Google Contracts 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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 91 90
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Google 63 39 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.00% 1.41% 1.99%
As % of the Vendors category 5.93% 3.57% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 43
10th Percentile £301 £350 £321
25th Percentile £428 £388 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £588
90th Percentile £702 £850 £677
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £16.65 £34.32
25th Percentile - £25.50 £36.30
Median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -34.34% -45.38%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £39.80
90th Percentile - - £39.92
England median hourly rate £25.08 £36.25 £39.55
% change year-on-year -30.81% -8.34% +13.00%

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 1,062 1,092 1,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.50% 39.52% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 642 819
10th Percentile £295 £268 £263
25th Percentile £381 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.82% -2.15%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £575
90th Percentile £666 £650 £656
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 149 78
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.35 £12.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.52 £16.06 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.01% -44.62% +44.53%
75th Percentile £60.75 £32.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.28 £46.18 £49.52
England median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +2.00% -22.60% +50.23%

Google
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Google as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Google in the North West

Google
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Google in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Google in the North West

Google
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google in the North West

Google
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Google in the North West.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 +31 47 £588 +17.50% 280
Merseyside +2 6 £488 +150.00% 47
Cheshire -12 2 - - 59
Cumbria - 1 - - 7
Lancashire - 1 - - 83
Google
England

Google
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) SAP CO
1 2 (3.17%) SAP FI
1 2 (3.17%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (3.17%) SAP HR
1 2 (3.17%) SAP Payroll
1 2 (3.17%) Shopify
2 1 (1.59%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 20 (31.75%) GCP
3 17 (26.98%) SaaS
4 14 (22.22%) AWS
5 12 (19.05%) Azure
6 7 (11.11%) Google Analytics
7 5 (7.94%) Apigee
8 4 (6.35%) Google Sheets
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (4.76%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.76%) dbt
9 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.76%) Serverless
9 3 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.76%) Vertex AI
10 2 (3.17%) GitHub
10 2 (3.17%) Google Ads
10 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.59%) Akamai
11 1 (1.59%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) VPN
2 4 (6.35%) DHCP
2 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.59%) H.323
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.59%) VoIP
3 1 (1.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.35%) Mixpanel
2 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.17%) Pinecone
3 2 (3.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) Big Data
4 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.59%) GIS
4 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.59%) Looker
4 1 (1.59%) ObjectStore
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) GitLab
2 5 (7.94%) CircleCI
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) JIRA
3 3 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 17 (26.98%) Public Sector
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Legal
4 6 (9.52%) Military
5 4 (6.35%) French Language
5 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.76%) Finance
7 2 (3.17%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
8 1 (1.59%) Automotive
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Senior
2 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Developer
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) IT Support
6 4 (6.35%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Project Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) User Experience Researcher
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Lead
7 3 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) Node.js
2 6 (9.52%) RESTful
3 4 (6.35%) OAuth
3 4 (6.35%) React
4 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.76%) Playwright
4 3 (4.76%) Puppeteer
5 2 (3.17%) Kafka
5 2 (3.17%) LangChain
5 2 (3.17%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.17%) Swagger
6 1 (1.59%) .NET
6 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.59%) CSS
6 1 (1.59%) GeoJSON
6 1 (1.59%) Google Maps API
6 1 (1.59%) HTML
6 1 (1.59%) Leaflet
6 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.16%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.17%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (3.17%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Photography
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.59%) Social Media
6 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) User Experience
2 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.22%) Benchmarking
3 14 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
4 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (15.87%) Analytics
5 10 (15.87%) Project Management
5 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 7 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.52%) Agile
8 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.94%) API Development
9 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.94%) Customer Service
9 5 (7.94%) ETL
9 5 (7.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (9.52%) Python
2 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
3 5 (7.94%) Java
4 3 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (3.17%) ABAP
5 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) Degree
4 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.35%) A+ Certification
5 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.17%) MCP
8 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.59%) MCSA
8 1 (1.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) GRC
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Hotjar
3 3 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 3 (4.76%) Citrix
3 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 3 (4.76%) PagerDuty
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
3 3 (4.76%) Workday
3 3 (4.76%) Zscaler
4 2 (3.17%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.59%) Adobe
5 1 (1.59%) Apple
5 1 (1.59%) Criteo
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) F5
5 1 (1.59%) Facebook
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.59%) Twitter
5 1 (1.59%) YouTube