GCP Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -
Contract jobs citing GCP 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 3.23% 1.67% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.70% 5.56% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £256 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £263 £375
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -30.00% -
75th Percentile - £269 £388
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -8.97% +9.86% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 18 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 37.10% 30.00% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 28
10th Percentile £143 £231 £143
25th Percentile £185 £275 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £299 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% -20.33% -
75th Percentile £475 £326 £500
90th Percentile £550 £425 £569
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £485 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.11% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £36.64 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £56.50 - -
75th Percentile £57.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
% change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
York - 2 £600 -
Selby - 1 - - 1
GCP
Yorkshire

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) Plotly
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Experimental Design
2 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Random Forest
2 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE Data Center
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto