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 10 September 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 63 90
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Google 80 67 29
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.00% 3.08% 1.22%
As % of the Vendors category 4.71% 6.17% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 17
10th Percentile £175 £323 £365
25th Percentile £412 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £577 £638 £850
90th Percentile £630 £649 -
England median daily rate £510 £475 £536
% change year-on-year +7.37% -11.38% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +413.33% - -
75th Percentile - £15.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £29.07 £21.28 £70.00
% change year-on-year +36.61% -69.60% +100.00%

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 1,699 1,086 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.57% 49.95% 38.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 703 518
10th Percentile £263 £304 £276
25th Percentile £400 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -6.90% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 77 46
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £17.44 £22.83
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.63 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% -36.00% +1.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.12 £46.18
90th Percentile £86.30 £67.25 £57.89
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 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 -34 54 £481 -10.47% 68
Cheshire - 20 £453 - 13
Lancashire -12 3 £125 - 22
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 11 (13.75%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) GCP
2 38 (47.50%) Azure
3 32 (40.00%) AWS
4 18 (22.50%) Google Workspace
5 12 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 12 (15.00%) SaaS
6 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (10.00%) Google Sheets
8 7 (8.75%) Google Drive
8 7 (8.75%) Vertex AI
9 6 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.25%) AWS KMS
10 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) Network Security
3 3 (3.75%) DKIM
3 3 (3.75%) DMARC
3 3 (3.75%) DNS
4 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.25%) BGP
5 1 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.25%) Junos
5 1 (1.25%) OSPF
5 1 (1.25%) VPN
5 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
1 2 (2.50%) Tableau
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Flink
2 1 (1.25%) Looker
2 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Charles Proxy
General
1 22 (27.50%) Finance
2 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Marketing
6 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Advertising
7 3 (3.75%) Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Games
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Architect
2 18 (22.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Administrator
3 10 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) Senior
7 3 (3.75%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.75%) Developer
7 3 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Help Desk Analyst
8 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Migration Consultant
8 2 (2.50%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (3.75%) OAuth
3 3 (3.75%) React
4 2 (2.50%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (2.50%) LangChain
4 2 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (2.50%) Next.js
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
4 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.25%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.25%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.25%) Kafka
5 1 (1.25%) Middleware
5 1 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 18 (22.50%) Management Information System
3 14 (17.50%) Security Posture
4 7 (8.75%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.75%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (3.75%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Animation
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) CMDB
6 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Windows
2 15 (18.75%) Linux
3 13 (16.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.50%) VMS
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.50%) DevOps
2 24 (30.00%) AI
3 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.50%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Migration
6 16 (20.00%) Change Management
6 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
7 15 (18.75%) SIEM
8 14 (17.50%) Scrum
9 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 12 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (13.75%) Analytics
11 11 (13.75%) LLM
11 11 (13.75%) Load Balancing
11 11 (13.75%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 14 (17.50%) Bash
2 14 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.00%) Java
4 5 (6.25%) Bicep
5 4 (5.00%) SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Go
6 1 (1.25%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 14 (17.50%) Azure Certification
3 14 (17.50%) CISSP
4 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) BC Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.25%) ACCA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) CCNP
8 1 (1.25%) CIMA
8 1 (1.25%) CISM
8 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) PERC
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Docker
2 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (1.25%) Istio
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.00%) Concur
3 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) DocuSign
4 3 (3.75%) IBM
4 3 (3.75%) Pega
4 3 (3.75%) Tealium
4 3 (3.75%) TikTok
5 2 (2.50%) Adobe
5 2 (2.50%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.50%) Perforce
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Arista
6 1 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.25%) Thales
6 1 (1.25%) VMware