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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 348 378
Rank change year-on-year -99 +30 +38
Contract jobs citing Firebase 6 24 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.18% 0.086%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 14
10th Percentile £426 £429 £325
25th Percentile £454 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £596 £479
90th Percentile £580 £681 £488
England median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -17.95%

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 8,211 5,807 6,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.79% 43.45% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,655 3,956 4,585
10th Percentile £358 £343 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.92% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +25.25% -27.03% +4.44%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -22 2 £458 -37.33% 1
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 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Run
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (33.33%) Google Play
1 2 (33.33%) Stripe
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Bitrise
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
2 1 (16.67%) Google Docs
2 1 (16.67%) Google Sheets
2 1 (16.67%) MailChimp
2 1 (16.67%) Sentry
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth
1 1 (16.67%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (33.33%) Crashlytics
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (16.67%) fastlane
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Games Developer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 3 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Android SDK
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Google Maps API
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) iOS SDK
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) OpenID
3 1 (16.67%) React Native
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (16.67%) UIKit
3 1 (16.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) MVVM
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Android Development
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Backends for Frontends
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Monorepo
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Push Notifications
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Google Apps Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) SendGrid