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 12 December 2025, 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
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 86 89
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 +31
Contract jobs citing Google 79 42 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.40% 1.97% 1.93%
As % of the Vendors category 8.90% 4.50% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 27 27
10th Percentile £412 £425 £182
25th Percentile £475 £494 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +7.98% -11.25%
75th Percentile £756 £694 £642
90th Percentile £838 £774 £845
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £533
% change year-on-year +4.35% +7.98% -11.25%
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 £45.00 £42.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 888 934 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.42% 43.73% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 588 810
10th Percentile £325 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -0.90%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £541
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.62% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £20.06 £17.78 -
25th Percentile £34.48 £30.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £71.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.80% +243.37% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.03% +163.16% -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 12 December 2025.

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%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 50 (63.29%) GCP
2 15 (18.99%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 11 (13.92%) AWS
4 10 (12.66%) GitHub
5 8 (10.13%) SaaS
6 7 (8.86%) Cloud Run
6 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.59%) IaaS
7 6 (7.59%) PaaS
8 5 (6.33%) Cloud Functions
8 5 (6.33%) Firebase
8 5 (6.33%) Google Analytics
8 5 (6.33%) Google Gemini
9 4 (5.06%) Google Play
9 4 (5.06%) Slack
10 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.80%) Google Workspace
10 3 (3.80%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) BigQuery
2 7 (8.86%) Tableau
3 5 (6.33%) Power BI
4 3 (3.80%) Looker
4 3 (3.80%) Mixpanel
5 2 (2.53%) Big Data
5 2 (2.53%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.53%) Redis
5 2 (2.53%) SQLite
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
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
2 7 (8.86%) JIRA
3 6 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.33%) GitLab
4 5 (6.33%) Gradle
4 5 (6.33%) Maven
4 5 (6.33%) SonarQube
5 4 (5.06%) Selenium
6 3 (3.80%) JUnit
6 3 (3.80%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (2.53%) CocoaPods
7 2 (2.53%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.53%) fastlane
7 2 (2.53%) Mockito
7 2 (2.53%) Snyk
7 2 (2.53%) Xcode
8 1 (1.27%) Ant
8 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 19 (24.05%) Finance
2 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Banking
3 10 (12.66%) Marketing
4 5 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 2 (2.53%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Back Office
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) GCP Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Data Scientist
7 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Conversion Specialist
8 3 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Marketing Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) HTML
2 7 (8.86%) CSS
2 7 (8.86%) React
3 6 (7.59%) RESTful
4 4 (5.06%) FastAPI
4 4 (5.06%) Redux
4 4 (5.06%) REST
5 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.80%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.80%) Next.js
5 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.53%) Core Animation
6 2 (2.53%) CSS3
6 2 (2.53%) HTML5
6 2 (2.53%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.53%) Matplotlib
6 2 (2.53%) NumPy
6 2 (2.53%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.53%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.33%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.80%) Life Science
6 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.53%) Animation
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.53%) Social Media
6 2 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.27%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.53%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.24%) DevOps
2 29 (36.71%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.85%) Analytics
4 21 (26.58%) Agile
5 14 (17.72%) AI
6 13 (16.46%) Cloud Security
6 13 (16.46%) Migration
7 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.92%) Containerisation
8 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.66%) Machine Learning
9 10 (12.66%) User Experience
10 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.13%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (10.13%) Generative AI
11 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
12 7 (8.86%) LLM
12 7 (8.86%) Visualisation
13 6 (7.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.52%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) SQL
3 10 (12.66%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.39%) Java
5 6 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.53%) Bash
6 2 (2.53%) Bicep
6 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.53%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.53%) Swift
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%) CISSP
2 4 (5.06%) Degree
3 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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 10 (12.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (11.39%) GDPR
3 5 (6.33%) NCSC
4 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.80%) NIST
5 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.53%) GRC
6 2 (2.53%) QA
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 16 (20.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (25.32%) Terraform
2 17 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.06%) Argo
4 3 (3.80%) Ansible
5 2 (2.53%) Istio
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) Grafana
6 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.33%) Adobe
3 4 (5.06%) Apple
3 4 (5.06%) Hotjar
3 4 (5.06%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.06%) Optimizely
3 4 (5.06%) Splunk
4 3 (3.80%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.80%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.80%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Cisco
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) New Relic
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.53%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.53%) Sage
5 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.53%) Screaming Frog