Firebase Contracts

Google Firebase
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Firebase skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firebase over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 672 787
Rank change year-on-year +98 +115 -164
Contract jobs citing Firebase 24 47 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.079% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 42
10th Percentile £325 £415 £350
25th Percentile £350 £476 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £476 £660 -
90th Percentile £488 £690 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Firebase is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Firebase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Firebase in the UK

Firebase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firebase.

Daily rate trend for Firebase in the UK

Firebase
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firebase over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firebase in the UK

Firebase
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firebase.

Hourly rate trend for Firebase in the UK

Firebase
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +107 21 £450 -14.29% 20
London +96 15 £438 -27.08% 11
Work from Home +120 11 £450 -18.18% 15
UK excluding London +52 4 £450 -14.29% 7
South West +23 3 £450 - 2
North of England +23 1 - - 1
North West +14 1 - -

Firebase
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (20.83%) BrowserStack
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon Alexa
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Flurry Analytics
3 4 (16.67%) PubNub
3 4 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Datadog
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) MQTT
1 4 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 7 (29.17%) Appium
3 7 (29.17%) JIRA
4 6 (25.00%) GitLab
4 6 (25.00%) Postman
5 5 (20.83%) JMeter
6 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.17%) Crashlytics
6 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) Git
6 1 (4.17%) Gradle
6 1 (4.17%) Storybook
6 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Tester
4 4 (16.67%) QA Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Flutter Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) React Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Lead iOS Developer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Automation Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) WebdriverIO
2 5 (20.83%) Middleware
3 3 (12.50%) Laravel
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) Dagger
4 2 (8.33%) Flutter
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) React
5 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (4.17%) iOS SDK
5 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (4.17%) Material-UI
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) Retrofit
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) SwiftUI
5 1 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (25.00%) Android Development
3 6 (25.00%) Test Management
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Testing
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 5 (20.83%) Test Planning
5 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 4 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) PHP
5 2 (8.33%) Dart
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace