Google Play Contracts

Google Play
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Google Play skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Google Play over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 578 709
Rank change year-on-year +61 +131 +125
Contract jobs citing Google Play 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.009% 0.015%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.027% 0.028% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £205 - £400
25th Percentile £288 £243 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £298 £475
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -37.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £456 £380 £513
90th Percentile £475 £475 £520
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
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 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Google Play
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Google Play in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Google Play in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Google Play over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Google Play in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Google Play in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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 +42 2 £313 +0.81% 12
England +54 1 £150 -49.58% 18
London +36 1 £150 -47.37% 9

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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 1 (33.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Android Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (33.33%) Android SDK
1 1 (33.33%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) Android Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Apple