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 5 January 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
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 101 118
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Google 411 346 380
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.87% 2.43% 2.10%
As % of the Vendors category 6.14% 5.53% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 191 254
10th Percentile £300 £300 £206
25th Percentile £440 £418 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £821 £775 £759
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 11
10th Percentile £29.93 £30.35 £16.14
25th Percentile £35.75 £34.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £43.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +79.17% -27.82%
75th Percentile £59.38 £57.25 £32.50
90th Percentile £63.55 £61.20 -
England median hourly rate £33.32 £43.04 £33.66
% change year-on-year -22.59% +27.86% -3.83%

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 6,694 6,254 7,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.77% 43.96% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,381 3,890 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £753
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +37.25%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +54.78%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +33 82 £556 -5.32% 110
West London 0 19 £600 +53.85% 33
South London -3 3 £215 -62.61% 31
East London -4 2 £200 -66.67% 62
North London - 1 - - 9
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 20 (4.87%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.92%) Apache
3 12 (2.92%) Confluence
4 9 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.70%) CMS
6 4 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.73%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.73%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.49%) SAS
8 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.49%) WordPress
9 1 (0.24%) Drupal
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) Luigi
9 1 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.73%) Trello
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.49%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) InDesign
7 1 (0.24%) Maya
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Sprinklr
3 1 (0.24%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 242 (58.88%) GCP
2 109 (26.52%) Azure
3 75 (18.25%) AWS
4 72 (17.52%) GitHub
5 53 (12.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 44 (10.71%) Google Workspace
7 35 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (8.52%) Power Platform
8 33 (8.03%) Cloud Run
9 28 (6.81%) Google Analytics
10 25 (6.08%) SaaS
11 23 (5.60%) Google Gemini
12 20 (4.87%) Vertex AI
13 19 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (3.65%) Cloud Functions
14 15 (3.65%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.41%) Slack
16 13 (3.16%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.33%) Firewall
2 10 (2.43%) DNS
3 9 (2.19%) Network Security
4 6 (1.46%) HTTP
5 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.97%) VPN
6 3 (0.73%) Intranet
6 3 (0.73%) SMTP
6 3 (0.73%) Wireless
7 2 (0.49%) BGP
7 2 (0.49%) Broadband
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (0.49%) Internet
7 2 (0.49%) LAN
7 2 (0.49%) SSL
7 2 (0.49%) VLAN
7 2 (0.49%) VRRP
8 1 (0.24%) DHCP
8 1 (0.24%) SMS
8 1 (0.24%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.09%) BigQuery
2 29 (7.06%) Power BI
3 22 (5.35%) Tableau
4 15 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.41%) Mixpanel
6 12 (2.92%) NoSQL
7 11 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.43%) Big Data
8 10 (2.43%) Looker
8 10 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.95%) OLAP
10 8 (1.95%) OLTP
10 8 (1.95%) Redis
11 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.46%) Metadata
12 6 (1.46%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.22%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 39 (9.49%) Git
3 25 (6.08%) JIRA
4 23 (5.60%) GitLab
5 12 (2.92%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.95%) Gradle
6 8 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (1.22%) Android Studio
9 5 (1.22%) JUnit
10 4 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.97%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.97%) Maven
10 4 (0.97%) Mockito
11 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.73%) Charles Proxy
11 3 (0.73%) Fiddler
11 3 (0.73%) Selenium
11 3 (0.73%) Xcode
General
1 117 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 85 (20.68%) Finance
3 61 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.95%) Marketing
5 41 (9.98%) Banking
6 21 (5.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 16 (3.89%) Advertising
7 16 (3.89%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.41%) Retail
9 11 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.68%) Publishing
10 9 (2.19%) Legal
10 9 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.22%) Electronics
12 5 (1.22%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (12.41%) Senior
2 44 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
3 39 (9.49%) Developer
4 35 (8.52%) Analyst
5 33 (8.03%) Architect
6 26 (6.33%) Lead
7 25 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (6.08%) Data Engineer
8 24 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.38%) Data Scientist
9 18 (4.38%) Software Engineer
10 16 (3.89%) GCP DevOps
10 16 (3.89%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.89%) Security Engineer
11 15 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 12 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.68%) Java Developer
15 10 (2.43%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.81%) RESTful
2 26 (6.33%) React
3 25 (6.08%) FastAPI
4 22 (5.35%) Kafka
4 22 (5.35%) LangGraph
5 21 (5.11%) LangChain
6 20 (4.87%) HTML
6 20 (4.87%) Spring
7 17 (4.14%) CSS
7 17 (4.14%) Node.js
7 17 (4.14%) OAuth
7 17 (4.14%) PyTorch
8 16 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.65%) pytest
10 14 (3.41%) Pandas
10 14 (3.41%) scikit-learn
10 14 (3.41%) TensorFlow
11 13 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.43%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.57%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.62%) Life Science
4 17 (4.14%) Mobile App
5 16 (3.89%) AI Agents
5 16 (3.89%) Genomics
6 11 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.43%) Social Media
8 8 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.95%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.46%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.62%) Android
2 15 (3.65%) Apple iOS
3 10 (2.43%) Linux
3 10 (2.43%) VMS
4 9 (2.19%) Windows
5 6 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (32.36%) DevOps
2 121 (29.44%) CI/CD
3 109 (26.52%) AI
4 89 (21.65%) Analytics
5 88 (21.41%) Agile
6 77 (18.73%) Containerisation
7 76 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (17.52%) Machine Learning
9 71 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (14.60%) Migration
11 42 (10.22%) Software Engineering
12 41 (9.98%) Generative AI
12 41 (9.98%) Microservices
12 41 (9.98%) User Experience
13 40 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (9.25%) Observability
15 36 (8.76%) LLM
16 35 (8.52%) Test Automation
17 34 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 139 (33.82%) Python
2 69 (16.79%) SQL
3 39 (9.49%) Java
4 37 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.84%) Bash
6 23 (5.60%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.95%) C#
11 6 (1.46%) Go
11 6 (1.46%) Ruby
12 5 (1.22%) R
12 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.97%) Bicep
14 3 (0.73%) C++
14 3 (0.73%) Groovy
14 3 (0.73%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.73%) Scala
14 3 (0.73%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (11.19%) Degree
2 30 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.68%) MCP
6 9 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.95%) CISSP
8 6 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.46%) CCSP
9 5 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.97%) CCNA
10 4 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.97%) GCIH
10 4 (0.97%) OSCP
11 3 (0.73%) CEH
11 3 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.03%) GDPR
2 21 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.92%) QA
5 8 (1.95%) NCSC
6 6 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.22%) NIST
8 4 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.97%) GRC
8 4 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.49%) DICOM
9 2 (0.49%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) HL7
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (23.11%) Docker
2 14 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.22%) Squid
4 4 (0.97%) Snort
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 102 (24.82%) Kubernetes
2 88 (21.41%) Terraform
3 25 (6.08%) Ansible
4 13 (3.16%) Argo
4 13 (3.16%) Grafana
5 12 (2.92%) Istio
6 9 (2.19%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.97%) Nessus
9 4 (0.97%) Nexpose
9 4 (0.97%) Puppet
9 4 (0.97%) Suricata
10 3 (0.73%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.73%) SCCM
11 2 (0.49%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.49%) logstash
11 2 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 61 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.11%) Databricks
3 20 (4.87%) Adobe
3 20 (4.87%) Splunk
4 19 (4.62%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.89%) Apple
6 13 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.92%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (2.43%) Cisco
10 9 (2.19%) Optimizely
10 9 (2.19%) Oracle
11 8 (1.95%) Hotjar
11 8 (1.95%) Okta
11 8 (1.95%) OneTrust
11 8 (1.95%) SAP
12 7 (1.70%) Amplitude
12 7 (1.70%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.70%) Qualys
13 6 (1.46%) IBM