GCP Contracts in South Yorkshire

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing GCP 35 52 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 8.52% 11.21% 6.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.17% 39.39% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 37 25
10th Percentile £176 £425 £500
25th Percentile £432 £485 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -10.83% -1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £639 £647 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 120 132 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.20% 28.45% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 94 119
10th Percentile £255 £203 £410
25th Percentile £400 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +6.69%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile - £17.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +119.73% -60.26% +100.00%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GCP in South Yorkshire

GCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GCP in South Yorkshire

GCP
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCP in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCP in South Yorkshire

GCP
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Sheffield -11 32 £525 -0.47% 10
Barnsley - 2 £258 - 3
Rotherham - 1 £145 -
GCP
Yorkshire

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (14.29%) Apache
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) GitHub
4 6 (17.14%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.57%) CloudBees
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.86%) dbt
8 1 (2.86%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) HTTPS
1 2 (5.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) BigQuery
2 8 (22.86%) Flink
3 5 (14.29%) Looker
3 5 (14.29%) Power BI
4 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.71%) Hazelcast
5 2 (5.71%) Tableau
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
4 3 (8.57%) Jaeger
5 2 (5.71%) JMeter
5 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.71%) TestRail
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Performance Tester
6 2 (5.71%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Tester
7 1 (2.86%) Engineering Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Junior
7 1 (2.86%) Lead
7 1 (2.86%) Payments Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Report Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Kafka
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Beam
2 3 (8.57%) LDAP
2 3 (8.57%) Middleware
2 3 (8.57%) Spark Streaming
3 2 (5.71%) gRPC
3 2 (5.71%) JWT
3 2 (5.71%) SAML
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) AIX
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Solaris
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) ETL
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (20.00%) Workflow
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.14%) Data Management
6 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.14%) Workflow Management
7 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 5 (14.29%) Data Lineage
7 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (11.43%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (14.29%) Groovy
4 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.43%) Bash
5 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.71%) ActionScript
6 2 (5.71%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) Korn
7 1 (2.86%) Perl
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
1 2 (5.71%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.86%) CISM
2 1 (2.86%) CISSP
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Control-M
3 3 (8.57%) Istio
3 3 (8.57%) Kiali
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.86%) Nagios
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) AppDynamics
2 4 (11.43%) IBM
2 4 (11.43%) Splunk
3 3 (8.57%) xMatters
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.71%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Centrify
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Confluent
5 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.86%) Dell
5 1 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) Thycotic