Google Play Contracts

Google Play
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Google Play skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Google Play over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 710 833
Rank change year-on-year +123 +123 -154
Contract jobs citing Google Play 4 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.014% 0.024%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.029% 0.037% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile - £400 £368
25th Percentile £243 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.37% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £380 £513 £625
90th Percentile £475 £520 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Play 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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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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 4 May 2024.

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 6 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 4 May 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 4 £298 -37.37% 12
London +100 3 £285 -41.54% 3
Work from Home +126 1 £310 -32.97% 18
UK excluding London +65 1 £525 +10.53% 9
North of England +26 1 £525 +10.53% 5
North West +19 1 £525 +10.53% 3

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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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Billing
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Material Design
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Document Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) Xamarin