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 October 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
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 71 91
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Google 67 53 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.96% 2.55% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 7.86% 5.75% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 33
10th Percentile £421 £410 £198
25th Percentile £475 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £744 £688 £700
90th Percentile £838 £761 £813
Central London median daily rate £605 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +5.22% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.68
25th Percentile £42.50 £41.25 £15.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +123.68% -
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.22 £42.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% +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 852 922 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.38% 44.28% 41.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 581 814
10th Percentile £325 £331 £322
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £740 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -1.28% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +216.67% +8.43%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £26.99 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -46.03% +140.96% -1.19%

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 October 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 3 (4.48%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (74.63%) GCP
2 15 (22.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 11 (16.42%) Azure
3 11 (16.42%) GitHub
4 9 (13.43%) AWS
4 9 (13.43%) Cloud Functions
5 7 (10.45%) Cloud Run
5 7 (10.45%) SaaS
6 5 (7.46%) IaaS
6 5 (7.46%) PaaS
7 4 (5.97%) Firebase
7 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.97%) Google Analytics
7 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.97%) Slack
8 3 (4.48%) Apigee
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.48%) Google Gemini
8 3 (4.48%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.46%) Big Data
3 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.97%) Power BI
4 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.48%) Looker
4 3 (4.48%) Mixpanel
4 3 (4.48%) Tableau
5 2 (2.99%) Couchbase
5 2 (2.99%) Redis
5 2 (2.99%) SQLite
6 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.49%) Parquet
6 1 (1.49%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) GitLab
1 7 (10.45%) Gradle
1 7 (10.45%) Maven
2 5 (7.46%) Git
2 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 4 (5.97%) Selenium
4 3 (4.48%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (2.99%) CocoaPods
5 2 (2.99%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.99%) fastlane
5 2 (2.99%) Snyk
5 2 (2.99%) Xcode
6 1 (1.49%) Ant
6 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.49%) ER Studio
General
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 10 (14.93%) Marketing
4 9 (13.43%) Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
7 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Advertising
9 1 (1.49%) Back Office
9 1 (1.49%) Brand Awareness
9 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Legal
9 1 (1.49%) Military
9 1 (1.49%) Portuguese Language
9 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) GCP Engineer
1 16 (23.88%) Senior
2 9 (13.43%) Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Marketing Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Consultant
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Marketing Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Conversion Specialist
7 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) GCP Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) CSS
1 5 (7.46%) GraphQL
1 5 (7.46%) HTML
1 5 (7.46%) React
2 4 (5.97%) Redux
2 4 (5.97%) RESTful
3 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.48%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.48%) Next.js
3 3 (4.48%) Node.js
4 2 (2.99%) Core Animation
4 2 (2.99%) CSS3
4 2 (2.99%) HTML5
4 2 (2.99%) JWT
4 2 (2.99%) OAuth
4 2 (2.99%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.99%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) UIKit
4 2 (2.99%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.99%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.97%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.97%) Web Conferencing
4 3 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) IVR
5 2 (2.99%) Animation
5 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Life Science
6 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.49%) Blog
6 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.49%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Genomics
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
1 25 (37.31%) DevOps
2 20 (29.85%) Analytics
3 16 (23.88%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) Cloud Security
5 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (16.42%) Containerisation
6 11 (16.42%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) AI
7 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.94%) Design Patterns
9 8 (11.94%) E-Commerce
9 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
10 7 (10.45%) Business Strategy
10 7 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) Python
2 13 (19.40%) SQL
3 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.45%) Java
5 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.99%) Bicep
6 2 (2.99%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.99%) Swift
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) C++
7 1 (1.49%) CodeQL
7 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.49%) LookML
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) Scala
7 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (5.97%) CISSP
1 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.49%) CEH
3 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) MCP
3 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.96%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) NCSC
4 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.99%) NIST
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.49%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.49%) GRC
6 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (1.49%) MiFID
6 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 16 (23.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Argo
4 3 (4.48%) Istio
4 3 (4.48%) Puppet
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.49%) Grafana
6 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Splunk
3 5 (7.46%) Adobe
4 4 (5.97%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.48%) Amplitude
5 3 (4.48%) Apple
5 3 (4.48%) Databricks
5 3 (4.48%) Hotjar
5 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.48%) Optimizely
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco
6 2 (2.99%) New Relic
6 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.99%) Rollbar
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 1 (1.49%) Ahrefs
7 1 (1.49%) Kony
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) Screaming Frog