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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 74 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Google 69 52 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.89% 2.77% 2.47%
As % of the Vendors category 6.98% 5.88% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 35 39
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £450 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £681
90th Percentile £650 £770 £768
Central London median daily rate £508 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £22.63 £47.13 -
25th Percentile £22.83 £55.94 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £71.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -67.49% - -
75th Percentile £32.21 £85.94 -
90th Percentile £37.63 £94.38 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £51.44 £41.50
% change year-on-year -54.98% +23.95% +232.00%

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 988 885 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.41% 47.17% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 566 647
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £761 £764
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 10
10th Percentile - £22.53 £18.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £22.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% -8.70% +16.55%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £126.25
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £138.63
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £41.50
% change year-on-year -31.45% -20.90% +66.00%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.90%) CMS
3 2 (2.90%) Drupal
3 2 (2.90%) WordPress
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) iTrent
2 1 (1.45%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 47 (68.12%) GCP
2 14 (20.29%) AWS
3 12 (17.39%) Azure
4 11 (15.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (11.59%) Google Workspace
6 6 (8.70%) Vertex AI
7 5 (7.25%) Google Analytics
8 4 (5.80%) Google Sheets
8 4 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (4.35%) Google App Engine
9 3 (4.35%) IaaS
9 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.35%) PaaS
9 3 (4.35%) Slack
9 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.90%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) DNS
1 6 (8.70%) Firewall
1 6 (8.70%) VPN
2 3 (4.35%) DHCP
2 3 (4.35%) Network Security
2 3 (4.35%) SMTP
3 2 (2.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.35%) Big Data
2 3 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.35%) Power BI
2 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (4.35%) Tableau
3 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.45%) Looker
4 1 (1.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) GitLab
3 2 (2.90%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.45%) Gatling
4 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) JMeter
4 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.45%) NeoLoad
General
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Finance
5 6 (8.70%) Banking
5 6 (8.70%) Retail
6 5 (7.25%) Marketing
7 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Advertising
8 2 (2.90%) Legal
9 1 (1.45%) German Language
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (17.39%) GCP Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Architect
3 5 (7.25%) Lead
3 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
4 4 (5.80%) Analyst
4 4 (5.80%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (5.80%) Senior
4 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Consultant
5 3 (4.35%) Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (4.35%) Product Manager
5 3 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) OAuth
2 3 (4.35%) Kafka
2 3 (4.35%) SAML
3 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.90%) JSON
3 2 (2.90%) JWT
3 2 (2.90%) Middleware
3 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.90%) PySpark
3 2 (2.90%) REST
3 2 (2.90%) SOAP
3 2 (2.90%) XML
3 2 (2.90%) XSLT
4 1 (1.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.45%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.45%) MicroProfile
4 1 (1.45%) Phoenix
4 1 (1.45%) Phoenix Framework
4 1 (1.45%) Playwright
4 1 (1.45%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Clustering
3 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.80%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.35%) PKI
6 2 (2.90%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) BYOD
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.45%) Genomics
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
1 4 (5.80%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.45%) SUSE
3 1 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) AI
2 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 17 (24.64%) Analytics
4 13 (18.84%) Agile
5 12 (17.39%) Migration
6 11 (15.94%) DevOps
6 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (14.49%) Machine Learning
8 8 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.14%) Microservices
9 7 (10.14%) Observability
10 6 (8.70%) Containerisation
10 6 (8.70%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.70%) Data Modelling
10 6 (8.70%) ETL
10 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (7.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 5 (7.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.25%) Python
3 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.35%) Java
5 2 (2.90%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (2.90%) Korn
6 1 (1.45%) Elixir
6 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) Ruby
6 1 (1.45%) SOQL
6 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 14 (20.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.70%) Degree
5 3 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.90%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.45%) CISM
7 1 (1.45%) CISSP
7 1 (1.45%) CRISC
7 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PMP
7 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.45%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.45%) GRC
4 1 (1.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.45%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) PSD2
4 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.35%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (4.35%) Terminal Services
3 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) Nagios
3 3 (4.35%) Puppet
3 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.35%) vMotion
4 2 (2.90%) Istio
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) Apple
2 3 (4.35%) Citrix
2 3 (4.35%) HP
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.35%) Symantec
2 3 (4.35%) TikTok
2 3 (4.35%) VMware
3 2 (2.90%) Adobe
3 2 (2.90%) Informatica
3 2 (2.90%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.90%) SAP
3 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.90%) Workday
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) IBM
4 1 (1.45%) Meraki
4 1 (1.45%) Red Hat