GCP Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in Manchester is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £703 - -
90th Percentile £731 - -
North West median daily rate £675 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,038 1,074 1,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.96% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 633 1,097
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £584
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 43 58
10th Percentile £17.17 £15.92 £15.42
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £30.07 £44.38 £49.75
90th Percentile £53.30 £65.00 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

GCP Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

GCP Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Architect job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP Architect job vacancies in Manchester

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, GCP Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 7 (87.50%) BigQuery
2 7 (87.50%) Google
3 5 (62.50%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (50.00%) Hitachi
5 3 (37.50%) Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) Digital Innovation
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
6 2 (25.00%) Data Management
6 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (25.00%) DataOps
6 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Kafka
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
7 1 (12.50%) AWS

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) BigQuery
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Automotive
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) AI
1 5 (62.50%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Data Encryption
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) DataOps
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 4 (50.00%) Hitachi