Google Play Contracts in the North of England

Google Play
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Google Play skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Play over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 175 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Play 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.023% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.073% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £514 £310 £569
% change year-on-year +65.81% -45.49% +19.74%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,293 1,366 1,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.29% 31.27% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 932 1,414
10th Percentile £300 £268 £275
25th Percentile £384 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £645 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 58 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £16.46
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.65% +3.35%
75th Percentile £47.12 £21.88 £45.34
90th Percentile £81.25 £61.53 £60.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £34.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -36.96% +59.42%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Play in the North of England

Google Play
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google Play in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Google Play in the North of England

Google Play
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 Google Play within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
Yorkshire - 4 £440 - 3
Google Play
England

Google Play
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Android Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google