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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 97 79
Rank change year-on-year +22 -18 +26
Contract jobs citing Google 45 40 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.29% 1.45% 2.57%
As % of the Vendors category 4.30% 3.65% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 58
10th Percentile £216 £100 £405
25th Percentile £444 £394 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £531
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -8.24% -1.16%
75th Percentile £700 £544 £600
90th Percentile £716 £850 £680
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £42.61 £16.65 £39.64
25th Percentile £58.88 £25.50 £39.70
Median hourly rate £86.00 £26.00 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +230.77% -34.67% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £39.90
90th Percentile - - £39.96
England median hourly rate £31.76 £26.00 £45.75
% change year-on-year +22.15% -43.17% +30.71%

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 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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 1 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +22 31 £625 +35.14% 138
Cheshire -4 6 - - 39
Merseyside +6 4 £500 - 84
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
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 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) SAP CO
1 6 (13.33%) SAP FI
1 6 (13.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 6 (13.33%) SAP HR
1 6 (13.33%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (4.44%) Shopify
3 1 (2.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) GCP
2 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 7 (15.56%) Google Workspace
5 4 (8.89%) Apigee
5 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.89%) Google Analytics
5 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.67%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) dbt
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) Google Ads
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Akamai
8 1 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) VPN
2 4 (8.89%) DHCP
2 4 (8.89%) DNS
2 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) H.323
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.22%) VoIP
3 1 (2.22%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.89%) BigQuery
2 4 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.44%) GIS
4 2 (4.44%) ObjectStore
5 1 (2.22%) Big Data
5 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.22%) Mixpanel
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) GitLab
2 4 (8.89%) CircleCI
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.44%) Git
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (22.22%) Legal
5 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.89%) French Language
7 3 (6.67%) Marketing
7 3 (6.67%) Military
7 3 (6.67%) Retail
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
8 1 (2.22%) Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Finance
8 1 (2.22%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
1 11 (24.44%) Senior
2 9 (20.00%) Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.33%) SAP Developer
4 6 (13.33%) SAP HR Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Support
5 4 (8.89%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Project Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Node.js
2 6 (13.33%) RESTful
3 4 (8.89%) React
4 3 (6.67%) OAuth
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) GeoJSON
5 2 (4.44%) Google Maps API
5 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) Leaflet
5 2 (4.44%) MapLibre
5 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.44%) Playwright
5 2 (4.44%) Puppeteer
5 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.44%) Swagger
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.22%) Photography
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.22%) Social Media
4 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
2 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (28.89%) Software Engineering
2 12 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 8 (17.78%) User Experience
4 7 (15.56%) Project Management
5 6 (13.33%) Analytics
5 6 (13.33%) RBAC
5 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.33%) Test Scripting
6 5 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 5 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.89%) API Development
7 4 (8.89%) Front End Development
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Privileged Access Management
7 4 (8.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) ABAP
2 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (11.11%) Python
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) Degree
3 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (15.56%) AWS Certification
4 7 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Azure Certification
4 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.89%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.22%) MCP
6 1 (2.22%) MCSA
6 1 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.22%) GRC
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.89%) BitLocker
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.44%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) SAP
2 7 (15.56%) Workday
3 4 (8.89%) CheckPoint
3 4 (8.89%) Citrix
3 4 (8.89%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.89%) Zscaler
4 2 (4.44%) Mapbox
4 2 (4.44%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) Apple
5 1 (2.22%) Criteo
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) F5
5 1 (2.22%) Facebook
5 1 (2.22%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.22%) Twitter
5 1 (2.22%) YouTube