Google Play Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Google Play
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Google Play skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs citing Google Play 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% - 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile £506 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.13%
75th Percentile £519 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £514 £310 £538
% change year-on-year +65.81% -42.33% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Google Play 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 789 734 1,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.28% 27.24% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 478 794
10th Percentile £300 £204 £213
25th Percentile £400 £352 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £654 £686 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 28
10th Percentile £18.85 £14.78 £13.00
25th Percentile - £17.01 £14.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £32.21 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% +69.51% +2.70%
75th Percentile £34.98 £38.51 £29.06
90th Percentile £53.80 £54.07 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% -8.20% +53.49%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Google Play as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Google Play in the Midlands

Google Play
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Google Play.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Google Play

Google Play
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Play within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
West Midlands - 1 £513 - 1
Google Play
England

Google Play
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google