Firebase Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google Firebase
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Firebase skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 118 143
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing Firebase 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.040% 0.051% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £375 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +45.45% -
75th Percentile - £425 £288
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +31.25% -13.51% -11.90%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

Firebase falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 681 575 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.39% 29.44% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 391 674
10th Percentile £225 £225 £213
25th Percentile £406 £419 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £635 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £701
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 35
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.33 £17.67 £14.43
Median hourly rate £32.75 £27.13 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.74% +39.10% -66.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £29.50 £33.00
90th Percentile £73.02 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £23.22
% change year-on-year +6.36% +21.49% +1.75%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firebase relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Firebase job vacancy trend in the South West

Firebase
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firebase.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firebase

Firebase
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Bristol -1 1 £500 +25.00% 1
Firebase
England

Firebase
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) XCTest
1 1 (100.00%) XCUITest
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Core Data
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Swift