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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 93 98
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 530 420 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 3.10% 2.65%
As % of the Vendors category 6.22% 6.74% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 257 291
10th Percentile £313 £275 £313
25th Percentile £403 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £702
90th Percentile £675 £735 £788
England median daily rate £514 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +4.47% -10.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 14
10th Percentile £19.35 £30.97 £22.00
25th Percentile £27.50 £32.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +65.55% -55.93%
75th Percentile £35.75 £60.50 £41.38
90th Percentile £43.50 £69.38 £42.50
England median hourly rate £34.23 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +51.73% -67.77% +112.12%

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 8,526 6,227 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.45% 46.03% 42.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,548 4,048 4,730
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 126 88
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -4.36% -13.85%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.56 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 0 80 £525 -4.55% 116
South London -1 12 £575 +21.05% 2
West London -13 12 £625 +19.05% 27
East London - 3 £410 - 7
North London -2 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 (4.53%) Apache
2 21 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.40%) Apache Spark
4 18 (3.40%) CMS
4 18 (3.40%) Confluence
5 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (1.51%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.75%) WordPress
9 3 (0.57%) Drupal
10 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.19%) Luigi
11 1 (0.19%) Mendix
11 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.94%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Maya
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) Shopify
2 4 (0.75%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.75%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) iTrent
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.19%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 306 (57.74%) GCP
2 127 (23.96%) AWS
3 122 (23.02%) Azure
4 73 (13.77%) Google Workspace
5 43 (8.11%) GitHub
6 37 (6.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 37 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (5.85%) Google Analytics
8 27 (5.09%) Power Platform
9 25 (4.72%) SaaS
10 23 (4.34%) dbt
10 23 (4.34%) Google Drive
11 20 (3.77%) Adobe Analytics
11 20 (3.77%) Entra ID
11 20 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.77%) Google Sheets
12 19 (3.58%) Snowflake
12 19 (3.58%) Vertex AI
13 16 (3.02%) Cloud Functions
14 15 (2.83%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.04%) DNS
2 24 (4.53%) Firewall
3 23 (4.34%) VPN
4 10 (1.89%) Internet
5 9 (1.70%) Network Security
6 8 (1.51%) DKIM
6 8 (1.51%) DMARC
6 8 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.13%) DHCP
8 5 (0.94%) SMTP
8 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.75%) WAN
9 4 (0.75%) WebEx
10 3 (0.57%) HTTP
10 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.57%) Telepresence
10 3 (0.57%) VLAN
10 3 (0.57%) VoIP
11 2 (0.38%) 4G
11 2 (0.38%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.38%) BigQuery
2 38 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.72%) Power BI
4 17 (3.21%) Looker
4 17 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 15 (2.83%) Tableau
6 13 (2.45%) Big Data
7 11 (2.08%) Metadata
8 9 (1.70%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.51%) Redis
10 7 (1.32%) Flink
10 7 (1.32%) InterSystems Cache
10 7 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.13%) MySQL
11 6 (1.13%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.94%) Data Hub
12 5 (0.94%) OLTP
12 5 (0.94%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (6.42%) JIRA
2 30 (5.66%) Git
3 29 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 24 (4.53%) GitLab
5 4 (0.75%) Gradle
5 4 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 3 (0.57%) Maven
7 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Charles Proxy
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) Gatling
7 2 (0.38%) Gemini Tracker
7 2 (0.38%) JMeter
7 2 (0.38%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.38%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 96 (18.11%) Finance
3 71 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 53 (10.00%) Marketing
6 32 (6.04%) Retail
7 26 (4.91%) Banking
8 21 (3.96%) Advertising
9 17 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.26%) Publishing
10 12 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.08%) Legal
12 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.13%) Games
15 6 (1.13%) Law
16 5 (0.94%) Billing
16 5 (0.94%) Local Government
16 5 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (13.02%) GCP Engineer
2 62 (11.70%) Architect
3 53 (10.00%) Senior
4 50 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 40 (7.55%) Developer
5 40 (7.55%) Lead
6 38 (7.17%) Analyst
7 18 (3.40%) Support Engineer
8 17 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (2.83%) Security Architect
10 14 (2.64%) Administrator
10 14 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.64%) GCP Data Engineer
11 12 (2.26%) Consultant
11 12 (2.26%) Java Developer
11 12 (2.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.36%) REST
2 28 (5.28%) Kafka
3 20 (3.77%) JSON
4 18 (3.40%) React
4 18 (3.40%) RESTful
5 17 (3.21%) OAuth
6 16 (3.02%) HTML
7 14 (2.64%) LangChain
7 14 (2.64%) LangGraph
8 13 (2.45%) CSS
8 13 (2.45%) Spring
8 13 (2.45%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.08%) Apache Beam
10 10 (1.89%) SAML
11 9 (1.70%) JWT
11 9 (1.70%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.51%) .NET
12 8 (1.51%) Middleware
12 8 (1.51%) Node.js
13 7 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.42%) AI Agents
3 21 (3.96%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.64%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.64%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.70%) Clustering
8 9 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.13%) Life Science
10 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.94%) CMDB
11 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.66%) Windows
2 29 (5.47%) Linux
3 13 (2.45%) Android
3 13 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.51%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.75%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.57%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) CentOS
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE
9 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (26.23%) CI/CD
2 118 (22.26%) Agile
3 114 (21.51%) AI
4 101 (19.06%) Analytics
5 94 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (16.79%) DevOps
7 84 (15.85%) Migration
8 75 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 61 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (9.81%) Machine Learning
11 52 (9.81%) Software Engineering
12 49 (9.25%) Data Modelling
13 48 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
13 48 (9.06%) Roadmaps
14 47 (8.87%) Observability
15 46 (8.68%) Decision-Making
16 44 (8.30%) Microservices
17 41 (7.74%) Event-Driven
17 41 (7.74%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 148 (27.92%) Python
2 105 (19.81%) SQL
3 65 (12.26%) Java
4 33 (6.23%) PowerShell
5 28 (5.28%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.34%) Bash
7 18 (3.40%) Scala
7 18 (3.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (2.64%) Go
9 13 (2.45%) C#
10 10 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.13%) Bicep
13 5 (0.94%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.94%) SOQL
14 4 (0.75%) Groovy
14 4 (0.75%) Ruby
15 3 (0.57%) Korn
15 3 (0.57%) PHP
15 3 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 91 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.81%) Degree
4 27 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.70%) CISSP
10 6 (1.13%) PhD
11 5 (0.94%) CISM
11 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.75%) PMP
13 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.57%) CRISC
13 3 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.04%) QA
3 17 (3.21%) GDPR
4 14 (2.64%) NIST
5 12 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.13%) PMO
7 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.75%) NCSC
9 3 (0.57%) GRC
9 3 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.38%) PSD2
10 2 (0.38%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (10.57%) Docker
2 20 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.75%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.75%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 96 (18.11%) Terraform
2 88 (16.60%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.21%) Ansible
3 17 (3.21%) Grafana
4 16 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.32%) Puppet
8 6 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.94%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.75%) Istio
10 4 (0.75%) SCCM
10 4 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.75%) vMotion
11 3 (0.57%) Nagios
12 2 (0.38%) Argo
12 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.38%) WSUS
13 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 94 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.72%) Adobe
3 22 (4.15%) Oracle
4 19 (3.58%) OpenAI
5 18 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.40%) Splunk
5 18 (3.40%) TikTok
6 14 (2.64%) Apple
6 14 (2.64%) Databricks
6 14 (2.64%) Okta
7 12 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.08%) Amplitude
9 10 (1.89%) Cisco
9 10 (1.89%) SAP
10 9 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.70%) Optimizely
11 8 (1.51%) Sitecore
11 8 (1.51%) Tealium
12 7 (1.32%) Citrix
12 7 (1.32%) New Relic