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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 76 103
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 -11
Contract jobs citing Google 66 50 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.97% 2.56% 1.40%
As % of the Vendors category 4.90% 5.00% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £410 £237 £100
25th Percentile £427 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +21.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £587 £700 £613
90th Percentile £621 £716 £850
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £32.25 £37.18 £16.65
25th Percentile £35.63 £45.32 £25.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £58.88 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.31% +126.46% -34.67%
75th Percentile - £72.44 £26.50
90th Percentile - £80.58 -
England median hourly rate £34.87 £27.76 £27.74
% change year-on-year +25.59% +0.09% -29.87%

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 1,000 1,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 40.17% 51.20% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 640 609
10th Percentile £277 £267 £267
25th Percentile £399 £393 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +2.83%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 60 147
10th Percentile £19.44 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.80 £18.61 £11.90
Median hourly rate £31.36 £31.88 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +98.51% -46.47%
75th Percentile £61.06 £60.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £86.15 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
% change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%

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 4 June 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
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 4 June 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 -29 47 £568 -5.42% 60
Cheshire -2 18 £450 - 7
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 10
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 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (63.64%) GCP
2 37 (56.06%) Azure
3 33 (50.00%) AWS
4 15 (22.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 14 (21.21%) Google Workspace
6 12 (18.18%) SaaS
6 12 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (10.61%) Google Drive
8 7 (10.61%) Google Sheets
9 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.06%) Azure AI
10 4 (6.06%) IBM Watson
10 4 (6.06%) Vertex AI
11 3 (4.55%) Asana
11 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
11 3 (4.55%) GitHub
12 2 (3.03%) Azure Stack
12 2 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (25.76%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) DKIM
2 3 (4.55%) DMARC
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) Internet
3 2 (3.03%) BGP
3 2 (3.03%) Network Security
3 2 (3.03%) OSPF
3 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.03%) Looker
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) Git
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 11 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Advertising
4 5 (7.58%) Marketing
4 5 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (21.21%) Security Engineer
2 12 (18.18%) Architect
3 9 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Administrator
4 7 (10.61%) GCP Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (7.58%) Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Governance Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Security Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) LangChain
1 4 (6.06%) OAuth
1 4 (6.06%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.06%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.55%) React
3 2 (3.03%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (3.03%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (3.03%) Next.js
3 2 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.52%) CSS
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) JWT
4 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
4 8 (12.12%) Private Cloud
5 6 (9.09%) Public Cloud
6 5 (7.58%) e-Learning
7 4 (6.06%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (6.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
8 3 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.52%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Windows
2 11 (16.67%) Linux
3 10 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) DevOps
2 25 (37.88%) CI/CD
3 19 (28.79%) Agile
4 17 (25.76%) Roadmaps
5 15 (22.73%) Migration
5 15 (22.73%) SIEM
6 14 (21.21%) Observability
7 13 (19.70%) Change Management
8 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 11 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (16.67%) Load Balancing
9 11 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
9 11 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (15.15%) Analytics
10 10 (15.15%) Scrum
10 10 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (13.64%) AI
11 9 (13.64%) IT Strategy
11 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) Python
2 14 (21.21%) Bash
3 13 (19.70%) PowerShell
4 10 (15.15%) Java
5 2 (3.03%) SQL
6 1 (1.52%) C#
6 1 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) AWS Certification
1 14 (21.21%) Azure Certification
2 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) CISSP
3 9 (13.64%) Degree
4 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) IBM Certification
5 4 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.03%) CCNP
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.52%) ACCA
7 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.52%) CIMA
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) GDPR
2 4 (6.06%) PERC
3 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Docker
2 11 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (33.33%) Terraform
2 17 (25.76%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.15%) Progress Chef
4 5 (7.58%) Ansible
5 3 (4.55%) Istio
5 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.55%) SCCM
5 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
1 10 (15.15%) Red Hat
2 8 (12.12%) IBM
3 5 (7.58%) Concur
4 4 (6.06%) DocuSign
4 4 (6.06%) Pega
4 4 (6.06%) Tealium
4 4 (6.06%) TikTok
5 3 (4.55%) Citrix
5 3 (4.55%) VMware
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.52%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.52%) Sitecore