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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 96 96
Rank change year-on-year +29 0 -25
Contract jobs citing GCP 58 42 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.84% 1.52% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.77% 4.73% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 46
10th Percentile £411 £375 £469
25th Percentile £463 £378 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £659 £619
90th Percentile £739 £756 £650
England median daily rate £575 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% -
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 £51.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.45% -26.07% +7.69%

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 661 888 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.40% 32.13% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 629 842
10th Percentile £313 £284 £300
25th Percentile £397 £388 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £656
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 36
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -27.67% -15.87%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £40.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +18 37 £585 +6.27% 340
Cheshire -3 12 £475 +18.75% 62
Merseyside +7 7 £563 - 57
Lancashire - 2 £530 - 52
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 7 (12.07%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.90%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.72%) Apache
5 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Kondor
2 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (75.86%) Azure
2 42 (72.41%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Apigee
3 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
4 4 (6.90%) Google Gemini
4 4 (6.90%) IBM Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) npm
5 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (5.17%) dbt
5 3 (5.17%) IaaS
5 3 (5.17%) PaaS
5 3 (5.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) VPN
2 5 (8.62%) Firewall
3 4 (6.90%) BGP
3 4 (6.90%) Calico
3 4 (6.90%) DHCP
3 4 (6.90%) DNS
3 4 (6.90%) MPLS
3 4 (6.90%) Network Security
3 4 (6.90%) OSPF
3 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.90%) VLAN
4 3 (5.17%) SAN
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) VoIP
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) BigQuery
1 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.17%) Big Data
4 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Looker
5 1 (1.72%) Parquet
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) GitLab
1 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.52%) Git
3 6 (10.34%) JIRA
4 5 (8.62%) CircleCI
5 4 (6.90%) Maven
6 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (36.21%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Banking
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 8 (13.79%) Legal
5 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.90%) French Language
6 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.45%) Military
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Architect
2 11 (18.97%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Designer
4 5 (8.62%) Security Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) IT Support
5 4 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Network Designer
5 4 (6.90%) Project Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Security Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
1 5 (8.62%) REST
1 5 (8.62%) RESTful
1 5 (8.62%) SOAP
1 5 (8.62%) TensorFlow
2 4 (6.90%) Kafka
2 4 (6.90%) OAuth
3 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.17%) Middleware
3 3 (5.17%) Node.js
3 3 (5.17%) Playwright
3 3 (5.17%) Puppeteer
3 3 (5.17%) React
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.72%) NumPy
5 1 (1.72%) pytest
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Derivative
3 5 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.17%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (5.17%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.72%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Windows
3 8 (13.79%) Unix
4 5 (8.62%) Android
4 5 (8.62%) Apple iOS
4 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) Computer Science
4 13 (22.41%) DevOps
5 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
5 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (18.97%) ITSM
6 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
6 10 (17.24%) Microservices
7 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (12.07%) Generative AI
9 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.34%) ETL
9 6 (10.34%) High Availability
9 6 (10.34%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
2 17 (29.31%) SQL
3 5 (8.62%) Java
3 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.17%) Bash
5 3 (5.17%) Scala
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 9 (15.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.62%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.90%) A+ Certification
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) CCIE
6 4 (6.90%) CCNP
6 4 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.90%) JNCIE
7 2 (3.45%) CISM
7 2 (3.45%) CISSP
7 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.72%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Basel III
1 5 (8.62%) MiFID
2 4 (6.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.90%) GDPR
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) NIST
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.72%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.69%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Istio
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (34.48%) Google
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle
4 7 (12.07%) F5
4 7 (12.07%) IBM
5 6 (10.34%) Cisco
6 5 (8.62%) Sybase
7 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.17%) Citrix
8 3 (5.17%) HP
8 3 (5.17%) PagerDuty
8 3 (5.17%) VMware
9 2 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (3.45%) Databricks
10 1 (1.72%) Criteo
10 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.72%) SAP
10 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.72%) Splunk
10 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media