Google Play Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Google Play
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Google Play skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Google Play 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.19% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £450 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Tyne and Wear

Google Play 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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 178 102 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.46% 40.80% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 72 24
10th Percentile £306 £325 £188
25th Percentile £380 £410 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £489
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +1.07% -15.04%
75th Percentile £547 £578 £550
90th Percentile £610 £625 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £480 £476
% change year-on-year -6.25% +0.84% -15.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 0
10th Percentile £58.50 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +426.69% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £68.47 £13.00 £20.77
% change year-on-year +426.69% -37.41% -57.61%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Play relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Google Play job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Google Play
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Play within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £450 - 1
Google Play
North East

Google Play
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Android SDK
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google