Google Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Google products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Google.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 93 108
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing Google 71 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.90% 1.34% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.56% 2.90% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 13 27
10th Percentile £309 £340 £381
25th Percentile £366 £388 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% - +12.36%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £544
90th Percentile £688 £630 £571
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £15.85 - £33.20
25th Percentile £17.88 - £33.50
Median hourly rate £22.75 £86.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.55% +152.94% -
75th Percentile £30.44 - £34.50
90th Percentile £36.18 - £34.80
England median hourly rate £28.86 £60.50 £32.32
% change year-on-year -52.31% +87.19% -7.66%

All Vendors
North West

Google falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,276 1,035 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.04% 46.06% 47.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 559 826
10th Percentile £250 £309 £235
25th Percentile £363 £406 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 54 90
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.60 £24.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% -4.41% +70.00%
75th Percentile £55.85 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.66 £55.09
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Google job vacancy trend in the North West

Google
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the North West

Google
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Google
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the North West

Google
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Manchester +22 51 £550 +10.00% 52
Cheshire -21 9 £516 +8.55% 28
Merseyside -1 6 £413 - 17
Lancashire - 2 - - 25
Google
England

Google
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (49.30%) GCP
2 26 (36.62%) Azure
3 25 (35.21%) Google Workspace
4 20 (28.17%) SaaS
5 14 (19.72%) Google Analytics
5 14 (19.72%) Power Platform
6 13 (18.31%) AWS
6 13 (18.31%) Google Tag Manager
7 7 (9.86%) Vertex AI
8 6 (8.45%) Amazon Bedrock
8 6 (8.45%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.82%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.82%) GitHub
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (1.41%) Google Ads
11 1 (1.41%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) VoIP
1 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (29.58%) BigQuery
2 15 (21.13%) Looker
3 14 (19.72%) Power BI
4 4 (5.63%) Pinecone
4 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.63%) Tableau
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) Power Query
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.08%) Banking
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Automotive
5 3 (4.23%) Military
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (25.35%) Architect
2 14 (19.72%) Analyst
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
3 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Performance Analyst
5 8 (11.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (9.86%) GCP Architect
6 7 (9.86%) Lead
7 5 (7.04%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.04%) GCP Data Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) BigQuery Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Payments Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Developer
9 3 (4.23%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) CrewAI
1 5 (7.04%) Spring
1 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.63%) LangChain
3 2 (2.82%) Faiss
3 2 (2.82%) Gradio
3 2 (2.82%) HTML
3 2 (2.82%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) LangGraph
3 2 (2.82%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.41%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) Laravel
4 1 (1.41%) Node.js
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.45%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.63%) Autonomous Agent
3 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.23%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.23%) Digital Signage
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
6 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.41%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Android
2 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) User Experience
2 23 (32.39%) Analytics
3 18 (25.35%) Mobile Device Management
4 16 (22.54%) Agile
5 14 (19.72%) Benchmarking
5 14 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (18.31%) Actionable Insight
6 13 (18.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (16.90%) AI
8 11 (15.49%) Data Analysis
8 11 (15.49%) Data Modelling
8 11 (15.49%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 10 (14.08%) Data Protection
10 9 (12.68%) Dashboard Development
11 8 (11.27%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.27%) Microservices
11 8 (11.27%) Performance Measurement
11 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) User Research
11 8 (11.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) SQL
2 9 (12.68%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) Java
4 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.41%) LookML
5 1 (1.41%) PHP
5 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) MCP
4 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (14.08%) QA
3 8 (11.27%) Accessibility
4 5 (7.04%) ISO 20022
5 4 (5.63%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.82%) GDPR
7 1 (1.41%) GRC
7 1 (1.41%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) Hitachi
3 2 (2.82%) Foundry
4 1 (1.41%) Concur
4 1 (1.41%) Facebook
4 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow