GCP Contract Job Trends in the North West
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 63 | 60 | 75 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -3 | +15 | +23 |
| Contract jobs citing GCP | 146 | 78 | 43 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the North West | 3.64% | 3.46% | 1.80% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 11.60% | 10.10% | 5.97% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 94 | 52 | 25 |
| 10th Percentile | £410 | £358 | £356 |
| 25th Percentile | £448 | £434 | £375 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £528 | £526 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.24% | +5.25% | -8.05% |
| 75th Percentile | £610 | £639 | £588 |
| 90th Percentile | £671 | £736 | £670 |
| England median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £600 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -8.33% | -2.04% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £52.57 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Median hourly rate | £77.00 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| England median hourly rate | £68.22 | £51.97 | £55.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +31.26% | -5.51% | -15.38% |
All Cloud Computing 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.
| 6 months to 19 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 1,259 | 772 | 720 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West | 31.39% | 34.25% | 30.16% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 802 | 586 | 445 |
| 10th Percentile | £250 | £307 | £309 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £375 | £390 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £450 | £488 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.11% | -7.69% | +0.83% |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £538 | £575 |
| 90th Percentile | £680 | £638 | £650 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £530 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -5.66% | -1.40% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 84 | 31 | 16 |
| 10th Percentile | £18.40 | £12.82 | £17.44 |
| 25th Percentile | £29.96 | £15.50 | £21.05 |
| Median hourly rate | £60.00 | £18.87 | £33.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +217.97% | -43.67% | -1.47% |
| 75th Percentile | £76.00 | £48.94 | £60.94 |
| 90th Percentile | £77.00 | £67.25 | £73.00 |
| England median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +17.77% |
GCP Job Vacancy Trend in the North West
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.
GCP Daily Rate Trend in the North West
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCP.
GCP Daily Rate Histogram in the North West
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.
GCP Hourly Rate Trend in the North West
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GCP.
GCP Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GCP in the North West over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.
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 19 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | +2 | 121 | £528 | -7.46% | 163 |
| Cheshire | +11 | 24 | £600 | +21.95% | 9 |
| Merseyside | -14 | 1 | £525 | +23.53% | 12 |
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GCP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 69.2% | 101 |
| 2 | AWS | 67.1% | 98 |
| 3 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 16.4% | 24 |
| 4 | AWS CloudFormation | 11.0% | 16 |
| 5 | GitHub | 9.6% | 14 |
| 5 | Vertex AI | 9.6% | 14 |
| 7 | Azure DevOps | 8.2% | 12 |
| 8 | Serverless | 7.5% | 11 |
| 9 | AWS Lambda | 6.8% | 10 |
| 10 | Azure Sentinel | 6.2% | 9 |
| 11 | Amazon ECS | 5.5% | 8 |
| 11 | Amazon EKS | 5.5% | 8 |
| 11 | Azure AKS | 5.5% | 8 |
| 11 | Entra ID | 5.5% | 8 |
| 11 | GitHub Actions | 5.5% | 8 |
| 16 | Amazon SageMaker | 4.8% | 7 |
| 16 | Azure Machine Learning | 4.8% | 7 |
| 16 | Microsoft 365 | 4.8% | 7 |
| 19 | Virtual Private Cloud | 4.1% | 6 |
| 20 | Amazon CloudWatch | 3.4% | 5 |