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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 84 114
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -19
Contract jobs citing Google 64 31 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.75% 1.32% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 5.46% 3.11% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 23
10th Percentile £309 £323 £360
25th Percentile £403 £378 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £550
90th Percentile £703 £647 £574
England median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £14.95 - £33.20
25th Percentile £15.63 - £33.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £34.00
75th Percentile £18.13 - £34.50
90th Percentile £18.65 - £34.80
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -67.77% +116.58% -7.66%

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 1,173 997 1,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.36% 42.53% 46.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 515 854
10th Percentile £273 £327 £225
25th Percentile £380 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £592
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 96
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.00 £17.49
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% - +50.21%
75th Percentile £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.19 £55.79 £51.42
England median hourly rate £25.04 £35.00 £44.20
% change year-on-year -28.46% -20.81% +76.80%

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 24 October 2025.

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
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 24 October 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 +25 51 £535 +7.00% 97
Merseyside +5 5 £413 +111.54% 5
Cheshire -23 3 £499 +24.63% 20
Lancashire - 2 - - 34
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 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) Google Workspace
2 22 (34.38%) GCP
2 22 (34.38%) SaaS
3 17 (26.56%) Azure
4 11 (17.19%) Google Analytics
5 10 (15.63%) AWS
6 7 (10.94%) Vertex AI
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (9.38%) Azure AI
7 6 (9.38%) Google Tag Manager
7 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.81%) Google Sheets
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub
9 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.56%) Apigee
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.56%) Google Ads
10 1 (1.56%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) Network Security
1 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.31%) BigQuery
2 8 (12.50%) Looker
3 6 (9.38%) Power BI
4 4 (6.25%) Mixpanel
4 4 (6.25%) Pinecone
4 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Power Query
6 1 (1.56%) Redis
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 18 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Automotive
6 3 (4.69%) Military
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (3.13%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Architect
1 13 (20.31%) Senior
2 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.81%) GCP Architect
5 5 (7.81%) GCP Data Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) BigQuery Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) User Experience Researcher
7 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) ETL Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Operations Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) CrewAI
2 4 (6.25%) LangChain
3 2 (3.13%) Faiss
3 2 (3.13%) Gradio
3 2 (3.13%) HTML
3 2 (3.13%) LangGraph
3 2 (3.13%) Node.js
3 2 (3.13%) OAuth
3 2 (3.13%) React
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.13%) Streamlit
4 1 (1.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.56%) CSS
4 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.56%) Laravel
4 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.25%) Autonomous Agent
4 3 (4.69%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.69%) Digital Signage
4 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) User Experience
2 19 (29.69%) Mobile Device Management
3 16 (25.00%) Analytics
4 15 (23.44%) Benchmarking
5 13 (20.31%) AI
5 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (17.19%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
8 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.94%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (9.38%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
11 5 (7.81%) ETL
11 5 (7.81%) Microservices
11 5 (7.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) SQL
2 7 (10.94%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.56%) LookML
5 1 (1.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (35.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) MCP
5 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) GRC
3 2 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Hitachi
2 4 (6.25%) Hotjar
3 2 (3.13%) Foundry
4 1 (1.56%) Concur
4 1 (1.56%) F5
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow