Google Ads Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Ads (formerly AdWords)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Google Ads skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Ads 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.028% 0.096% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.089% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £241 -
25th Percentile £380 £309 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% - -
75th Percentile £381 £539 -
90th Percentile - £605 -
England median daily rate £495 £280 £500
% change year-on-year +76.79% -44.00% +17.65%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

Google Ads 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,128 678 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.39% 32.47% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 512 626
10th Percentile £313 £313 £292
25th Percentile £400 £392 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -3.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £546 £575
90th Percentile £676 £638 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 20 60
10th Percentile £18.65 £12.82 £15.25
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.36 -
Median hourly rate £62.25 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +79.55% +115.88% -28.34%
75th Percentile £77.00 £54.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.54
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%

Google Ads
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Google Ads job vacancy trend in the North West

Google Ads
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google Ads.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Google Ads

Google Ads
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Ads within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Cumbria - 1 £381 -
Google Ads
England

Google Ads
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Ekahau
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto