Google Play Contract Job Trends in England

Google Play
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Google Play skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 519 578
Rank change year-on-year +20 +59 +181
Contract jobs citing Google Play 20 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.015% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.044% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 6
10th Percentile £385 - £406
25th Percentile £440 £243 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £368 £538
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% -31.63% +3.61%
75th Percentile £604 £488 £627
90th Percentile £624 £555 £650
UK median daily rate £514 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +14.22% -16.28% +3.61%

All Cloud Skills
England

Google Play 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 10,711 11,288 14,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.22% 34.79% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,250 7,558 10,892
10th Percentile £305 £313 £305
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £530 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -2.75% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 164 298
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.99 £14.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £64.31
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £34.47 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.69% +4.44% +49.46%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Google Play job vacancy trend in England

Google Play
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google Play.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google Play

Google Play
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Play in England over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Play in England

Google Play
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google Play.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Google Play

Google Play
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 Play within the England region over the 6 months to 3 October 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 +32 13 £525 +42.86% 20
North of England -15 4 £440 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £440 - 1
South East - 2 £630 - 13
West Midlands - 1 £513 -
Midlands - 1 £513 - 1
Google Play
UK

Google Play
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Firebase
3 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (15.00%) Android Studio
4 2 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (5.00%) Appium
5 1 (5.00%) Xcode
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Android Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.00%) iOS Android Developer
5 1 (5.00%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead iOS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (5.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Android Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior iOS Android Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) React Native
1 10 (50.00%) Redux
1 10 (50.00%) RESTful
2 8 (40.00%) React
3 7 (35.00%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (35.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 6 (30.00%) Node.js
5 5 (25.00%) CSS
5 5 (25.00%) CSS3
5 5 (25.00%) HTML
5 5 (25.00%) HTML5
5 5 (25.00%) Jest
6 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
7 2 (10.00%) Next.js
8 1 (5.00%) Dagger
8 1 (5.00%) FHIR
8 1 (5.00%) Flutter
8 1 (5.00%) REST
8 1 (5.00%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 15 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Android
2 10 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) User Experience
3 9 (45.00%) Android Development
4 7 (35.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 7 (35.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Clean Code
5 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (30.00%) MVVM
5 6 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (25.00%) Mobile Development
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (25.00%) Push Notifications
7 4 (20.00%) A/B Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Business Case
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (15.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Kotlin
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Apple