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 8 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 99 93
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing Google 427 337 449
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 2.71% 2.54%
As % of the Vendors category 5.66% 5.95% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 209 325
10th Percentile £288 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £656 £675
90th Percentile £735 £750 £772
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 16
10th Percentile £26.75 £26.47 £15.82
25th Percentile £33.13 £31.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.55% +88.46% -67.50%
75th Percentile £39.25 £55.25 £28.90
90th Percentile £49.58 £68.95 £43.13
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.67%

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 7,547 5,660 7,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.44% 45.43% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 3,719 4,948
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 93 133
10th Percentile £18.56 £15.97 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £36.00
90th Percentile £77.42 £67.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £31.93 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.72% +17.56% -43.75%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +16 71 £525 +5.00% 60
West London -10 21 £603 +7.11% 7
East London -3 7 £520 -20.00% 7
South London -14 7 £606 -10.22% 1
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 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.45%) Apache
3 16 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.34%) Confluence
5 9 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.41%) CMS
7 3 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.47%) Drupal
8 2 (0.47%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.58%) Chatbot
4 9 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.70%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.70%) Trello
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.47%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.47%) Maya
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 248 (58.08%) GCP
2 108 (25.29%) Azure
3 94 (22.01%) AWS
4 87 (20.37%) Google Workspace
5 47 (11.01%) GitHub
6 40 (9.37%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 35 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (6.32%) Slack
9 26 (6.09%) Amazon S3
10 25 (5.85%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.62%) SaaS
12 23 (5.39%) Cloud Run
12 23 (5.39%) Google Analytics
13 22 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (4.68%) Vertex AI
15 18 (4.22%) Google Ads
16 17 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
16 17 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (3.98%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.62%) DNS
2 22 (5.15%) Firewall
3 13 (3.04%) VPN
4 10 (2.34%) Network Security
5 7 (1.64%) DKIM
5 7 (1.64%) DMARC
6 6 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.17%) Internet
8 4 (0.94%) DHCP
9 3 (0.70%) VoIP
9 3 (0.70%) Wireless
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) HTTP
10 2 (0.47%) IPv4
10 2 (0.47%) IPv6
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
11 1 (0.23%) Broadband
11 1 (0.23%) LAN
11 1 (0.23%) SMTP
11 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.93%) BigQuery
2 34 (7.96%) Power BI
3 25 (5.85%) Tableau
4 21 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.45%) Data Lake
6 18 (4.22%) OLAP
7 16 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (3.75%) Mixpanel
8 15 (3.51%) OLTP
9 12 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (2.34%) Metadata
10 10 (2.34%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.11%) Looker
12 7 (1.64%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.41%) Big Data
13 6 (1.41%) MySQL
13 6 (1.41%) Redis
13 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.41%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 31 (7.26%) Jenkins
2 30 (7.03%) JIRA
3 28 (6.56%) Git
4 17 (3.98%) GitLab
5 5 (1.17%) JUnit
6 4 (0.94%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.70%) ERwin
7 3 (0.70%) Mockito
8 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.47%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.47%) MLflow
9 1 (0.23%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.23%) Gradle
9 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.23%) Vite
9 1 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 118 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.27%) Finance
3 63 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.54%) Marketing
5 32 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.03%) Banking
7 29 (6.79%) Retail
8 15 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.81%) Advertising
10 10 (2.34%) Legal
10 10 (2.34%) Publishing
10 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.17%) Military
16 4 (0.94%) Wearables
17 3 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 57 (13.35%) GCP Engineer
2 45 (10.54%) Senior
3 44 (10.30%) Lead
4 43 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 41 (9.60%) Architect
6 32 (7.49%) Analyst
7 19 (4.45%) Developer
8 17 (3.98%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (3.75%) Administrator
10 15 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
11 14 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Principal Data Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Security Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Software Engineer
13 12 (2.81%) Consultant
14 11 (2.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (2.34%) Data Scientist
15 10 (2.34%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.79%) Kafka
2 19 (4.45%) OAuth
2 19 (4.45%) React
3 17 (3.98%) LangChain
3 17 (3.98%) REST
4 16 (3.75%) Great Expectations
5 15 (3.51%) Spring
6 14 (3.28%) PyTorch
6 14 (3.28%) Spring Boot
7 13 (3.04%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.81%) HTML
9 10 (2.34%) CSS
9 10 (2.34%) Node.js
9 10 (2.34%) SAML
10 9 (2.11%) Pandas
10 9 (2.11%) RESTful
11 8 (1.87%) .NET
11 8 (1.87%) NumPy
11 8 (1.87%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.51%) Virtual Team
4 14 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.81%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.58%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.58%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.11%) Life Science
8 9 (2.11%) Social Media
9 7 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.41%) Clustering
11 5 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.94%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.98%) Android
2 15 (3.51%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.04%) Windows
4 12 (2.81%) Mac OS
5 10 (2.34%) VMS
6 8 (1.87%) Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (26.46%) CI/CD
2 106 (24.82%) AI
3 93 (21.78%) Analytics
4 87 (20.37%) DevOps
5 82 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (13.58%) Machine Learning
7 58 (13.58%) Migration
8 55 (12.88%) Observability
9 49 (11.48%) Agile
9 49 (11.48%) Software Engineering
10 48 (11.24%) Data Engineering
11 45 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (10.30%) Data Modelling
13 42 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (9.84%) Data Governance
13 42 (9.84%) Decision-Making
14 38 (8.90%) LLM
15 37 (8.67%) Containerisation
15 37 (8.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 116 (27.17%) Python
2 82 (19.20%) SQL
3 38 (8.90%) Java
4 26 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.92%) C#
6 16 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.58%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.34%) Bash
8 10 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.64%) Google Apps Script
9 7 (1.64%) Scala
10 5 (1.17%) Go
11 4 (0.94%) Ruby
12 3 (0.70%) LookML
12 3 (0.70%) Rust
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.47%) Korn
13 2 (0.47%) PHP
13 2 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 48 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.20%) Degree
4 14 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.17%) CISSP
9 5 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.94%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.70%) CCSP
11 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.70%) OSCP
11 3 (0.70%) PhD
11 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.67%) GDPR
2 34 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.22%) QA
4 11 (2.58%) NIST
5 8 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.94%) GRC
9 4 (0.94%) NCSC
10 3 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.47%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 2 (0.47%) WCAG
12 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.23%) PERC
12 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (10.30%) Docker
2 18 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.23%) Snort
4 1 (0.23%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.23%) Varnish
4 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (22.25%) Terraform
2 65 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.28%) Ansible
4 13 (3.04%) Grafana
5 10 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.11%) Argo
6 9 (2.11%) Istio
7 8 (1.87%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.47%) Knative
11 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.47%) logstash
11 2 (0.47%) QRadar
11 2 (0.47%) SCCM
12 1 (0.23%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.23%) Nessus
12 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.32%) Databricks
3 18 (4.22%) Apple
4 17 (3.98%) Adobe
4 17 (3.98%) Oracle
5 14 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.81%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.58%) Splunk
8 7 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.41%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.41%) Cisco
9 6 (1.41%) Okta
10 5 (1.17%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.17%) Facebook
10 5 (1.17%) IBM
10 5 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.17%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.94%) OneTrust
11 4 (0.94%) SAP
11 4 (0.94%) TikTok