GCP Contracts in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 63 99 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 -16
Contract jobs citing GCP 58 38 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.95% 1.38% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.08% 4.30% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 54
10th Percentile £460 £100 £454
25th Percentile £480 £375 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £581
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.98% -3.13%
75th Percentile £671 £597 £650
90th Percentile £720 £705 £684
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £72.50 - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.09
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.75% +7.66%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GCP in the North West

GCP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +21 34 £585 +14.05% 141
Cheshire +7 13 £520 +9.47% 18
Merseyside +11 9 £625 - 9
Lancashire - 1 £530 - 45
GCP
England

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Kondor
2 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (72.41%) Azure
2 41 (70.69%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (6.90%) Apigee
4 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
4 4 (6.90%) Google Gemini
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.45%) dbt
6 2 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) npm
7 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.72%) Datadog
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.72%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) VPN
2 4 (6.90%) DHCP
2 4 (6.90%) DNS
2 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.17%) Firewall
4 2 (3.45%) BGP
4 2 (3.45%) Calico
4 2 (3.45%) MPLS
4 2 (3.45%) Network Security
4 2 (3.45%) OSPF
4 2 (3.45%) VLAN
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) VoIP
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.62%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
3 4 (6.90%) Tableau
4 3 (5.17%) Big Data
4 3 (5.17%) Bigtable
4 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.17%) Data Vault
4 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Mixpanel
5 1 (1.72%) Parquet
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
1 7 (12.07%) GitLab
1 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
3 3 (5.17%) ER Studio
3 3 (5.17%) ERwin
3 3 (5.17%) Maven
4 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) Gradle
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Mockito
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Finance
4 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 11 (18.97%) Legal
5 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.90%) French Language
6 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.17%) Retail
8 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.45%) Military
8 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Architect
2 13 (22.41%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) IT Support
4 4 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Project Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Senior Architect
4 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.17%) Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Python Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Network Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Kafka
1 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
1 5 (8.62%) REST
1 5 (8.62%) SOAP
1 5 (8.62%) TensorFlow
2 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 3 (5.17%) D3.js
3 3 (5.17%) OAuth
4 2 (3.45%) Django
4 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.45%) Node.js
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.45%) Playwright
4 2 (3.45%) Puppeteer
4 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.45%) React
4 2 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) Derivative
2 5 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 5 (8.62%) Unix
4 3 (5.17%) Android
4 3 (5.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 15 (25.86%) Computer Science
4 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
5 10 (17.24%) Agile
5 10 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 10 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (17.24%) DevOps
5 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
6 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (15.52%) ITSM
7 8 (13.79%) ETL
8 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (12.07%) Generative AI
8 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.07%) Microservices
9 6 (10.34%) Data Science
9 6 (10.34%) Decision-Making
9 6 (10.34%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 19 (32.76%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) Java
4 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.17%) Scala
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.90%) A+ Certification
7 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.45%) CCIE
8 2 (3.45%) CCNP
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.45%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Basel III
2 5 (8.62%) MiFID
3 4 (6.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) COBIT
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.24%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) Google
2 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle
4 5 (8.62%) Databricks
4 5 (8.62%) Sybase
5 4 (6.90%) Cisco
6 3 (5.17%) IDERA
7 2 (3.45%) F5
7 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.45%) IBM
7 2 (3.45%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.72%) Apple
8 1 (1.72%) Ariba
8 1 (1.72%) BMC
8 1 (1.72%) Hotjar
8 1 (1.72%) New Relic
8 1 (1.72%) Remedy
8 1 (1.72%) SAP
8 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.72%) Splunk