Firebase Contract Job Trends in England

Google Firebase
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Firebase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 460 515
Rank change year-on-year -121 +55 +88
Contract jobs citing Firebase 14 9 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.034% 0.037% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% 0.100% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 23
10th Percentile - £378 £325
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £494 £472
90th Percentile £513 £588 £479
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Firebase 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,281 9,045 11,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.18% 37.21% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,789 6,305 8,477
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 197 323
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.36 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%
75th Percentile £68.33 £40.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firebase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Firebase job vacancy trend in England

Firebase
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebase

Firebase
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebase.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebase

Firebase
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firebase in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firebase in England

Firebase
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North of England - 6 £450 - 6
London -55 5 £413 -13.16% 4
North East - 3 £450 - 2
North West - 3 - - 3
South East -56 2 £413 +3.13% 3
South West -32 1 £500 +42.86% 1
Firebase
UK

Firebase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 3 (21.43%) Google Play
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.14%) Bitrise
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.14%) MailChimp
5 1 (7.14%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Mixpanel
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Pinecone
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) fastlane
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Crashlytics
3 3 (21.43%) Gradle
3 3 (21.43%) Xcode
4 2 (14.29%) Android Studio
4 2 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) CocoaPods
5 1 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Mockito
5 1 (7.14%) Spinnaker
5 1 (7.14%) Vite
5 1 (7.14%) XCTest
5 1 (7.14%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Android Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) iOS Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Android Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Android Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) iOS Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (35.71%) Jetpack Compose
1 5 (35.71%) RESTful
1 5 (35.71%) SwiftUI
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 3 (21.43%) Core Data
3 3 (21.43%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) Retrofit
3 3 (21.43%) UIKit
4 2 (14.29%) Android SDK
4 2 (14.29%) Dagger
4 2 (14.29%) iOS SDK
4 2 (14.29%) Next.js
4 2 (14.29%) Redux
5 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.14%) JWT
5 1 (7.14%) LangChain
5 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
5 1 (7.14%) OkHttp
5 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Mobile App
2 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Android
1 6 (42.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
2 8 (57.14%) MVVM
3 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Android Development
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 6 (42.86%) User Experience
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (35.71%) UX Design
6 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (28.57%) iOS Development
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (28.57%) OWASP
6 4 (28.57%) Technical Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 5 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Swift
3 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) Objective-C
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (28.57%) WCAG
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Apple
4 1 (7.14%) OpenAI