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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 477 537
Rank change year-on-year -47 +60 +126
Contract jobs citing Firebase 22 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.070% 0.069% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 9
10th Percentile £366 £307 £323
25th Percentile £406 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £642 £425 £488
90th Percentile £719 £500 £540
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +25.00% -13.51% -15.91%
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 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 11,984 10,058 12,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.60% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,294 6,722 9,121
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 134 235
10th Percentile £14.48 £16.41 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £50.79
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.63 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.01% +2.70%

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 4 January 2026.

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 4 January 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 4 January 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
London -1 17 £533 +42.00% 10
North West -22 3 - - 6
North of England -52 3 - - 6
South West -7 1 £500 +25.00% 2
South East -19 1 £100 -75.00% 2
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 3 (13.64%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
1 7 (31.82%) GitHub
2 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Run
4 3 (13.64%) Google Gemini
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Bitrise
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.09%) Google Play
5 2 (9.09%) Vertex AI
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.55%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQLite
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Mixpanel
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Xcode
3 4 (18.18%) Crashlytics
3 4 (18.18%) fastlane
3 4 (18.18%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) CocoaPods
5 2 (9.09%) Android Studio
5 2 (9.09%) CircleCI
5 2 (9.09%) Gradle
5 2 (9.09%) JUnit
5 2 (9.09%) Mockito
5 2 (9.09%) Snyk
6 1 (4.55%) Ant
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) GitLab
6 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.55%) XCTest
6 1 (4.55%) XCUITest
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) iOS Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Android Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Senior iOS Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Android Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) GraphQL
1 7 (31.82%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Redux
2 6 (27.27%) RESTful
3 5 (22.73%) Core Data
3 5 (22.73%) REST
4 4 (18.18%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (18.18%) Core Animation
4 4 (18.18%) Jetpack Compose
4 4 (18.18%) Next.js
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 4 (18.18%) React Native
4 4 (18.18%) UIKit
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) JWT
5 3 (13.64%) WebSockets
5 3 (13.64%) XML
5 3 (13.64%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Animation
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (36.36%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.55%) tvOS
3 1 (4.55%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) MVVM
2 10 (45.45%) User Experience
3 9 (40.91%) Analytics
4 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
4 7 (31.82%) Code Quality
4 7 (31.82%) Mentoring
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
5 6 (27.27%) UX Design
6 5 (22.73%) Architectural Design
6 5 (22.73%) iOS Development
6 5 (22.73%) Push Notifications
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) API Design
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Swift
1 9 (40.91%) TypeScript
2 8 (36.36%) Kotlin
3 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 7 (31.82%) Objective-C
4 5 (22.73%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 5 (22.73%) Apple
3 3 (13.64%) Adobe
3 3 (13.64%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Telerik
4 1 (4.55%) Xamarin