Firebase Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Firebase
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Firebase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 - 187
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Firebase 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.065% - 0.021%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% - 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £413 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -7.30% -1.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Firebase 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,133 1,112 1,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.64% 33.82% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 828 977
10th Percentile £306 £248 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £640
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 26 78
10th Percentile £23.00 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £38.39 £26.41 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.96 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +97.21% +105.23% -59.65%
75th Percentile £75.00 £69.38 £21.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £97.60 £43.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firebase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Firebase job vacancy trend in the North of England

Firebase
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firebase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firebase

Firebase
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firebase.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firebase

Firebase
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firebase in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firebase in the North of England

Firebase
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West - 3 - - 4
North East - 1 £525 - 5
Firebase
England

Firebase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CocoaPods
1 1 (25.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (25.00%) fastlane
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Android Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (50.00%) Dagger
1 2 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (50.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (25.00%) Akka
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Retrofit
2 1 (25.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Android Development
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Swift
4 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana