GCP Contracts in Merseyside

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 20 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +3
Contract jobs citing GCP 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.36% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.00% 4.26% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £471 - £485
25th Percentile £578 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.14%
75th Percentile £638 - £600
90th Percentile £641 - £615
North West median daily rate £575 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.98% -3.13%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 47 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.79% 20.61% 36.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 97
10th Percentile £133 £143 £343
25th Percentile £150 £181 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £248 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% -50.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £513 £388 £675
90th Percentile £638 £443 £700
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.25
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.95
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Merseyside

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Merseyside

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Merseyside

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +13 7 £625 - 28
GCP
North West

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (22.22%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) Google Ads
4 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 3 (33.33%) Tableau
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Apple
4 1 (11.11%) Criteo
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks