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 10 March 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 82 102
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing Google 63 41 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.18% 2.02% 1.33%
As % of the Vendors category 4.83% 3.79% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 23 26
10th Percentile £313 £308 £100
25th Percentile £401 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +47.06% -21.84%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £500
90th Percentile £688 £716 £531
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £21.03 £42.61 £16.65
25th Percentile £24.06 £58.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £28.25 £86.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.15% +230.77% -
75th Percentile £32.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £37.00 - -
England median hourly rate £33.00 £42.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.35% +63.46% -39.88%

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 1,303 1,081 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 45.16% 53.33% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 666 737
10th Percentile £201 £250 £269
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £683 £665 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 55 157
10th Percentile £17.10 £21.05 £10.95
25th Percentile £21.97 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +102.37% -45.19%
75th Percentile £60.61 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 10 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Google in the North West over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

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 10 March 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 -4 42 £554 -7.71% 27
Cheshire -16 18 £532 +12.57% 10
Merseyside -20 2 - - 4
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 14
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 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (74.60%) GCP
2 39 (61.90%) Azure
3 29 (46.03%) AWS
4 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
5 11 (17.46%) Google Analytics
5 11 (17.46%) Google Tag Manager
6 8 (12.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (9.52%) Google Workspace
9 5 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.94%) Vertex AI
10 4 (6.35%) Azure AI
10 4 (6.35%) IBM Watson
10 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.76%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 3 (4.76%) GitHub
12 2 (3.17%) Google Sheets
13 1 (1.59%) Dataform
13 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.46%) Firewall
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
4 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 12 (19.05%) Power BI
3 11 (17.46%) Looker
4 3 (4.76%) Tableau
5 2 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 30 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Banking
2 10 (15.87%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.35%) Retail
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Advertising
5 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) Military
6 1 (1.59%) Publishing
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Architect
2 13 (20.63%) Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Senior
4 9 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Performance Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Lead
8 4 (6.35%) Payments Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) GCP Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Governance Manager
9 3 (4.76%) Lead Architect
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Performance Analyst
10 2 (3.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Spring
1 5 (7.94%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.35%) LangChain
2 4 (6.35%) PyTorch
2 4 (6.35%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.17%) CSS
3 2 (3.17%) HTML
3 2 (3.17%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) .NET
4 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.59%) JWT
4 1 (1.59%) OAuth
4 1 (1.59%) React
4 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 6 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 5 (7.94%) e-Learning
5 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.17%) Clustering
7 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.17%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.59%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) 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 23 (36.51%) Analytics
2 22 (34.92%) Agile
3 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.40%) DevOps
4 15 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 12 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (19.05%) User Experience
6 11 (17.46%) Data Analysis
6 11 (17.46%) Data Privacy
6 11 (17.46%) Validation
7 10 (15.87%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
8 9 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.29%) Microservices
9 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.70%) Performance Measurement
9 8 (12.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) Java
3 7 (11.11%) Bash
3 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.94%) SQL
5 1 (1.59%) C#
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
1 8 (12.70%) Azure Certification
2 5 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) IBM Certification
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) CISSP
4 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) CCNP
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (14.29%) QA
3 7 (11.11%) Accessibility
4 5 (7.94%) GDPR
4 5 (7.94%) ISO 20022
5 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (3.17%) PERC
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) Terraform
2 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.94%) Ansible
4 4 (6.35%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.76%) SCCM
6 2 (3.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) IBM
3 4 (6.35%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.76%) Citrix
4 3 (4.76%) VMware
5 2 (3.17%) Concur
6 1 (1.59%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.59%) Facebook
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.59%) Tealium
6 1 (1.59%) TikTok