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 24 September 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 60 71
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Google 68 61 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.04% 3.49% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 6.78% 7.07% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 39
10th Percentile £338 £389 £353
25th Percentile £450 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £688
90th Percentile £645 £800 £768
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £22.63 £47.13 -
25th Percentile £22.83 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% - -
75th Percentile £32.21 £85.94 -
90th Percentile £37.63 £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £51.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year -54.98% +23.95% +118.42%

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 1,003 863 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.80% 49.40% 44.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 577 599
10th Percentile £336 £324 £340
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £762
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £17.41 £20.01 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £35.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% -38.26% +177.11%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% -31.33% +100.00%

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

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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 24 September 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 24 September 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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.94%) CMS
3 2 (2.94%) Drupal
3 2 (2.94%) WordPress
4 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) iTrent
1 2 (2.94%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (69.12%) GCP
2 17 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (23.53%) Azure
4 10 (14.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (11.76%) Google Workspace
6 7 (10.29%) Google Sheets
7 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 6 (8.82%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (5.88%) dbt
8 4 (5.88%) Google App Engine
8 4 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (5.88%) Vertex AI
9 3 (4.41%) Google Analytics
9 3 (4.41%) Google Docs
9 3 (4.41%) IaaS
9 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (4.41%) PaaS
10 2 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) DNS
1 8 (11.76%) Firewall
2 6 (8.82%) VPN
3 4 (5.88%) Internet
4 3 (4.41%) DHCP
4 3 (4.41%) Network Security
4 3 (4.41%) SMTP
5 1 (1.47%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.47%) RTCP
5 1 (1.47%) RTP
5 1 (1.47%) VoIP
5 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
2 4 (5.88%) Big Data
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Looker
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Chroma
5 1 (1.47%) Metadata
5 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.47%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
5 1 (1.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) GitLab
1 5 (7.35%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) Git
4 1 (1.47%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.47%) Gatling
4 1 (1.47%) JMeter
4 1 (1.47%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.47%) NeoLoad
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.18%) Finance
2 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Banking
4 5 (7.35%) Retail
5 4 (5.88%) Marketing
5 4 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Front Office
7 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Automotive
8 1 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Architect
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (14.71%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (10.29%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
5 4 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Analyst
6 3 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.41%) Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Lead
6 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) Terraform
2 5 (7.35%) REST
3 3 (4.41%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.41%) Middleware
3 3 (4.41%) OAuth
3 3 (4.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.94%) .NET
4 2 (2.94%) JSON
4 2 (2.94%) JWT
4 2 (2.94%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.94%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) RESTful
4 2 (2.94%) SAML
4 2 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (2.94%) Spring
4 2 (2.94%) XML
4 2 (2.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) AI Agents
3 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.88%) Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.94%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.94%) Genomics
6 2 (2.94%) Life Science
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.47%) CMDB
7 1 (1.47%) Derivative
7 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Android
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) SUSE
3 1 (1.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
2 19 (27.94%) AI
3 16 (23.53%) DevOps
4 14 (20.59%) Migration
5 11 (16.18%) Analytics
5 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
5 11 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.24%) Agile
7 8 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.76%) Observability
7 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (10.29%) Cloud Operations
8 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
8 7 (10.29%) Data Protection
8 7 (10.29%) Microservices
8 7 (10.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.71%) SQL
2 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.29%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) Java
4 3 (4.41%) LookML
5 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.94%) Korn
5 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.47%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.59%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.76%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.47%) PMP
7 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) NCSC
2 2 (2.94%) NIST
2 2 (2.94%) PMO
2 2 (2.94%) PSD2
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.47%) GRC
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 19770
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.41%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.41%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (27.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Nagios
3 3 (4.41%) Puppet
3 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.41%) vMotion
4 2 (2.94%) Grafana
4 2 (2.94%) Istio
4 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Oracle
3 4 (5.88%) SAP
3 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.88%) VMware
4 3 (4.41%) Adobe
4 3 (4.41%) Apple
4 3 (4.41%) Citrix
4 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.41%) HP
4 3 (4.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.41%) Symantec
5 2 (2.94%) IBM
5 2 (2.94%) TikTok
5 2 (2.94%) UiPath
5 2 (2.94%) Workday
6 1 (1.47%) FIS
6 1 (1.47%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto