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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 82 70
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 +26
Contract jobs citing Google 63 41 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.59% 2.37% 2.42%
As % of the Vendors category 6.39% 5.20% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 38
10th Percentile £413 £298 £339
25th Percentile £481 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £613 £618 £688
90th Percentile £720 £770 £772
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £24.22 £47.13 -
25th Percentile £25.81 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.33 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.43% - -
75th Percentile £36.73 £85.94 -
90th Percentile £39.44 £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.33 £51.44 -
% change year-on-year -41.04% - -

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 986 788 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.58% 45.50% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 481 692
10th Percentile £368 £310 £339
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% -2.39%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 9
10th Percentile - £22.18 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.59% +45.89% -37.93%
75th Percentile £28.39 £64.21 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £96.56 £51.35
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.89% +33.49% -10.00%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the City of London

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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Drupal
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.59%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 43 (68.25%) GCP
2 14 (22.22%) AWS
3 11 (17.46%) Azure
4 9 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (14.29%) Google Workspace
5 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.94%) Slack
6 5 (7.94%) Vertex AI
7 4 (6.35%) Google Analytics
7 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.76%) Anthos
8 3 (4.76%) Google Sheets
8 3 (4.76%) IaaS
8 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.76%) PaaS
8 3 (4.76%) SaaS
8 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.17%) dbt
9 2 (3.17%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) VPN
3 3 (4.76%) DHCP
3 3 (4.76%) SMTP
4 2 (3.17%) Network Security
5 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.11%) Tableau
2 5 (7.94%) Power BI
3 4 (6.35%) Big Data
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.59%) Looker
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) OLAP
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.59%) ERwin
3 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Banking
3 9 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Retail
5 4 (6.35%) Marketing
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (1.59%) German Language
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Military
7 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (15.87%) Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
5 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (3.17%) OAuth
2 2 (3.17%) PySpark
2 2 (3.17%) React
2 2 (3.17%) SAML
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.59%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.59%) JWT
3 1 (1.59%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.59%) MicroProfile
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) Pandas
3 1 (1.59%) Phoenix
3 1 (1.59%) Phoenix Framework
3 1 (1.59%) Playwright
3 1 (1.59%) Quarkus
3 1 (1.59%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.59%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 7 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Clustering
3 3 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.76%) PKI
4 2 (3.17%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Genomics
5 1 (1.59%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Social Media
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Linux
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.59%) SUSE
3 1 (1.59%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) AI
2 17 (26.98%) Analytics
3 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
4 13 (20.63%) Agile
5 11 (17.46%) DevOps
6 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (15.87%) Machine Learning
6 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (11.11%) ETL
8 7 (11.11%) Migration
8 7 (11.11%) Workflow
9 6 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (9.52%) Data Governance
9 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.52%) Data Science
9 6 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
10 5 (7.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 8 (12.70%) Python
3 4 (6.35%) Java
3 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (1.59%) Elixir
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.59%) Korn
5 1 (1.59%) Ruby
5 1 (1.59%) SOQL
5 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.17%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CISM
7 1 (1.59%) CISSP
7 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.59%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.17%) NCSC
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.17%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) PSD2
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.76%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.76%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.87%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Nagios
4 3 (4.76%) Puppet
4 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.76%) vMotion
5 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.59%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.76%) Apple
3 3 (4.76%) Citrix
3 3 (4.76%) HP
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) Symantec
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) Informatica
4 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) TikTok
5 1 (1.59%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.59%) iManage
5 1 (1.59%) Klarna
5 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.59%) PayPal
5 1 (1.59%) Workday