Firebase Job Trends

Google Firebase
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Firebase skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 663 698
Rank change year-on-year +33 +35 +70
Permanent jobs citing Firebase 23 36 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.067% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.19% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20 30 23
10th Percentile £26,250 - £32,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £23,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £47,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +73.68% -18.10% -17.14%
75th Percentile £90,313 £52,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £61,625 £85,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -40.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Firebase falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Firebase
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firebase relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Firebase job vacancy trend in the UK

Firebase
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Firebase.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Firebase

Firebase
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firebase over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firebase in the UK

Firebase
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firebase within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 23 £82,500 +65.00% 15
London +68 15 £87,500 +52.17% 7
Work from Home +75 13 £55,000 -15.38% 11
UK excluding London +30 8 £40,000 -11.11% 11
North of England +9 4 £60,000 - 9
Midlands +22 3 £27,500 -38.89%
West Midlands +21 3 £27,500 -38.89%
North West +20 3 £60,000 - 8
Yorkshire -11 1 £40,000 - 1
South West - 1 £50,000 -

Firebase
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Algolia
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Figma
6 2 (8.70%) Google App Engine
6 2 (8.70%) Sentry
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Stripe
7 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) BigQuery
2 4 (17.39%) Redis
3 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Crashlytics
4 2 (8.70%) Storybook
5 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
5 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Back Office
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Senior
2 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Junior
4 4 (17.39%) Junior Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Node.js Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Android Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (4.35%) Android Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Node.js
2 10 (43.48%) React
3 6 (26.09%) React Native
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) HTML
4 5 (21.74%) Redux
5 4 (17.39%) .NET
5 4 (17.39%) Next.js
5 4 (17.39%) RESTful
5 4 (17.39%) Web Services
6 3 (13.04%) Laravel
6 3 (13.04%) OAuth
6 3 (13.04%) Vue
7 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (8.70%) CSS3
7 2 (8.70%) Flutter
7 2 (8.70%) Jest
7 2 (8.70%) JWT
7 2 (8.70%) RxJS
7 2 (8.70%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Mobile App
2 5 (21.74%) Data Structures
3 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
3 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.70%) IoT
4 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Android
2 4 (17.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (47.83%) Computer Science
2 11 (47.83%) Software Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) User Experience
3 10 (43.48%) Mentoring
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Microservices
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Front End Development
5 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (21.74%) Analytics
6 5 (21.74%) Android Development
6 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 3 (13.04%) iOS Development
8 3 (13.04%) Mobile First
8 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) TypeScript
2 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Kotlin
4 3 (13.04%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Python
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Swift
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Degree
2 10 (43.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 2 (8.70%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) SendGrid
3 1 (4.35%) Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft