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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 495 524
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +167
Contract jobs citing Firebase 25 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.066% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 8
10th Percentile £369 £307 £289
25th Percentile £475 £325 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -7.25% -21.59%
75th Percentile £606 £425 £500
90th Percentile £706 £500 £541
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £57.00 - £72.25
25th Percentile £61.88 - £73.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £63.75 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - -3.13%

All Cloud 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 12,040 10,525 12,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.97% 36.62% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,276 7,037 9,306
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £649 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 136 243
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.88 £14.39
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.67 £68.75 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firebase in England over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firebase in England

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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
London +6 19 £533 +42.00% 22
North West -30 4 - - 23
North of England -54 4 - - 39
South West -12 1 £500 +25.00% 19
South East -28 1 £100 -75.00% 32
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 4 (16.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) GitHub
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Run
5 3 (12.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (12.00%) Google Gemini
5 3 (12.00%) Google Play
6 2 (8.00%) AWS
6 2 (8.00%) Bitrise
6 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.00%) Vertex AI
7 1 (4.00%) Apple Pay
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Figma
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SSL
2 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) Bluetooth
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) DNSSEC
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (12.00%) SQLite
2 2 (8.00%) Mixpanel
2 2 (8.00%) Redis
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Xcode
4 4 (16.00%) Crashlytics
4 4 (16.00%) fastlane
4 4 (16.00%) JIRA
5 3 (12.00%) CocoaPods
6 2 (8.00%) Android Studio
6 2 (8.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (8.00%) Gradle
6 2 (8.00%) JUnit
6 2 (8.00%) Mockito
6 2 (8.00%) Snyk
7 1 (4.00%) Ant
7 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.00%) GitLab
7 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (4.00%) XCTest
7 1 (4.00%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Back Office
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Android Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (12.00%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Android Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (28.00%) React
1 7 (28.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) React Native
3 5 (20.00%) Core Data
3 5 (20.00%) Next.js
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.00%) OAuth
3 5 (20.00%) Redux
4 4 (16.00%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (16.00%) Core Animation
4 4 (16.00%) CSS
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (16.00%) OAuth2
4 4 (16.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (16.00%) UIKit
5 3 (12.00%) JWT
5 3 (12.00%) SwiftUI
5 3 (12.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 13 (52.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.00%) Animation
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Apple iOS
2 10 (40.00%) Android
3 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.00%) tvOS
3 1 (4.00%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) User Experience
3 12 (48.00%) Agile
4 10 (40.00%) MVVM
5 9 (36.00%) Analytics
5 9 (36.00%) DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
6 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 7 (28.00%) Code Quality
7 7 (28.00%) UX Design
8 6 (24.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
8 6 (24.00%) Microservices
8 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) Push Notifications
9 5 (20.00%) Android Development
9 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
9 5 (20.00%) iOS Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Kotlin
1 9 (36.00%) Swift
1 9 (36.00%) TypeScript
2 7 (28.00%) Objective-C
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Google
2 5 (20.00%) Apple
3 4 (16.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (12.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Netlify
5 1 (4.00%) Telerik
5 1 (4.00%) Xamarin