GCP Contracts in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 104 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -39 +13
Contract jobs citing GCP 40 52 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.46% 1.72% 3.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.57% 4.58% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 100
10th Percentile £100 £454 £424
25th Percentile £375 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £656
90th Percentile £755 £650 £738
England median daily rate £600 £625 £601
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.08% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +184.78% +53.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.09 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.53% +7.83% +47.23%

All Cloud Skills
North West

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 876 1,135 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.99% 37.45% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 841 1,113
10th Percentile £283 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.94 £14.70
25th Percentile - £17.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.20 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% +3.05% +44.63%
75th Percentile £26.50 £59.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North West.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Manchester -2 32 £525 -8.70% 53
Cheshire 0 6 £494 +2.86% 2
Merseyside +17 2 - - 2
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
2 2 (5.00%) Traefik
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (75.00%) AWS
2 27 (67.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) Google Analytics
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.00%) Mimecast
5 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.50%) BigCommerce
8 1 (2.50%) Matillion
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.00%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) VLAN
2 6 (15.00%) VPN
3 4 (10.00%) BGP
3 4 (10.00%) MPLS
3 4 (10.00%) OSPF
3 4 (10.00%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (10.00%) Wireshark
4 3 (7.50%) Firewall
5 2 (5.00%) DHCP
6 1 (2.50%) Network Security
6 1 (2.50%) SAN
6 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.50%) Data Hub
4 3 (7.50%) DB2
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
1 4 (10.00%) Hudson
2 3 (7.50%) Git
3 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Analyst
1 7 (17.50%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Data Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (5.00%) Node.js
1 2 (5.00%) SAML
1 2 (5.00%) Spring
1 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.50%) Express.js
2 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) HTML5
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) koa
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Data Fabric
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 4 (10.00%) zOS
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.00%) CentOS
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Analytics
1 9 (22.50%) Migration
2 8 (20.00%) ETL
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 5 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (10.00%) Change Management
6 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (10.00%) Data Management
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (10.00%) Open Source
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.50%) Go
5 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.50%) Java
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) CCNP
1 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) CCIE
2 4 (10.00%) VCAP
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
2 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Consul
4 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.00%) Graphite
4 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.00%) Istio
4 2 (5.00%) linkerd
4 2 (5.00%) Packer
4 2 (5.00%) Podman
4 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 2 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Google
2 4 (10.00%) F5
2 4 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (10.00%) Sophos
2 4 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) Dell
5 1 (2.50%) Qualys
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat