GCP Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring GCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing GCP 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.88% 1.64% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 6.12% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £532 -
25th Percentile £613 £543 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £573 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +43.13% -38.46%
75th Percentile £638 £629 -
90th Percentile - £657 -
North East median daily rate £625 £513 £400
% change year-on-year +21.95% +28.13% -38.46%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 49 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 48.23% 26.78% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 18 39
10th Percentile £338 £178 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £600
90th Percentile £644 £658 £655
North East median daily rate £475 £495 £473
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.76% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.14%
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
North East median hourly rate £36.00 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.04% +42.09% +44.44%

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Tyne and Wear

GCP
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GCP

GCP
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 2 £625 +6.38% 10
GCP
North East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google