GCP Contracts in Leeds

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 31 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +21
Contract jobs citing GCP 29 11 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.24% 1.38% 3.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.55% 4.33% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 32
10th Percentile £389 £296 £428
25th Percentile £488 £325 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £563
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -16.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £691
90th Percentile £638 £617 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 214 254 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.02% 31.79% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 366
10th Percentile £263 £295 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £618
90th Percentile £714 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.64 - £54.80
25th Percentile £36.13 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 - £74.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Leeds

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Leeds

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Leeds

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (24.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) Google Compute Engine
3 3 (10.34%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) npm
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Miro
5 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) LAN
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Flink
2 4 (13.79%) BigQuery
2 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) webpack
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) DBeaver
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) GCP Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Angular Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) DBA
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (3.45%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 6 (20.69%) Apache Beam
2 6 (20.69%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (13.79%) JDBC
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) Flask
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
4 2 (6.90%) pytest
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.45%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) CentOS
3 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Analytics
3 7 (24.14%) Data Engineering
3 7 (24.14%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Data Science
4 6 (20.69%) Event-Driven
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
5 4 (13.79%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) ETL
5 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (10.34%) Agile
6 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
6 3 (10.34%) SDLC
6 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) Scala
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) GDPR
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Google
2 9 (31.03%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow