% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,616 4,014 4,449
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 113 78
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.26
Median hourly rate £37.00 £25.15 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.12% -26.57% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £37.50 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.37 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.83% -28.14% -20.24%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -13 72 £500 -13.04% 186
West London -13 12 £504 -4.05% 86
South London 0 10 £550 +15.79% 4
East London - 1 - - 11
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 27 (5.02%) Apache
2 26 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 18 (3.35%) CMS
4 18 (3.35%) Confluence
5 12 (2.23%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.49%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.74%) WordPress
9 3 (0.56%) Drupal
10 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Shopify
2 4 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.56%) iTrent
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 318 (59.11%) GCP
2 142 (26.39%) AWS
3 140 (26.02%) Azure
4 70 (13.01%) Google Workspace
5 48 (8.92%) GitHub
6 44 (8.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 40 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (5.95%) dbt
8 32 (5.95%) Entra ID
9 27 (5.02%) Google Analytics
9 27 (5.02%) Vertex AI
10 26 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (4.83%) SaaS
11 21 (3.90%) Google Drive
11 21 (3.90%) Power Platform
12 20 (3.72%) Google Gemini
13 19 (3.53%) Snowflake
14 18 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.35%) Google Sheets
15 17 (3.16%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.83%) DNS
2 17 (3.16%) Firewall
3 16 (2.97%) VPN
4 10 (1.86%) Network Security
5 9 (1.67%) Internet
6 8 (1.49%) DKIM
6 8 (1.49%) DMARC
7 7 (1.30%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.12%) DHCP
8 6 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.74%) SMTP
9 4 (0.74%) VoIP
9 4 (0.74%) WAN
9 4 (0.74%) WebEx
10 3 (0.56%) HTTP
10 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.56%) Telepresence
11 2 (0.37%) NFC
11 2 (0.37%) NGFW
11 2 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.20%) BigQuery
2 39 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.72%) Looker
5 18 (3.35%) Power BI
5 18 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.97%) Metadata
7 14 (2.60%) Big Data
8 11 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.67%) MySQL
9 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.67%) Tableau
10 8 (1.49%) Redis
11 7 (1.30%) Flink
11 7 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.93%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 46 (8.55%) Git
2 41 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.51%) GitLab
4 31 (5.76%) JIRA
5 8 (1.49%) Gradle
6 7 (1.30%) JUnit
7 6 (1.12%) Maven
8 5 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
10 3 (0.56%) Selenium
11 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.37%) JMeter
11 2 (0.37%) LoadRunner
General
1 145 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 103 (19.14%) Finance
3 74 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (12.83%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.36%) Marketing
6 33 (6.13%) Banking
7 32 (5.95%) Retail
8 16 (2.97%) Advertising
9 13 (2.42%) Legal
10 11 (2.04%) Games
10 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Publishing
11 9 (1.67%) Military
12 8 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Law
13 7 (1.30%) Local Government
13 7 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.93%) Billing
Job Titles
1 75 (13.94%) Architect
2 61 (11.34%) GCP Engineer
3 55 (10.22%) Senior
4 50 (9.29%) Data Engineer
5 41 (7.62%) Developer
6 40 (7.43%) Analyst
6 40 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (6.32%) Lead
8 19 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.35%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.16%) GCP Data Engineer
10 17 (3.16%) Security Architect
11 16 (2.97%) Administrator
12 15 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (2.79%) Java Developer
12 15 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.42%) Cloud Architect
13 13 (2.42%) GCP DevOps
14 12 (2.23%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (19.52%) Terraform
2 44 (8.18%) REST
3 26 (4.83%) Kafka
4 21 (3.90%) RESTful
5 20 (3.72%) OAuth
6 19 (3.53%) JSON
6 19 (3.53%) React
7 18 (3.35%) LangGraph
8 17 (3.16%) Spring
9 16 (2.97%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.79%) HTML
10 15 (2.79%) LangChain
11 13 (2.42%) Apache Beam
11 13 (2.42%) Node.js
12 12 (2.23%) CSS
13 11 (2.04%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.04%) JWT
13 11 (2.04%) Middleware
13 11 (2.04%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.54%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.25%) AI Agents
3 27 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.72%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.23%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.23%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.86%) Clustering
9 10 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.49%) Replication
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.30%) PKI
13 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.06%) Linux
2 37 (6.88%) Windows
3 16 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.79%) Android
5 12 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.86%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.12%) Unix
8 5 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.37%) CentOS
10 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE
11 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (30.86%) CI/CD
2 125 (23.23%) AI
3 121 (22.49%) Agile
4 104 (19.33%) DevOps
4 104 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (18.22%) Migration
6 94 (17.47%) Analytics
7 86 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
8 81 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (11.15%) Roadmaps
10 59 (10.97%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (10.22%) Containerisation
11 55 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (10.04%) Machine Learning
12 54 (10.04%) Observability
13 52 (9.67%) Software Engineering
14 51 (9.48%) Microservices
15 48 (8.92%) Event-Driven
16 46 (8.55%) Data Modelling
17 44 (8.18%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 158 (29.37%) Python
2 114 (21.19%) SQL
3 67 (12.45%) Java
4 37 (6.88%) PowerShell
5 29 (5.39%) JavaScript
6 28 (5.20%) Bash
7 25 (4.65%) Go
8 19 (3.53%) TypeScript
9 16 (2.97%) Scala
10 11 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.67%) C#
12 8 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.30%) R
14 6 (1.12%) Bicep
15 5 (0.93%) Groovy
15 5 (0.93%) SOQL
16 4 (0.74%) LookML
16 4 (0.74%) PHP
17 3 (0.56%) Perl
18 2 (0.37%) Korn
Qualifications
1 120 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 102 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.67%) Degree
4 29 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 24 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.35%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.79%) CISSP
9 13 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.67%) CISM
12 8 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.12%) PhD
14 5 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.93%) PMP
15 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.76%) QA
3 17 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.16%) NIST
4 12 (2.23%) GDPR
5 6 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.12%) PMO
6 5 (0.93%) EU AI Act
6 5 (0.93%) NCSC
6 5 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.74%) GRC
7 4 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.56%) PSD2
8 3 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (13.20%) Docker
2 22 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) BitLocker
4 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (0.56%) Terminal Services
4 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.58%) Ansible
3 20 (3.72%) Grafana
4 19 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (1.49%) Puppet
8 5 (0.93%) Argo
8 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.56%) Cilium
9 3 (0.56%) Istio
9 3 (0.56%) Nagios
9 3 (0.56%) SCCM
9 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.56%) vMotion
10 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 2 (0.37%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) Netcool
Vendors
1 109 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.02%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.28%) Oracle
4 22 (4.09%) Adobe
5 21 (3.90%) Splunk
6 18 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.35%) TikTok
7 17 (3.16%) Databricks
8 16 (2.97%) Okta
9 14 (2.60%) Dynatrace
10 12 (2.23%) Amplitude
10 12 (2.23%) Apple
10 12 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 11 (2.04%) Cisco
12 10 (1.86%) IBM
12 10 (1.86%) SAP
13 9 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.67%) Optimizely
13 9 (1.67%) UiPath
14 8 (1.49%) Tealium