GCP Contracts in Northamptonshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 23 24 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -
Contract jobs citing GCP 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.05% 0.51% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.52% 1.67% 2.08%
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £396 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -32.68% -16.07% +12.00%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 46 60 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 31.51% 30.61% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 41 35
10th Percentile £322 £173 £172
25th Percentile £358 £356 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £445 £330
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +34.85% -21.19%
75th Percentile £497 £500 £500
90th Percentile £537 £525 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +8.82% -3.41% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £11.90
25th Percentile £13.75 - £12.89
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% -15.11%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £16.12
90th Percentile - - £17.08
East Midlands median hourly rate £15.09 £16.63 £18.86
% change year-on-year -9.26% -11.82% +10.26%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Northamptonshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Northamptonshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northampton -2 3 £326 - 35
GCP
East Midlands

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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