Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google Compute Engine
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% 0.12% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.27% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.18%
Central London median daily rate £450 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -41.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Google Compute Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 905 740 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.06% 43.43% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 474 611
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £100.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
% change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -66.67%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Compute Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in the City of London

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Google Compute Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google App Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
Google Compute Engine jobs