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 18 June 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 91 89
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Google 455 369 486
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 2.97% 2.74%
As % of the Vendors category 5.80% 6.54% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 219 352
10th Percentile £288 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.05% -7.45%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 17
10th Percentile £26.25 £29.20 £15.88
25th Percentile £31.68 £36.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -62.86%
75th Percentile £36.05 £53.71 £31.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £71.80 £43.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +33.96% -19.70% -16.61%

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 7,840 5,639 7,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.40% 45.39% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,144 3,654 5,018
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.37% -4.02%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £773 £775
England median daily rate £505 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 106 134
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.93
25th Percentile £23.33 £22.50 £17.20
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -12.66%
75th Percentile £53.00 £46.56 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +28.26% +10.42% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -1 67 £538 +7.50% 40
West London -17 11 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -2 8 £575 -14.81% 1
East London +1 7 £520 -20.00% 4
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 23 (5.05%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.96%) Apache
4 12 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (2.42%) Confluence
6 7 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.44%) Drupal
8 2 (0.44%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.20%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.88%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.44%) Maya
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) InDesign
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 258 (56.70%) GCP
2 107 (23.52%) AWS
3 100 (21.98%) Azure
4 97 (21.32%) Google Workspace
5 47 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 32 (7.03%) GitHub
7 32 (7.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 30 (6.59%) Slack
9 25 (5.49%) SaaS
10 24 (5.27%) Google Drive
11 22 (4.84%) Cloud Run
11 22 (4.84%) Vertex AI
12 21 (4.62%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.96%) Google Ads
13 18 (3.96%) Google Analytics
14 17 (3.74%) Entra ID
15 16 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.52%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.37%) DNS
2 23 (5.05%) Firewall
3 20 (4.40%) VPN
4 13 (2.86%) Network Security
5 9 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.76%) DKIM
6 8 (1.76%) DMARC
7 7 (1.54%) DHCP
7 7 (1.54%) Internet
8 5 (1.10%) SMTP
9 4 (0.88%) VoIP
10 3 (0.66%) HTTP
10 3 (0.66%) VLAN
10 3 (0.66%) Wireless
11 2 (0.44%) BGP
11 2 (0.44%) IPv4
11 2 (0.44%) IPv6
11 2 (0.44%) NGFW
11 2 (0.44%) OSPF
12 1 (0.22%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.53%) BigQuery
2 30 (6.59%) Power BI
3 26 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.05%) Tableau
5 16 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.86%) OLAP
8 11 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.42%) Mixpanel
8 11 (2.42%) OLTP
9 10 (2.20%) Metadata
10 9 (1.98%) Big Data
10 9 (1.98%) Looker
10 9 (1.98%) Redis
11 8 (1.76%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.54%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.32%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.10%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.10%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (7.03%) JIRA
2 20 (4.40%) Git
2 20 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.86%) GitLab
4 3 (0.66%) ERwin
5 2 (0.44%) Charles Proxy
5 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.44%) Gemini Tracker
5 2 (0.44%) Maven
5 2 (0.44%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) Ant
6 1 (0.22%) Gradle
6 1 (0.22%) JUnit
6 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.22%) Mocha
6 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 130 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.22%) Finance
3 61 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.33%) Marketing
5 42 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.47%) Retail
7 33 (7.25%) Banking
8 18 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.86%) Advertising
10 12 (2.64%) Publishing
11 10 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.98%) Legal
12 9 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.54%) Military
14 7 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Billing
15 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Games
15 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (12.75%) GCP Engineer
2 47 (10.33%) Architect
3 43 (9.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 43 (9.45%) Data Engineer
3 43 (9.45%) Lead
4 42 (9.23%) Senior
5 33 (7.25%) Analyst
6 24 (5.27%) Developer
7 15 (3.30%) Administrator
7 15 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (2.64%) Consultant
9 12 (2.64%) Software Engineer
9 12 (2.64%) Support Engineer
10 11 (2.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.20%) Principal Data Engineer
11 10 (2.20%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.49%) Kafka
2 24 (5.27%) REST
3 21 (4.62%) OAuth
4 18 (3.96%) React
5 13 (2.86%) SAML
5 13 (2.86%) Spring
5 13 (2.86%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.42%) Great Expectations
7 9 (1.98%) .NET
7 9 (1.98%) Node.js
7 9 (1.98%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.54%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.54%) Apache Beam
8 7 (1.54%) HTML
8 7 (1.54%) JSON
8 7 (1.54%) LangGraph
8 7 (1.54%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.32%) LangChain
9 6 (1.32%) Middleware
9 6 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.18%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.18%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.20%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.98%) Clustering
8 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.54%) Social Media
11 6 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.32%) Life Science
12 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.10%) Derivative
12 5 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.71%) Windows
2 20 (4.40%) Linux
3 15 (3.30%) Android
4 13 (2.86%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.20%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.32%) VMS
8 5 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.44%) Unix
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE
11 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (23.74%) CI/CD
2 98 (21.54%) AI
3 83 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (18.02%) Analytics
5 79 (17.36%) DevOps
6 76 (16.70%) Migration
7 69 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (13.63%) Agile
9 51 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (10.33%) Decision-Making
10 47 (10.33%) Observability
11 45 (9.89%) Machine Learning
11 45 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (9.45%) Data Modelling
12 43 (9.45%) Software Engineering
13 38 (8.35%) Data Engineering
13 38 (8.35%) Data Governance
14 37 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (7.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 120 (26.37%) Python
2 84 (18.46%) SQL
3 46 (10.11%) Java
4 21 (4.62%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.74%) C#
7 14 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.42%) Go
9 8 (1.76%) Bash
9 8 (1.76%) Google Apps Script
10 7 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.32%) Scala
12 4 (0.88%) Bicep
12 4 (0.88%) Ruby
13 3 (0.66%) Korn
13 3 (0.66%) LookML
13 3 (0.66%) Rust
13 3 (0.66%) SOQL
14 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (15.16%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.01%) Degree
4 18 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.20%) CISSP
8 9 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.10%) CISM
12 4 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.88%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.66%) CRISC
13 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.66%) OSCP
13 3 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.93%) GDPR
3 20 (4.40%) QA
4 14 (3.08%) NIST
5 10 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.10%) NCSC
9 4 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.66%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) PSD2
11 2 (0.44%) SLA
11 2 (0.44%) WCAG
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (7.25%) Docker
2 22 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.88%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.22%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 97 (21.32%) Terraform
2 63 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.52%) Ansible
4 12 (2.64%) Grafana
5 11 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.54%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (1.10%) Istio
9 4 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.88%) Puppet
9 4 (0.88%) SCCM
9 4 (0.88%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.88%) vMotion
10 3 (0.66%) Argo
10 3 (0.66%) Nagios
11 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.44%) WSUS
12 1 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 79 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.05%) Apple
3 17 (3.74%) Databricks
3 17 (3.74%) Oracle
3 17 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 14 (3.08%) Okta
6 13 (2.86%) Adobe
7 12 (2.64%) Splunk
8 11 (2.42%) TikTok
9 8 (1.76%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.76%) Rapid7
10 7 (1.54%) Citrix
11 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.32%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.10%) Cisco
12 5 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (1.10%) SAP
12 5 (1.10%) VMware
13 4 (0.88%) IBM