GCP Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 21.43% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 60.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -31.03%

All Cloud Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 35.71% 33.33% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £414
25th Percentile £200 - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £200 £725
Median % change year-on-year +106.25% -72.41% +20.83%
75th Percentile £419 - £738
90th Percentile £468 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £508
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.64% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +1526.02% - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax.

GCP job vacancy trend in Halifax

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing GCP

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Design Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Istio
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk