Google Pay Contract Job Trends

Google Pay (formerly Android Pay)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Google Pay skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 545 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Google Pay 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.008% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.023% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £453 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% - -
75th Percentile £534 £675 -
90th Percentile £544 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Pay 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 13,831 12,951 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.51% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,367 8,522 11,553
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 190 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.72 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.73 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +13.82% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.67 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.40%

Google Pay
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Pay relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Google Pay job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Pay
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Pay.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Pay

Google Pay
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Pay over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Pay in the UK

Google Pay
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Pay within the UK over the 6 months to 26 November 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
England -19 5 £513 -21.15% 1
Work from Home - 3 £400 - 1
London +1 2 £531 -18.27%
South East - 2 - -
UK excluding London - 2 - - 2

Google Pay
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (100.00%) Apple Pay
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Compliance Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) People Management
3 2 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (40.00%) Release Train
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) OCP
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (40.00%) PgMP
1 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (40.00%) PMP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Apple
3 2 (40.00%) Samsung
4 1 (20.00%) Adyen
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle