GCP Contracts in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 45 66 59
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 34 30 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.67% 1.98% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.95% 5.38% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 50
10th Percentile £451 £100 £448
25th Percentile £494 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £513 £581
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -11.83% -3.13%
75th Percentile £712 £613 £650
90th Percentile £735 £728 £676
North West median daily rate £575 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.98% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.50

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Manchester

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Salford - 7 £716 - 5
Bolton - 4 - - 44
GCP
North West

GCP
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 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Kondor
2 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (70.59%) AWS
1 24 (70.59%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Apigee
3 2 (5.88%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) npm
3 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.94%) Datadog
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) VPN
2 4 (11.76%) DHCP
2 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.88%) Calico
4 1 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.94%) Mixpanel
4 1 (2.94%) Parquet
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) GitLab
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) CircleCI
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Git
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.94%) Gradle
5 1 (2.94%) JUnit
5 1 (2.94%) Mockito
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Banking
3 7 (20.59%) Legal
3 7 (20.59%) Telecoms
4 5 (14.71%) Finance
5 4 (11.76%) French Language
6 2 (5.88%) Retail
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Military
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Architect
2 7 (20.59%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Support
4 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Project Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Vision Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Lead
6 1 (2.94%) Service Management Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) REST
1 5 (14.71%) SOAP
2 4 (11.76%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth
4 2 (5.88%) Django
4 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.88%) Playwright
4 2 (5.88%) Puppeteer
4 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.88%) React
4 2 (5.88%) Swagger
5 1 (2.94%) Flask
5 1 (2.94%) pytest
5 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.94%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
1 5 (14.71%) Derivative
1 5 (14.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
4 2 (5.88%) Android
4 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Computer Science
2 10 (29.41%) CI/CD
2 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 7 (20.59%) DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) Microservices
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (14.71%) ITSM
4 5 (14.71%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (14.71%) Risk Management
4 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
4 5 (14.71%) Service Management
5 4 (11.76%) API Development
5 4 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 4 (11.76%) Project Management
5 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 11 (32.35%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Degree
2 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (20.59%) AWS Certification
4 7 (20.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (20.59%) Azure Certification
4 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
5 4 (11.76%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) Basel III
2 5 (14.71%) MiFID
3 1 (2.94%) COBIT
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Google
2 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) Sybase
4 2 (5.88%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.94%) BMC
5 1 (2.94%) Confluent
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk