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 4 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
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 82 91
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Google 79 34 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.32% 1.73% 1.92%
As % of the Vendors category 8.94% 4.00% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 22 28
10th Percentile £394 £464 £219
25th Percentile £463 £516 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £756 £716 £654
90th Percentile £838 £785 £827
Central London median daily rate £556 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% +4.55% -8.33%
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 £42.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +121.05% -

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 884 851 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.33% 43.31% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 522 734
10th Percentile £338 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £19.98 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £50.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £98.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.14% +374.70% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.89 £118.38 £42.50
90th Percentile £44.72 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £71.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -64.25% +275.00% -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 4 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 4 (5.06%) CMS
2 2 (2.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Trello
3 1 (1.27%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.27%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 49 (62.03%) GCP
2 14 (17.72%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 11 (13.92%) GitHub
4 10 (12.66%) AWS
5 9 (11.39%) SaaS
6 8 (10.13%) Cloud Run
7 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
8 6 (7.59%) Google Gemini
8 6 (7.59%) Google Workspace
8 6 (7.59%) Slack
9 5 (6.33%) Firebase
9 5 (6.33%) Google Analytics
9 5 (6.33%) IaaS
9 5 (6.33%) PaaS
10 4 (5.06%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.80%) Figma
11 3 (3.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) BigQuery
2 9 (11.39%) Tableau
3 5 (6.33%) Power BI
4 3 (3.80%) Looker
4 3 (3.80%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.53%) Big Data
5 2 (2.53%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.53%) Redis
5 2 (2.53%) SQLite
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
1 8 (10.13%) JIRA
2 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.59%) GitLab
4 4 (5.06%) Gradle
4 4 (5.06%) Maven
4 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.80%) JUnit
5 3 (3.80%) Selenium
5 3 (3.80%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (2.53%) CocoaPods
6 2 (2.53%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.53%) fastlane
6 2 (2.53%) Mockito
6 2 (2.53%) Snyk
6 2 (2.53%) Xcode
7 1 (1.27%) Ant
7 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (26.58%) Finance
1 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Marketing
4 9 (11.39%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Retail
6 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.53%) Advertising
7 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Back Office
8 1 (1.27%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) GCP Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Developer
4 6 (7.59%) Lead
5 5 (6.33%) Analyst
5 5 (6.33%) Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Security Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Architect
6 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Administrator
7 3 (3.80%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.80%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (3.80%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) iOS Developer
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) HTML
2 8 (10.13%) CSS
3 7 (8.86%) React
4 5 (6.33%) FastAPI
5 4 (5.06%) REST
5 4 (5.06%) RESTful
5 4 (5.06%) Spring
6 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.80%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.53%) AVFoundation
7 2 (2.53%) Core Data
7 2 (2.53%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.53%) LangChain
7 2 (2.53%) Pandas
7 2 (2.53%) Redux
7 2 (2.53%) RxSwift
7 2 (2.53%) scikit-learn
7 2 (2.53%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) Life Science
3 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.53%) Animation
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Social Media
5 2 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Genomics
6 1 (1.27%) IVR
6 1 (1.27%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.53%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.97%) DevOps
2 25 (31.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.32%) Analytics
4 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 16 (20.25%) AI
6 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.19%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (15.19%) Migration
8 11 (13.92%) Cloud Security
9 10 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (12.66%) Machine Learning
9 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.66%) User Experience
10 9 (11.39%) Generative AI
10 9 (11.39%) Visualisation
11 8 (10.13%) Project Management
11 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.86%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.32%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) SQL
3 8 (10.13%) Java
3 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.80%) Bash
6 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.53%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.53%) Swift
7 1 (1.27%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.27%) LookML
Qualifications
1 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.06%) Degree
3 2 (2.53%) CISSP
3 2 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) MCP
4 1 (1.27%) OSCP
4 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (10.13%) GDPR
3 5 (6.33%) NCSC
4 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.80%) GRC
5 3 (3.80%) NIST
6 2 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.53%) QA
6 2 (2.53%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.27%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (1.27%) MiFID
7 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (21.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.78%) Kubernetes
1 18 (22.78%) Terraform
2 5 (6.33%) Argo
3 4 (5.06%) Ansible
4 3 (3.80%) Istio
5 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Adobe
3 5 (6.33%) Splunk
4 4 (5.06%) Apple
4 4 (5.06%) Hotjar
4 4 (5.06%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.06%) Optimizely
4 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.80%) Ahrefs
5 3 (3.80%) Amplitude
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) New Relic
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.53%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.53%) Sage
6 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.53%) Screaming Frog