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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 91 101
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Google 68 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.10% 1.22% 1.39%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 3.14% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 24
10th Percentile £309 £365 £355
25th Percentile £409 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £570
90th Percentile £648 £850 £610
England median daily rate £480 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -10.36% -2.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £33.60
25th Percentile £14.50 - £34.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 - £37.30
75th Percentile £15.50 - £39.70
90th Percentile - - £39.88
England median hourly rate £22.56 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -67.77% +112.12% -5.71%

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 1,113 925 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 50.78% 39.03% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 507 797
10th Percentile £305 £276 £225
25th Percentile £384 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £593
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 44 93
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £21.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +52.17%
75th Percentile £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £55.79 £53.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +29 54 £500 -13.04% 83
Merseyside +4 7 £440 +125.64% 9
Lancashire - 2 - - 56
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 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) Google Workspace
2 25 (36.76%) GCP
3 24 (35.29%) SaaS
4 14 (20.59%) Azure
5 10 (14.71%) Google Analytics
6 9 (13.24%) AWS
7 6 (8.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 6 (8.82%) Azure AI
7 6 (8.82%) Vertex AI
8 5 (7.35%) Apigee
8 5 (7.35%) Google Tag Manager
8 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.88%) Google Sheets
10 3 (4.41%) dbt
10 3 (4.41%) GitHub
11 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.47%) Google Docs
12 1 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) VPN
2 3 (4.41%) DHCP
2 3 (4.41%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) Network Security
3 1 (1.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.29%) Looker
3 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.35%) Power BI
5 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.88%) Mixpanel
5 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.88%) Pinecone
5 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.47%) MySQL
7 1 (1.47%) Power Query
7 1 (1.47%) Redis
7 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.35%) CircleCI
3 5 (7.35%) GitLab
4 3 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 21 (30.88%) Public Sector
2 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Finance
4 5 (7.35%) Military
5 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.41%) Automotive
6 3 (4.41%) French Language
7 2 (2.94%) Legal
7 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Senior
2 12 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Architect
4 8 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Lead
6 4 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.88%) GCP Architect
6 4 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
6 4 (5.88%) User Experience Researcher
7 3 (4.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 3 (4.41%) BigQuery Architect
7 3 (4.41%) Developer
7 3 (4.41%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Operations Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) CrewAI
1 5 (7.35%) OAuth
1 5 (7.35%) RESTful
2 4 (5.88%) LangChain
2 4 (5.88%) Node.js
2 4 (5.88%) React
3 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.41%) Playwright
3 3 (4.41%) Puppeteer
3 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.94%) Faiss
4 2 (2.94%) Gradio
4 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 2 (2.94%) Kafka
4 2 (2.94%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.94%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.94%) Streamlit
4 2 (2.94%) Swagger
5 1 (1.47%) CSS
5 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (32.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.88%) Autonomous Agent
5 3 (4.41%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.41%) Digital Signage
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.94%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) User Experience
2 20 (29.41%) Mobile Device Management
3 17 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 14 (20.59%) Analytics
4 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (16.18%) Agile
7 9 (13.24%) Data Protection
8 8 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
8 8 (11.76%) Project Management
9 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.29%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.29%) ETL
9 7 (10.29%) Observability
10 6 (8.82%) API Development
10 6 (8.82%) Data Engineering
10 6 (8.82%) Data Integration
10 6 (8.82%) Machine Learning
11 5 (7.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) SQL
2 9 (13.24%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.35%) Java
5 3 (4.41%) Bash
5 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) LookML
6 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) A+ Certification
4 3 (4.41%) MCP
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.88%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) GRC
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.88%) Hitachi
2 4 (5.88%) Hotjar
3 3 (4.41%) PagerDuty
4 2 (2.94%) Foundry
5 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.47%) F5
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Zscaler