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 17 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 87 92
Rank change year-on-year -23 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 501 409 482
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 3.02% 2.80%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 6.56% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 242 341
10th Percentile £300 £275 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -6.03% -10.83%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £675
90th Percentile £674 £748 £775
England median daily rate £515 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +4.04% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 14
10th Percentile £23.47 £29.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £25.31
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +82.61% -61.47%
75th Percentile £35.90 £57.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £49.49 £70.38 £42.43
England median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £42.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -41.29% +6.19%

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 8,270 6,235 7,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.78% 45.97% 42.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,052 5,017
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £764
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 119 114
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.46 £22.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +3.85% -18.55%
75th Percentile £57.34 £48.13 £42.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £65.00 £70.73
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +12 73 £504 -6.28% 43
South London -5 12 £575 +21.05% 4
West London -7 12 £603 +4.78% 4
East London +7 6 £525 -19.23% 9
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 25 (4.99%) Apache
2 23 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.99%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.79%) Confluence
5 12 (2.40%) CMS
5 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.60%) Drupal
6 3 (0.60%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.00%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.40%) Maya
6 2 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.20%) InDesign
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) iTrent
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (57.29%) GCP
2 119 (23.75%) AWS
3 110 (21.96%) Azure
4 97 (19.36%) Google Workspace
5 43 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (7.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 34 (6.79%) GitHub
8 32 (6.39%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.79%) Google Drive
9 24 (4.79%) Slack
10 22 (4.39%) SaaS
10 22 (4.39%) Vertex AI
11 21 (4.19%) Cloud Run
11 21 (4.19%) Google Analytics
12 20 (3.99%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.59%) Entra ID
13 18 (3.59%) Google Sheets
14 17 (3.39%) Google Ads
14 17 (3.39%) Snowflake
15 16 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.39%) DNS
2 22 (4.39%) VPN
3 19 (3.79%) Firewall
4 10 (2.00%) Network Security
5 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.60%) DKIM
6 8 (1.60%) DMARC
7 7 (1.40%) DHCP
7 7 (1.40%) Internet
8 5 (1.00%) SMTP
9 4 (0.80%) VoIP
10 3 (0.60%) HTTP
10 3 (0.60%) VLAN
11 2 (0.40%) BGP
11 2 (0.40%) IPv4
11 2 (0.40%) IPv6
11 2 (0.40%) NFC
11 2 (0.40%) OSPF
11 2 (0.40%) Telepresence
11 2 (0.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.57%) BigQuery
2 35 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (5.59%) Power BI
4 18 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.39%) Tableau
6 13 (2.59%) Data Lake
6 13 (2.59%) Looker
7 12 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.20%) Big Data
8 11 (2.20%) Metadata
9 9 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.80%) Mixpanel
9 9 (1.80%) OLAP
9 9 (1.80%) OLTP
10 8 (1.60%) Redis
11 7 (1.40%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (1.40%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.20%) MySQL
12 6 (1.20%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (6.39%) JIRA
2 25 (4.99%) Git
3 21 (4.19%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.79%) GitLab
5 4 (0.80%) Gradle
5 4 (0.80%) Maven
6 2 (0.40%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.40%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.40%) JUnit
6 2 (0.40%) webpack
7 1 (0.20%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.20%) Gatling
7 1 (0.20%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.20%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.20%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 135 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 96 (19.16%) Finance
3 64 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 49 (9.78%) Marketing
6 31 (6.19%) Retail
7 27 (5.39%) Banking
8 19 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.79%) Advertising
10 10 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.00%) Legal
10 10 (2.00%) Publishing
11 9 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.40%) Military
14 6 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Games
15 5 (1.00%) Billing
15 5 (1.00%) Law
16 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (12.77%) GCP Engineer
2 49 (9.78%) Lead
3 48 (9.58%) Data Engineer
3 48 (9.58%) Senior
4 46 (9.18%) Architect
5 43 (8.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.78%) Analyst
7 36 (7.19%) Developer
8 16 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (2.99%) Administrator
9 15 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.40%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (2.20%) Backend Developer
12 11 (2.20%) Consultant
12 11 (2.20%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.20%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (2.20%) Security Architect
12 11 (2.20%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.20%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.39%) REST
2 28 (5.59%) Kafka
3 18 (3.59%) OAuth
4 17 (3.39%) React
5 16 (3.19%) Spring
5 16 (3.19%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.59%) SAML
7 12 (2.40%) JSON
8 11 (2.20%) HTML
9 10 (2.00%) RESTful
10 9 (1.80%) Great Expectations
10 9 (1.80%) Node.js
11 8 (1.60%) Apache Beam
11 8 (1.60%) CSS
11 8 (1.60%) LangChain
11 8 (1.60%) LangGraph
11 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
12 7 (1.40%) .NET
12 7 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.40%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.59%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.79%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.39%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.59%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.80%) Clustering
10 9 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.20%) Life Science
12 6 (1.20%) Social Media
13 5 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.00%) PKI
13 5 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.19%) Windows
2 21 (4.19%) Linux
3 18 (3.59%) Android
4 12 (2.40%) Mac OS
5 11 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.60%) Unix
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE
11 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (24.35%) CI/CD
2 108 (21.56%) AI
3 96 (19.16%) Agile
4 95 (18.96%) Analytics
5 86 (17.17%) Migration
6 83 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (16.17%) DevOps
8 79 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 52 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (9.98%) Data Modelling
12 49 (9.78%) Machine Learning
13 48 (9.58%) Decision-Making
13 48 (9.58%) Software Engineering
14 44 (8.78%) Observability
15 42 (8.38%) Data Engineering
16 40 (7.98%) Roadmaps
17 38 (7.58%) Data Governance
17 38 (7.58%) ETL
18 36 (7.19%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (26.75%) Python
2 104 (20.76%) SQL
3 64 (12.77%) Java
4 26 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.39%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.19%) C#
6 16 (3.19%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.79%) Bash
7 14 (2.79%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.79%) Scala
8 13 (2.59%) Go
9 9 (1.80%) Google Apps Script
10 6 (1.20%) Bicep
11 5 (1.00%) SOQL
12 4 (0.80%) Ruby
13 3 (0.60%) Korn
13 3 (0.60%) LookML
13 3 (0.60%) PHP
13 3 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.38%) Degree
4 25 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.59%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.80%) CISSP
8 9 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.00%) CISM
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.80%) PMP
11 4 (0.80%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.99%) QA
3 24 (4.79%) GDPR
4 14 (2.79%) NIST
5 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.80%) NCSC
7 4 (0.80%) PMO
8 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (8.38%) Docker
2 23 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.80%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.80%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 94 (18.76%) Terraform
2 73 (14.57%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.99%) Grafana
4 12 (2.40%) Ansible
4 12 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.40%) Puppet
7 7 (1.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.20%) Istio
9 5 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.80%) SCCM
10 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.80%) vMotion
11 3 (0.60%) Nagios
12 2 (0.40%) Argo
12 2 (0.40%) WSUS
13 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 86 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.19%) Databricks
2 16 (3.19%) Splunk
3 15 (2.99%) Adobe
3 15 (2.99%) Oracle
4 14 (2.79%) Apple
4 14 (2.79%) Okta
5 13 (2.59%) OpenAI
5 13 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.59%) TikTok
6 7 (1.40%) Cisco
6 7 (1.40%) Citrix
6 7 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.00%) Informatica
8 5 (1.00%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.00%) VMware
9 4 (0.80%) Qualys