GCP Contracts in Cheshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing GCP 13 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.90% 1.19% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.66% 3.43% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £428 £413 £483
25th Percentile £463 £431 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -17.39% -2.54%
75th Percentile £618 £503 £638
90th Percentile £671 £513 £668
North West median daily rate £575 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.98% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.50

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Cheshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Cheshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Cheshire

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in Cheshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford - 4 £573 - 1
Macclesfield - 3 £520 - 1
Wilmslow - 1 - - 2
Alderley Edge - 1 £575 - 2
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (30.77%) Azure AI
3 4 (30.77%) Google Gemini
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) BGP
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) MPLS
1 2 (15.38%) Network Security
1 2 (15.38%) OSPF
1 2 (15.38%) VLAN
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Neo4j
2 3 (23.08%) Bigtable
2 3 (23.08%) Data Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) ER Studio
2 3 (23.08%) ERwin
General
1 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Legal
2 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
2 4 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Modeller
2 3 (23.08%) Security Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Security Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) PyTorch
1 4 (30.77%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) OLE
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Generative AI
1 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Vision
2 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
2 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
2 4 (30.77%) Linear Algebra
2 4 (30.77%) LLM
2 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
2 4 (30.77%) Multi-Agent System
2 4 (30.77%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (30.77%) Pattern Recognition
2 4 (30.77%) RDF
2 4 (30.77%) SDLC
2 4 (30.77%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Scala
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CCIE
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) JNCIE
1 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) IDERA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) F5
2 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Ariba
3 1 (7.69%) SAP