Firebase Contracts

Google Firebase
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Firebase skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firebase over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 566 656
Rank change year-on-year +54 +90 +142
Contract jobs citing Firebase 18 24 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.055% 0.079%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 30
10th Percentile £393 £325 £325
25th Percentile £406 £350 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £658
90th Percentile £563 £487 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,010 14,018 21,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.31% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 9,966 15,782
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 343 349
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.95 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £34.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 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
Work from Home +50 14 £450 - 26
England +50 8 £440 -2.22% 45
UK excluding London +71 6 £400 -11.11% 30
London +35 5 £500 +19.40% 20
Scotland - 3 £450 -
South East - 2 £400 - 10
South West +38 1 £350 -22.22%

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.56%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.56%) Figma
4 1 (5.56%) Google Play
4 1 (5.56%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 3 (16.67%) Storybook
4 1 (5.56%) Android Studio
4 1 (5.56%) Appium
4 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
4 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.56%) TestRail
General
1 1 (5.56%) Banking
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (27.78%) Android Developer
3 5 (27.78%) React Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Angular Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Flutter Developer
5 2 (11.11%) HTML CSS Developer
5 2 (11.11%) HTML Developer
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) React
2 7 (38.89%) CSS
2 7 (38.89%) Tailwind CSS
3 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 6 (33.33%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
4 4 (22.22%) Flutter
4 4 (22.22%) JSON
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Amplify
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 3 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 3 (16.67%) Jest
6 2 (11.11%) .NET
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (11.11%) Material Design
6 2 (11.11%) Retrofit
6 2 (11.11%) Vue
6 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Clean Code
2 7 (38.89%) User Experience
3 6 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
4 4 (22.22%) MVVM
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Android Development
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) OWASP
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
1 5 (27.78%) Kotlin
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google