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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 78 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Google 66 43 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.73% 2.49% 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 6.80% 5.52% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 33
10th Percentile £380 £306 £320
25th Percentile £469 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -0.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £675
90th Percentile £710 £731 £754
Central London median daily rate £538 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +8.04% -0.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £24.22 £47.13 -
25th Percentile £25.81 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.33 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.43% - -
75th Percentile £36.73 £85.94 -
90th Percentile £39.44 £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.33 £51.44 -
% change year-on-year -41.04% - -

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 971 779 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.14% 45.13% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 476 689
10th Percentile £359 £313 £348
25th Percentile £439 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.88%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £683
90th Percentile £760 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 8
10th Percentile - £22.18 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.83 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +50.92% -56.50%
75th Percentile £27.08 £64.21 £24.56
90th Percentile £42.13 £96.56 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.71 £30.04 £21.75
% change year-on-year -24.38% +38.09% -42.00%

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 17 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the City of London

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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) Drupal
3 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.52%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.52%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 44 (66.67%) GCP
2 14 (21.21%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) Azure
4 10 (15.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 10 (15.15%) Google Workspace
5 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.09%) Slack
6 5 (7.58%) Vertex AI
7 4 (6.06%) Google Analytics
7 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.06%) SaaS
8 3 (4.55%) Anthos
8 3 (4.55%) Google Docs
8 3 (4.55%) Google Sheets
8 3 (4.55%) IaaS
8 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.55%) PaaS
8 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.03%) dbt
9 2 (3.03%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
2 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) VPN
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) SMTP
4 2 (3.03%) Network Security
5 1 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (10.61%) Tableau
2 5 (7.58%) Power BI
3 4 (6.06%) Big Data
4 3 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.03%) MySQL
5 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.03%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.52%) Looker
6 1 (1.52%) Metadata
6 1 (1.52%) OLAP
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Git
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.52%) ERwin
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
3 9 (13.64%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.61%) Retail
5 5 (7.58%) Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) German Language
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (21.21%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Architect
2 10 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (7.58%) Analyst
3 5 (7.58%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Consultant
4 4 (6.06%) Lead
4 4 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (6.06%) Senior
4 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (4.55%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) Kafka
1 3 (4.55%) React
2 2 (3.03%) OAuth
2 2 (3.03%) PySpark
2 2 (3.03%) SAML
3 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.52%) CSS
3 1 (1.52%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) Node.js
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.52%) REST
3 1 (1.52%) RESTEasy
3 1 (1.52%) SOAP
3 1 (1.52%) Spring
3 1 (1.52%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
3 6 (9.09%) Clustering
4 3 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.55%) PKI
5 2 (3.03%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Life Science
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Social Media
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Linux
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.52%) SUSE
3 1 (1.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) AI
2 18 (27.27%) Analytics
3 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
4 13 (19.70%) Agile
5 12 (18.18%) DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.15%) Machine Learning
8 8 (12.12%) Migration
8 8 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (10.61%) ETL
9 7 (10.61%) Workflow
10 6 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (9.09%) Data Governance
10 6 (9.09%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.09%) Data Science
10 6 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (9.09%) Microservices
10 6 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) SQL
2 9 (13.64%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.03%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.52%) Bash
5 1 (1.52%) Elixir
5 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) Korn
5 1 (1.52%) Ruby
5 1 (1.52%) SOQL
5 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.03%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.52%) CISM
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.03%) NCSC
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
2 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) GRC
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.52%) PMO
3 1 (1.52%) PSD2
3 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.55%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (7.58%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) Nagios
4 3 (4.55%) Puppet
4 3 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.55%) vMotion
5 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.52%) Argo
6 1 (1.52%) Istio
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.55%) Apple
3 3 (4.55%) Citrix
3 3 (4.55%) HP
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) Symantec
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Adobe
4 2 (3.03%) IBM
4 2 (3.03%) Informatica
4 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) TikTok
5 1 (1.52%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.52%) iManage
5 1 (1.52%) Klarna
5 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.52%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.52%) PayPal
5 1 (1.52%) Pinterest