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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing GCP 34 13 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.22% 1.65% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.27% 5.12% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 34
10th Percentile £393 £300 £433
25th Percentile £538 £375 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £495 £563
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £556 £683
90th Percentile £681 £607 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £495 £563
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.00% -16.67%
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 209 254 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 44.37% 32.19% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 185 327
10th Percentile £294 £293 £363
25th Percentile £375 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -4.52% -9.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £31.53 - £54.80
25th Percentile £31.62 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £66.51 - £74.00
90th Percentile £85.74 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +119.73% -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 3 June 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 11 (32.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Magento
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.82%) Google Compute Engine
4 3 (8.82%) npm
4 3 (8.82%) PaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (5.88%) dbt
6 1 (2.94%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.94%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Miro
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) LAN
2 1 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) VLAN
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Flink
2 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (17.65%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.88%) Bigtable
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) Looker
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) webpack
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) DBeaver
4 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) GCP Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Angular Developer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) GCP Data Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) SAP Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Kafka
2 9 (26.47%) Apache Beam
2 9 (26.47%) Spark Streaming
3 7 (20.59%) JDBC
4 3 (8.82%) .NET
4 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.82%) CSS
4 3 (8.82%) Flask
4 3 (8.82%) HTML
4 3 (8.82%) pytest
4 3 (8.82%) REST
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
4 3 (8.82%) Web Services
5 1 (2.94%) EDI
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) CentOS
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (29.41%) High Availability
5 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven
6 7 (20.59%) Analytics
6 7 (20.59%) Data Engineering
6 7 (20.59%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.65%) Data Science
8 5 (14.71%) ETL
9 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 4 (11.76%) Data Analytics
9 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (11.76%) SDLC
9 4 (11.76%) Workflow
10 3 (8.82%) Loose Coupling
10 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning
10 3 (8.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
3 5 (14.71%) Scala
4 3 (8.82%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Google
2 9 (26.47%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) WooCommerce