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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 84 85
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Google 77 32 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.39% 1.81% 1.90%
As % of the Vendors category 8.07% 4.05% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 28
10th Percentile £313 £375 £219
25th Percentile £414 £416 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% - -9.66%
75th Percentile £603 £674 £678
90th Percentile £775 £736 £844
Central London median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.73% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £34.30 £47.13 -
25th Percentile £35.13 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £39.00 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% - -
75th Percentile £41.63 £85.94 -
90th Percentile £41.70 £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £71.25 -
% change year-on-year -45.26% - -

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 954 791 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.95% 44.71% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 499 693
10th Percentile £363 £313 £313
25th Percentile £431 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 6
10th Percentile - £25.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.10 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +95.32% -5.95%
75th Percentile £29.64 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.70 £126.25 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £31.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -28.18% +63.76% -9.86%

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 27 April 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 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Trello
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (62.34%) GCP
2 15 (19.48%) Azure
3 14 (18.18%) AWS
4 12 (15.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 10 (12.99%) Power Platform
6 9 (11.69%) Google Workspace
7 5 (6.49%) GitHub
7 5 (6.49%) Google Analytics
7 5 (6.49%) Slack
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (5.19%) Google Gemini
8 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.19%) SaaS
8 4 (5.19%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.90%) Anthos
9 3 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.90%) Figma
9 3 (3.90%) IBM Watson
9 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) DNS
1 1 (1.30%) Internet
1 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Tableau
2 7 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.09%) Power BI
3 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.60%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.30%) Looker
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) OLAP
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) Git
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
3 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) JUnit
4 2 (2.60%) Mockito
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.30%) ERwin
General
1 15 (19.48%) Finance
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Banking
4 8 (10.39%) Retail
5 7 (9.09%) Marketing
6 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.60%) Advertising
8 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) German Language
9 1 (1.30%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) GCP Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Architect
4 6 (7.79%) Developer
4 6 (7.79%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Data Scientist
5 5 (6.49%) Lead
6 4 (5.19%) Administrator
6 4 (5.19%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (3.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) React
2 4 (5.19%) HTML
3 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.90%) CSS
3 3 (3.90%) FastAPI
3 3 (3.90%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.90%) NumPy
3 3 (3.90%) Pandas
3 3 (3.90%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.90%) Seaborn
3 3 (3.90%) Spring
4 2 (2.60%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (2.60%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.60%) PySpark
4 2 (2.60%) REST
4 2 (2.60%) RESTful
4 2 (2.60%) RxJava
4 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.90%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.90%) Clustering
3 3 (3.90%) Life Science
3 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.60%) Social Media
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Genomics
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) AI
2 24 (31.17%) Analytics
3 20 (25.97%) CI/CD
4 19 (24.68%) DevOps
5 18 (23.38%) Agile
6 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.99%) Data Science
7 10 (12.99%) Machine Learning
7 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.69%) Generative AI
9 8 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (10.39%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (10.39%) Decision-Making
9 8 (10.39%) Migration
9 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
10 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.09%) ETL
10 7 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.68%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.60%) Bash
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) Elixir
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.60%) CISSP
5 2 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.60%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CCSP
6 1 (1.30%) CISM
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) CRISC
6 1 (1.30%) OSCP
6 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) GRC
2 3 (3.90%) NIST
3 2 (2.60%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.30%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.48%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Argo
4 2 (2.60%) Istio
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) Karpenter
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Adobe
2 4 (5.19%) IBM
3 3 (3.90%) Apple
3 3 (3.90%) Cognos
3 3 (3.90%) Sage
3 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.60%) Ahrefs
4 2 (2.60%) Informatica
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) TikTok
5 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco
5 1 (1.30%) iManage
5 1 (1.30%) Meraki
5 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.30%) Planview
5 1 (1.30%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Splunk