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 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
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 61 77
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 73 62 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.22% 3.52% 2.50%
As % of the Vendors category 7.28% 7.19% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 37
10th Percentile £341 £366 £343
25th Percentile £450 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £654 £688
90th Percentile £644 £800 £768
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -2.38% -6.67% -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 1,003 862 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.30% 48.92% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 575 598
10th Percentile £334 £323 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.14% -1.65%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £768
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.16% +28.33% +30.12%
75th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £31.58 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.62% +16.94% +30.12%

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 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 17 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 (5.48%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.74%) CMS
3 2 (2.74%) Drupal
3 2 (2.74%) WordPress
4 1 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) iTrent
1 2 (2.74%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (71.23%) GCP
2 18 (24.66%) AWS
3 17 (23.29%) Azure
4 11 (15.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (9.59%) Google Sheets
5 7 (9.59%) Google Workspace
6 6 (8.22%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.85%) dbt
7 5 (6.85%) GitHub
7 5 (6.85%) Vertex AI
8 4 (5.48%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (5.48%) Google App Engine
8 4 (5.48%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.11%) Google Analytics
9 3 (4.11%) Google Docs
9 3 (4.11%) IaaS
9 3 (4.11%) PaaS
10 2 (2.74%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (2.74%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) DNS
1 8 (10.96%) Firewall
2 6 (8.22%) VPN
3 4 (5.48%) Internet
4 3 (4.11%) DHCP
4 3 (4.11%) Network Security
4 3 (4.11%) SMTP
5 1 (1.37%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (1.37%) RTCP
5 1 (1.37%) RTP
5 1 (1.37%) VoIP
5 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.85%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.48%) Big Data
3 4 (5.48%) Looker
4 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.74%) Power BI
5 2 (2.74%) Tableau
6 1 (1.37%) Chroma
6 1 (1.37%) Metadata
6 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.37%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.37%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (8.22%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) Git
5 1 (1.37%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.37%) Gatling
5 1 (1.37%) JMeter
5 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.37%) NeoLoad
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Banking
5 5 (6.85%) Retail
6 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Front Office
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
8 2 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Architect
3 12 (16.44%) GCP Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
6 4 (5.48%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.48%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Lead
6 4 (5.48%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) REST
3 3 (4.11%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.11%) OAuth
3 3 (4.11%) SOAP
4 2 (2.74%) .NET
4 2 (2.74%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.74%) JSON
4 2 (2.74%) JWT
4 2 (2.74%) Kafka
4 2 (2.74%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.74%) Middleware
4 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.74%) React
4 2 (2.74%) RESTful
4 2 (2.74%) SAML
4 2 (2.74%) Spring
4 2 (2.74%) XML
4 2 (2.74%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.85%) Clustering
4 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.11%) PKI
4 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.74%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.74%) Genomics
5 2 (2.74%) Life Science
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) BYOD
6 1 (1.37%) CMDB
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) SUSE
3 1 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.14%) AI
3 16 (21.92%) DevOps
4 15 (20.55%) Analytics
5 14 (19.18%) Migration
6 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.44%) Agile
7 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
8 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (15.07%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.33%) Microservices
9 9 (12.33%) Observability
9 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
10 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.59%) Cloud Operations
11 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
11 7 (9.59%) Data Protection
11 7 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.07%) SQL
2 8 (10.96%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.85%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) LookML
6 2 (2.74%) Bash
6 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.74%) Korn
6 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.18%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.96%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.37%) PMP
7 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) NIST
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 2 (2.74%) PMO
3 2 (2.74%) PSD2
4 1 (1.37%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.37%) GRC
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.37%) SEPA
4 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.11%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.11%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 20 (27.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Nagios
3 3 (4.11%) Puppet
3 3 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.11%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.11%) vMotion
4 2 (2.74%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) Istio
4 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) SAP
3 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.48%) VMware
4 3 (4.11%) Adobe
4 3 (4.11%) Apple
4 3 (4.11%) Citrix
4 3 (4.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.11%) HP
4 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.11%) Symantec
5 2 (2.74%) IBM
5 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.74%) TikTok
5 2 (2.74%) Workday
6 1 (1.37%) Ahrefs
6 1 (1.37%) FIS
6 1 (1.37%) Metaswitch
6 1 (1.37%) Screaming Frog