Google Play Contract Job Trends in the North East

Google Play
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Google Play skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Play 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.17% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 £150 £285
% change year-on-year +225.00% -47.37% -40.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 185 111 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 31.90% 34.58% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 79 32
10th Percentile £306 £308 £188
25th Percentile £385 £403 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £476
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.84% -15.75%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £561
90th Percentile £615 £630 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 6
10th Percentile £58.50 - £11.44
25th Percentile £60.63 £12.50 £13.77
Median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +426.69% -37.41% -57.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - £33.48
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.45 £21.00
% change year-on-year +72.02% +25.95% -34.98%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Play relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Google Play job vacancy trend in the North East

Google Play
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £450 - 1
Google Play
England

Google Play
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Android SDK
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google