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 April 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
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 87 87
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Google 58 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.82% 2.22% 1.55%
As % of the Vendors category 4.30% 4.17% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 22 27
10th Percentile £316 £338 £100
25th Percentile £413 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £531
90th Percentile £668 £716 £850
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £26.60 £42.61 £16.65
25th Percentile £27.88 £58.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £86.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.12% +230.77% -34.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £26.50
90th Percentile £38.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% +22.62% -34.26%

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 1,348 1,031 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.35% 53.23% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 677 701
10th Percentile £213 £258 £276
25th Percentile £371 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £582
90th Percentile £652 £658 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 51 149
10th Percentile £19.75 £19.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.09 £26.39
90th Percentile £78.45 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -5.17% +24.92% -38.91%

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 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -16 38 £558 -10.80% 29
Cheshire -6 18 £526 -17.77% 6
Merseyside -20 1 - - 5
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 9
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 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (70.69%) GCP
2 35 (60.34%) Azure
3 27 (46.55%) AWS
4 10 (17.24%) Power Platform
5 9 (15.52%) Google Analytics
5 9 (15.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (15.52%) Google Tag Manager
6 7 (12.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (8.62%) Google Workspace
8 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
8 4 (6.90%) IBM Watson
8 4 (6.90%) SaaS
8 4 (6.90%) Vertex AI
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub
9 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (3.45%) Google Sheets
11 1 (1.72%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) Internet
3 2 (3.45%) BGP
3 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) OSPF
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) BigQuery
2 10 (17.24%) Power BI
3 9 (15.52%) Looker
4 3 (5.17%) Tableau
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 9 (15.52%) Banking
4 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.62%) Advertising
6 4 (6.90%) Marketing
7 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) Military
9 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Architect
2 12 (20.69%) Analyst
3 9 (15.52%) Security Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Performance Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Governance Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Lead
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Performance Analyst
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) GCP Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Payments Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) LangChain
1 4 (6.90%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.90%) scikit-learn
2 3 (5.17%) Spring
2 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) JWT
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth
4 1 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.72%) React
4 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Private Cloud
2 6 (10.34%) Security Posture
3 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.62%) e-Learning
4 4 (6.90%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.45%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Mac OS
2 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Analytics
2 20 (34.48%) Agile
3 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 17 (29.31%) DevOps
4 15 (25.86%) Roadmaps
5 14 (24.14%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (17.24%) Data Analysis
6 10 (17.24%) Data Privacy
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.24%) User Experience
7 9 (15.52%) Observability
7 9 (15.52%) Validation
8 8 (13.79%) AI
8 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
8 8 (13.79%) Generative AI
8 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (13.79%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) Bash
2 8 (13.79%) Java
3 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.17%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.62%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (6.90%) IBM Certification
4 3 (5.17%) CISSP
4 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) CCNP
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.79%) GDPR
3 7 (12.07%) QA
4 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
4 5 (8.62%) PERC
5 3 (5.17%) ISO 20022
5 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Terraform
2 11 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.62%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.17%) Istio
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.17%) SCCM
6 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) IBM
3 4 (6.90%) Pega
3 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.90%) Tealium
3 4 (6.90%) TikTok
4 3 (5.17%) Citrix
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Concur
6 1 (1.72%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) Facebook
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Sitecore