GCP Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 28 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 23 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 8.46% 4.52% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.04% 10.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 0
10th Percentile £358 £318 -
25th Percentile £414 £341 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.20% - -
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £627 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £356 £555
% change year-on-year +38.20% -35.86% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £75.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 135 78 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 49.63% 44.07% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 64 27
10th Percentile £313 £332 £450
25th Percentile £358 £359 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% -6.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £480 £565 £535
90th Percentile £512 £638 £563
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £489 £475
% change year-on-year -13.09% +2.95% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.88 £24.18 £23.07
% change year-on-year -30.21% +4.81% +5.92%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Knutsford

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Knutsford over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Knutsford

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (91.30%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.70%) Apigee
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.70%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) HTTP
3 2 (8.70%) HTTPS
4 1 (4.35%) BGP
4 1 (4.35%) MPLS
4 1 (4.35%) Network Security
4 1 (4.35%) OSPF
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) CircleCI
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Finance
4 6 (26.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Security Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Payments Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Apigee Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Java Applications Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
2 2 (8.70%) JAX-RS
2 2 (8.70%) JSON
2 2 (8.70%) JWT
2 2 (8.70%) OAuth
2 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
2 2 (8.70%) RESTful
2 2 (8.70%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Credit Risk
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
2 8 (34.78%) Microservices
3 7 (30.43%) Analytics
3 7 (30.43%) Data Science
3 7 (30.43%) Machine Learning
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (26.09%) IT Strategy
4 6 (26.09%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Logical Data Model
5 5 (21.74%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (21.74%) Portfolio Management
5 5 (21.74%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (21.74%) Statistical Modelling
5 5 (21.74%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (21.74%) UML
5 5 (21.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) R
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) CISM
1 5 (21.74%) CISSP
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) CCIE
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) JNCIE
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) ISO 20022
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (21.74%) NIST
2 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Fluentd
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) Cribl.io
2 5 (21.74%) Google
2 5 (21.74%) Pega
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) F5
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet