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 28 February 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 84 84
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Google 81 32 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.09% 1.75% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 8.87% 4.07% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 22 29
10th Percentile £358 £414 £219
25th Percentile £451 £503 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £689 £675
90th Percentile £838 £785 £840
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -11.76%
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 913 786 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.13% 42.88% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 490 722
10th Percentile £353 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £455 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -1.82% +0.46% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile £43.05 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

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 28 February 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 (3.70%) CMS
2 2 (2.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Trello
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.23%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 47 (58.02%) GCP
2 13 (16.05%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 8 (9.88%) GitHub
5 8 (9.88%) Google Workspace
5 8 (9.88%) SaaS
6 6 (7.41%) Google Analytics
7 5 (6.17%) Cloud Run
7 5 (6.17%) Google Gemini
8 4 (4.94%) Firebase
8 4 (4.94%) Slack
9 3 (3.70%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (3.70%) Figma
9 3 (3.70%) IBM Watson
9 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) BigQuery
2 10 (12.35%) Tableau
3 6 (7.41%) Power BI
4 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.70%) Mixpanel
4 3 (3.70%) MySQL
4 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.47%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.47%) Looker
5 2 (2.47%) Redis
5 2 (2.47%) SQLite
6 1 (1.23%) Big Data
6 1 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata
6 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Git
1 9 (11.11%) JIRA
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (2.47%) CocoaPods
4 2 (2.47%) Crashlytics
4 2 (2.47%) fastlane
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) Mockito
4 2 (2.47%) Xcode
5 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.23%) ERwin
5 1 (1.23%) Snyk
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 15 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (9.88%) Marketing
6 7 (8.64%) Retail
7 4 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Advertising
9 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Legal
9 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.23%) Back Office
10 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.23%) German Language
10 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Military
10 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.28%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Consultant
5 6 (7.41%) Analyst
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Data Scientist
6 5 (6.17%) Lead
7 4 (4.94%) Administrator
7 4 (4.94%) Architect
7 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Designer
8 3 (3.70%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) HTML
2 7 (8.64%) CSS
3 6 (7.41%) React
4 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.70%) Matplotlib
5 3 (3.70%) NumPy
5 3 (3.70%) Pandas
5 3 (3.70%) REST
5 3 (3.70%) RESTful
5 3 (3.70%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.70%) Seaborn
5 3 (3.70%) Spring
6 2 (2.47%) AVFoundation
6 2 (2.47%) Core Animation
6 2 (2.47%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.47%) RxJava
6 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.47%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.88%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.94%) Life Science
2 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Animation
4 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.47%) Social Media
5 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Genomics
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.47%) Android
3 1 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Analytics
1 23 (28.40%) DevOps
2 22 (27.16%) AI
2 22 (27.16%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.69%) Agile
4 14 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.58%) Cloud Security
7 9 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 9 (11.11%) User Experience
7 9 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 8 (9.88%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
8 8 (9.88%) Migration
8 8 (9.88%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.64%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.64%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) Python
2 17 (20.99%) SQL
3 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.94%) Java
5 3 (3.70%) Bash
5 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.47%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.47%) Swift
7 1 (1.23%) Elixir
7 1 (1.23%) Go
7 1 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) CCSP
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) CRISC
6 1 (1.23%) OSCP
6 1 (1.23%) SANS
6 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 5 (6.17%) NCSC
3 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.70%) GRC
4 3 (3.70%) NIST
5 2 (2.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.47%) QA
6 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.23%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.23%) MiFID
6 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.28%) Terraform
3 4 (4.94%) Ansible
4 2 (2.47%) Argo
4 2 (2.47%) Istio
4 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Adobe
3 4 (4.94%) Amplitude
3 4 (4.94%) Apple
3 4 (4.94%) Hotjar
3 4 (4.94%) Optimizely
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Ahrefs
4 3 (3.70%) Cognos
4 3 (3.70%) IBM
4 3 (3.70%) Sage
5 2 (2.47%) Databricks
5 2 (2.47%) New Relic
5 2 (2.47%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle
5 2 (2.47%) Rollbar
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.47%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.23%) Pinterest
6 1 (1.23%) Snapchat