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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 73 65
Rank change year-on-year +40 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Google 47 23 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.80% 1.68% 2.59%
As % of the Vendors category 10.20% 4.69% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 34
10th Percentile £237 £413 £319
25th Percentile £425 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £638 £850 £575
90th Percentile £703 - £644
North West median daily rate £575 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - -34.34% -49.87%
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year +22.15% -34.34% -45.38%

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 461 490 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.09% 35.87% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 328 481
10th Percentile £259 £325 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £583 £600
90th Percentile £716 £664 £684
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.02 £15.66 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.47 £25.25 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +42.49% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.62 £45.94 £33.75
90th Percentile £61.13 £66.94 £43.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £26.50
% change year-on-year +79.02% -39.40% +31.64%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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
Bolton - 6 £425 - 4
Salford - 2 £716 - 2
Stockport - 1 - - 1
Wigan - 1 £193 -
Oldham - 1 - -
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 4 (8.51%) IBM Domino
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Shopify
2 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) GCP
2 14 (29.79%) Google Workspace
2 14 (29.79%) SaaS
3 9 (19.15%) AWS
4 7 (14.89%) Azure
4 7 (14.89%) Google Analytics
5 5 (10.64%) Apigee
6 4 (8.51%) Google Sheets
7 3 (6.38%) Serverless
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
9 1 (2.13%) Akamai
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Google Ads
9 1 (2.13%) Google Docs
9 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) VPN
2 4 (8.51%) DHCP
2 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.13%) H.323
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.13%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Mixpanel
1 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) CircleCI
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
2 5 (10.64%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Legal
4 5 (10.64%) Military
5 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 4 (8.51%) French Language
5 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) Automotive
6 2 (4.26%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Senior
2 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Developer
4 4 (8.51%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) IT Support
4 4 (8.51%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Project Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) User Experience Researcher
5 3 (6.38%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.38%) GCP Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Node.js Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Operations Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Node.js
2 5 (10.64%) RESTful
3 4 (8.51%) OAuth
4 3 (6.38%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.38%) Playwright
4 3 (6.38%) Puppeteer
4 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.38%) React
5 2 (4.26%) HTML
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.26%) Swagger
6 1 (2.13%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.13%) CSS
6 1 (2.13%) Laravel
6 1 (2.13%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Digital Signage
6 1 (2.13%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Photography
6 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Social Media
6 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) User Experience
2 11 (23.40%) Mobile Device Management
3 10 (21.28%) Benchmarking
4 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) Project Management
4 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 8 (17.02%) Analytics
5 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.77%) Agile
7 6 (12.77%) API Development
7 6 (12.77%) Microservices
8 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
8 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
9 4 (8.51%) ETL
9 4 (8.51%) ITSM
9 4 (8.51%) Service Delivery
9 4 (8.51%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Java
1 5 (10.64%) SQL
1 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
2 3 (6.38%) Bash
2 3 (6.38%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (23.40%) Degree
4 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.51%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) MCP
7 1 (2.13%) MCSA
7 1 (2.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Grafana
2 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Hotjar
3 3 (6.38%) Hitachi
3 3 (6.38%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.13%) Citrix
4 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.13%) F5
4 1 (2.13%) Facebook
4 1 (2.13%) Foundry
4 1 (2.13%) Twitter
4 1 (2.13%) YouTube
4 1 (2.13%) Zscaler