GCP Contracts in Northern Ireland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 28 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -4
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.03% 2.45% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.11% 7.81% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £525 -
25th Percentile £663 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £600
90th Percentile - £630 £660
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.09% +12.41%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 64 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 25.00% 31.37% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 25
10th Percentile £465 £182 £414
25th Percentile £525 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £646 £588 -
90th Percentile £676 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.33 £10.43
25th Percentile - £13.46 £10.64
Median hourly rate - £13.84 £12.70
Median % change year-on-year - +9.04% +26.95%
75th Percentile - £14.15 £13.89
90th Percentile - £14.22 -
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Northern Ireland

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for GCP in Northern Ireland

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
County Antrim -1 3 £675 +17.39% 13
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft