Google Play Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Play
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Google Play skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Play 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.051% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
England median daily rate £505 £514 £368
% change year-on-year -1.75% +39.86% -31.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,197 736 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.61% 33.72% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 555 460
10th Percentile £224 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £379 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.56% -3.74%
75th Percentile £608 £537 £575
90th Percentile £694 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 26 12
10th Percentile £18.02 £12.82 £17.44
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £26.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.87 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +191.47% -59.14% +16.62%
75th Percentile £76.00 £58.13 £70.19
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.60 £74.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Google Play job vacancy trend in the North West

Google Play
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Google Play
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 Play within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Manchester - 2 £575 - 7
Google Play
England

Google Play
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Charles Proxy
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) React Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (50.00%) Android SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Flutter
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Server-Driven UI
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google