GCP Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring GCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -
Contract jobs citing GCP 25 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 8.20% 2.56% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.88% 8.82% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 2
10th Percentile £359 £319 £425
25th Percentile £367 £344 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £356 £560
Median % change year-on-year +16.57% -36.43% -
75th Percentile £476 - £653
90th Percentile £492 £447 £704
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £356 £500
% change year-on-year +16.57% -28.80% -23.81%

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 93 68 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 30.49% 29.06% 45.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 41 77
10th Percentile £332 - £213
25th Percentile £361 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -4.76% -5.50%
75th Percentile £466 £490 £530
90th Percentile £500 £619 £570
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -3.22% -0.66% -9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.39%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

GCP job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GCP

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 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
Northampton +6 25 £415 +16.57% 5
GCP
East Midlands

GCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Identity Management Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Programme Director
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (68.00%) LDAP
2 11 (44.00%) Hibernate
2 11 (44.00%) OAuth
2 11 (44.00%) OpenID
2 11 (44.00%) SAML
2 11 (44.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) CrewAI
4 1 (4.00%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Identity Access Management
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (36.00%) RBAC
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) Biometrics
6 6 (24.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (24.00%) Digital Identity
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (20.00%) User Experience
7 5 (20.00%) Zero Trust
8 4 (16.00%) Budgeting
8 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (64.00%) GDPR
2 9 (36.00%) HIPAA
3 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (20.00%) QA
4 2 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (8.00%) NIST
5 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (24.00%) Docker
3 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) IBM
3 10 (40.00%) Ping Identity
4 5 (20.00%) Citrix
4 5 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.00%) Google