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 6 August 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 62 90
Rank change year-on-year -36 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Google 81 66 33
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.14% 3.01% 1.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.19% 6.11% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 31 18
10th Percentile £335 £313 £368
25th Percentile £414 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £803
90th Percentile £617 £650 £850
England median daily rate £513 £478 £550
% change year-on-year +7.33% -13.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £77.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £21.92 £70.00
% change year-on-year +61.95% -68.69% +105.88%

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 1,562 1,080 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 41.29% 49.23% 39.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 688 546
10th Percentile £250 £300 £271
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £665 £665 £663
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 73 97
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £19.07 £11.07
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.43 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +77.02% -45.19%
75th Percentile £61.57 £50.00 £35.36
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £57.47
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -30 56 £500 - 90
Cheshire - 22 £453 - 22
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 11 (13.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.79%) GCP
2 41 (50.62%) Azure
3 34 (41.98%) AWS
4 16 (19.75%) Google Workspace
5 15 (18.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 13 (16.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (14.81%) SaaS
8 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (13.58%) Vertex AI
9 9 (11.11%) Google Sheets
10 7 (8.64%) Google Drive
11 6 (7.41%) Azure AI
11 6 (7.41%) IBM Watson
12 3 (3.70%) Asana
12 3 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
12 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.70%) Google Gemini
12 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
13 2 (2.47%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.40%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) Network Security
3 3 (3.70%) BGP
3 3 (3.70%) DKIM
3 3 (3.70%) DMARC
3 3 (3.70%) DNS
3 3 (3.70%) OSPF
3 3 (3.70%) VPN
4 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.23%) Junos
5 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.47%) Tableau
2 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.23%) Flink
2 1 (1.23%) Looker
2 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Charles Proxy
General
1 20 (24.69%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.41%) Marketing
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.94%) Advertising
7 3 (3.70%) Banking
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Games
9 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Architect
2 16 (19.75%) Security Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Administrator
4 6 (7.41%) Analyst
4 6 (7.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (6.17%) Senior
6 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Consultant
6 4 (4.94%) Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.70%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (2.47%) Data Migration Consultant
8 2 (2.47%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) LangChain
1 6 (7.41%) PyTorch
1 6 (7.41%) scikit-learn
2 4 (4.94%) React
3 3 (3.70%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (2.47%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (2.47%) Next.js
4 2 (2.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.23%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.23%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.23%) Kafka
5 1 (1.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.23%) PySpark
5 1 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.99%) Security Posture
3 13 (16.05%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.64%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.94%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) Animation
7 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.23%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.23%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.23%) IVR
8 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.99%) Windows
2 14 (17.28%) Linux
3 13 (16.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.47%) VMS
5 1 (1.23%) Android
5 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) DevOps
2 27 (33.33%) AI
3 24 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 20 (24.69%) SIEM
5 19 (23.46%) Agile
6 16 (19.75%) Change Management
7 15 (18.52%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.52%) Migration
7 15 (18.52%) Roadmaps
7 15 (18.52%) Scrum
8 14 (17.28%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (17.28%) Load Balancing
8 14 (17.28%) Machine Learning
8 14 (17.28%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (16.05%) Generative AI
9 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (13.58%) Data Loss Prevention
10 11 (13.58%) LLM
10 11 (13.58%) Observability
10 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (17.28%) Bash
2 14 (17.28%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.81%) Java
4 4 (4.94%) SQL
5 3 (3.70%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) Go
6 1 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
2 14 (17.28%) Azure Certification
2 14 (17.28%) CISSP
3 13 (16.05%) Degree
4 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.70%) CCNP
8 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (1.23%) ACCA
9 1 (1.23%) BC Cleared
9 1 (1.23%) CCNA
9 1 (1.23%) CIMA
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) PERC
3 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (24.69%) Terraform
2 19 (23.46%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.05%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.23%) Ansible
5 1 (1.23%) Istio
5 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.05%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.41%) IBM
4 5 (6.17%) Concur
5 4 (4.94%) DocuSign
5 4 (4.94%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.94%) Pega
5 4 (4.94%) Tealium
5 4 (4.94%) TikTok
6 2 (2.47%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) Perforce
7 1 (1.23%) Adobe
7 1 (1.23%) Aruba
7 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.23%) Genesys
7 1 (1.23%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.23%) Juniper
7 1 (1.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore