GCP Contracts in Northampton

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 2.44% 0.79% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.14% 2.44% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £293 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 - £525
75th Percentile £358 - £538
90th Percentile £378 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £326 - £525

All Cloud Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 42 41 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 34.15% 32.28% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £339 £321 £168
25th Percentile £358 £356 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £544
90th Percentile £537 £523 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £436 £445 £330
% change year-on-year -2.02% +34.85% -21.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% -15.11%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Northampton

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCP in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for GCP in Northampton

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Google App Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Introscope
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CA Wily
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle