Google Ads Contracts in England

Google Ads (formerly AdWords)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Google Ads skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Ads over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 544 633
Rank change year-on-year +58 +89 +142
Contract jobs citing Google Ads 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.008% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £207 - -
25th Percentile £213 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +17.65% +70.00%
75th Percentile £325 - £478
90th Percentile £400 - £484
UK median daily rate £280 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -44.00% +17.65% +47.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.00 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £30.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,578 12,097 17,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 32.42% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,474 8,630 12,554
10th Percentile £313 £306 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 331 288
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.82
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +53.81%
75th Percentile £39.69 £43.75 £69.63
90th Percentile £70.88 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

Google Ads
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Google Ads as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Google Ads in England

Google Ads
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Ads in England.

Daily rate trend for Google Ads in England

Google Ads
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Ads in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Ads in England

Google Ads
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google Ads in England.

Hourly rate trend for Google Ads in England

Google Ads
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 Google Ads within the England region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 - 7 £300 - 182
South East +50 2 £280 -44.00% 64
South West - 2 £463 - 23
North West - 2 £425 - 21
North of England - 2 £425 - 52
Google Ads
UK

Google Ads
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Google Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Google Data Studio
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Looker
2 2 (15.38%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (15.38%) Tableau
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
General
1 11 (84.62%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Advertising
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
3 2 (15.38%) Multimedia
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) French Language
4 1 (7.69%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Social Media Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Account Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Paid Search Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) PPC Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Search Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
1 2 (15.38%) Photography
1 2 (15.38%) Social Media
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Analytics
2 6 (46.15%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Paid Search
4 2 (15.38%) Pay per click
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) SEO
4 2 (15.38%) Social Listening
5 1 (7.69%) Budget Management
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Generation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 3 (23.08%) YouTube
3 2 (15.38%) Facebook
3 2 (15.38%) TikTok
3 2 (15.38%) Twitter
4 1 (7.69%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) Criteo
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) HubSpot