GCP DevOps Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform DevOps
England > North of England

The median Google Cloud Platform DevOps daily rate in the North of England is £571, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 163 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs requiring a GCP DevOps 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.090% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.097% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £418 £614 -
25th Percentile £500 £616 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% - -
75th Percentile £654 £666 -
90th Percentile £892 £671 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -14.81%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,697 3,077 4,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.32% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,093 1,835 3,033
10th Percentile £213 £231 £263
25th Percentile £370 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £470 £487
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -3.49% -2.60%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £584
90th Percentile £650 £656 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 139 354
10th Percentile £16.03 £15.22 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.28 £17.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.62% +29.17% -18.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.70 £69.25 £56.99
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%

GCP DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'GCP DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

GCP DevOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for GCP DevOps job vacancies in the North of England

GCP DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP DevOps in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GCP DevOps in the North of England

GCP DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP DevOps within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. 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
Yorkshire -41 11 £571 -8.64% 1
North West -27 1 £575 -11.54% 1
GCP DevOps
England

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, GCP DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring GCP DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (83.33%) Python
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
4 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (66.67%) Docker
5 8 (66.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (58.33%) Grafana
6 7 (58.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (50.00%) AWS
7 6 (50.00%) Observability
8 5 (41.67%) Agile
8 5 (41.67%) Google
8 5 (41.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
8 5 (41.67%) Microservices
8 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (41.67%) RBAC
8 5 (41.67%) Secrets Management
9 4 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
9 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (33.33%) Dependency Management
9 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
9 4 (33.33%) Git
9 4 (33.33%) Go

GCP DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) GCP
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) Anthos
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Run
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) LangChain
4 1 (8.33%) LangGraph
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (50.00%) Observability
6 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
6 5 (41.67%) Microservices
6 5 (41.67%) RBAC
6 5 (41.67%) Secrets Management
7 4 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
7 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (33.33%) Dependency Management
7 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 4 (33.33%) High Availability
7 4 (33.33%) SBOM
7 4 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (25.00%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Go
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 8 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 7 (58.33%) Grafana
4 3 (25.00%) Ansible
5 2 (16.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (8.33%) Infoblox