GCP Contracts in Northern Ireland

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 0
Contract jobs citing GCP 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.52% 2.01% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.53% 7.89% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile £463 £663 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £509 £688 £600
90th Percentile £549 - £630
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +1.63%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 38 38 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.90% 25.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 25
10th Percentile £189 £470 £182
25th Percentile £292 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £510 £645 £588
90th Percentile £548 £673 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.33
25th Percentile £22.50 - £13.46
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £13.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.04%
75th Percentile - - £14.15
90th Percentile - - £14.22
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Northern Ireland

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Northern Ireland

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -9 4 £475 -29.63% 52
GCP
UK

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (100.00%) Anypoint
1 4 (100.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (100.00%) RAML
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Swagger
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) API Management
1 4 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow