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 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 95 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 461 364 481
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.44% 2.94% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 5.89% 6.49% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 216 348
10th Percentile £290 £275 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £646 £675
90th Percentile £675 £744 £755
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 7,828 5,612 7,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.39% 45.37% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 3,635 4,991
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -0.28% -4.02%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
England median daily rate £505 £513 £516
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.70% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 105 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -12.66%
75th Percentile £53.38 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year +27.07% +11.46% -39.70%

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 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 17 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 17 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 69 £538 +8.04% 42
West London -11 12 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -4 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 24 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 19 (4.12%) Apache
4 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (2.39%) Confluence
6 7 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Drupal
8 2 (0.43%) WordPress
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.17%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.87%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.43%) 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 (1.08%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) 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
1 263 (57.05%) GCP
2 108 (23.43%) AWS
3 101 (21.91%) Azure
4 98 (21.26%) Google Workspace
5 47 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (7.81%) GitHub
6 36 (7.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 36 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.72%) Slack
8 26 (5.64%) Cloud Run
8 26 (5.64%) SaaS
9 24 (5.21%) Google Drive
10 22 (4.77%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (4.77%) Vertex AI
11 18 (3.90%) Google Ads
11 18 (3.90%) Google Analytics
12 17 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 16 (3.47%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.29%) DNS
2 23 (4.99%) Firewall
3 20 (4.34%) VPN
4 13 (2.82%) Network Security
5 9 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.74%) DKIM
6 8 (1.74%) DMARC
7 7 (1.52%) DHCP
7 7 (1.52%) Internet
8 5 (1.08%) SMTP
9 4 (0.87%) VoIP
10 3 (0.65%) HTTP
10 3 (0.65%) VLAN
10 3 (0.65%) Wireless
11 2 (0.43%) BGP
11 2 (0.43%) IPv4
11 2 (0.43%) IPv6
11 2 (0.43%) NGFW
11 2 (0.43%) OSPF
12 1 (0.22%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.45%) BigQuery
2 31 (6.72%) Power BI
3 26 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (4.99%) Tableau
5 16 (3.47%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (3.04%) OLAP
7 12 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (2.60%) Mixpanel
7 12 (2.60%) OLTP
8 10 (2.17%) Metadata
9 9 (1.95%) Big Data
9 9 (1.95%) Looker
9 9 (1.95%) Redis
10 8 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.52%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.30%) Star Schema
13 5 (1.08%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (6.94%) JIRA
2 24 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.34%) Git
4 17 (3.69%) GitLab
5 3 (0.65%) ERwin
6 2 (0.43%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.43%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.43%) Maven
6 2 (0.43%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Ant
7 1 (0.22%) Gradle
7 1 (0.22%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.22%) Mocha
7 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 130 (28.20%) Social Skills
2 92 (19.96%) Finance
3 62 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.20%) Marketing
5 42 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 38 (8.24%) Retail
7 33 (7.16%) Banking
8 18 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.82%) Advertising
10 12 (2.60%) Publishing
11 11 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.95%) Legal
12 9 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.52%) Military
14 7 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Billing
15 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Games
15 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (13.45%) GCP Engineer
2 47 (10.20%) Architect
2 47 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 44 (9.54%) Data Engineer
3 44 (9.54%) Lead
3 44 (9.54%) Senior
4 33 (7.16%) Analyst
5 24 (5.21%) Developer
6 15 (3.25%) Administrator
6 15 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
6 15 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (3.04%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (2.82%) Software Engineer
9 12 (2.60%) Consultant
9 12 (2.60%) Support Engineer
10 11 (2.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (2.39%) Principal Data Engineer
10 11 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.64%) Kafka
2 24 (5.21%) REST
3 22 (4.77%) React
4 21 (4.56%) OAuth
5 17 (3.69%) Spring
5 17 (3.69%) Spring Boot
6 13 (2.82%) Node.js
6 13 (2.82%) SAML
7 12 (2.60%) Great Expectations
8 11 (2.39%) AngularJS
9 10 (2.17%) LangChain
10 9 (1.95%) .NET
10 9 (1.95%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.52%) Apache Beam
11 7 (1.52%) HTML
11 7 (1.52%) JSON
11 7 (1.52%) LangGraph
11 7 (1.52%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.30%) Next.js
12 6 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.12%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.04%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.95%) Clustering
8 9 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.74%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.52%) Social Media
11 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.30%) Life Science
12 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.08%) Derivative
12 5 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.64%) Windows
2 20 (4.34%) Linux
3 15 (3.25%) Android
4 13 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.82%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.30%) VMS
8 5 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.87%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.43%) 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
1 113 (24.51%) CI/CD
2 103 (22.34%) AI
3 88 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (18.22%) DevOps
5 83 (18.00%) Analytics
6 77 (16.70%) Migration
7 70 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (13.45%) Agile
9 52 (11.28%) Observability
10 51 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (10.20%) Decision-Making
11 47 (10.20%) Software Engineering
12 46 (9.98%) Machine Learning
13 45 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (9.54%) Data Modelling
15 39 (8.46%) Data Engineering
15 39 (8.46%) Data Governance
16 38 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (8.03%) Platform Engineering
18 33 (7.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 122 (26.46%) Python
2 85 (18.44%) SQL
3 46 (9.98%) Java
4 21 (4.56%) PowerShell
5 19 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.90%) C#
7 14 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.39%) Go
9 9 (1.95%) Bash
10 8 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
11 7 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.30%) Scala
13 4 (0.87%) Bicep
13 4 (0.87%) Ruby
14 3 (0.65%) Korn
14 3 (0.65%) LookML
14 3 (0.65%) Rust
14 3 (0.65%) SOQL
15 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.89%) Degree
4 18 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 16 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.17%) CISSP
8 8 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.08%) CISM
11 4 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.87%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.65%) CRISC
12 3 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.65%) OSCP
12 3 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.07%) GDPR
3 20 (4.34%) QA
4 14 (3.04%) NIST
5 10 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.08%) NCSC
9 4 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.65%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.43%) GRC
11 2 (0.43%) PSD2
11 2 (0.43%) SLA
11 2 (0.43%) WCAG
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (8.03%) Docker
2 22 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.87%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.87%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) 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
1 102 (22.13%) Terraform
2 67 (14.53%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.69%) Ansible
4 12 (2.60%) Grafana
5 11 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.95%) Istio
7 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.52%) Argo
8 7 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.87%) Puppet
9 4 (0.87%) SCCM
9 4 (0.87%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.87%) vMotion
10 3 (0.65%) Nagios
11 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.43%) WSUS
12 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.22%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 79 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.99%) Apple
3 18 (3.90%) Databricks
4 17 (3.69%) Oracle
4 17 (3.69%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.04%) Okta
7 13 (2.82%) Adobe
8 12 (2.60%) Splunk
9 11 (2.39%) TikTok
10 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.74%) Rapid7
11 7 (1.52%) Citrix
12 6 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.30%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.08%) Cisco
13 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (1.08%) SAP
13 5 (1.08%) VMware
14 4 (0.87%) IBM