Google Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Google
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 15 March 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 94 79
Rank change year-on-year +37 -15 +25
Contract jobs citing Google 80 29 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.88% 1.60% 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 8.59% 3.63% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 28
10th Percentile £368 £413 £219
25th Percentile £457 £475 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -14.58%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £609
90th Percentile £811 £738 £844
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -13.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £39.58 - -
25th Percentile £40.06 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +123.68% -63.11%
75th Percentile £46.06 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £46.93 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.75 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +0.59% +123.68% -63.11%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 931 799 1,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.11% 44.17% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 512 725
10th Percentile £355 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £20.36 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.83% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £33.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £157.30 £33.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -9.52%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Google job vacancy trend in the City of London

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the City of London

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Google

Google
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.75%) CMS
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Trello
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) GCP
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 12 (15.00%) AWS
3 12 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 9 (11.25%) Google Workspace
6 7 (8.75%) GitHub
7 6 (7.50%) Google Analytics
8 5 (6.25%) SaaS
8 5 (6.25%) Slack
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Run
9 4 (5.00%) Google Gemini
9 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (3.75%) Anthos
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.75%) Figma
10 3 (3.75%) Firebase
10 3 (3.75%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) BigQuery
1 11 (13.75%) Tableau
2 7 (8.75%) Power BI
3 4 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) MySQL
4 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.50%) Looker
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
5 2 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.50%) SQLite
6 1 (1.25%) Big Data
6 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.25%) Metadata
6 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) JIRA
3 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.75%) GitLab
4 3 (3.75%) JUnit
5 2 (2.50%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.50%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.50%) fastlane
5 2 (2.50%) Mockito
5 2 (2.50%) Xcode
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.25%) ERwin
General
1 19 (23.75%) Finance
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Retail
5 6 (7.50%) Marketing
6 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Advertising
7 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) German Language
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 9 (11.25%) Developer
4 6 (7.50%) Analyst
4 6 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Consultant
4 6 (7.50%) Lead
4 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Architect
5 5 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.00%) Administrator
6 4 (5.00%) Backend Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (3.75%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (3.75%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) HTML
1 5 (6.25%) React
2 4 (5.00%) CSS
2 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.75%) LangGraph
3 3 (3.75%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.75%) NumPy
3 3 (3.75%) Pandas
3 3 (3.75%) RESTful
3 3 (3.75%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.75%) Seaborn
3 3 (3.75%) Spring
4 2 (2.50%) Core Animation
4 2 (2.50%) Core Data
4 2 (2.50%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) RxSwift
4 2 (2.50%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.00%) Life Science
3 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Animation
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Social Media
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Genomics
6 1 (1.25%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.25%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) DevOps
2 23 (28.75%) AI
2 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
3 21 (26.25%) Analytics
4 19 (23.75%) Agile
5 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (13.75%) Cloud Security
6 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.25%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (11.25%) Data Science
7 9 (11.25%) Generative AI
7 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
7 9 (11.25%) Visualisation
8 8 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 8 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (8.75%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.75%) Test Automation
9 7 (8.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) SQL
3 6 (7.50%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.75%) Bash
6 2 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.50%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.50%) Swift
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) Elixir
7 1 (1.25%) Go
7 1 (1.25%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CCSP
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) CRISC
6 1 (1.25%) OSCP
6 1 (1.25%) SANS
6 1 (1.25%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) NCSC
2 4 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) GRC
3 3 (3.75%) NIST
4 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.50%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (1.25%) MiFID
5 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.75%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Argo
4 2 (2.50%) Istio
4 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.25%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) Apple
3 4 (5.00%) Adobe
3 4 (5.00%) Splunk
4 3 (3.75%) Cognos
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
4 3 (3.75%) Sage
5 2 (2.50%) Ahrefs
5 2 (2.50%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) New Relic
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.25%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.25%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Snapchat
6 1 (1.25%) TikTok