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 14 May 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
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 78 98
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Google 63 46 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.95% 2.37% 1.47%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 4.51% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 23
10th Percentile £335 £216 £100
25th Percentile £413 £444 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +41.18% -21.84%
75th Percentile £615 £700 £550
90th Percentile £688 £716 £850
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £26.18 £42.61 £16.65
25th Percentile £26.81 £58.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £28.25 £86.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.15% +230.77% -34.67%
75th Percentile £29.31 - £26.50
90th Percentile £29.73 - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% +22.15% -34.34%

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 1,336 1,020 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.35% 52.52% 39.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 655 610
10th Percentile £236 £250 £270
25th Percentile £374 £388 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% - +3.12%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £655 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 53 148
10th Percentile £19.75 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £23.00 £19.00 £11.95
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £61.57 £60.00 £26.39
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -17 48 £568 -9.20% 48
Cheshire -5 13 £519 - 5
Merseyside -23 1 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 17
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 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (12.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (65.08%) GCP
2 32 (50.79%) Azure
3 26 (41.27%) AWS
4 12 (19.05%) Google Workspace
4 12 (19.05%) SaaS
5 11 (17.46%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 9 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 7 (11.11%) Google Analytics
7 7 (11.11%) Google Drive
7 7 (11.11%) Google Tag Manager
7 7 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.35%) Azure AI
9 4 (6.35%) IBM Watson
9 4 (6.35%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.76%) Asana
10 3 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.76%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) DKIM
2 3 (4.76%) DMARC
2 3 (4.76%) DNS
2 3 (4.76%) Internet
3 2 (3.17%) BGP
3 2 (3.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.17%) OSPF
3 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.17%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) BigQuery
2 9 (14.29%) Power BI
3 7 (11.11%) Looker
4 4 (6.35%) Tableau
5 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.35%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.46%) Finance
4 5 (7.94%) Advertising
4 5 (7.94%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Military
7 1 (1.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Analyst
1 12 (19.05%) Architect
2 9 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 9 (14.29%) Senior
3 7 (11.11%) Administrator
3 7 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Governance Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Performance Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) GCP Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Lead
8 2 (3.17%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) LangChain
1 4 (6.35%) OAuth
1 4 (6.35%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.35%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.59%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (1.59%) JWT
3 1 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.52%) Private Cloud
2 6 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 5 (7.94%) e-Learning
3 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.35%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (3.17%) Clustering
6 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Mac OS
2 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.59%) Android
4 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) DevOps
2 19 (30.16%) Analytics
3 17 (26.98%) Agile
3 17 (26.98%) CI/CD
4 15 (23.81%) Migration
5 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
6 12 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
7 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 9 (14.29%) Data Privacy
8 9 (14.29%) IT Strategy
8 9 (14.29%) Observability
8 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (12.70%) AI
9 8 (12.70%) Dashboard Development
9 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 8 (12.70%) Bash
3 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.35%) Java
4 4 (6.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.59%) C#
5 1 (1.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
2 8 (12.70%) Azure Certification
3 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (6.35%) IBM Certification
6 3 (4.76%) CISSP
7 2 (3.17%) CCNP
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.17%) Degree
8 1 (1.59%) ACCA
8 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.59%) CIMA
8 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.70%) GDPR
3 6 (9.52%) QA
4 5 (7.94%) PERC
5 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
6 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.52%) Docker
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (25.40%) Terraform
2 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.76%) Istio
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.76%) SCCM
5 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) IBM
3 4 (6.35%) Pega
3 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.35%) Tealium
3 4 (6.35%) TikTok
4 3 (4.76%) Citrix
4 3 (4.76%) VMware
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Concur
6 1 (1.59%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Facebook
6 1 (1.59%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.59%) Sitecore