Google Compute Engine Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Google Compute Engine
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Google Compute Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 162 178
Rank change year-on-year -72 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Google Compute Engine 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.089% 0.12% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.35% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £441 £553 -
25th Percentile £484 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.68% - -
75th Percentile £523 £700 £638
90th Percentile £524 £738 -
England median daily rate £520 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +20.00% -41.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

Google Compute Engine 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 2,256 1,132 1,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.63% 33.25% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 837 1,010
10th Percentile £313 £267 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -4.59%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £651 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 27 74
10th Percentile £18.88 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +126.09% +79.02% -28.72%
75th Percentile £75.25 £49.81 £22.56
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.25 £45.45
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

Google Compute Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Compute Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Google Compute Engine job vacancy trend in the North of England

Google Compute Engine
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google Compute Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine
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 Google Compute Engine within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 June 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 -53 6 £515 -17.68% 1
Google Compute Engine
England

Google Compute Engine
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Java
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace