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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 84 95
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Google 517 419 465
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 3.09% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 6.24% 6.71% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 247 323
10th Percentile £300 £270 £325
25th Percentile £400 £398 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £688
90th Percentile £672 £750 £775
England median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 13
10th Percentile £23.47 £29.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £25.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +82.61% -61.47%
75th Percentile £35.90 £57.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £49.49 £70.38 £42.45
England median hourly rate £35.50 £24.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +43.96% -64.77% +76.99%

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 8,287 6,247 7,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.82% 46.06% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 4,061 4,967
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 115 101
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.45 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +34.22% -1.93% -15.61%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.00 £64.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £26.21
% change year-on-year +41.27% -4.04% -30.11%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +4 75 £508 -7.73% 85
West London -5 12 £603 +4.78% 6
South London -6 12 £575 +21.05% 2
East London +6 6 £525 -19.23% 9
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 24 (4.64%) Apache
2 22 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.87%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.90%) Confluence
5 14 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.71%) CMS
6 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.58%) Drupal
9 3 (0.58%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) Luigi
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.93%) Chatbot
4 6 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.39%) Maya
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.19%) InDesign
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.39%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) iTrent
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
Cloud Services
1 299 (57.83%) GCP
2 119 (23.02%) AWS
3 110 (21.28%) Azure
4 96 (18.57%) Google Workspace
5 42 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (7.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 36 (6.96%) GitHub
8 28 (5.42%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.64%) Google Drive
9 24 (4.64%) Slack
10 23 (4.45%) Google Analytics
10 23 (4.45%) SaaS
11 22 (4.26%) Cloud Run
12 21 (4.06%) Vertex AI
13 19 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.48%) dbt
14 18 (3.48%) Google Sheets
14 18 (3.48%) Snowflake
15 17 (3.29%) Entra ID
15 17 (3.29%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.19%) DNS
2 23 (4.45%) VPN
3 20 (3.87%) Firewall
4 10 (1.93%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.74%) Network Security
6 8 (1.55%) DKIM
6 8 (1.55%) DMARC
6 8 (1.55%) Internet
7 7 (1.35%) DHCP
8 5 (0.97%) SMTP
9 4 (0.77%) VoIP
10 3 (0.58%) HTTP
10 3 (0.58%) VLAN
11 2 (0.39%) 5G
11 2 (0.39%) BGP
11 2 (0.39%) IPv4
11 2 (0.39%) IPv6
11 2 (0.39%) NFC
11 2 (0.39%) OSPF
11 2 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.57%) BigQuery
2 36 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.03%) Power BI
4 19 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.90%) Tableau
6 14 (2.71%) Looker
7 13 (2.51%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.32%) Big Data
8 12 (2.32%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.93%) Metadata
10 8 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.55%) Mixpanel
10 8 (1.55%) OLTP
10 8 (1.55%) Redis
11 7 (1.35%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.35%) OLAP
12 6 (1.16%) MySQL
12 6 (1.16%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (6.38%) JIRA
2 27 (5.22%) Git
3 23 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.06%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) Gradle
5 4 (0.77%) Maven
6 2 (0.39%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.39%) Gemini Tracker
6 2 (0.39%) JUnit
6 2 (0.39%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.39%) webpack
7 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.19%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.19%) Gatling
7 1 (0.19%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 137 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 97 (18.76%) Finance
3 66 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.03%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.67%) Marketing
6 34 (6.58%) Retail
7 27 (5.22%) Banking
8 19 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (3.29%) Advertising
10 11 (2.13%) Publishing
10 11 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.93%) Legal
12 8 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.35%) Military
14 6 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.16%) Games
15 5 (0.97%) Billing
15 5 (0.97%) Law
16 4 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (12.19%) GCP Engineer
2 52 (10.06%) Architect
3 50 (9.67%) Data Engineer
4 48 (9.28%) Lead
4 48 (9.28%) Senior
5 44 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.54%) Analyst
7 38 (7.35%) Developer
8 15 (2.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (2.71%) Administrator
9 14 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.51%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (2.32%) Java Developer
11 12 (2.32%) Security Architect
11 12 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.32%) Support Engineer
12 11 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (2.13%) Consultant
12 11 (2.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.54%) REST
2 28 (5.42%) Kafka
3 19 (3.68%) OAuth
4 17 (3.29%) JSON
4 17 (3.29%) Spring
4 17 (3.29%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.09%) React
6 14 (2.71%) SAML
7 12 (2.32%) HTML
7 12 (2.32%) LangChain
7 12 (2.32%) LangGraph
8 11 (2.13%) RESTful
9 9 (1.74%) CSS
9 9 (1.74%) Node.js
10 8 (1.55%) Apache Beam
10 8 (1.55%) Great Expectations
10 8 (1.55%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.35%) .NET
11 7 (1.35%) Android Jetpack
11 7 (1.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.22%) AI Agents
3 21 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.68%) Virtual Team
6 16 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.71%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.74%) Clustering
8 9 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (1.55%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.16%) Life Science
11 6 (1.16%) Social Media
12 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.97%) PKI
12 5 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.22%) Windows
2 22 (4.26%) Linux
3 17 (3.29%) Android
4 11 (2.13%) Mac OS
4 11 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.77%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.58%) 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 Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (24.95%) CI/CD
2 112 (21.66%) AI
3 103 (19.92%) Agile
4 97 (18.76%) Analytics
5 87 (16.83%) Migration
6 86 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 84 (16.25%) DevOps
8 78 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 54 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (9.86%) Software Engineering
12 50 (9.67%) Data Modelling
12 50 (9.67%) Machine Learning
13 48 (9.28%) Decision-Making
14 47 (9.09%) Observability
15 43 (8.32%) Roadmaps
16 42 (8.12%) Data Engineering
17 41 (7.93%) Microservices
18 39 (7.54%) ETL
19 38 (7.35%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 136 (26.31%) Python
2 104 (20.12%) SQL
3 65 (12.57%) Java
4 28 (5.42%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 16 (3.09%) Bash
6 16 (3.09%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.71%) C#
7 14 (2.71%) Go
7 14 (2.71%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.71%) Scala
8 9 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
9 6 (1.16%) Bicep
10 5 (0.97%) SOQL
11 4 (0.77%) Ruby
12 3 (0.58%) Groovy
12 3 (0.58%) Korn
12 3 (0.58%) LookML
12 3 (0.58%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 78 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.86%) Degree
4 25 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.48%) AWS Certification
5 18 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.74%) CISSP
10 6 (1.16%) PhD
10 6 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.97%) CISM
12 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.77%) PMP
12 4 (0.77%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.19%) QA
3 22 (4.26%) GDPR
4 14 (2.71%) NIST
5 11 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.77%) NCSC
7 4 (0.77%) PMO
8 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.58%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (9.28%) Docker
2 23 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.77%) BitLocker
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (0.77%) Terminal Services
4 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
6 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.19%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 93 (17.99%) Terraform
2 78 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.09%) Grafana
4 13 (2.51%) Ansible
5 12 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.93%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.35%) Puppet
8 7 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (1.16%) Istio
10 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.77%) SCCM
11 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.77%) vMotion
12 3 (0.58%) Nagios
13 2 (0.39%) Argo
13 2 (0.39%) WSUS
14 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 85 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.48%) OpenAI
3 17 (3.29%) Adobe
3 17 (3.29%) Splunk
4 16 (3.09%) Databricks
5 15 (2.90%) Oracle
5 15 (2.90%) TikTok
6 14 (2.71%) Apple
6 14 (2.71%) Okta
6 14 (2.71%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.35%) Cisco
8 7 (1.35%) Citrix
8 7 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (1.16%) CyberArk
10 5 (0.97%) Informatica
10 5 (0.97%) Optimizely
10 5 (0.97%) Rapid7
10 5 (0.97%) SAP
10 5 (0.97%) VMware