GCP Contracts in Sheffield

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 20 23 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 30 34 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 9.40% 8.97% 8.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.13% 36.56% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 28
10th Percentile £350 £414 £500
25th Percentile £450 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.59%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £700
90th Percentile £650 £649 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +12.15%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 93 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.29% 24.54% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 113
10th Percentile £294 £191 £450
25th Percentile £400 £411 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -11.49% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £448 £550
% change year-on-year +11.73% -18.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +22.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Sheffield

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in Sheffield

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in Sheffield

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) CloudBees
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.67%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Flink
2 5 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 3 (10.00%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Hazelcast
4 2 (6.67%) Looker
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.33%) Git
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Jaeger
4 2 (6.67%) JMeter
4 2 (6.67%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Performance Tester
5 2 (6.67%) QA Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Designer
6 1 (3.33%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) GCP Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Beam
2 3 (10.00%) LDAP
2 3 (10.00%) Middleware
2 3 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (6.67%) gRPC
3 2 (6.67%) JWT
3 2 (6.67%) SAML
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) AIX
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Solaris
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (33.33%) ETL
3 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 7 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (20.00%) Workflow
5 6 (20.00%) Workflow Management
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Data Lineage
6 5 (16.67%) Data Management
6 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 4 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (13.33%) High Availability
8 3 (10.00%) Microservices
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.33%) Groovy
5 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) Kotlin
6 3 (10.00%) Bash
7 2 (6.67%) ActionScript
7 2 (6.67%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) Korn
8 1 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) IBM Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CISM
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Control-M
3 2 (6.67%) Istio
3 2 (6.67%) Kiali
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Nagios
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) IBM
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) ForgeRock
3 2 (6.67%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) xMatters
4 1 (3.33%) Centrify
4 1 (3.33%) Confluent
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.33%) Thycotic