GCP Contracts in the North West

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GCP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 99 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 -24 -3
Contract jobs citing GCP 39 66 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.44% 2.08% 2.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 5.58% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 84
10th Percentile £100 £455 £433
25th Percentile £375 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £750 £667 £718
England median daily rate £600 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.71% +9.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +184.78% +22.67%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.62% +7.96% +160.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

GCP is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 868 1,182 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.05% 37.28% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 878 1,079
10th Percentile £283 £313 £225
25th Percentile £383 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £662 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £19.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +97.96% +8.45%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 -10 30 £513 -10.87% 44
Cheshire +6 7 £475 -1.04% 3
Merseyside +12 2 - - 2
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) nginx
2 2 (5.13%) Traefik
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) AWS
2 27 (69.23%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.82%) Google Analytics
4 5 (12.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) Mimecast
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub
6 3 (7.69%) Serverless
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.56%) Datadog
8 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.56%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 7 (17.95%) DNS
2 7 (17.95%) VLAN
2 7 (17.95%) VPN
3 4 (10.26%) BGP
3 4 (10.26%) MPLS
3 4 (10.26%) OSPF
3 4 (10.26%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (10.26%) Wireshark
4 3 (7.69%) DHCP
4 3 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
5 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.38%) Power BI
3 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) Data Hub
4 2 (5.13%) DB2
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) GitLab
1 4 (10.26%) Hudson
2 3 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.56%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Mockito
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 5 (12.82%) Performance Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) cloud-init
1 2 (5.13%) Kafka
1 2 (5.13%) REST
1 2 (5.13%) SAML
1 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.56%) Django
2 1 (2.56%) Express.js
2 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) HTML5
2 1 (2.56%) koa
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) Sass
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Clustering
3 2 (5.13%) Data Fabric
3 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Apple iOS
2 4 (10.26%) Mac OS
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.69%) zOS
4 2 (5.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Agile
1 8 (20.51%) Analytics
1 8 (20.51%) Migration
1 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
2 7 (17.95%) DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) ETL
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
3 5 (12.82%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (12.82%) Data Migration
3 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (12.82%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (10.26%) Change Management
4 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
4 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.26%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (10.26%) Open Source
5 3 (7.69%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.69%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.82%) Go
5 3 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) CCNP
1 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) CCIE
2 4 (10.26%) VCAP
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) CCNA
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) MCSE
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) NCSC
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Consul
5 2 (5.13%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.13%) Graphite
5 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.13%) Istio
5 2 (5.13%) linkerd
5 2 (5.13%) Packer
5 2 (5.13%) Podman
5 2 (5.13%) Puppet
5 2 (5.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
2 4 (10.26%) Sophos
2 4 (10.26%) Splunk
3 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.69%) F5
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.56%) Confluent
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) New Relic
5 1 (2.56%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat