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 16 July 2026, 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 63 95
Rank change year-on-year -40 +32 +2
Contract jobs citing Google 71 60 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.94% 2.79% 1.41%
As % of the Vendors category 4.74% 5.54% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 28 20
10th Percentile £413 £277 £361
25th Percentile £447 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -8.05%
75th Percentile £587 £638 £709
90th Percentile £617 £670 £850
England median daily rate £520 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -5.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £36.75 - £16.65
25th Percentile £37.50 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £31.76 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.44% +22.15% -34.34%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.08 £37.50
% change year-on-year +41.55% -33.12% -5.18%

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 1,498 1,083 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.85% 50.33% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 698 630
10th Percentile £275 £284 £267
25th Percentile £400 £382 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £581
90th Percentile £663 £667 £646
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 71 141
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £23.01 £19.26 £12.40
Median hourly rate £29.98 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +79.02% -39.40%
75th Percentile £66.19 £60.00 £34.32
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.45 £46.18
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
% change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 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
Manchester -40 47 £500 -14.89% 42
Cheshire - 21 £486 - 13
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 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (11.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) GCP
2 38 (53.52%) Azure
3 32 (45.07%) AWS
4 14 (19.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 14 (19.72%) Google Workspace
5 13 (18.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (16.90%) SaaS
7 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (9.86%) Google Drive
8 7 (9.86%) Google Sheets
8 7 (9.86%) Vertex AI
9 6 (8.45%) Azure AI
9 6 (8.45%) IBM Watson
10 3 (4.23%) Asana
10 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.23%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (4.23%) Google Gemini
10 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.82%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.58%) Firewall
2 3 (4.23%) DKIM
2 3 (4.23%) DMARC
2 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) Network Security
3 2 (2.82%) BGP
3 2 (2.82%) OSPF
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.82%) VPN
3 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Tableau
2 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.41%) Looker
2 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Git
General
1 18 (25.35%) Finance
2 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
2 10 (14.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Marketing
4 5 (7.04%) Advertising
4 5 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Security Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Architect
4 7 (9.86%) Administrator
4 7 (9.86%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Consultant
7 4 (5.63%) Developer
7 4 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Data Migration Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.45%) LangChain
1 6 (8.45%) PyTorch
1 6 (8.45%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.23%) OAuth
2 3 (4.23%) React
3 2 (2.82%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (2.82%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (2.82%) Next.js
3 2 (2.82%) Node.js
4 1 (1.41%) .NET
4 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.99%) Cloud Native
2 16 (22.54%) Security Posture
3 12 (16.90%) Management Information System
4 5 (7.04%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.63%) AI Agents
5 4 (5.63%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.23%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.41%) IVR
8 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 13 (18.31%) Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (39.44%) DevOps
2 23 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 21 (29.58%) AI
4 19 (26.76%) SIEM
5 18 (25.35%) Agile
6 16 (22.54%) Roadmaps
7 15 (21.13%) Change Management
8 14 (19.72%) Cloud Security
8 14 (19.72%) Product Roadmap
8 14 (19.72%) Scrum
9 13 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (18.31%) Generative AI
9 13 (18.31%) Load Balancing
9 13 (18.31%) Machine Learning
9 13 (18.31%) Migration
9 13 (18.31%) Observability
10 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (14.08%) Data Loss Prevention
11 10 (14.08%) Risk Management
11 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) Bash
3 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 11 (15.49%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) SQL
6 1 (1.41%) Bicep
6 1 (1.41%) C#
6 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) AWS Certification
2 13 (18.31%) Azure Certification
2 13 (18.31%) Degree
3 12 (16.90%) CISSP
4 10 (14.08%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.82%) CCNP
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.41%) ACCA
7 1 (1.41%) CIMA
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) GDPR
2 4 (5.63%) PERC
3 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Terraform
2 16 (22.54%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.90%) Progress Chef
4 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.82%) Ansible
6 1 (1.41%) Istio
6 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Red Hat
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) IBM
4 5 (7.04%) Concur
5 4 (5.63%) DocuSign
5 4 (5.63%) Pega
5 4 (5.63%) Tealium
5 4 (5.63%) TikTok
6 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.82%) SAP
8 1 (1.41%) Adobe
8 1 (1.41%) Databricks
8 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.41%) Genesys
8 1 (1.41%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.41%) Sitecore