Firebase Contracts

Google Firebase
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Firebase skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firebase over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 668 801
Rank change year-on-year +92 +133 -162
Contract jobs citing Firebase 24 48 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.081% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 41
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £350 £459 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £655 £519
90th Percentile £487 £688 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Firebase 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 13,936 21,745 34,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.81% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 15,710 24,937
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 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 351 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £49.52
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%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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 +100 22 £450 -14.29% 17
London +108 16 £419 -30.21% 13
Work from Home +114 10 £450 -14.29% 9
UK excluding London +45 4 £450 -14.29% 1
South West +24 3 £450 - 1
North West +25 1 - -
North of England +22 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) BlazeMeter
2 6 (25.00%) BrowserStack
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon Alexa
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Flurry Analytics
3 4 (16.67%) PubNub
3 4 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (8.33%) Datadog
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) MQTT
1 4 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (33.33%) Appium
2 8 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 8 (33.33%) JIRA
3 7 (29.17%) GitLab
4 6 (25.00%) Postman
5 5 (20.83%) JMeter
6 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.17%) Crashlytics
7 1 (4.17%) Git
7 1 (4.17%) Gradle
7 1 (4.17%) Storybook
7 1 (4.17%) Xcode
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Android Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Tester
3 4 (16.67%) QA Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Flutter Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) QA Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) React Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Full Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead iOS Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior React Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
2 5 (20.83%) Middleware
3 3 (12.50%) Laravel
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) Flutter
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) React
5 1 (4.17%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (4.17%) AVFoundation
5 1 (4.17%) Express.js
5 1 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (4.17%) Material-UI
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.17%) React Native
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
5 1 (4.17%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Test Automation
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (29.17%) Test Management
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Android Development
4 5 (20.83%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Testing
4 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 5 (20.83%) Test Planning
5 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (16.67%) Conversational UI
5 4 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Kotlin
3 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) PHP
5 2 (8.33%) Dart
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft