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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 500 498
Rank change year-on-year -113 -2 +56
Contract jobs citing Firebase 18 28 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.039% 0.10% 0.093%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 30
10th Percentile - £387 £299
25th Percentile £425 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -17.95%
75th Percentile £481 £588 £473
90th Percentile £590 £675 £488
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 - -

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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 1 October 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
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 1 October 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 -64 11 £450 -25.00% 6
North East - 8 £450 -
London -104 6 £500 +5.26% 22
North West -46 3 - - 4
South West - 1 £600 - 3
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 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) GitHub
3 7 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (33.33%) Google Play
5 2 (11.11%) Bitrise
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Run
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Stripe
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.56%) Google Docs
6 1 (5.56%) Google Sheets
6 1 (5.56%) MailChimp
6 1 (5.56%) Sentry
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.56%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) fastlane
2 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) Gradle
4 6 (33.33%) Crashlytics
5 5 (27.78%) Android Studio
5 5 (27.78%) Xcode
6 3 (16.67%) CocoaPods
6 3 (16.67%) Git
7 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
7 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 8 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Games
3 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 6 (33.33%) iOS Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Games Developer
4 1 (5.56%) GCP Developer
4 1 (5.56%) iOS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) RESTful
2 8 (44.44%) Android Jetpack
2 8 (44.44%) Jetpack Compose
2 8 (44.44%) SwiftUI
2 8 (44.44%) UIKit
3 6 (33.33%) Android SDK
3 6 (33.33%) Retrofit
4 5 (27.78%) iOS SDK
5 4 (22.22%) Core Data
5 4 (22.22%) REST
6 3 (16.67%) JSON
7 2 (11.11%) Dagger
7 2 (11.11%) React
7 2 (11.11%) Terraform
8 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 1 (5.56%) Material Design
8 1 (5.56%) NestJS
8 1 (5.56%) Next.js
8 1 (5.56%) React Native
8 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Mobile App
2 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Android
1 8 (44.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) User Experience
3 12 (66.67%) Agile
3 12 (66.67%) MVVM
4 11 (61.11%) Analytics
4 11 (61.11%) TDD
5 10 (55.56%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (55.56%) Scrum
5 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
6 9 (50.00%) Clean Code
6 9 (50.00%) Secure Coding
6 9 (50.00%) UX Design
7 8 (44.44%) API Development
7 8 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (44.44%) DevOps
7 8 (44.44%) Kanban
7 8 (44.44%) Mobile Device Management
7 8 (44.44%) OWASP
7 8 (44.44%) Technical Analysis
7 8 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Kotlin
1 8 (44.44%) Swift
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) Accessibility
2 8 (44.44%) WCAG
3 2 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 7 (38.89%) Google
3 4 (22.22%) Apple
4 1 (5.56%) SendGrid