Firebase Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 432 570
Rank change year-on-year +100 +138 -107
Contract jobs citing Firebase 13 22 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.088% 0.089% 0.095%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 26
10th Percentile £375 £300 £335
25th Percentile £416 £450 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £476 £650 £539
90th Percentile £488 £677 £588
UK median daily rate £456 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -13.10% +5.00% +11.11%
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 median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,396 9,727 18,246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.55% 39.48% 41.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,890 7,218 13,626
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £743 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Firebase
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firebase as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firebase trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firebase
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firebase.

Firebase daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Firebase
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firebase over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Firebase daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firebase
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (38.46%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (38.46%) BrowserStack
2 5 (38.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Cypress.io
2 6 (46.15%) Appium
2 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 6 (46.15%) JMeter
2 6 (46.15%) Postman
3 5 (38.46%) GitLab
3 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Crashlytics
4 1 (7.69%) Gradle
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) QA Tester
2 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Flutter Developer
3 2 (15.38%) React Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) WebdriverIO
2 5 (38.46%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) Flutter
3 2 (15.38%) React
4 1 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (7.69%) Dagger
4 1 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (7.69%) Laravel
4 1 (7.69%) Material-UI
4 1 (7.69%) React Native
4 1 (7.69%) Redux
4 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (38.46%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Defect Tracking
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Test Management
3 5 (38.46%) Test Planning
3 5 (38.46%) Validation
4 2 (15.38%) Conversational UI
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 2 (15.38%) QA Automation
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Dart
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft