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

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 37 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.06% 2.20% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.28% 6.05% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 40
10th Percentile £401 £100 £450
25th Percentile £475 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £716 £663 £600
90th Percentile £759 £758 £650
North West median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -4.17%
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
% change year-on-year - - +184.78%

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 360 529 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 39.47% 36.38% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 413 554
10th Percentile £364 £313 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £575
90th Percentile £658 £650 £654
North West median daily rate £463 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 17
10th Percentile £69.25 £22.90 £15.89
25th Percentile £71.88 £25.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% +91.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £91.88 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £74.10 -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £24.87
% change year-on-year +79.02% -35.41% -7.73%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -
Bolton - 4 - - 35
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 4 (10.81%) WebSphere
1 4 (10.81%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Kondor
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) AWS
1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Apigee
3 4 (10.81%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) npm
4 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.70%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.70%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) VPN
2 4 (10.81%) Calico
2 4 (10.81%) DHCP
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.70%) Mixpanel
4 1 (2.70%) Parquet
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) GitLab
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 5 (13.51%) CircleCI
3 5 (13.51%) Git
4 4 (10.81%) Maven
5 3 (8.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 18 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (45.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Banking
4 7 (18.92%) Finance
4 7 (18.92%) Legal
4 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
5 4 (10.81%) French Language
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (10.81%) IT Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Project Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) REST
1 5 (13.51%) RESTful
1 5 (13.51%) SOAP
2 4 (10.81%) OAuth
3 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) Playwright
3 3 (8.11%) Puppeteer
3 3 (8.11%) React
4 2 (5.41%) Django
4 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.41%) Swagger
5 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) NumPy
5 1 (2.70%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.70%) PySpark
5 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Derivative
2 5 (13.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) Android
3 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
1 13 (35.14%) Computer Science
2 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.92%) Microservices
7 5 (13.51%) Agile
7 5 (13.51%) API Development
7 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.51%) ITSM
7 5 (13.51%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.51%) Service Delivery
7 5 (13.51%) Service Management
7 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
8 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
8 4 (10.81%) Project Management
8 4 (10.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Degree
2 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
4 7 (18.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Certification
4 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
5 4 (10.81%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CISM
6 1 (2.70%) CISSP
6 1 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 5 (13.51%) Basel III
2 5 (13.51%) MiFID
3 2 (5.41%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) COBIT
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Istio
4 3 (8.11%) Grafana
4 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) Google
2 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 5 (13.51%) Sybase
4 4 (10.81%) IBM
5 3 (8.11%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.70%) BMC
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.70%) Remedy
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk