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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing GCP 45 61 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 10.56% 14.19% 5.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.59% 45.52% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 17
10th Percentile £341 £422 £545
25th Percentile £407 £456 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £700
90th Percentile £616 £646 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £528 £650
% change year-on-year -9.95% -18.85% +8.33%

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 123 134 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 28.87% 31.16% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 87 107
10th Percentile £263 £354 £450
25th Percentile £400 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -12.34% +9.30%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £663
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -8.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £20.80 -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +7.50% +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 29 June 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 6 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (11.11%) Apache
3 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Maple
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
2 22 (48.89%) Azure
3 11 (24.44%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (24.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 10 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (20.00%) SaaS
6 8 (17.78%) GitHub
7 7 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
10 3 (6.67%) CloudBees
11 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.44%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (2.22%) Google Compute Engine
12 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
1 2 (4.44%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) BigQuery
1 8 (17.78%) Flink
2 4 (8.89%) Power BI
3 3 (6.67%) Looker
4 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.22%) Big Data
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) DataStage
5 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Git
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) Jaeger
5 2 (4.44%) JMeter
5 2 (4.44%) LoadRunner
5 2 (4.44%) TestRail
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Analyst
1 9 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Architect
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Performance Tester
6 2 (4.44%) QA Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
7 1 (2.22%) Administrator
7 1 (2.22%) Banking Analyst
7 1 (2.22%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.22%) GCP Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) SAML
2 8 (17.78%) OAuth
2 8 (17.78%) OpenID
3 7 (15.56%) JSON
4 6 (13.33%) Kafka
4 6 (13.33%) OAuth2
5 3 (6.67%) Apache Beam
5 3 (6.67%) LDAP
5 3 (6.67%) Middleware
5 3 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (4.44%) gRPC
6 2 (4.44%) JWT
7 1 (2.22%) PySpark
7 1 (2.22%) React
7 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Replication
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) AIX
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Solaris
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.67%) ETL
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (24.44%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
5 10 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.00%) RBAC
6 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (17.78%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (15.56%) Privileged Identity Management
9 6 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
9 6 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (13.33%) Migration
9 6 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 6 (13.33%) Workflow
9 6 (13.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Java
4 5 (11.11%) Groovy
4 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.89%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.44%) ActionScript
6 2 (4.44%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (4.44%) Scala
7 1 (2.22%) Go
7 1 (2.22%) Korn
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.22%) CISM
2 1 (2.22%) CISSP
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (6.67%) Control-M
4 3 (6.67%) Istio
4 3 (6.67%) Kiali
5 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.22%) Nagios
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) SCOM
6 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Google
2 8 (17.78%) Alibaba
3 4 (8.89%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.89%) Databricks
3 4 (8.89%) IBM
3 4 (8.89%) Splunk
4 3 (6.67%) xMatters
5 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.44%) IBM Sterling
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Citrix
6 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.22%) Dell
6 1 (2.22%) HP
6 1 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.22%) Talend
6 1 (2.22%) Thycotic