Firebase Contract Job Trends in London

Google Firebase
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Firebase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 358 383
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +152
Contract jobs citing Firebase 17 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.056% 0.071%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £378 £311 £323
25th Percentile £406 £322 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year +42.00% -18.92% -15.91%
75th Percentile £664 £503 £478
90th Percentile £731 £561 £508
England median daily rate £513 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +28.13% -11.11% -18.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,366 5,899 6,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.25% 41.00% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,350 3,983 5,101
10th Percentile £347 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.06
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -14.75% +34.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -4.02% +22.77% +1.75%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Firebase job vacancy trend in London

Firebase
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firebase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firebase

Firebase
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firebase in London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firebase in London

Firebase
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London - 6 £618 - 1
West London - 1 £475 - 2
Firebase
England

Firebase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (17.65%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GitHub
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Run
4 3 (17.65%) Google Gemini
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Bitrise
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Google Play
5 2 (11.76%) Vertex AI
6 1 (5.88%) Apple Pay
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Figma
6 1 (5.88%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQLite
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 4 (23.53%) Xcode
4 2 (11.76%) Android Studio
4 2 (11.76%) CircleCI
4 2 (11.76%) CocoaPods
4 2 (11.76%) Crashlytics
4 2 (11.76%) fastlane
4 2 (11.76%) JUnit
4 2 (11.76%) Mockito
4 2 (11.76%) Snyk
5 1 (5.88%) Ant
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) Gradle
5 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) iOS Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Android Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead iOS Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile UI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) GraphQL
1 7 (41.18%) React
2 6 (35.29%) Redux
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
3 5 (29.41%) REST
4 4 (23.53%) Core Animation
4 4 (23.53%) Core Data
4 4 (23.53%) Next.js
4 4 (23.53%) OAuth
4 4 (23.53%) OAuth2
4 4 (23.53%) React Native
5 3 (17.65%) AVFoundation
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) JWT
5 3 (17.65%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (17.65%) UIKit
5 3 (17.65%) WebSockets
5 3 (17.65%) XML
5 3 (17.65%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Animation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.88%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Apple iOS
2 5 (29.41%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) tvOS
3 1 (5.88%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) MVVM
3 8 (47.06%) User Experience
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
6 5 (29.41%) Clean Code
6 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
6 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
6 5 (29.41%) UX Design
7 4 (23.53%) API Design
7 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) iOS Development
7 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (23.53%) Push Notifications
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 7 (41.18%) Swift
3 6 (35.29%) Objective-C
4 5 (29.41%) Kotlin
5 3 (17.65%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Google
2 4 (23.53%) Apple
3 3 (17.65%) Adobe
3 3 (17.65%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Xamarin