Google Ads Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Google Ads (formerly AdWords)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Google Ads skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Ads 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.68% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £381 £425 -
% change year-on-year -10.48% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cumbria

Google Ads falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5 17 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 3.40% 7.73% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 16
10th Percentile £222 £176 £450
25th Percentile £225 £231 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +0.67% +22.13%
75th Percentile £305 £538 £603
90th Percentile £351 - £613
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £28.75 £17.72
% change year-on-year +108.70% +62.25% -64.56%

Google Ads
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Ads within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness - 1 £381 - 1
Google Ads
North West

Google Ads
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Ekahau
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto