Google Contracts in Manchester

Google
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 70 66
Rank change year-on-year +22 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Google 31 26 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.35% 1.71% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 7.01% 4.91% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 35
10th Percentile £192 £100 £342
25th Percentile £438 £372 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -15.91% +2.33%
75th Percentile £700 £634 £600
90th Percentile £720 £850 £684
North West median daily rate £600 £488 £531
% change year-on-year +23.08% -8.24% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - -34.34% -
North West median hourly rate £86.00 £26.00 £39.80
% change year-on-year +230.77% -34.67% -

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 442 530 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.73% 34.94% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 353 476
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 16
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.51 £18.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -45.64% +93.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Manchester

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Google in Manchester

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in Manchester

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Google in Manchester

Google
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Salford - 7 £716 - 1
Bolton -5 4 - - 28
Wigan - 1 £193 - 5
Google
North West

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Shopify
2 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) GCP
2 13 (41.94%) AWS
3 11 (35.48%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) Apigee
4 4 (12.90%) Google Analytics
5 3 (9.68%) Google Workspace
5 3 (9.68%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.23%) Akamai
7 1 (3.23%) Google Ads
7 1 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) VPN
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) H.323
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (6.45%) GIS
2 2 (6.45%) ObjectStore
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Mixpanel
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) GitLab
2 4 (12.90%) CircleCI
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Legal
4 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
5 4 (12.90%) French Language
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Military
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Finance
7 1 (3.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Senior
2 9 (29.03%) Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) IT Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) IT Support
5 4 (12.90%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Project Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) GIS Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Node.js
2 6 (19.35%) RESTful
3 4 (12.90%) React
4 3 (9.68%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) .NET
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) GeoJSON
5 2 (6.45%) Google Maps API
5 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.45%) Kafka
5 2 (6.45%) Leaflet
5 2 (6.45%) MapLibre
5 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (6.45%) Playwright
5 2 (6.45%) Puppeteer
5 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.45%) Swagger
6 1 (3.23%) CSS
6 1 (3.23%) HTML
6 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.23%) Photography
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Social Media
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Software Engineering
2 12 (38.71%) Computer Science
3 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Project Management
3 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
4 5 (16.13%) User Experience
5 4 (12.90%) API Development
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
5 4 (12.90%) Front End Development
5 4 (12.90%) ITSM
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) RBAC
5 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
5 4 (12.90%) Service Management
5 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
2 5 (16.13%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 12 (38.71%) Degree
3 12 (38.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
4 7 (22.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (22.58%) Azure Certification
4 7 (22.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (12.90%) A+ Certification
6 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.23%) MCP
6 1 (3.23%) MCSA
6 1 (3.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) CheckPoint
2 2 (6.45%) Citrix
2 2 (6.45%) CyberArk
2 2 (6.45%) Mapbox
2 2 (6.45%) PagerDuty
2 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Facebook
3 1 (3.23%) Hotjar
3 1 (3.23%) Twitter
3 1 (3.23%) YouTube