Stackdriver Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google Stackdriver
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Stackdriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Stackdriver 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £475 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +14.75%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Stackdriver 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 839 717 1,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.27% 30.72% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 454 763
10th Percentile £300 £300 £265
25th Percentile £363 £393 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £644 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.94 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -11.76% +60.00%
75th Percentile £67.25 £49.14 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.83 £73.63 £61.90
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%

Stackdriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stackdriver relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Stackdriver job vacancy trend in the North West

Stackdriver
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 Stackdriver within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 November 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 - 1 - - 1
Stackdriver
England

Stackdriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace