Google Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Google
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 October 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Google 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.23% 1.29% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 6.98% 3.19% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £383 £193 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £195 £500
Median % change year-on-year +118.59% -61.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £476 £198 £525
90th Percentile £506 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £488 £506
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.70% +6.58%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 86 94 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 46.24% 40.52% 48.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 41 61
10th Percentile £213 £155 £185
25th Percentile £363 £213 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year +69.49% -28.48% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £525
90th Percentile £775 £575 £600
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £36.40 -
25th Percentile - £37.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £38.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +117.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £39.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £39.60 £19.20
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +50.80%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Google in Merseyside

Google
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Google

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Google in Merseyside

Google
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Liverpool +2 5 £413 - 5
Google
North West

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 4 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Pinecone
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CrewAI
1 4 (66.67%) LangChain
2 2 (33.33%) Faiss
2 2 (33.33%) Gradio
2 2 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 2 (33.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (50.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (16.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Conversational UI
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 4 (66.67%) LLM
1 4 (66.67%) Memory Management
1 4 (66.67%) Multi-Agent System
1 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 4 (66.67%) Semantic Search
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality