GCP Contracts in Manchester

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 56 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing GCP 32 61 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.09% 3.20% 3.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 8.18% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 70
10th Percentile £100 £452 £446
25th Percentile £375 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £598 £650 £644
90th Percentile £713 £673 £703
North West median daily rate £513 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -12.77% -2.08% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 566 746 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.99% 39.18% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 565 760
10th Percentile £313 £325 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £564 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 17
10th Percentile £18.18 £20.00 -
25th Percentile £22.25 £30.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +271.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £71.87 £70.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £39.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -54.11% +89.19% +6.14%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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
Wigan - 4 £400 -
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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Traefik
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) AWS
2 21 (65.63%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.63%) Google Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.50%) Mimecast
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.13%) BigCommerce
8 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) InfiniBand
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (18.75%) Power BI
3 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.13%) Big Data
6 1 (3.13%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.13%) DB2
6 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (12.50%) Hudson
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Gradle
5 1 (3.13%) JUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Mockito
5 1 (3.13%) Postman
5 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Data Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analytics Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Node.js
1 3 (9.38%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) cloud-init
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) SAML
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.13%) Django
3 1 (3.13%) Express.js
3 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) HTML5
3 1 (3.13%) koa
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Sass
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows
4 2 (6.25%) CentOS
4 2 (6.25%) zOS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Analytics
3 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.75%) ETL
5 5 (15.63%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Open Source
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.38%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
7 3 (9.38%) Data Security
7 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) Go
5 3 (9.38%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Ruby
6 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) CCNP
1 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) CCIE
2 1 (3.13%) CCNA
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) MCSE
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) NCSC
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Consul
5 2 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (6.25%) Graphite
5 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
5 2 (6.25%) Istio
5 2 (6.25%) linkerd
5 2 (6.25%) Packer
5 2 (6.25%) Podman
5 2 (6.25%) Puppet
5 2 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) Sophos
2 4 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (9.38%) Atlassian
3 3 (9.38%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) F5
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix
5 1 (3.13%) Confluent
5 1 (3.13%) Databricks
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) New Relic
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Qualys
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat