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 29 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 88 85
Rank change year-on-year +38 -3 +25
Contract jobs citing Google 78 30 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.16% 1.60% 1.95%
As % of the Vendors category 8.69% 3.75% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 29
10th Percentile £386 £463 £219
25th Percentile £463 £525 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £725 £675
90th Percentile £830 £790 £840
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% -63.11%
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% -63.11%

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 898 801 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.87% 42.63% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 487 737
10th Percentile £347 £305 £312
25th Percentile £414 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £20.02 £20.25 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £77.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +272.29% +0.72%
75th Percentile £41.85 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.16 - £57.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -8.23%

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 29 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%) MS Visio
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 48 (61.54%) GCP
2 15 (19.23%) Azure
3 12 (15.38%) AWS
4 11 (14.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 10 (12.82%) GitHub
6 9 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 8 (10.26%) Cloud Run
7 8 (10.26%) SaaS
8 6 (7.69%) Google Gemini
8 6 (7.69%) Google Workspace
9 5 (6.41%) Firebase
10 4 (5.13%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.13%) Google Analytics
10 4 (5.13%) IaaS
10 4 (5.13%) PaaS
10 4 (5.13%) Slack
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
11 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
1 11 (14.10%) Tableau
2 7 (8.97%) Power BI
3 3 (3.85%) Looker
3 3 (3.85%) Mixpanel
4 2 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.56%) Couchbase
4 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.56%) MySQL
4 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Redis
4 2 (2.56%) SQLite
5 1 (1.28%) Big Data
5 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) OLAP
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Git
1 8 (10.26%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 3 (3.85%) JUnit
3 3 (3.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (2.56%) CocoaPods
4 2 (2.56%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.56%) fastlane
4 2 (2.56%) Mockito
4 2 (2.56%) Snyk
4 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.56%) Xcode
5 1 (1.28%) Ant
5 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.28%) ERwin
5 1 (1.28%) Gradle
5 1 (1.28%) Maven
5 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Finance
3 14 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Banking
4 9 (11.54%) Marketing
5 6 (7.69%) Retail
6 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.56%) Advertising
8 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.28%) Back Office
9 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Legal
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
1 12 (15.38%) Senior
2 9 (11.54%) Developer
3 6 (7.69%) Consultant
3 6 (7.69%) Lead
4 5 (6.41%) Analyst
4 5 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (6.41%) Data Scientist
4 5 (6.41%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.13%) Administrator
5 4 (5.13%) Architect
5 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) Backend Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Conversion Specialist
6 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.85%) iOS Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
6 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%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.85%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.85%) NumPy
6 3 (3.85%) Pandas
6 3 (3.85%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.85%) Seaborn
6 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.56%) AVFoundation
7 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.56%) LangChain
7 2 (2.56%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
2 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.13%) Life Science
3 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Animation
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
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%) Motion Graphics
6 1 (1.28%) Social Media
6 1 (1.28%) Video Editing
6 1 (1.28%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.05%) DevOps
2 22 (28.21%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.64%) AI
3 20 (25.64%) Analytics
4 18 (23.08%) Agile
5 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.10%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (14.10%) Visualisation
8 10 (12.82%) Cloud Security
8 10 (12.82%) Generative AI
8 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
8 10 (12.82%) Migration
9 9 (11.54%) Containerisation
9 9 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (11.54%) User Experience
10 8 (10.26%) LLM
11 7 (8.97%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.97%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.92%) Python
2 15 (19.23%) SQL
3 8 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.69%) 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%) Go
8 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.28%) LookML
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) Degree
3 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.28%) CCSP
5 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) MCP
5 1 (1.28%) OSCP
5 1 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.97%) 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
6 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
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
6 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.95%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Argo
5 2 (2.56%) Grafana
5 2 (2.56%) Istio
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.28%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Adobe
3 4 (5.13%) Apple
3 4 (5.13%) Databricks
3 4 (5.13%) Hotjar
3 4 (5.13%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.13%) Optimizely
3 4 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.13%) Splunk
4 3 (3.85%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.85%) Amplitude
4 3 (3.85%) Cognos
4 3 (3.85%) IBM
4 3 (3.85%) Sage
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle
5 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.56%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.56%) SAP
5 2 (2.56%) Screaming Frog