GCP Contracts in the North of England

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 58 97 95
Rank change year-on-year +39 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing GCP 121 91 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.67% 1.91% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.89% 6.46% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 66 111
10th Percentile £350 £331 £450
25th Percentile £458 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £711 £669 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.73
25th Percentile £67.50 - £68.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £72.50 - £76.44
90th Percentile - - £78.58
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North of England

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the North of England

GCP
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 within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +17 61 £525 -2.33% 75
North West +36 58 £575 +15.00% 168
North East -1 2 £463 -22.92% 12
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.79%) Apache
2 7 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Kondor
2 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (57.02%) AWS
2 68 (56.20%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (5.79%) GitHub
5 6 (4.96%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (3.31%) Apigee
6 4 (3.31%) Azure AI
6 4 (3.31%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (3.31%) Google Gemini
6 4 (3.31%) npm
7 3 (2.48%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.48%) CloudBees
7 3 (2.48%) PaaS
7 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.65%) dbt
8 2 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) VPN
2 5 (4.13%) Firewall
2 5 (4.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.31%) DHCP
3 4 (3.31%) DNS
3 4 (3.31%) HTTP
4 3 (2.48%) VLAN
5 2 (1.65%) BGP
5 2 (1.65%) Calico
5 2 (1.65%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.65%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.65%) MPLS
5 2 (1.65%) Network Security
5 2 (1.65%) OSPF
5 2 (1.65%) VoIP
5 2 (1.65%) WAN
6 1 (0.83%) LAN
6 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.83%) SSH
6 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) BigQuery
2 12 (9.92%) Flink
3 11 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.96%) Big Data
5 6 (4.96%) Looker
6 5 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.13%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.31%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.31%) Tableau
8 3 (2.48%) Bigtable
8 3 (2.48%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.48%) Power BI
9 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.65%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.74%) Git
3 11 (9.09%) GitLab
4 10 (8.26%) JIRA
5 4 (3.31%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.31%) ERwin
6 3 (2.48%) ER Studio
6 3 (2.48%) Maven
7 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.65%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.65%) JMeter
7 2 (1.65%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.65%) TestRail
7 2 (1.65%) webpack
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.83%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.83%) Gradle
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Finance
4 19 (15.70%) Banking
5 11 (9.09%) Legal
6 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) French Language
8 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.48%) Military
9 3 (2.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.65%) Marketing
11 1 (0.83%) Advertising
11 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (25.62%) Architect
2 14 (11.57%) Senior
3 11 (9.09%) Analyst
3 11 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (8.26%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.26%) Developer
5 8 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.13%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.13%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Administrator
8 4 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Data Modeller
8 4 (3.31%) GCP Architect
8 4 (3.31%) IT Support
8 4 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Project Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Senior Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.22%) Kafka
2 8 (6.61%) RESTful
3 7 (5.79%) Apache Beam
3 7 (5.79%) REST
3 7 (5.79%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (4.13%) PyTorch
4 5 (4.13%) SOAP
4 5 (4.13%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.31%) JDBC
6 3 (2.48%) D3.js
6 3 (2.48%) Flask
6 3 (2.48%) LDAP
6 3 (2.48%) Middleware
6 3 (2.48%) OAuth
6 3 (2.48%) pytest
6 3 (2.48%) React
7 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.65%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.65%) Puppeteer
7 2 (1.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.13%) Derivative
4 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Replication
7 2 (1.65%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.36%) Linux
2 11 (9.09%) Unix
3 10 (8.26%) Windows
4 4 (3.31%) Android
4 4 (3.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.83%) AIX
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Solaris
6 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.19%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (26.45%) CI/CD
3 28 (23.14%) DevOps
4 26 (21.49%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (20.66%) ETL
6 23 (19.01%) Agile
7 18 (14.88%) Data Modelling
8 16 (13.22%) Computer Science
8 16 (13.22%) Decision-Making
8 16 (13.22%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.57%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.57%) Data Science
9 14 (11.57%) High Availability
10 13 (10.74%) Data Engineering
10 13 (10.74%) Machine Learning
10 13 (10.74%) Microservices
11 12 (9.92%) Analytics
11 12 (9.92%) Data Governance
11 12 (9.92%) Performance Optimisation
12 11 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.54%) Python
2 37 (30.58%) SQL
3 13 (10.74%) Java
4 9 (7.44%) Bash
5 8 (6.61%) Scala
6 7 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.79%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.31%) Groovy
7 4 (3.31%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.65%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.65%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (1.65%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) C#
10 1 (0.83%) Korn
10 1 (0.83%) Perl
10 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Degree
2 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.44%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.79%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.31%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.65%) CCIE
8 2 (1.65%) CCNP
8 2 (1.65%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.65%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.09%) QA
3 7 (5.79%) GDPR
4 5 (4.13%) Basel III
4 5 (4.13%) MiFID
5 4 (3.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.83%) COBIT
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (16.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 28 (23.14%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.18%) Terraform
3 10 (8.26%) Ansible
4 7 (5.79%) Grafana
5 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.31%) Istio
7 2 (1.65%) Control-M
7 2 (1.65%) Kiali
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (44.63%) Google
2 16 (13.22%) Databricks
3 13 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.26%) Oracle
5 6 (4.96%) IBM
6 5 (4.13%) Cisco
6 5 (4.13%) Sybase
7 4 (3.31%) Splunk
8 3 (2.48%) IDERA
8 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.65%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.65%) Confluent
9 2 (1.65%) F5
9 2 (1.65%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.65%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.65%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (1.65%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.65%) xMatters
10 1 (0.83%) CyberArk