GCP Contracts in Lancashire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GCP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.00% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 66 81 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 33.00% 37.33% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 51
10th Percentile £376 £344 £205
25th Percentile £425 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.65%
75th Percentile £570 £639 £643
90th Percentile £628 £719 £645
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 10
10th Percentile - - £21.07
25th Percentile £26.88 - £39.85
Median hourly rate £34.67 £16.06 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +115.88% -65.22% +139.96%
75th Percentile £46.36 - -
90th Percentile £49.55 - £53.33
North West median hourly rate £34.67 £16.06 £22.47
% change year-on-year +115.88% -28.53% -14.87%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Lancashire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Lancashire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Lancaster - 1 £530 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 - -
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Virgin Media