GCP Architect Contracts in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Google Cloud Platform Architect daily rate in Manchester is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £750 - -

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 858 1,390 1,698
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 95.21% 96.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 939 1,263
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 83 45
10th Percentile - £12.42 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £19.65 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +50.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £64.06 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £77.88 £73.75 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £27.70
% change year-on-year -12.60% +18.75% +10.80%

GCP Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured GCP Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for GCP Architect in Manchester

GCP Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for GCP Architect in Manchester

GCP Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 26 June 2025, GCP Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring GCP Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration

GCP Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Hitachi