Google Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Google
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.93% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
North West median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.50 - -
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
75th Percentile £15.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £22.75 £86.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -73.55% +152.94% -

All Vendors
Lancashire

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 70 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 47.44% 47.95% 67.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 28 83
10th Percentile £180 £459 £413
25th Percentile £400 £472 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £645
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -18.60% +21.70%
75th Percentile £594 £546 £717
90th Percentile £686 £577 £720
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -6.95% -1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 35
10th Percentile £23.32 £24.32 £20.58
25th Percentile £34.81 £32.05 £29.06
Median hourly rate £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% - +15.45%
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile - £48.38 £74.37
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.63% -7.14% +66.27%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Google job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Google.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Google

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Google.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Google

Google
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Blackpool - 1 £350 -
Nelson - 1 - -
Google
North West

Google
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Ads
2 1 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Brand Awareness
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft