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 13 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 66 89
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing Google 82 66 35
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.16% 2.99% 1.47%
As % of the Vendors category 5.11% 6.03% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 32 20
10th Percentile £331 £401 £373
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £586 £638 £719
90th Percentile £617 £650 £850
England median daily rate £510 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +3.03% -10.00% -
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 £34.87 £22.56 £70.00
% change year-on-year +54.54% -67.77% +112.12%

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 1,604 1,094 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 42.34% 49.55% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 703 534
10th Percentile £255 £305 £276
25th Percentile £400 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £597
90th Percentile £663 £674 £673
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 72 95
10th Percentile £17.20 £13.00 £10.95
25th Percentile £22.68 £19.07 £11.07
Median hourly rate £29.00 £26.26 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +63.51% -52.76%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.00 £35.68
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £55.79
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -29 57 £500 -13.04% 84
Cheshire - 22 £453 - 19
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 (13.41%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 48 (58.54%) GCP
2 42 (51.22%) Azure
3 36 (43.90%) AWS
4 16 (19.51%) Google Workspace
5 15 (18.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 13 (15.85%) SaaS
6 13 (15.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (13.41%) Vertex AI
8 9 (10.98%) Google Sheets
9 7 (8.54%) Google Drive
10 6 (7.32%) Azure AI
10 6 (7.32%) IBM Watson
11 3 (3.66%) Asana
11 3 (3.66%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.66%) Google Gemini
11 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (3.66%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 23 (28.05%) Firewall
2 5 (6.10%) Network Security
3 3 (3.66%) BGP
3 3 (3.66%) DKIM
3 3 (3.66%) DMARC
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) OSPF
3 3 (3.66%) VPN
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.22%) Junos
5 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.44%) Power BI
1 2 (2.44%) Tableau
2 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.22%) Flink
2 1 (1.22%) Looker
2 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Charles Proxy
General
1 22 (26.83%) Finance
2 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Marketing
5 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.88%) Advertising
7 3 (3.66%) Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.44%) Games
9 1 (1.22%) Billing
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) Architect
1 18 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (19.51%) Security Engineer
3 7 (8.54%) Administrator
4 6 (7.32%) Analyst
4 6 (7.32%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) GCP Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Senior
6 4 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.88%) Consultant
7 3 (3.66%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (2.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) LangChain
1 6 (7.32%) PyTorch
1 6 (7.32%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.66%) OAuth
2 3 (3.66%) React
3 2 (2.44%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.44%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (2.44%) Next.js
3 2 (2.44%) Node.js
4 1 (1.22%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (1.22%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (1.22%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.73%) Security Posture
3 13 (15.85%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.54%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.88%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.66%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.44%) Animation
7 2 (2.44%) CMDB
7 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.22%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) IVR
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Windows
2 14 (17.07%) Linux
3 13 (15.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.44%) VMS
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.15%) AI
1 28 (34.15%) DevOps
2 24 (29.27%) CI/CD
3 20 (24.39%) SIEM
4 18 (21.95%) Agile
5 17 (20.73%) Roadmaps
6 16 (19.51%) Change Management
7 15 (18.29%) Cloud Security
7 15 (18.29%) Machine Learning
7 15 (18.29%) Migration
7 15 (18.29%) Scrum
8 14 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (17.07%) Load Balancing
8 14 (17.07%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (15.85%) Generative AI
9 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (14.63%) LLM
11 11 (13.41%) Data Loss Prevention
11 11 (13.41%) Observability
11 11 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) Python
2 14 (17.07%) Bash
2 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 12 (14.63%) Java
4 4 (4.88%) SQL
5 3 (3.66%) Bicep
6 1 (1.22%) Go
6 1 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) AWS Certification
2 14 (17.07%) Azure Certification
2 14 (17.07%) CISSP
2 14 (17.07%) Degree
3 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.66%) CCNP
7 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.22%) ACCA
8 1 (1.22%) BC Cleared
8 1 (1.22%) CCNA
8 1 (1.22%) CIMA
8 1 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
2 4 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) PERC
3 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (20.73%) Docker
2 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Terraform
2 19 (23.17%) Kubernetes
3 13 (15.85%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.22%) Ansible
5 1 (1.22%) Istio
5 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.54%) IBM
4 5 (6.10%) Concur
5 4 (4.88%) DocuSign
5 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.88%) Pega
5 4 (4.88%) Tealium
5 4 (4.88%) TikTok
6 2 (2.44%) Adobe
6 2 (2.44%) Databricks
6 2 (2.44%) Perforce
6 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.22%) Genesys
7 1 (1.22%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.22%) Juniper
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle
7 1 (1.22%) VMware