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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +29 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Google 78 30 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.25% 1.58% 1.76%
As % of the Vendors category 8.89% 3.68% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 20 27
10th Percentile £391 £458 £219
25th Percentile £469 £522 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £728 £661
90th Percentile £838 £791 £828
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
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% -
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% -

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 877 816 998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.77% 42.95% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 498 722
10th Percentile £340 £313 £325
25th Percentile £416 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £750 £755
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £20.02 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £36.25
90th Percentile £44.16 £127.30 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.32%

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 January 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 (3.85%) CMS
2 2 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.56%) Trello
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.82%) GCP
2 15 (19.23%) Azure
3 12 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 11 (14.10%) GitHub
5 10 (12.82%) AWS
6 9 (11.54%) SaaS
7 8 (10.26%) Cloud Run
8 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
9 6 (7.69%) Google Gemini
9 6 (7.69%) Google Workspace
10 5 (6.41%) Firebase
10 5 (6.41%) IaaS
10 5 (6.41%) PaaS
10 5 (6.41%) Slack
11 4 (5.13%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.13%) Google Analytics
12 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.85%) Figma
12 3 (3.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) Firewall
2 1 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) BigQuery
2 9 (11.54%) Tableau
3 5 (6.41%) Power BI
4 3 (3.85%) Looker
4 3 (3.85%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.56%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.56%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) SQLite
6 1 (1.28%) Big Data
6 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL
6 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Git
1 8 (10.26%) JIRA
2 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.41%) GitLab
4 3 (3.85%) Gradle
4 3 (3.85%) JUnit
4 3 (3.85%) Maven
4 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.56%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.56%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.56%) fastlane
5 2 (2.56%) Mockito
5 2 (2.56%) Selenium
5 2 (2.56%) Snyk
5 2 (2.56%) Xcode
6 1 (1.28%) Ant
6 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (26.92%) Finance
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Marketing
5 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.41%) Retail
6 4 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.56%) Advertising
7 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.28%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (16.67%) Senior
2 12 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (12.82%) Developer
4 6 (7.69%) Consultant
4 6 (7.69%) Lead
5 5 (6.41%) Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Architect
6 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Administrator
7 3 (3.85%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (3.85%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (3.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) HTML
2 8 (10.26%) CSS
3 7 (8.97%) React
4 5 (6.41%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.13%) REST
5 4 (5.13%) RESTful
5 4 (5.13%) Spring
6 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.85%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.56%) AVFoundation
7 2 (2.56%) Core Data
7 2 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.56%) LangChain
7 2 (2.56%) Pandas
7 2 (2.56%) Redux
7 2 (2.56%) RxSwift
7 2 (2.56%) scikit-learn
7 2 (2.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.13%) Life Science
3 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.56%) Animation
5 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Genomics
6 1 (1.28%) IVR
6 1 (1.28%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) DevOps
2 23 (29.49%) CI/CD
3 19 (24.36%) Agile
3 19 (24.36%) Analytics
4 17 (21.79%) AI
5 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.10%) Containerisation
6 11 (14.10%) Migration
7 10 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (12.82%) Cloud Security
7 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.54%) Generative AI
8 9 (11.54%) Machine Learning
8 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (11.54%) User Experience
8 9 (11.54%) Visualisation
9 8 (10.26%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.97%) Code Quality
10 7 (8.97%) LLM
10 7 (8.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.36%) Python
2 13 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.97%) Java
5 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) Bash
7 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.56%) Objective-C
7 2 (2.56%) Swift
8 1 (1.28%) Bicep
8 1 (1.28%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.28%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.28%) MCP
4 1 (1.28%) OSCP
4 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (10.26%) GDPR
3 5 (6.41%) NCSC
4 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.85%) GRC
4 3 (3.85%) NIST
5 2 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.56%) QA
5 2 (2.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.28%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.28%) MiFID
6 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.51%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
3 4 (5.13%) Argo
4 3 (3.85%) Istio
5 2 (2.56%) Grafana
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.28%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Adobe
3 5 (6.41%) Splunk
4 4 (5.13%) Apple
4 4 (5.13%) Databricks
4 4 (5.13%) Hotjar
4 4 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.13%) Optimizely
4 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.85%) Ahrefs
5 3 (3.85%) Amplitude
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco
6 2 (2.56%) Cognos
6 2 (2.56%) New Relic
6 2 (2.56%) Oracle
6 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.56%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.56%) Sage
6 2 (2.56%) SAP
6 2 (2.56%) Screaming Frog