Google Contract Job Trends in the North West

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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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 88 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -28
Contract jobs citing Google 64 34 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.57% 1.62% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 5.16% 3.34% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 19 21
10th Percentile £309 £366 £100
25th Percentile £363 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +15.79% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £510
90th Percentile £723 £707 £538
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £15.85 - -
25th Percentile £17.88 - -
Median hourly rate £22.75 £86.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.55% +145.71% -
75th Percentile £30.44 - -
90th Percentile £36.18 - -
England median hourly rate £33.32 £43.04 £33.66
% change year-on-year -22.59% +27.86% -3.83%

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 1,241 1,019 1,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 49.76% 48.45% 45.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 573 787
10th Percentile £213 £313 £248
25th Percentile £358 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £592
90th Percentile £685 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 83
10th Percentile £16.40 £16.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.58 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.83 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -7.14% +42.39%
75th Percentile £56.69 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.11 £77.50 £52.02
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

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 8 January 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 8 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Google in the North West

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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 8 January 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 +14 49 £494 -12.22% 44
Cheshire -19 9 £516 -6.25% 10
Merseyside - 4 £426 - 12
Lancashire - 2 £350 - 20
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England

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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 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (68.75%) GCP
2 31 (48.44%) Azure
3 18 (28.13%) AWS
4 15 (23.44%) Google Analytics
5 14 (21.88%) Google Tag Manager
5 14 (21.88%) Power Platform
6 12 (18.75%) Google Workspace
7 7 (10.94%) SaaS
8 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.25%) GitHub
9 4 (6.25%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.69%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.69%) Azure AI
10 3 (4.69%) Dataform
10 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.13%) Cloud Functions
12 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.56%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Internet
2 1 (1.56%) VoIP
2 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) BigQuery
2 15 (23.44%) Looker
3 14 (21.88%) Power BI
4 4 (6.25%) Tableau
5 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.13%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) MySQL
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Public Sector
3 10 (15.63%) Banking
4 8 (12.50%) Finance
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Brand Awareness
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Military
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Architect
2 15 (23.44%) Analyst
3 12 (18.75%) Senior
4 10 (15.63%) Performance Analyst
5 8 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Lead
7 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) GCP Architect
8 4 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Lead Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Payments Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Governance Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Performance Analyst
10 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Spring
1 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.69%) CrewAI
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) Kafka
3 2 (3.13%) LangChain
4 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.56%) CSS
4 1 (1.56%) Faiss
4 1 (1.56%) Gradio
4 1 (1.56%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.56%) Laravel
4 1 (1.56%) Node.js
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.56%) React
4 1 (1.56%) REST
4 1 (1.56%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.56%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) e-Learning
4 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.13%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (3.13%) Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Analytics
2 19 (29.69%) Agile
3 18 (28.13%) User Experience
4 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.31%) Actionable Insight
6 12 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 12 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 12 (18.75%) Validation
7 10 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
7 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 10 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 10 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.06%) Microservices
8 9 (14.06%) Performance Measurement
8 9 (14.06%) User Research
9 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 8 (12.50%) Service Design
9 8 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) Python
1 9 (14.06%) SQL
2 6 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) Bash
3 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.56%) LookML
4 1 (1.56%) PHP
4 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.69%) IBM Certification
5 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.13%) MCP
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) Data Quality
2 11 (17.19%) QA
3 8 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (7.81%) GDPR
4 5 (7.81%) ISO 20022
5 4 (6.25%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.56%) GRC
7 1 (1.56%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.69%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) SCCM
5 2 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Citrix
2 3 (4.69%) IBM
2 3 (4.69%) VMware
3 1 (1.56%) Concur
3 1 (1.56%) Facebook
3 1 (1.56%) Foundry
3 1 (1.56%) Hitachi
3 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
77 Google jobs in the North West