Google Play Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Google Play
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Google Play skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 - 403
Rank change year-on-year - - +90
Contract jobs citing Google Play 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% - 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £375 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile £487 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £150 £500
% change year-on-year +242.17% -70.00% +5.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,871 4,553 5,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.15% 31.21% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,086 3,001 4,319
10th Percentile £239 £238 £217
25th Percentile £375 £380 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £661 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 111 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +15.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -1.05% +6.55% +14.71%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Play relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Google Play job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Google Play
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Play.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Google Play

Google Play
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Play in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Play in the UK excluding London

Google Play
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
North of England - 4 £440 - 15
Yorkshire - 4 £440 - 4
Midlands - 1 £513 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £513 -
Scotland - 1 £350 -
Google Play
UK

Google Play
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) CircleCI
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) CocoaPods
2 1 (16.67%) Gradle
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (83.33%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Jest
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) React Native
3 1 (16.67%) Redux
3 1 (16.67%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Android Development
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) MVVM
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Software Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) iOS Development
5 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile Development
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
2 1 (16.67%) Swift
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Apple