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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 94
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Google 62 45 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.94% 2.31% 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 4.62% 4.29% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 24
10th Percentile £313 £216 £100
25th Percentile £413 £444 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% -8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £544
90th Percentile £688 £716 £850
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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% -43.17%

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 1,343 1,049 1,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.09% 53.74% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 676 653
10th Percentile £219 £250 £270
25th Percentile £375 £393 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £654 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 51 149
10th Percentile £19.57 £17.44 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £25.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £26.39
90th Percentile £85.60 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £30.49 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.41% +20.56% -44.10%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -18 44 £563 -10.00% 33
Cheshire -1 16 £523 - 5
Merseyside -20 1 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 11
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 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (67.74%) GCP
2 35 (56.45%) Azure
3 28 (45.16%) AWS
4 10 (16.13%) Google Workspace
4 10 (16.13%) SaaS
5 9 (14.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (14.52%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.90%) Google Analytics
6 8 (12.90%) Google Tag Manager
7 7 (11.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.06%) Google Drive
9 4 (6.45%) Azure AI
9 4 (6.45%) IBM Watson
9 4 (6.45%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.84%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.84%) GitHub
11 2 (3.23%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) Internet
3 2 (3.23%) BGP
3 2 (3.23%) DKIM
3 2 (3.23%) DMARC
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) OSPF
3 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) BigQuery
2 9 (14.52%) Power BI
3 8 (12.90%) Looker
4 3 (4.84%) Tableau
5 2 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Selenium
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 12 (19.35%) Finance
4 8 (12.90%) Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Advertising
6 4 (6.45%) Marketing
7 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.84%) Retail
8 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.61%) Military
9 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Architect
2 11 (17.74%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Security Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Senior
5 7 (11.29%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Performance Analyst
6 6 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.06%) Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Governance Manager
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Performance Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Payments Architect
10 2 (3.23%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) LangChain
1 4 (6.45%) PyTorch
1 4 (6.45%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.84%) OAuth
3 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) Spring
3 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.61%) .NET
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.61%) CSS
4 1 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (1.61%) JWT
4 1 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.68%) Private Cloud
2 6 (9.68%) Security Posture
3 5 (8.06%) e-Learning
4 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.45%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.45%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.23%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (3.23%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Mac OS
2 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) Analytics
2 19 (30.65%) DevOps
3 18 (29.03%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
5 15 (24.19%) Roadmaps
6 14 (22.58%) Migration
7 13 (20.97%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.52%) Data Analysis
9 9 (14.52%) Data Privacy
9 9 (14.52%) Observability
9 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (14.52%) User Experience
10 8 (12.90%) AI
10 8 (12.90%) Generative AI
10 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (12.90%) Microservices
10 8 (12.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) Python
2 8 (12.90%) Bash
3 7 (11.29%) Java
3 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) AWS Certification
2 8 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (6.45%) IBM Certification
6 3 (4.84%) CISSP
7 2 (3.23%) CCNP
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.23%) Degree
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.90%) GDPR
3 6 (9.68%) QA
4 5 (8.06%) PERC
5 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
6 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (3.23%) ISO 20022
8 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.90%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) Terraform
2 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.06%) Ansible
4 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.84%) Istio
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.84%) SCCM
6 2 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) IBM
3 4 (6.45%) Pega
3 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.45%) Tealium
3 4 (6.45%) TikTok
4 3 (4.84%) Citrix
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
5 1 (1.61%) Concur
5 1 (1.61%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.61%) Facebook
5 1 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Sitecore